Meta Launching Quest 2 Mixed Reality Demo On App Lab

Meta is bringing a demo called The World Beyond to App Lab to demonstrate to Quest 2 owners some of the most advanced features of the company’s development platforms for VR and mixed reality. The World Beyond should be available “very” soon, according ... more - uploadvr

Watch: New Video Shows Mark Zuckerberg Using Project Cambria

A new video posted by Mark Zuckerberg shows the Meta CEO using the company’s new Project Cambria headset. Well, sort of. Cambria (which is a codename for the device) was first announced at Connect in late 2021, and is intended for release later this ... more - uploadvr

Horizon Worlds Launches Official NBA Lane Experience

Horizon Worlds’ next tie-in experience is with the NBA. A new NBA Lane world can be found under the Events tab of Meta’s social creation tool, and will be available until June 30. Within the world you can explore NBA-themed environments and shoot hoops ... more - uploadvr

Google Previews ‘Prototype’ Glasses For Live AR Translation

Google’s keynote presentation at its annual developer’s conference closed out with a video showcasing a prototype live translation service on AR glasses. The video shows Google product managers handing prototype glasses to research participants, “my ... more - uploadvr

Horizon Worlds Adds 100+ Pre-Made Items With New Asset Library Feature

From today, you can access a library of pre-made assets in Meta’s virtual creation tool, Horizon Worlds. Still in open beta in the US and Canada, Horizon Worlds lets Quest and Rift users build virtual worlds, objects and experiences to share with friends ... more - uploadvr

Kiwi Announces Battery Strap For Quest 2, Coming Soon

Accessory company Kiwi announced its take on a Quest 2 battery strap, available soon. Since the launch of the original Quest, we’ve seen a bunch of official and third party takes on battery straps that extend the playing time of standalone headsets in ... more - uploadvr

Little Cities Review: A Distilled City Simulator That Puts VR First

Little Cities presents a new take on the city simulator genre, built from the ground up for VR. While it takes a more relaxed approach than traditional titles, the result is a concise, native VR game with a solid foundation and plenty of room to expand. ... more - uploadvr

Meta To Reveal Project Cambria Mixed Reality Details Tomorrow

Meta will reveal new details about its Project Cambria standalone headset tomorrow. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just said as much over on his Facebook page. “Project Cambria’s color passthrough technology will enable developers to build a whole new level of ... more - uploadvr

World Of Mechs Is A Huge New Mech Battler For Quest 2

More mech battling is on the way to Quest 2, this time in the form of World of Mechs. UploadVR can exclusively reveal this new project from Studio 369, a team comprised of developers that have worked on titles like Fortnite, Gears of War 3 and, notably, ... more - uploadvr

The Twilight Zone VR Launches In July On Quest 2, New Trailer Debuts

Prepare to enter The Twilight Zone in VR this July. Publisher Fun Train and developer Pocket Money Games today confirmed that the VR adaptation of the cult classic TV series will be coming to Quest 2 on July 14. Check out a brief new trailer announcing ... more - uploadvr

First Ultimechs Gameplay Revealed, PC VR Release Confirmed

We’ve just got our first look at gameplay from Resolution Games’ next title, Ultimechs. Just over a minute of footage is below, giving us our first proper look at the game, which mixes elements of Rocket League with giant war machines in arena-style ... more - uploadvr

Moss: Book 2 Climbs April’s PlayStation Store Charts

April’s PlayStation Store charts are in, and Polyarc’s Moss: Book 2 managed to rank in both EU and US lists. The anticipated sequel, which released at the very end of March, was the fourth best-selling PSVR exclusive game on the store in the US and third ... more - uploadvr

Hellfest Festival DLC Coming To Ragnarok June 2022

Hellfest is coming to Ragnarock. Wanadev Studio announced its second piece of Ragnarock DLC this week — a collaboration with Hellfest Summer Open Air festival coming to the game in June 2022. Following on from the first DLC pack, the Gloryhammer RAID ... more - uploadvr

Incredible Unreal Engine 5 Video Shows Gives A Taste Of Photorealistic VR

An incredible new demo for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 gives us a peek of what photorealistic VR could one day look like. The footage was shot by indie developer Lorenzo Drago, and features a scene based on Etchū-Daimon Station train station in Toyama, ... more - uploadvr

First Propagation: Paradise Hotel Gameplay Revealed

Upcoming VR zombie shooter, Propagation: Paradise Hotel, has its first gameplay footage. Nearly four minutes of gameplay debuted at the AG French Direct event last week. It shows pre-alpha gameplay from the title that was first announced at the Upload ... more - uploadvr

This Developer Made A Massive Outdoor VR Racing Game (On A Race Track)

A new experimental Quest game lets its maker jump on a real bike and race it on an actual sprint track. But, no, you shouldn’t try it yourself. Content creator Valem is behind the project, which saw him remove the Quest’s Guardian limitations and head ... more - uploadvr

NVIDIA Researchers Built The Thinnest VR Display System Yet

NVIDIA researchers developed the thinnest VR display system yet, just 2.5 mm thick. Called Holographic Glasses, this could one day lead to VR headsets as thin as sunglasses. But for now this is research technology with severe practical limitations. The ... more - uploadvr

Townsmen VR Review: Little People In Little Houses

There has always been a certain appeal to the idea of building your own civilization and watching it grow, from creating little houses from Lego, to painstakingly constructing a vast metropolis in games like Sim City, the draw seems to be nigh universal. ... more - uploadvr

Blade And Sorcery PC Adds Clothing, Performance Overhaul In Update 11 Beta Launch

Blade And Sorcery’s PC version now has clothing and inventory systems as well as plenty of other new features in a beta release of an incoming update. Update 11 has been a long time coming for the physics-driven VR combat game. Last week, developer Warp ... more - uploadvr

Kat Walk VR Treadmill Returns With New $1,000 Model On Kickstarter This Week

VR treadmill maker KatVR will return to Kickstarter for its next device, the Kat Walk C 2. A new crowd-funding campaign for the device launches at 7am PT on May 14, with early bird orders starting at $698 (without shipping). The original Kat Walk raised ... more - uploadvr

Morrowind’s VR Mod Just Got Multiplayer Support

Bethesda RPG classic Morrowind is now not only playable in VR, but you can play online with friends too. In celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary, the developers of the OpenMW VR mod — which we first reported on in late 2020 — have combined the ... more - uploadvr

Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 5 Episode 13 Ft. Atom Bomb Body

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Atom Bomb Body, Project Manager at LIV and VR YouTube content creator. Atom Bomb Body discusses her involvement with LIV, the mixed reality capture company, and reveals ... more - uploadvr

F1 22 VR Gameplay Revealed In New Video

We now have our first look at F1 22 running in VR. Earlier this week YouTuber Alex Gillon posted nearly 10 minutes of footage of the upcoming racing game running in a Quest 2 via Air Link as part of EA’s Creator Network. F1 22 VR Gameplay Revealed For ... more - uploadvr

Volleyball And DIY Go Karting – VR Games On Our Radar This Week

A DIY kart racer and new volleyball experience are just some of the new VR games on our radar this week! Every week we get a lot of updates on new VR games at Upload – so much so that we don’t have time to cover them all. This week we talked about news ... more - uploadvr

Meta Retiring Venues App & Building Events Into Horizon Worlds

Meta is moving events from Horizon Venues to the Horizon Worlds platform and shutting down the original app in June. The move effectively cuts off the original Oculus Quest from access to the company’s own social VR spaces just three years after the ... more - uploadvr

Requisition VR Delayed As Ukrainian & Russian Staff Relocate

Upcoming VR zombie survival game, Requisition VR, won’t be making its May launch window as its developers relocate staff from Russia and Ukraine. Requisition is developed by Arcadia VR, a studio that got its start in the location-based VR arcade business, ... more - uploadvr

Fitness App Liteboxer Adds Free Subscription Tier On Meta Quest

Quest’s latest fitness app Liteboxer has added a new free tier to its subscription model, giving users unlimited access to a selection of workouts without committing to the premium paid tier. Liteboxer launched two months ago as another paid fitness ... more - uploadvr

Zuckerberg Meets With Luxottica Chairman To Plan ‘New Smart Glasses’

Mark Zuckerberg met with Leonardo Del Vecchio to plan “new smart glasses” and demo Meta’s neural wristband. “Great to be back in Milan to discuss plans for new smart glasses with Leonardo Del Vecchio and the EssilorLuxottica team. Here Leonardo is using ... more - uploadvr

Smash Drums Adds 5 New Songs In Volcano Update

VR rhythm game Smash Drums is getting five new songs next week. The Volcano Update arrives as a free patch for owners of the game and includes music from new artists like Richy Mix, LeBrock and Seething Akira as well as more tracks from Young Medicine ... more - uploadvr

Elden Ring VR Mod! 15 Minutes Of Gameplay

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