Reach Confirms October Launch On Quest 3, PC VR & PS VR2

Reach, the "AAA" cinematic VR adventure from nDreams, will launch on Quest 3, PC VR, and PlayStation VR2 in October. After appearing in many major showcases these last two months since its announcement, Reach by nDreams Elevation returned once ... more - uploadvr

Dread Meridian Aims For Atmospheric VR Survival Horror On Steam & Quest

Dread Meridian is an atmospheric survival horror game that's heading for Quest and PC VR. Revealed during today's Level Infinite Showcase, Dread Meridian from developer KUKRGAME promises a “frozen wasteland of horrors” across the island of Oglanbyen. ... more - uploadvr

Sony Increases PS5 Console Prices In The US

Sony is increasing the price of the PS5 and PS5 Pro in the US. From tomorrow, the Digital Edition will be $500, the version with a disc drive $550, and the PS5 Pro $750. "Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic ... more - uploadvr

Grit and Valor 1949 Review: A Tacticianx27;s Dream in VR

Grit and Valor 1949 is a tabletop dieselpunk real-time strategy game set in an alternate history World War II, where mechs battle to determine the fate of the European continent. For gamers of a certain age, Grit and Valor’s premise isn’t exactly new. ... more - uploadvr

Meta Delists Quest App That Let You Install APKs Without A PC

Meta took down VR Android File Manager app from its Horizon Store, because it let you install APKs on your Quest without a PC. VR Android File Manager launched on the store last month. It comes from the same developer as Quest Games Optimizer, a $10 ... more - uploadvr

Project Graveyard On Apple Vision Pro Is A Free Place For Dead Ideas

Pluck a headstone from Joseph Simpson’s Project Graveyard and examine the text up close by stretching the object bigger. “Hopes and dreams have to go somewhere,” Simpson’s favorite tagline for the app explains. Project Graveyard is an app not worth selling, ... more - uploadvr

Star Trek: Infection VR Is A Quest 3 & PC VR Narrative Survival Game

Star Trek: Infection VR, a "narrative survival" game for Quest 3 and PC VR, was just announced at gamescom. It's being developed by Played With Fire (Stargaze, Mixture) and published by Broken Mirror Games, a "co-development horror label" ... more - uploadvr

Deadpool VR Releases November 18 For $50, Watch Story Trailer Here

Marvel's Deadpool VR now has a release date, price, and story trailer. The blockbuster Quest 3 & Quest 3S exclusive, developed by Meta-owned Twisted Pixel Games in collaboration with Marvel Games, was announced just over two months ago. Note that ... more - uploadvr

SailGP RaceScape XR Invites Apple Vision Pro Owners To Learn About Competitive Sail Racing

SailGP RaceScape XR delivers an expansive volumetric dashboard for Apple Vision Pro owners to learn more about competitive high-speed sail racing. The app centers on a large representation of the live course in the waters where a fleet of catamarans ... more - uploadvr

Why Metax27;s First HUD Glasses Will Only Have A Display In One Eye

Why will Meta's first HUD glasses only have a display in one eye? An explanation from Meta's CTO seems to provide the reason. If you haven't been keeping up with the reports, a wide range of sources suggest that Meta intends to release smart glasses ... more - uploadvr

Meta CTO Gives Update On Quest 3x27;s Long-Delayed Augments Feature

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth gave an update on the progress of the long-delayed Quest 3 'Augments' persistent mini-apps feature. While Quest's Meta Horizon OS supports having multiple 2D window apps open and active, you can currently only have one mixed ... more - uploadvr

Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses Preorders Open For Shipping Next Week

Regular Oakley Meta HSTN glasses can now be preordered, and will ship next week. Ray-Ban and Oakley are both owned by EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear giant with which Meta last year secured an agreement extending their partnership “into the next decade”, ... more - uploadvr

Quest Store Sale Discounts Blockbuster VR Games

Meta's ‘Secret Vault Sale’ discounts major Quest games this week. On Meta's Horizon Store you can currently get the Quest versions of big titles like Skydance’s Behemoth, Metro Awakening, Resident Evil 4, Demeo, Into the Radius, and Breachers for between ... more - uploadvr

Spatial Phone Lets You Use Your iPhone Or Android While Immersed On Quest

You can see and control your iPhone or Android in Quest with the $12 Spatial Phone app, though with noticeable latency. One of the most frustrating things about VR is how cut off it can feel. You’re in the zone, working out, playing, meditating, or just ... more - uploadvr

Fantasy Roguelite Ironstrike Goes Free-To-Play On Quest This Week

Co-op VR fantasy roguelite Ironstrike is going free-to-play on Quest later this week. For the unaware, Ironstrike by developer E McNeill (Ironlights) is a four-player roguelite where you fight through a fantasy world to rescue its gods, using a momentum-based ... more - uploadvr

Mixed Reality RTS Banners & Bastions Confirms Early Access Release Date

Mixed reality RTS Banners & Bastions enters early access on Quest later this month. Created by Airspace Defender developer Not Suspicious, we first learned about Banners & Bastions during last month's UploadVR Summer Showcase. A tabletop roguelite ... more - uploadvr

Meta To Reportedly Sell HUD Glasses With EMG Wristband For $800

Meta now plans to sell its upcoming HUD glasses with sEMG wristband for around $800, instead of over $1000, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The Verge, The Information, The Financial Times, and Gurman have all previously reported that Meta intends to ... more - uploadvr

Disney+ On Apple Vision Pro Gets Alien: Earth Environment

The Disney+ app on visionOS now has an Alien: Earth environment. The new environment lets Apple Vision Pro owners watch Alien: Earth, or anything else on Disney+, from inside the Containment Room on the USCSS Maginot. Trying it out, it looks exactly ... more - uploadvr

How To Pitch Articles To UploadVR

Last Updated : August 16, 2025. At UploadVR, we regularly publish articles from freelance writers and if you're looking to write for us, here's what you need to know. As part of my regular duties as UploadVR's Senior Editor, I'm entrusted with handling ... more - uploadvr

XR News Round-Up: Exoshock, Reach, The Phoenix Gene, Slime Lab & More

Our XR News Roundup is back once more, featuring more recent news stories across VR. With VR gaming this week, we demoed Stellar Cafe from former Owlchemy co-founder Devin Reimer. The VR Games Showcase had reveals for Glassbreakers, Street Gods, Tracked, ... more - uploadvr

The Exorcist: Legion VR SIN Is x27;On Holdx27; Indefinitely

The Exorcist: Legion VR SIN, a multiplayer sequel to the early episodic VR horror hit, is “on hold indefinitely.” Originally announced nearly four years ago, The Exorcist: Legion VR SIN - which stands for Safety In Numbers - intended to deliver a survival ... more - uploadvr

Meta Tiramisu "Hyperrealistic VR" Hands-On: A Stunning Window Into Another World

At SIGGRAPH 2025, I went hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's research prototype that combines beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness, and high contrast, albeit with a narrow field of view. Since Oculus widely demoed the DK1 over a decade ago, we've seen ... more - uploadvr

Meta Boba 3 Prototype Hands-On: Ultra-Wide Field Of View Without Compromise

At SIGGRAPH 2025 this week, I went hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's prototype of ultra-wide field of view PC VR in a form factor similar to Quest 3. I've long contended that field of view is the fundamental driver of immersion of VR, and argued that the ... more - uploadvr

Penguin Festival Wonx27;t Release On Quest Store, Citing Reuters Report On Meta AI

Penguin Festival, a cozy VR game about party planning, will no longer release on the Meta Horizon Store. Originally revealed in March by Cozy Cube Games, Penguin Festival is a solo game where you plan out a major party. Though the prior announcement ... more - uploadvr

Free-To-Play Clawball Gets Full Release On Quest

Clawball, the free-to-play VR cat soccer game from Pixel Ripped's studio, received its full release on Quest. Originally launched last October in early access, Clawball is a 3v3 soccer game from ARVORE (Pixel Ripped, YUKI) that takes inspiration from ... more - uploadvr

Is It Really Worth Visiting Cinemas for an ENHYPEN VR Concert?

Can a VR concert in cinemas offer a unique live music experience? We went to find out! During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists, unable to hold in-person concerts, used virtual concerts as a way to engage with fans during lockdowns. It ... more - uploadvr

PlayStation VR2x27;s Eye Tracking Now Works On PC Via Open-Source Driver Mod

PlayStation VR2's eye tracking and adaptive triggers can now be used on PC, thanks to a mostly open-source mod of Sony's SteamVR driver. If you're unaware, while PS VR2 officially supports PC VR through Sony's official SteamVR driver, the headset currently ... more - uploadvr

Passport Tokyo: Walkabout Mini Golf Path Crosses Capybaras & Neko Atsume Kitties

The design team behind Walkabout Mini Golf occasionally leaves their homes to gather for a retreat in the physical world. Funded by sales of the VR game and its add-on destinations, like the newly released Tokyo, Walkabout's originator Lucas Martell ... more - uploadvr

Echo Wars - Road Rage Blends Over-The-Top Arcade Shooting With VR Driving

Echo Wars - Road Rage mixes VR driving with arcade shooting next week on Quest and Steam Early Access. Created by Barcelona-based studio Ivanovich Games, Echo Wars - Road Rage uses a “dual control” system where one hand covers driving your vehicle and ... more - uploadvr

Pinball FX VR Serves Up More Classic Williams Cabinets Today

Pinball FX VR receives more official Williams tables today with Volume 9 on Quest. This joins a steady stream of post-launch expansions such as the recent Tomb Raider and Williams Pinball Volumes 1-3 DLC, the latter of which added nine more tables across ... more - uploadvr