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‘Shattered’ is a Mixed Reality Escape Room That Aims to Thrill, Coming to Quest 3 in December

PlaySide Studios, developer behind the upcoming Quest 3 party game Dumb Ways: Free for All, announced it's releasing a psychological thriller on later this year that turns your physical space into a mixed reality escape room. Called Shattered, the single-player MR game promises...

Watch NBA Courtside in Quest, Including 52 Immersive Games This Season

The 2024-25 NBA season is here, and Meta has again partnered with the NBA to bring a fat slate of 180-degree immersive games to Quest. Now in its fourth consecutive year, Quest users will be able to watch 52 immersive...

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Review – Arkham Comes to VR in (almost) All the Right Ways

Batman: Arkham Shadow stays true to the series formula, but did developer Camouflaj manage to make the game feel truly at home in VR? Read our full review to find out. Batman: Arkham Shadow Details: Publisher: Oculus Studios Developer: Camouflaj Available On: Meta Horizon (exclusive to...

Apple May Halt Vision Pro Production by Year-End Amid Report of Sharply Reduced Output

Apple appears to be scaling back production of Vision Pro, and may even halt manufacturing entirely by the end of the year, The Information reports. According to the report, Apple started reducing production this summer, with supply chain sources maintaining...
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VR’s Favorite Combat Sandbox is Bringing Long-awaited Campaign to Quest Next Week, Trailer Here

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the physics-based combat sandbox for Quest, has essentially been the little brother to the PC VR game ever since it released in 2021. With the addition of the game's long-awaited 'Crystal Hunt' campaign on Quest next...

‘Minecraft’ is Also Now Dropping PC VR Support in 2025 in Addition to PSVR

Mojang announced last month it was dropping PSVR support for Minecraft in 2025, which was mostly understandable considering the headset is now eight years old. In the release notes of the latest Bedrock update though, the studio says PC...

Meta Explains Why It Sees Wide Field-of-View Headsets as a ‘bad tradeoff’

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed last week a mysterious wide field-of-view (FOV) headset prototyped in the Redmond, Washington-based Reality Labs offices. Bosworth now reveals the research prototype had something close to a 210-degree FOV, however wide FOV displays are a...

Top NFL QB Credits VR Training as a Big Part of His Success, Calling It a “flight simulator” for Football

The Washington Commanders’ offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is all-in on VR training, something the team's star quarterback Jayden Daniels credits for accelerating his development, the New York Times reports. A former quarterback for Texas Tech himself, the intense realism was clear...

Elijah Wood Revealed as the Voice of Scarecrow in ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’, Coming to Quest 3

Camouflaj, the studio behind upcoming Quest 3 exclusive Batman: Arkham Shadow, revealed that none other an Elijah Wood both voiced and did motion capture for Scarecrow, aka Dr. Jonathan Crane. "When Camouflaj initially approached me about joining the cast for ,...

U.S. Army Needs Microsoft AR Headset to Be “substantially less” Than Projected $80K Price Tag

Microsoft's contract with the U.S. Army to build a combat-ready AR headset is worth up to $22 billion, but only if the company can deliver the goods at “substantially less than” the projected $80,000 per unit, the Army tells...