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Meta Eyes Free-to-Play Future as Quest Userbase Changes with Wave of New Owners

Meta’s metaverse ambitions are evolving rapidly, with younger users and mainstream consumers reshaping the Quest platform over the course of 2024, according to Samantha Ryan, VP of Metaverse Content, which could see free-to-play content flourish as a result. In a recent developer blog post, Ryan highlighted key shifts in user behavior over the course of […]

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7. Februar 2025

Ex-Oculus CTO: ‘Beat Saber was much more important to VR’s growth than Half-Life: Alyx’

John Carmack at Oculus Connect 5 | Image courtesy Oculus

John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and legendary programmer, isn’t shy when it comes to voicing his opinions on all things XR. To Carmack, Meta’s block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) was “far more important than Half-Life: Alyx” in pushing adoption of the medium. While Valve’s PC VR game Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is largely prized as the pinnacle of […]

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Veteran VR Studio nDreams Condenses Two Studios into One, With Layoffs for Some

Veteran VR developer and publisher nDreams announced it’s opened an internal studio, called ‘Compass’, after having closed both its nDreams Studio Orbital and nDreams Studio in September. The studio announced back in September it had laid off 17.5% of the company in a response to “a challenging VR games market, situated within a tough gaming landscape […]

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‘Ancient Dungeon’ for PSVR 2 Gets Long-awaited Multiplayer Co-op Mode

Ancient Dungeon VR, the rogue-lite dungeon crawler, just got an update on PSVR 2 that finally brings multiplayer co-op to the game. Initially launched in 2021 on Steam Early Access and the now-defunct App Lab for Quest, Ancient Dungeon was designed as a single player experience, taking you through 20+ hours of twisting dungeons for physics-based combat against […]

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6. Februar 2025

Paid ‘Quest Games Optimizer’ Tool Now Has Over 100,000 Users

Quest Games Optimizer, the paid software that lets Quest users boost game performance, has now topped over 100,000 users. Initially released in 2022, Quest Games Optimizer is a tool Quest users can run in the background during gameplay that can increase resolution, performance, frame rate, and increase battery life across all Quest headsets—from the 2019 original […]

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4. Februar 2025

Apple Reportedly Cancels Mac-connected AR Glasses Due to Poor Internal Reviews

Apple CEO Tim Cook | Image courtesy Mashable

According to a Bloomberg report, Apple has shuttered an AR glasses project aimed at mainstream consumers. Originally planned for release in 2027, the device, codenamed N107, was a Mac-connected pair of AR glasses which the company was positioning as a more accessible alternative to the $3,500 Vision Pro mixed reality headset. The report, citing internal […]

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Meta CTO: 2025 is a ‘Make or Break’ Year for Meta’s XR Ambitions, Internal Memo Reveals

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth released an internal memo to employees, stating 2025 is going to be “the most critical year” for the company’s XR efforts yet, Business Insider reports. Titled “2025: The Year of Greatness”, the memo (seen below) largely takes an inspirational tone, urging Reality Labs employees to do “the best work of your career […]

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‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Counts Over 1 Million Quest Players, In-game Achievement Reveals

Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024) has just topped over 1 million players, evidenced by an in-game achievement that nearly everyone is bound to earn just by booting up the game and playing for a few minutes. Camouflaj’s Batman: Arkham Shadow, the Quest-exclusive game released last October, was poised to be a big draw for the holiday season last […]

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3. Februar 2025

Apple Reportedly on Track to Bring PSVR 2 Controller Support to Vision Pro

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Apple is reportedly making good headway on its quest to bring controllers to Vision Pro, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman maintains a collaboration with Sony to bring support for PSVR 2’s controllers to Apple’s headset is still on track. Gurman noted late last year that Apple had approached Sony in early 2024, which allegedly was a part […]

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Google’s XR Modeling Tool ‘Blocks’ Gets a Second Life with ‘Open Blocks’ on Quest

Known for its work on the open source version of Google’s Tilt Brush, Open Brush, The Icosa Foundation has now released a version of Google’s low-poly 3D modeling app Blocks for Quest. Like Blocks, the studio’s appropriately named Open Blocks has the same simple interface as the original, allowing creators to design low-poly 3D assets in VR. Previously only available on PC […]

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