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Hit Battle Royale ‘POPULATION: ONE’ is Going Free-to-Play on Quest in March
POPULATION: ONE, the hit battle royale shooter from BigBox VR, is going free-to-play next month on the Quest platform. Initially released in late 2020, Population: One has essentially become VR’s de facto battle royale, bringing large-scale cross-platform battles to Quest and SteamVR headsets. Now Meta-owned studio BigBox VR says it’s going free-to-play on Quest 2 and Quest […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

VR’s Most Popular Battle Royale Just Got Its Biggest Map Ever
POPULATION: ONE (2020), VR’s most popular battle royale, just got an update across all supported platforms that includes the game’s largest map to date, which comes along with a few other cyberpunk goodies. Called ‘Metropolis’, the new map promises to let you fight across a neon megacity, replete with a nightclub, fortress, gun store, and […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

Facebook Just Bought Its Fifth VR Studio, ‘POPULATION: ONE’ Developer BigBox VR
Facebook today announced its fifth VR studio acquisition. This time it’s BigBox VR, the studio behind the popular VR battle royale POPULATION: ONE which launched just last year on PC VR and Quest, and has consistently ranked among Quest’s most popular titles. Facebook announced the acquisition today on the Oculus blog, saying that Population: One has “consistently ranked as […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

Population: One hands-on — Vertical combat in VR results in tough tradeoffs

BigBox VR’s Population: One is a virtual reality game that breaks new ground as a battle royale first-person shooter. But there are some tradeoffs. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi