Meta Quest 3 News & Reviews – Seite 72

Meta CTO: Android XR Rejected Due to Google’s “restrictive” Terms & Plans to Fragment XR

A report from The Information last week alleged Meta and Google held talks in effort to bring Android XR to Quest. Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth has now confirmed this report, stating further that not only were Google’s terms too restrictive, but Google is actively planning to fragment the ecosystem with its Android-based XR operating […]

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4. März 2024

Meta CTO: Android XR Rejected Due to Google’s “restrictive” Terms & Plans to Fragment XR

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The ‘Beat Saber’ Music Pack That Always Needed to Happen… is Finally Happening

Beat Saber’s next music pack will bring one of the most influential names in electronic music to the game’s library of downloadable content: Daft Punk. Go back to some of Daft Punk’s earliest albums and you might find yourself saying “this doesn’t sound so special, I hear stuff like this all the time.” Well, the reason […]

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1. März 2024

Meta Reportedly Rejected Google Partnership to Bring Android XR to Quest

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing Quest 3 | Image courtesy Meta

According to a report from The Information, Google and Meta held a meeting late last year wherein the two companies discussed the possibility of bringing Android XR to Meta headsets. While it’s said Meta rejected the partnership, which would potentially allow Quest headsets to run standard Android apps, Google is allegedly still open to the […]

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VR’s Next Big Battle Royale Shooter Goes into Open Beta Today, Trailer Here

Caveman Studio, the developers behind team-based shooter Contractors (2018), today released the open beta of Contractors Showdown, its upcoming battle royale game for Quest and SteamVR headsets. The 45-player battle royale shooter presents a pretty big battlefield, touting a 16km² island that’s around a quarter the size of Manhattan, albeit including a mix of landscape with the standard array […]

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’90s Classic ‘Tomb Raider’ is Coming to Quest & Pico in Unofficial Team Beef VR Port

'Tomb Raider: I-III Remastered' (2024) | Image courtesy Aspyr, Crystal Dynamics

Team Beef, the modding group behind a slew of unofficial VR ports of classic games, announced their next project is Tomb Raider (1996), which will bring the action-adventure game to standalone headsets Quest and Pico VR. Unlike the version playable through CitraVR, Team Beef says the BeefRaiderXR version will be a full VR port, which aims to […]

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27. Februar 2024

Report: Meta & LG’s Rumored Vision Pro Competitor Set to Launch in Early 2025

Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) | Based on images courtesy Meta, Apple

According to a report from South Korean outlet The Korea Economic Daily (Korean), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be in-country this week to finalize a deal with LG regarding a previously rumored competitor to Apple Vision Pro, which is reportedly set to be jointly built by the two companies for release in early 2025. Citing unnamed […]

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26. Februar 2024

Meta’s New Demo Shows Players & Devs What Compelling MR Can Look Like

Meta now has three mixed reality headsets, but still not a ton of mixed reality content to go with it. To remedy that, the company threw out an open source Unity demo it hopes to showcase some of the most compelling things you can do in MR. Called Cryptic Cabinet, the escape room demo was […]

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23. Februar 2024

Meta’s New Demo Shows Players & Devs What Compelling MR Can Look Like

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‘Pixel Ripped’ Studio Announces ‘PAWBALL’, a Free-to-Play VR Soccer Game with Cats

ARVORE, the studio behind the Pixel Ripped VR game franchise, announced it’s currently developing a VR soccer game called PAWBALL, which aims to get you leaping around and scoring goals like only a feline can. On the studio’s Discord (invite link), Arvore Community Manager Freddy Pavão reveals the idea initially came from wanting dinosaurs to play soccer, although […]

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