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Meta Wants Android Play Store Apps Officially on Quest but Google “didn’t want to”

There are relatively few 2D Android apps available on the Quest Store, which seems odd since the Quest hardware runs a modified version of Android. According to Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Google simply isn’t interested in bringing the full Play Store of apps to Quest. “There’s nothing preventing Android developers who have an APK […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

13. November 2023

Meta Releases ‘Citadel’ Co-op VR Adventure, Its Second Marquee Title in ‘Horizon Worlds’

In late July, Meta introduced a hero shooter called ‘Super Rumble’ to Horizon Worlds, aiming to improve user retention on its social VR platform with the promise of higher quality first-party content. Now Meta released its second big anchor minigame on Horizon Worlds, a co-op adventure game called ‘Citadel’. Citadel is what Meta calls a “rogue-lite action-adventure puzzle […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

12. September 2023

Meta Keeps the Oculus Name Alive as Third-party VR Publisher Becomes ‘Oculus Publishing’

Meta has nearly scrubbed all of its products of the Oculus name, however the company today announced its third-party publishing wing is getting a sort of rebrand that will see the Oculus name live on. Meta announced at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that it’s naming its third-party publishing arm Oculus Publishing. The company tells […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

22. März 2023

Quest v43 Update May Include Long-awaited 16:9 Recording Mode

Quest’s v43 software update has already rolled out on the Public Test Channel, however now it seems Meta is getting ready to unlock a number of long overdue video capture options, like the ability to record in 16:9 aspect ratio. Additionally, it appears some settings specific to the company’s upcoming headset Project Cambria have cropped […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

5. August 2022

Report: Meta to Release First AR Glasses to Developers Only & Not Consumers

Meta has been working on what it calls a “fully-fledged AR device” for some time now, however a recent report from The Information maintains the first in Meta’s line of AR glasses will be reserved for developers only and not for enthusiasts as previously thought. The report alleges that the company won’t be commercially releasing what is […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

14. Juni 2022

Report: Apple Hires Meta’s XR Head of Public Relations

Apple may be nearing launch of its long-awaited XR headsets, as the company has reportedly hired Meta’s head of communications for its consumer XR products. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports in his weekly ‘Power On’ newsletter that Apple has hired Andrea Schubert, Communications Director at Meta’s consumer hardware division for XR, including Portal, AR and VR devices. […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

27. Dezember 2021

FTC Sues to Block Meta’s Acquisition of Top VR Fitness App Developer

In 2021 Meta announced its intention to acquire Within, the studio behind popular VR fitness app Supernatural; though neither company announced the deal price, reporting indicated a whopping $400 million price tag which may have caught the attention of the US Federal Trade Commission. Today the FTC moved to formally block the deal in what […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

17. Dezember 2021

Meta Aims to Further Ratchet Down on Security with Bug Bounty for Quest 2, Portal & Ray-Ban Stories

Meta today announced it’s updating a bug bounty program for its hardware products, something intended to reward anyone outside of the company who reports security vulnerabilities. With some new payout guidelines in place, Meta is ostensibly aiming to highlight its commitment to security following a total rebrand that’s put significant focus on its XR hardware […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

10. Dezember 2021

Report: Meta is Considering Physical Stores to Sell Its Vision of the Metaverse

Meta (formerly Facebook) is not only building its next generation of AR and VR headsets, but it’s looking to jumpstart a sort of immersive internet the company believes will one day be the future of human interaction—that’s the ‘metaverse’ everyone’s talking about. And to sell that idea to the masses, the company has allegedly discussed rolling […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

10. November 2021