Valve Explains Changes to How VR Support Appears on Steam Store Pages
Earlier this month Valve changed the longstanding format for displaying which VR headsets are supported on a game’s Steam Store page. The company says the change was made to ‘keep up with the growing VR market’. Earlier this month some folks were alarmed to see that the ‘VR Support’ section on the right side of […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

22. Dezember 2022
Quest 2 Update Will Boost Performance and Automatically Make Apps Run Better
Meta has announced that an upcoming Quest 2 update will unlock additional performance that developers can tap into to make their games look better. Some apps will benefit from the increased performance automatically. Meta announced this week that the latest updates to Quest 2 will allow the headset to boost the GPU processing power available […]

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – December 2022
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the 20 best rated Oculus Quest games and apps as of December 2022. […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

21. Dezember 2022
Adobe’s VR 3D Modeling Tool Now Available on New Headsets, Quest Support Planned
Adobe’s VR modeling tool, Substance 3D Modeler, is now available on Steam, bringing with it support for Valve’s Index headset and possibly others. Adobe released 3D Modeler as part of its ‘Substance’ suite of applications last year. The application supports VR and non-VR modes. In VR, users can intuitively ‘sculpt’ 3D models to their liking, then […]

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20. Dezember 2022
nDreams Acquires VR Veteran Near Light, Studio Behind ‘Shooty Fruity’ & ‘Perfect’
nDreams, the VR studio and publisher behind titles such as Fracked (2021) and Phantom: Covert Ops (2020), today announced it’s acquired long-time partner studio Near Light. This marks the first such studio acquisition by nDreams, which follows a $35 million investment round secured back in March 2022. Details of the acquisition are still thin on […]

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Startup Behind Ambitious HalfDive Headset Launches New Kickstarter for VR Haptic Gloves
Diver-X, the Japan-based startup known for pitching an ambitious VR headset earlier this year, is at it again, this time with a pair of VR gloves that incorporates a membrane capable of flexing and compressing to replicate the sensation of touch. The original HalfDive headset campaign on Kickstarter managed to secure enough cash to be […]

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Celebrate New Year’s Eve In VR With Shaquille O’Neal

The virtual event kicks off on December 31st at 3:30pm PST. It’s been a crazy year, so why not celebrate its end with an equally crazy New Year’s Eve countdown event hosted by NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal in VR? “The Shaq’tacular Spectacular” will feature an impressive lineup of big-name celebrity guests like Rob Gronkowski and […]

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Road to VR’s 2022 Game of the Year Awards
Virtual reality opens a portal to every conceivable dimension, whether it be far-flung space stations, medieval dungeons, or fantastical realms translated directly from the minds of this generation’s most talented artists. We were transported from our living rooms, home offices, dorm rooms—anywhere you could unplug a piece of physical reality to make way for the […]

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19. Dezember 2022
VR Industry Luminary John Carmack Quits Meta, Calling it “the end of my decade in VR”
John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus gensis story, announced he’s left Meta, writing in a memo to employees that he “wearied of the fight” of trying to push for change at the highest levels of the company. Carmack has never been one to mince words. Outside of bringing industry expertise to […]

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HTC’s VR/AR Headset Will Be Revealed At CES 2023

The mixed reality device will supposedly feature a lightweight design as well as support for hand-tracking. This week it was announced that HTC will be unveiling a new consumer-friendly VR headset next month during CES 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. First reported by The Verge, the all-in-one VR device is apparently being positioned as a […]

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17. Dezember 2022