VR Air Bridge Dongle For Meta Quest 2 Discovered In Code

A dedicated Wi-Fi 6 dongle would greatly improve your wireless VR experience. A software engineer going by ItsKaitlyn03 on Twitter was digging through Meta’s Oculus PC driver and stumbled across an interesting line of code for a device called “VR Air Bridge.” According to the code provided, the mysterious device could be used to wirelessly […]

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Meta Cancels F8 Developer Conference This Year to “build the metaverse”
Meta is again cancelling its F8 developer conference this year. Meta skipped F8 in 2020 and 2021 explicitly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however this year the company says it’s taking a pause to work on the metaverse. “Similar to years past, we are taking a brief break in programming and will not hold F8 in […]

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Waveguide Maker DigiLens Announces New Investment at $530M Valuation
DigiLens, a maker of waveguide optics for AR glasses, today announced a second close of its Series D funding round, claiming a $530 million valuation. DigiLens is one of several companies building waveguide optics and positioning them for use in XR. Waveguides allow for extremely compact near-eye optics which are no thicker than the lenses on […]

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Quest Home Spaces Get Node-base Movement, a First Step Toward Upcoming Social Features
Last year Meta announced that it would finally be bring social features to the Quest home environments, allowing users to easily get together in the same virtual space. We aren’t there yet, but the company has taken a first step in that direction by adding node-based locomotion to all of Quest’s home spaces. Back in […]

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Epic Releases Unreal Engine 5 But Its Headlining Features Aren’t Ready for VR
This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Though the new version brings improvements in many areas, its most notable features are Lumen (global illumination) and Nanite (micro-polygon geometry), which could be game-changers for VR immersion. Unfortunately the company says neither feature is ready for VR developers. […]

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VR Ghost Hunting Game Phasmophobia Gets A Major Update Tomorrow

2 spooky 4 me. Everyone’s favorite paranormal investigation simulator Phasmophobia is receiving a major overhaul tomorrow aimed specifically at VR players. Originally released on PC in 2020, this addicting psychological horror game has up to four players working together to gather evidence of paranormal activity throughout a variety of haunted locations using unique ghost hunting […]

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Experience What It’s Like To Be Slapped By Will Smith In VR

It was only a matter of time… Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past week, odds are you’ve heard about the now-infamous confrontation between comedian Chris Rock and actor Will Smith during the 2022 Academy Awards. We won’t go into the details here—we’ll leave that to the dozens of publications that have already […]

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Releases 36-hole Course Based on ’90s Classic ‘MYST’
Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) developers Mighty Coconut launched the long-awaited course based on the classic adventure game MYST (1993), bringing 18 easy and 18 difficult holes to the game. Update (November 16th, 2022): Myst fans have been able to play the original game in VR since Cyan released the VR-compatible refresh back in 2020, letting you dive […]

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‘Transformers: Beyond Reality’ Single-player Shooter Releasing on PSVR September 1st
The Transformers were set to take their first big step into VR earlier this year on PlayStation VR and PC VR headsets, however developers Meta4 and publisher Hasbro put an indefinite hold on its first-person shooter Transformers: Beyond Reality. Now the studio says it’s launching the game on PSVR on September 1st. Update (August 27th, 2022): Meta4 […]

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Meta Quest 2 Boxes Appear on Store Shelves, Rebranding Still Incomplete
It seems the Oculus brand is finally departing physical retail. While Quest 2 boxes emblazoned with the new Meta name and logo are already on store shelves in the US, the swap from Oculus to Meta still has a ways to go. Spotted by Upload VR’s Ian Hamilton, Meta has rolled out the freshly-rebranded Quest […]

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