Holiday Search Volume for Quest in the US Exceeded PlayStation, Nintendo, & Xbox for the First Time
The 2021 holiday season was very likely the best yet for the Oculus Quest 2. For the first time ever, holiday search volume in the US for the headset exceeded major gaming consoles like PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. The holidays have always been a peak time for VR. As the technology has grown […]

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4. Januar 2022
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Tabletop Sim ‘QuestHaven’ Reaches Kickstarter Funding Goal in First Week
Original Article (January 3rd, 2022): The team behind the project says the simulator will let you build environments and import game rules so you can play any essentially any roleplaying tabletop game, such as D&D, Pathfinder, or Shadowrun to name a few. QuestHaven is said to target Quest 2, PC VR, and standard PC monitors, the […]

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3. Januar 2022
Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars
Wolf3D, the Estonian startup behind web-based avatar creator Ready Player Me, has closed a $13 million funding round. The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D […]

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25 Upcoming VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2022
We’re looking forward to plenty more games this year, as newcomers and trusted names in VR development alike are prepping to release bigger and better VR experiences. Here we look at our most anticipated titles that are scheduled to release in 2022. We’ve ordered games according to their confirmed release dates, then the rash of […]

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28. Dezember 2021
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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27. Dezember 2021
5 Great Quest Games for New VR Players & Novice Gamers
Oculus Quest 2 is an inexpensive and easy to use headset that offers a wide range of experiences for all kinds of people. Granted, the library of content leans heavily toward games, many of which are targeted at experienced gamers who know their way around a gamepad. So where to start if you’re just getting […]

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25. Dezember 2021
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Quest Store New Years Sale Brings Discounts on Top Titles, Ends January 2nd
Missed out on Meta’s big Quest holiday game sale that took place over Christmas? Well, consider this round two, as Meta is again tossing out some deep discounts to top Quest titles from now until just after the new year. Update (December 27th, 2021): The Holiday Sale is gone, so we’ve plugged in the latest […]

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24. Dezember 2021
Road to VR’s 2021 Game of the Year Awards
Whether you’re off dodging lasers and defusing bombs, shooting back hordes of zombies with your friends, or just sitting down for a quiet night alone with a photogrammetric jigsaw puzzle, there’s plenty of options out there on how you to teleport yourself to another universe through the magic of virtual reality. And as we look […]

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21. Dezember 2021
Unity’s Incredible Mixed Reality Demo is Coming to Quest in 2022
Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. Now the developers behind the project say you’ll be able to get your hands on the experiment on Quest sometime next year. At Facebook Connect at the end of […]

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‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ VR Support Arrives from Modder Behind ‘GTA’ & ‘Red Dead Redemption’ VR Mods
Luke Ross, the modder who brought VR support to a host of non-VR games such as GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia II, surprise-released a VR mod for the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. YouTube channel Cas and Chary got an exclusive first look at the mod. Casandra Vuong (aka ‘Cas’) went hands on, revealing just how the mod’s first and […]

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20. Dezember 2021