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Watch NBA Courtside in Quest, Including 52 Immersive Games This Season

The 2024-25 NBA season is here, and Meta has again partnered with the NBA to bring a fat slate of 180-degree immersive games to Quest. Now in its fourth consecutive year, Quest users will be able to watch 52 immersive games in the Xtadium app (US only) and the NBA Arena in Meta Horizon Worlds. In addition to […]

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24. Oktober 2024

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Review – Arkham Comes to VR in (almost) All the Right Ways

Batman: Arkham Shadow stays true to the series formula, but did developer Camouflaj manage to make the game feel truly at home in VR? Read our full review to find out. Batman: Arkham Shadow Details: Publisher: Oculus Studios Developer: Camouflaj Available On: Meta Horizon (exclusive to Quest 3 & Quest 3S) Reviewed On: Quest 3 Release Date: October 21st, 2024 […]

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Apple May Halt Vision Pro Production by Year-End Amid Reports of Sharply Reduced Output

Apple appears to be scaling back production of Vision Pro, and may even halt manufacturing entirely by the end of the year, The Information reports. According to the report, Apple started reducing production this summer, with supply chain sources maintaining that the company has built up enough inventory to meet projected demand for the foreseeable […]

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23. Oktober 2024

VR’s Favorite Combat Sandbox is Bringing Long-awaited Campaign to Quest Next Week, Trailer Here

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the physics-based combat sandbox for Quest, has essentially been the little brother to the PC VR game ever since it released in 2021. With the addition of the game’s long-awaited ‘Crystal Hunt’ campaign on Quest next week, that’s set to change. Warpfrog announced that Quest users can expect Blade & Sorcery: Nomad’s ‘The End […]

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‘Minecraft’ is Also Now Dropping PC VR Support in 2025 in Addition to PSVR

Mojang announced last month it was dropping PSVR support for Minecraft in 2025, which was mostly understandable considering the headset is now eight years old. In the release notes of the latest Bedrock update though, the studio says PC VR is getting the boot too. Like PSVR support for Minecraft, the popular block-building game will […]

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Meta Explains Why It Sees Wide Field-of-View Headsets as a ‘bad tradeoff’

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed last week a mysterious wide field-of-view (FOV) headset prototyped in the Redmond, Washington-based Reality Labs offices. Bosworth now reveals the research prototype had something close to a 210-degree FOV, however wide FOV displays are a critical tradeoff the company isn’t ready to make. And if you were hoping this was the […]

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22. Oktober 2024

Top NFL QB Credits VR Training as a Big Part of His Success, Calling It a “flight simulator” for Football

Jayden Daniels | Image courtesy Washington Commanders

The Washington Commanders’ offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury is all-in on VR training, something the team’s star quarterback Jayden Daniels credits for accelerating his development, the New York Times reports. A former quarterback for Texas Tech himself, the intense realism was clear to Kingsbury from the snap. “The first time I put [the VR headset] on, I […]

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Elijah Wood Revealed as the Voice of Scarecrow in ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’, Coming to Quest 3 Tomorrow

Camouflaj, the studio behind upcoming Quest 3 exclusive Batman: Arkham Shadow, revealed that none other an Elijah Wood both voiced and did motion capture for Scarecrow, aka Dr. Jonathan Crane. “When Camouflaj initially approached me about joining the cast for [Arkham Shadow], I was super intrigued for a few reasons,” Wood revealed in a video message during […]

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21. Oktober 2024

U.S. Army Needs Microsoft AR Headset to Be “substantially less” Than Projected $80K Price Tag

Image courtesy U.S. Army | photo by Jason Amadi, PEO Soldier Public Affairs

Microsoft’s contract with the U.S. Army to build a combat-ready AR headset is worth up to $22 billion, but only if the company can deliver the goods at “substantially less than” the projected $80,000 per unit, the Army tells Bloomberg. Requirements also include definitively positive field testing, set to take place early next year. Based […]

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Why I Think AR Glasses Are the Inevitable Future of the Smartphone

I was asked recently for my thoughts on Meta’s Orion AR glasses, specifically whether or not such glasses stand a chance of becoming as big as (or replacing) the smartphones in the future. I was asked for my thoughts recently for a Lifewire article about Meta’s Orion AR glasses and the future they may or […]

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18. Oktober 2024