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‘Band Space’ is Bringing ‘Rock Band’ Style Multiplayer Rhythm Gaming to Quest and PC VR This Month

Image courtesy Smartmelon Games, Fast Travel Games

Smartmelon Games and Fast Travel Games announced its multiplayer VR rhythm title, Band Space, is set to launch on Quest and PC VR this month, bringing some very Rock Band-inspired gameplay to VR. Come October 24th, Smartmelon is launching Band Space with both single and multiplayer support for up to four players, letting you jam […]

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8. Oktober 2024

‘Metro Awakening’ Gameplay Shows Off Patently Tense Combat, Immersive VR Take on Familiar Mechanics

Leading up to its November 7th release, Vertigo Games detailed more about its upcoming standalone VR prequel to the Metro series, Metro Awakening, including some familiar survival mechanics at the heart of gameplay such as the gas mask, flashlight, and some pretty intense first-person combat. In past Metro games, the gas mask was crucial for […]

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Meta Orion Interview Dives Deep Into Details Like Resolution, Battery Life, & More

Meta’s biggest reveal at last week’s Connect conference was definitely the Orion prototype AR glasses, which the company says it’s been working on for nearly five years. It’s a big deal not only because of how compact it is, but because Meta says it wants to eventually turn the prototype into a consumer product. You […]

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7. Oktober 2024

‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom’ Hands-on — Promises of Immersion Dulled By Restrictive Gameplay

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new sort of VR film hybrid for Quest, mashing up a movie’s worth of real-time rendered narrative with sprinkles of first-person gameplay, billing itself an ‘interactive anime’. On paper, it sounds really cool, offering you essentially two ways to step into your favorite anime universe and experience it […]

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4. Oktober 2024

Meta’s Head of XR Apologizes to Oculus Founder Regarding His Ousting

Image created using photos courtesy Wired, Meta

Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief, has publicly apologized to Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus who was ousted from the company in 2017 for political reasons. To this day, Meta (ex-Facebook) never publicly confirmed why Luckey was fired, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg even going on record in a U.S. congressional hearing in 2018, […]

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3. Oktober 2024

Meta Acquired 9 Leading VR Studios Starting in 2019: Here’s What’s Happened Since

Meta has aggressively expanded its VR game portfolio with the acquisition of nine VR studios since 2019. We take a look what’s come of these deals over the last five years. Acquisition by Meta usually means a few things. Sometimes it means studios get a ton of new resources and the sort of stability that […]

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2. Oktober 2024

Windows 11 No Longer Supports Microsoft’s Windows VR Headsets Following October Update

The first wave of WMR headsets launched in 2017 | Image courtesy Microsoft

Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. Now, with the launch of Windows 11 2024 Update yesterday, those VR headsets have essentially been bricked. Initially kicked off in 2017, Microsoft was well positioned to make Windows a home to a fleet of PC VR headsets, which […]

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‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ Studio XR Games Lays Off Majority of Staff

XR Games, the Leeds, UK-based studio known for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever (2021), have laid off a reported 86 percent of its staff. The information was shared by María Fernanda Díez Huerta via LinkedIn, who was Head of Production at XR Games from 2021 – 2023. Huerta reported on Tuesday the […]

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Microsoft Discontinues HoloLens 2, Support to End in 2027 with No Successor in Sight

Microsoft announced to enterprise partners last week that it’s discontinuing its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, and pulling the plug on support updates at the end of 2027, leaving many to question whether the Redmond tech giant is shelving the platform altogether. One such enterprise partner was Jens Lauritsen, Chief Product Officer of the Copenhagen-based […]

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1. Oktober 2024

Meta Overhauls ‘Horizon Worlds’ Avatar System for More Realistic Representation

Announced at Connect last week, Meta is launching its next-generation avatars in Horizon Worlds today, giving users a lot more customization options to choose from before jumping into the company’s social VR platform. Starting today, users can dig even deeper into adjusting their avatars’ appearance, including features like customizable body proportions, nose shape, eye size, and […]

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