This $145 VR Manga App on Quest 2 is a Better Deal Than it Seems
As I was perusing Quest App Lab for interesting games, a VR manga app priced at a whopping $145 caught my eye. Surely it must have been a mistake… or a scam? While we’ve seen pricey apps on Quest’s official unlisted ‘App Lab’ store before, almost all of them are some sort of medical or […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

12. August 2022
App Lab Gem ‘Dead Second’ Update Adding Manual Reload, Dual Wield, & New Levels
App Lab shooter gem Dead Second is getting a big update this Friday ahead of a price increase; the update gives players many more ways to play, extra levels, and more polish. In a sea of many experimental App Lab apps, Dead Second stands out as a highly optimized (120Hz) and polished Time Crisis-esque VR cover shooter designed […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

10. August 2022
Unofficial Quest App Store ‘SideQuest’ Raises $3M Seed Investment
SideQuest, the popular sideloading platform for Oculus Quest, has raised a fresh $3 million seed round, something its creators say will be used to help developers publish their apps across multiple platforms via OpenXR integration. The news was first reported in an UploadVR exclusive. Founded by Belfast-based team Shane and Orla Harris in 2019, SideQuest has over the years […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

11. Oktober 2021
Oculus Plans to Enable DLC & In-App Purchases for App Lab Developers Later This Year
Oculus App Lab is a way for developers to publish their apps on Quest without being subject to curation, but it comes with a few caveats like not being visible in the main Quest store. Since its launch, App Lab games also haven’t been able to offer DLC or in-app purchases, but the company says […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

5. Juli 2021
You Can Now Sideload Oculus Quest Apps with Your Phone – No PC Required
Oculus App Lab, Facebook’s unmoderated app outlet, has largely stolen the thunder from the unofficial Quest app store SideQuest over the past few months. This is largely due to the ease of use that App Lab offers over SideQuest, the latter of which required you to install a PC-based program to install apps. Now SideQuest […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

27. April 2021
‘The Unity Cube’ is the Worst Quest Game on Oculus App Lab—on Purpose
The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Vitillo submitted a fully functional application which simply presents the user with a cube in a blank environment—and Oculus accepted it. Oculus App Lab is an alternative path for developers to […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

6. April 2021
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Quest App Lab Soars to 1,440 Apps, More Than Tripling Those on the Main Store
In early 2021 Meta launched App Lab for Quest which allows developers to distribute their games on the headset without going through Meta’s curation process. There’s now 1,457 games and apps available on App Lab, more than triple the number of apps on the main Quest store. Update – October 20th, 2022 There’s now 1,457 […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

25. März 2021