Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Get your VR headset carrying case ready, because if you’re visiting family this holiday season, there are a ton of great games out there you should consider showing off to first-timers of all ages. And there are a ton of great games out there—a lot more than we can mention here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Schell Games has just launched its new game, Party Versus , and in my opinion, it is the first game to find a great formula for multiplayer social mixed reality. After you have scanned your room, the game shows you how your room appears in virtual reality. After the configuration was over, I was invited to sit on my sofa.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Kluge Interactive, the studio behind hit VR rhythm game Synth Riders (2019), announced its upcoming VR fighting game, FINAL FURY , will be featured at Steam Next Fest on October 14th, which of course means a playable demo. Still, it hit us like a long range haymaker from Glitch—we needed to rethink the combat controls.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

Today SteamVR is still the gold standard for what concerns PCVR tracking and many enthusiasts have Lighthouses installed in their rooms to play VR games on their Valve Index, HTC Vive, or Pimax Crystal Light. This means that for most use cases, the precision of standalone controllers is now more than enough.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

After merging the main store with App Lab and changing the UI of the Meta Horizon OS and mobile app that always gives more attention to Horizon Worlds , its become hard for Quest developers to have their games found by users. And if games are not found, revenues are not coming.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

NVIDIA also announced that its cloud streaming service Geforce Now is coming to Quest, Pico, and Apple Vision Pro, so MR users will be able to play flatscreen games on a giant virtual screen in front of them. It was even the third most-sold device of any kind in the whole Video Games category. This is impressive.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

Triangle Factory, the studio behind team shooter Breachers , today revealed its next VR game: Forefront , a multiplayer shooter inspired by the Battlefield series. Here’s how Triangle Factory describes the game: In Forefront (set in 2035), Orpiment Renewable Energy (O.R.E.) Players engage in battles between O.R.E.’s

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2025

XR Games, the studio behind Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Starship Troopers Continuum (2024) , announced a new rhythm game for Quest called BEATABLE, which uses hand-tracking to turn any table into a musical instrument. It’s been awhile since I’ve been so addicted to a rhythm game.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Halo Combat Evolved (2001) released on the Xbox over two decades ago, but thanks to this mod, you can now play the original PC version in VR, which critically includes motion controller support.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 8, 2025

60G Airlink hands-on The 60G Airlink is a kit with a receiver and a transmitter that lets you stream your PC VR games to the standalone version of the Pimax Crystal over a 60GHz network , to guarantee ultra-sharp 2880 x 2880 resolution per eye, with a 90Hz refresh rate. This is really good news. They had a tracking ring.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Even though Quest 2 also launched at $300, Quest 3S is an even better value because Meta’s headsets have only become more capable, while the range of games and apps has grown and improved since the launch of Quest 2. The small sweet-spot doesn’t matter too much for most VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The first one comes from Google, and it is called Genie 2 , a foundation world model capable of generating an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments for training and evaluating embodied agents . For this reason, Apple may be working to make PSVR 2 controllers compatible with the Vision Pro.

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VRScout

MARCH 22, 2022

Are holograms the future of board games? AR tabletop gaming platform Tilt Five this week announced a new partnership with Asmodee Digital, a subsidiary of legendary French board game publisher Asmodee Group, to develop a series of holographic tabletop games brought to life using AR (augmented reality) technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2022

Our original intention is to explore the characteristics and signs of metaverse addiction susceptibility and understand what steps can be taken to control/take advantage of this digital addiction if it exists. According to this study, VR is 44% more addictive than traditional gaming (Image by HTC Vive).

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2024

Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers , although that’s not stopping third-party hardware creators from trying to bypass Apple. Enter Surreal Touch, a newly announced motion controller that aims to leverage Vision Pro’s ability to play PC VR games, but not only.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This deal includes the headset, controllers, Vive Wired Streaming Kit (normally $150 alone), three bundle games ( XRWorkout , Capsule Critters , and TheBlue ), and your choice between one of two additional game packs: PC VR Wild Pack (PC VR games): Metro Awakening , Arizona Sunshine 2 , Bootstrap Island , and Breachers.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To help you decide, I’ve put together a list of 10 incredible VR games you can play right now on your Quest 2. Bear in mind that every person’s list of games might look a little different due to personal preferences, but despite these differences, every game listed here is highly rated. . Resident Evil 4 VR. Pistol Whip.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

update doesn’t actually bring full hand-tracking support to SteamVR’s UI, but rather allows Quest users to DIY their setup for each game by experimenting with input bindings. From there, simply tap your controllers together and you’ll be able to start experimenting. The controls for desktop windows have been restyled.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2025

Be careful that XYN won’t be dedicated to gaming , that is more a prerogative of PSVR 2, but to creators, or entertainment in general. And that’s why it can’t be for gaming: it can’t compete with the cheap price of the Quest 3. The only sheet of paper with the specifications we could find.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2022

In a Reddit post shared earlier this week, a developer going by the name of u/QValem showed off an experimental VR game for the Meta Quest 2 that has players navigating a virtual racetrack using an actual bicycle. I removed the Quest boundaries to make the largest VR game from OculusQuest. Image Credit: u/QValem.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Battle flying cats, massive dinosaurs, and blood-thirsty chickens in this one-of-a-kind VR tower defense game. Coming soon to the Oculus Quest—or should I say Meta Quest— Captain ToonHead vs. the Punks From Outer Space is a VR tower defense game from developer Teravision Games that’s as outrageous as it is brilliant.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Gabe Follower also maintains Valve is also set to ship games or demos “that are already done” specifically for Deckard. The current price for the full bundle is set to be $1200,” they say in the X post.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. The only announced content is the G-suite and some games like Demeo or Vacation Simulator, but more is to come. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2022

This past February, Sony offered us our first look at the PlayStation VR2 (PS VR2), a new-and-improved console VR headset boasting a 4K HDR resolution, new sensory features, built-in eye-tracking, redesigned motion controllers, headset-based haptic feedback, and a variety of other game-changing enhancements.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2024

Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers, but it’s clear Apple will need to support immersive hardware input somehow in the future, if only for the greater precision it might bring to industry professionals. Why are controllers so important in the first place?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Perhaps it’s nostalgia, but one of my favorite video game memories will always be sitting down after school and completing missions throughout the galaxy in Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Not only does the game allow you to choose your fighting style and Force abilities, but the order in which you complete missions as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

More info (Samsung Project Moohan may launch in Q3 2025) More info (Samsung headset may use displays from Sony) Other relevant news (Image by Wooster Games) Animal Company has been the most grossing game on the Meta Store If you think that Gorilla Tag is the game that is earning the most money on the Horizon Store, you are wrong.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Now, Nintendo has published a patent (Japanese) that appears to be a VR add-on similar to its Labo VR kit first released in 2019, which allowed users to essentially ‘build’ a VR display add-on for use in experimental mini-games, and for playing a handful of traditional Switch titles in 3D.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The developer leading the push to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC VR games says they’re working on a SteamVR driver that aims to bring unofficial SteamVR support to Vision Pro, controllers and all. Another issue is bringing motion controller support to Vision Pro, which doesn’t support them natively.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2024

1 in 3 Quest owners have downloaded Gorilla Tag , making it the most successful game ever on standalone VR. Gorilla Tag , created by studio Another Axiom, has emerged as a standout success in the virtual reality gaming space, not just as a game but as a cultural phenomenon. Investment inquiry can be made via DM on X or LinkedIn.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2024

Today I’ve tried the free demo of COLD VR, the VR game that is the opposite of Superhot VR (hence the joke of the name). I think this game is fun and has a lot of potential, but it needs a bit more of polish to become a true hit when the full version will be released.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2024

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is coming up next week, which could give ByteDance’s XR subsidiary Pico Interactive a perfect opportunity to showcase what, according to a recent trademark and leaked controller model, could be its next standalone VR headset.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The internationally acclaimed anime Attack on Titan is getting an official VR game for Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro headsets. The news was shared earlier today during the Upload VR 2022 Winter Showcase alongside a handful of exciting game-related announcements. It’s unclear at this time exactly what the gameplay will be like.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The bundle includes the PSVR 2 headset, controllers, and a digital copy of Horizon Call of the Mountain , a flagship title for the platform which we scored an 8.5 That’s the same price, but without the bundled game… so definitely got for the bundle if you’re planning to jump on this deal. out of 10 in our review.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

Hitman World of Assassination is coming to PSVR 2, and we just got a fresh look at the action during the VR Games Showcase today, showing off some promising graphics that (hopefully) eclipses the series’ disastrous launch on Quest. Just the same, players want to see flawless execution (pun intended) on the PSVR 2 version of the game.

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VRScout

MARCH 7, 2023

Would you pay for a monthly VR game subscription? Earlier this week, a Twitter user going by the name of Shiny Quagsire posted a screenshot indicating the potential release of a VR game pass for Meta Quest headsets. It was announced at Meta Connect 2022 that Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) will be heading to the Meta Quest platform.

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VRScout

APRIL 24, 2023

Valo Motion, a purveyor of mixed reality entertainment, recently unveiled a new multiplayer game available now at ValoArena locations around the world. According to the company, the game is designed to immerse you in the role of the main protagonist in a big-budget Hollywood spy movie. .”

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