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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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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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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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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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DECEMBER 8, 2024

Apple and Sony are working to bring support for PlayStation VR2's controllers to Vision Pro, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Apple Vision Pro's gaze-and-pinch interaction system is ideal for interface interaction, and its hand tracking is suitable for casual gaming. But it's unclear whether Apple is willing to do that.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Models of Valve Deckard's 'Roy' controllers have been discovered in SteamVR driver files, revealing their design and inputs. Code references to Valve 'Roy' controllers were first discovered earlier this month by XR enthusiast Brad Lynch's Discord group of SteamVR dataminers. But what kind of headset will Deckard be?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Available to download via GitHub , this Halo: Combat Evolved VR mod lets you experience the entire campaign with full 6DOF motion controls, a two-handed aiming mode for weapons, rebindable controllers, and more. Launch the game once to generate a config.txt file in the VR directory. dll if done correctly).

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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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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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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Sony is demonstrating controller-free hand tracking on PlayStation VR2 at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. The booth describes the feature as "available with the latest SDK of PlayStation 5", suggesting that developers can already start integrating it in games. 0:00 / 0:09 1× Footage from X user kure.

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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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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evidence suggests Valve's next VR controller could include a D-pad and bumpers to act as a gamepad together too. And in December 2022 Valve product designer Greg Coomer told a Korean gaming news magazine the company has been "working on a new VR headset lately", and that there are "several projects going on in-house".

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Apple and Sony are still working to bring PS VR2 Sense controller support to Vision Pro, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Apple Vision Pro Could Soon Support PlayStation VR2s Controllers Apple and Sony are working to bring support for PlayStation VR2s controllers to Vision Pro, Bloombergs Mark Gurman reports.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I’ve tried the indie game “What The Bat?” Here you are my review video of the game: if you prefer videos to text, this is what you should watch! ” is a game that immediately clicked with me since the first time I heard about it. Notice that the devs are not new to this kind of games. What The Bat?

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Augmented Empire revives the Oculus Go narrative strategy game next month with mixed reality support on Quest, and we went hands-on. Developed by Coatsink, Augmented Empire is a 2017 turn-based strategy game initially developed for Oculus Go and Gear VR. 0:00 / 1:20 1× Augmented Empire gameplay footage on Oculus Go.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Interestingly, the new $400 MSRP affects both its basic PSVR bundle, which includes the headset, two Sense controllers, and headphones, and the Horizon Call of the Mountain hardware bundle, which was priced at $600 at the headset’s February 2023 launch.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Flat2VR Studios, a recently-formed game studio focused on bringing existing flatscreen games to VR, has released its first game, Trombone Champ: Unflattened! A positive early reception bodes well for both the studio’s ability to deliver and its choice of which games to port in the first place.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Did you know you can technically play SteamVR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) on Vision Pro? Previously offered as an invite-only beta, ALVR is now free on the App Store , allowing Vision Pro users to stream OpenVR games from your PC via Wi-Fi. Check here if your computer is capable of running VR games.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

First released in Alpha on Steam in late 2020, and one year later on Quest, Iron Rebellion lets you build and customize your mechs for immersive squad-based battles, including the ability to control your mech by physically reaching out to grab sticks and flip switches, making for some pretty handy in-cockpit controls.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. “As such, our priority will always remain to deliver an amazing experience that meets the high standards our players expect.”

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