Community Notes Are Now Appearing in Meta Apps

Meta’s shift to Community Notes is now live.

Walkabout Mini Golf Will Raise Its Price & Fold In 6 DLC Courses

Walkabout Mini Golf will raise its price to $25 and merge in 6 DLC courses to the base game on May 1.

Dimensional Double Shift Slaps Hog Butt & Milks Udders In Paid Hexas Expansion

Dimensional Double Shift slaps hog butts and milk udders in the new Texas-inspired dimension, and we tried the paid expansion before today’s launch on Quest.

Half-Life: Alyx First Scene Ported To Quest 3 Standalone Via Unity

A developer ported the first scene of Half-Life: Alyx to Unity to run it standalone on Quest 3, no PC required.

Quest 3 Provided By Lufthansa Wins Best Inflight Entertainment Award

Meta and Lufthansa’s trial providing Quest 3 headsets to business class passengers won an airline industry award for best inflight entertainment.

The XR Week Peek (2025.04.08): Meta’s upcoming smartglasses may cost $1400, the worries for US tariffs, and more!

It’s not the most active period for the XR space, but at least this week we had the April Fool’s that shook our ecosystem a bit! And there have also been a few interesting pieces of news… I’ll talk about all of them in the current roundup, so you’re sure not to miss anything interesting […]

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Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR

Efficient text entry without an actual keyboard remains an industry-wide challenge for unlocking productivity use-cases in XR headsets. Researchers have created a comprehensive catalog of existing text entry techniques to codify different methods and analyze their pros and cons. By making the catalog freely available, the researchers hope to give others a head start on […]

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‘Dimensional Double Shift’ Moves to Early Access on Quest, Releases First Paid DLC

Owlchemy Labs announced its free-to-play social game Dimensional Double Shift is leaving open beta and getting its first paid DLC, bringing a new Texas-inspired dimension to the game. Now in early access on Quest, Dimensional Double Shift is a lot like the studio’s parody games Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), tasking players with jobbing around […]

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Hit Physics Sandbox ‘Besiege’ is Coming to Quest in May, Trailer Here

Ready the siege engines and charge the catapults (or trebuchets), because hit physics sandbox Besiege (2020) is coming to Quest next month. Developed by Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street (2022) studio 3R Games in partnership with original developer Spiderling Studios, Besiege VR is slated to let players create their own war machines to take over enemy fortresses. […]

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Hatches Open, New Crew Enters Station and Begins Research Mission

At 7:28 a.m. EDT, the hatch opened between the International Space Station and the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.