Paradox Interactive Announces VR Strategy Game Surviving Mars: Pioneer

Surviving Mars: Pioneer is a VR reimagining of the strategy game, and it’s entering early access later this year.

Upcoming Atmospheric Horror Game Out Of Sight Is Getting A VR Port

Upcoming horror puzzler Out of Sight is getting a full VR conversion from Flat2VR Studios.

Deep Cuts Offers A Compelling Cinematic Sandbox

Deep Cuts delves into the magic of moviemaking with a new action-adventure, launching today on Quest.

Roboquest VR Shows Off Co-Op Gameplay In New Trailer

Fast-paced FPS roguelike Roboquest VR showed off a co-op mode in today’s new gameplay trailer.

The XR Week Peek (2025.03.11): Samsung headset may launch in Q3, Animal Company is the most grossing game on the store, and more!

THIS IS MY 400TH ROUNDUP OF XR NEWS. I can’t believe I’m writing these words. When I started writing these weekly summaries of AR/VR news I couldn’t imagine I would have continued for such a long time. Thank you to all of you, my readers, for having kept reading these posts of mine and giving […]

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AWE Expands Focus to Welcome XR Game Developers & Publishers to Major Industry Event

AWE USA 2025 has announced a new Gaming Hub program that expands the event’s focus and programming to include XR game development and publishing. As far as industry events go, AWE USA has become our must-attend XR event of the year. This year it’s being held June 10–12 in Long Beach, CA. FYI, the last chance […]

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‘Memoreum’ is Bringing ‘Dead Space’ Vibes to Quest Later This Year, New Trailer Here

During the VR Games Showcase today, Patient 8 Games announced it’s bringing its long-awaited sci-fi action horror game Memoreum to Quest in September. Patient 8 Games is best known for its hit Half Life: Alyx mod, ‘Return to Rapture’, which mashed up Bioshock levels with Half-Life lore. Ever since we heard about how the studio was aiming to […]

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‘Roboquest’ VR Port Shows New Look at Gameplay and Confirms Co-op Support

Flat2VR Studios today showed off some fresh gameplay footage of Roboquest VR, its upcoming port of the titular fast-paced roguelite shooter. Like the original flatscreen Roboquest (2023) from RyseUp Studios, Flat2VR also confirmed Roboquest VR will similarly feature two-player co-op in addition to single player campaign. Set in a vibrant, cel-shaded world, Roboquest throws players into procedurally […]

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‘HITMAN World of Assassination’ Comes to PSVR 2 This Month, A Chance at Redemption After Quest Blunder

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. Hitman World of Assassination—the bundle including HITMAN 1, HITMAN 2 and HITMAN 3—was initially supposed to arrive […]

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Cardiovascular Health and Space Botany Day Before Crew-10 Launch

The Expedition 72 crew kept up its space research activities on Tuesday while also preparing to split up after the SpaceX Crew-10 mission arrives this week. Spacesuit checks and lab maintenance duties rounded out the day aboard the International Space Station as the orbital outpost reached a milestone 150,000 orbits around the Earth.

NHS Continues to Pioneer VR Patient Care

The healthcare industry has remained a stalwart pillar for the XR space, with doctor and patient-facing solutions leading the way for how enterprises to leverage the emerging AR/VR/MR technology market today and for various use cases. The UK’s NHS system has historically been a strong user of XR, from HoloLens training to immersive patient care […]

Meta Unleashes OpenXR As Standard Gaming Development Path

Get ready for a game-changer in the XR world! Meta is about to unleash a new level of development freedom this week with its v74 SDK release; making OpenXR the recommended pathway for building immersive experiences across Unity, Unreal, and Godot. Don’t look at this as just another update – it’s Meta tearing down the […]

YouTube Will Now Manually Review More Videos for Ad Suitability

The process will send more videos for manual ad review assessment.

AI Agents Are Set To Streamline Many Manual Tasks

AI agents are the next wave set to sweep across the business landscape.

TikTok Provides Tips on Creating Engaging Photo Posts

Some tips for your still image posts on TikTok. 

Pinterest Begins Labeling Generative AI Content

The new tags will help to highlight AI generated content in-stream.

Phasmophobia Overhauls Bleasdale Farmhouse Map In New Update

One of Phasmophobia’s oldest maps received a new overhaul in today’s update, which is now live on PC VR and PlayStation VR2.

visionOS 3 Will Reportedly Be A “Feature-Packed Release”

Apple Vision Pro’s visionOS 3 will be a “feature-packed release”, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.

Meta Details Path to ‘Significantly Reduced Costs’ of Next-gen AR’s Most Critical Component

Meta’s Orion AR glasses prototype is expensive to make—like $10,000 per pair, expensive. Orion’s most pricey component is undoubtedly its custom silicon carbide waveguide lenses, although Meta says it sees a pathway to “significantly reduce the cost” of that key component in the future. Silicon carbide has been around for a while, having mostly been used […]

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Apple Reportedly to Reveal “feature-packed” visionOS 3.0 Update at WWDC in June

Apple is planning a “feature-packed release” for visionOS 3.0, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says that Vision Pro’s operating system—and not new XR hardware—is going to be a focus at this year’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). Despite its high price and premium appeal, Apple hasn’t slowed down software updates for Vision Pro, which launched […]

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Station Readies for Upcoming SpaceX Crew Swap, Keeps Up Space Research

The SpaceX Falcon rocket that will launch the Crew-10 mission aboard the Dragon crew spacecraft to the International Space Station stands at it launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today. Crew-10 is counting down to its liftoff targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. For an on-time launch, the Crew-10 foursome would dock to the International Space Station at 6 a.m. on Thursday and begin their long-duration mission as Expedition 72 flight engineers.

Free-To-Play Social VR Game Cards & Tankards Gets New Expansion This Month

Cards & Tankards, the free-to-play social VR card game, confirmed the new ‘Ashes of Ur-Enku’ expansion will launch later this month.

GOLF+ Tests Tracking Your Real Putter Using Logitech’s MX Ink

GOLF+ is experimenting with tracking your real putter by attaching Logitech’s MX Ink tracked stylus to the top of it.

Most Of Insomniac’s VR Games Have Returned To The Rift Store

Insomniac Games has relisted three of its titles on Meta’s PC VR store, and The Unspoken should soon follow.

Meta To Recommend Using Unity & Unreal’s Built-In OpenXR Support From Next Week

Meta will recommend developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity & Unreal from next week.

The news comes after developers complained that Meta’s integrations blocked other PC VR headsets.