Uncanny Alley: A New Day, an immersive theatre experience built for VRChat, won an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program at this year’s Emmy Awards ceremony. The project, headed by a small non-profit theatre company, won over Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema from Blumhouse and NBC and The World of Fallout from Amazon and Bethesda. 0:00 /1:21 […]
The creators of Human: Fall Flat have announced their next game, Tiny Flock, is coming this month. No Brakes Games, best known as the creators of Human: Fall Flat, have revealed that Tiny Flock is launching on Meta Quest and SteamVR on September 29. Tiny Flock is a made-for-VR physics-based puzzle game in which you […]
The Meta Virtual Display feature of Quest headsets has continued to receive improvements, including input forwarding, and the Mac version now offers the same core functionality previously exclusive to Windows. While using my MacBook with Quest, I recently noticed a connection prompt I had previously only seen with Windows. Looking directly at the physical Mac […]
The Fovii app is now available for Apple Vision Pro. It was founded by John Racine, who was NextVR’s VR Systems Specialist before the company’s acquisition by Apple in 2020. Racine later supported Apple’s development of Apple Immersive Video, helping to advance its stereoscopic 180-degree format, which is now core to the content curated for […]
Pico’s upcoming Apple Vision Pro competitor, Space Pro, was initially meant to debut earlier this month, although the ByteDance subsidiary cancelled the event and postponed its reveal and release date. Now, the company’s next flagship standalone XR headset just cleared the FCC. Previously known as ‘Project Swan’, Pico Space Pro has now surfaced in FCC […]
A new Pico device, highly likely to be the upcoming Space Pro, has received FCC certification. The FCC is the US regulatory agency with responsibility over wireless frequency use. Its approval is necessary to sell a device with wireless capabilities in the US market. Label locations for 2A5NV-AA1Z0 and 2A5NV-B3110, as shown in the FCC […]
Cozy 3D puzzle game Puzzling Places is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a new weekly free puzzle initiative, a guest pass for multiplayer gameplay, and improvements in its usage of mixed reality. Here’s a rundown of the new features: The weekly free puzzle is a rotating selection from its extensive catalog of paid add-on puzzles. […]
Sci-fi VR team extraction shooter Drifters: Blackout Crew is holding an open playtest through Sunday morning. Blackout Crew is the latest title from Salmi Games (Sweet Surrender). You and up to three other players are a crew stranded in deep space with a ship in need of supplies and repairs. Your crew raids temples filled […]
In Inside XR Design we examine specific examples of great VR design. Today we’re looking at the clever design of Red Matter 2’s ‘grabber tools’ and the many ways that they contribute to immersion. Editor’s Note: Red Matter 2 was released four years ago this month! Despite its age, it remains one of the best looking and […]
The solo-developed Loony Laps is an arcade toy racer coming to Quest 3 and Quest 3S in Q1 2027. Created by solo developer Paulo Cunha, Loony Laps is an upcoming toy car racing game that brings the magic of die-cast racing and elaborate toy tracks into mixed reality and VR. The game features 29 handcrafted […]
