Inventive Spatial Billiards Concept Hits Quest App Lab With Hand Tracking
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by Ian Hamilton
19h ago
An inventive early concept for adapting the classic game of billiards to VR is now on Quest's App Lab today after just a few days of development. We don't normally cover games this early in development, but Hayden Jackson's spatial adaptation of pool caught our eye. The app, called 3D Pool right now, exchanges the familiar cue used in games like ForeVR Pool for a slingshot mechanic with hand tracking, replacing gravity with zero-g and bounding it all inside of a rectangular box instead of a table. 0:00 /1:33 1× Jackson told us over direct message he "came up with the idea by first reflecting o ..read more
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Medieval Dynasty New Settlement Builds A Home On Quest
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by Henry Stockdale
19h ago
Medieval Dynasty New Settlement is a new VR survival game reaching Quest today. Developed by Spectral Games, Medieval Dynasty New Settlement is a VR spinoff of 2021's flatscreen Medieval Dynasty by Render Cube. Mixing sandbox, role-playing, simulation, crafting and exploration mechanics, you're tasked with founding and building a thriving settlement to establish your new dynasty. Here's the Quest 2 gameplay trailer. Ensuring your settlement's long-term survival in Medieval Dynasty requires constructing buildings, cooking, hunting, cultivating crops, and wider exploration. Narrative quests, ch ..read more
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Hellsweeper VR Now Supports Foveated Rendering On PSVR 2 With Wrath Update
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by Henry Stockdale
22h ago
Hellsweeper VR introduces new enemies and PSVR 2 visual improvements in today's free Wrath Update. Following December's 'Treachery' update, Wrath marks the second major Hellsweeper VR update in the post-launch roadmap. It introduces the Mage's Staff weapon, which combines all magic elements into one weapon. Wrath is a new enemy type alongside elemental bosses, you can now wield enemy weapons, while 'Epithets' is a new class and reward system. Wrath notably addresses visual criticisms Hellsweeper VR faced on PSVR 2 at launch. Alongside new adaptive trigger functionality whe ..read more
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No Man's Sky Orbital Gets A Ship Editor & Overhauls Space Stations
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by Henry Stockdale
1d ago
No Man's Sky Orbital revamps space stations and introduces full ship customization. Out now as a free patch, the No Man's Sky Orbital update significantly changes space stations. Alongside new external designs, space station interiors have been redesigned and expanded using procedural generation. Hello Games confirms new reputation discounts mean your relationship with alien races now affects trading prices, while the 'Economy Scanner' can find new time-limited events that present "high-profit opportunities for enterprising traders." With ship customization, the new 'Starship Fabricator ..read more
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Oculus To Meta: 10 Years Of Mark Zuckerberg's Quest For VR
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by Ian Hamilton
2d ago
On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Kids who weren't born when he made that decision can now wear, with parental controls, a $500 wireless all-in-one headset with markerless inside-out tracking, precise 6DoF controllers, hand tracking, and mixed reality. A lot has happened in the decade to get us here. From Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivering a Rift in Alaska in 2016 to his unceremonious dismissal a year later, Oculus inside Facebook faced a series of leadership changes (Hugo Barra), strategy shifts (Facebook accounts required ..read more
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Spatialify for iPhone 15 Pro Can Now Capture HDR 'Spatial Videos' At 1080p 60fps Or 4K 30fps
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by David Heaney
2d ago
The Spatialify app for iPhone 15 Pro can now record 3D 'spatial videos' with HDR at 1080p 60fps or 4K 30fps. Spatial Video is Apple's term for stereoscopic 3D video on its devices. Currently, only Apple Vision Pro and the two iPhone 15 Pro models can record spatial videos. These 3D videos are saved in the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format, an implementation of MV-HEVC that only Apple Vision Pro can play back natively. The iPhone app Spatialify released last year with the flagship feature of converting spatial videos into regular side-by-side 3D that can be played on any existing VR headse ..read more
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RAGER Demo Brings Rhythm Melee Combat To Quest App Lab
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by Henry Stockdale
2d ago
RAGER is a new melee combat VR rhythm game with a free demo on Quest App Lab. Developed by Insane Prey, RAGER seeks to "test your skills and reflexes" as you fend off cyborgs from all directions. Offering multiple weapons like a sword, mace, claws, hammer, axe and more, this requires timing your attacks, blocks and dodging in line with the music's rhythm. You can watch gameplay in the trailer below: We briefly went hands-on with the demo, which only features swords and maces with four difficulty settings. What follows feels like combat-driven rhythm game reminiscent of Beat Saber. Arming you ..read more
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Metal: Hellsinger VR Adapts The Rhythm Shooter This Year On Quest, Steam & PSVR 2
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by Henry Stockdale
2d ago
Metal: Hellsinger VR brings the flatscreen rhythm shooter to Quest, Steam & PSVR 2 later this year. Developed by The Outsiders, Metal: Hellsinger previously appeared on flatscreen platforms in 2022 and has now been "reimagined from the ground up for VR" in collaboration with Lab42 Games. Playing as a half-demon called the Unknown, this tale of revenge sees you moving, dashing, slashing, and shooting demons to the rhythmic beat as you journey through the eight hells. While the VR adaptation features changes like swapping "most" menus for an immersive hub area, you can expect to find the or ..read more
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Meta Is Only Allowing A Few Quest Developers To Disable The Annoying Boundary In Mixed Reality
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by David Heaney
2d ago
Quest mixed reality apps can disable the annoying safety boundary, but only a handful of whitelisted developers can ship this on the Quest Store and App Lab. Boundary, formerly called Guardian, is certainly useful in virtual reality so you don't leave your playspace and bump into furniture and walls. But in most mixed reality apps it's superfluous, since you can already see the environment around you, and downright annoying because it means you can't utilize your full room as a playspace. In the v57 system software changelog Meta said "some apps with mixed reality" will no longer have Boundary ..read more
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Anarchitects Hands-On: Creatively Chaotic VR Multiplayer Sandbox
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by Henry Stockdale
2d ago
Free-to-play VR/MR multiplayer sandbox Anarchitects has enjoyably chaotic potential. Read on for our full impressions. Squido Studio made little secret of its inspirations when it announced Anarchitects last month. Reminiscent of Roblox's approach to user-generated content (UGC) with the creative freedom of Garry's Mod, it's not what I expected from the team following its 2023 VR platformer, No More Rainbows. That's certainly not a bad thing, though. After a half-hour demo, the comparisons are justified. I tried a pre-release build on Quest 3 during GDC 2024, where I was joined by two members ..read more
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