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TCL Shows Off New High PPI OLED and Micro-LED Displays for XR

By |May 8, 2026|

TCL has revealed its latest OLED and micro-LED displays aimed at AR and VR headsets. The company claims to have achieved new benchmarks for pixel density.

Shown off at the SID Display Week event, TCL’s new 2.24-inch display is claimed to be the “highest pixel density real RGB G-OLED display,” at 1,700 PPI (pixels per-inch), for a total resolution of 7.2MP (2,600 × 2,784) and refresh rate of 120Hz.

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‘VRChat’ Reveals Key Stats, Claiming Significant Growth in Japanese Usership

By |May 7, 2026|

Social VR platform VRChat revealed some new user stats in addition to new portal to attract more users.

Hard data on VRChat user stats isn’t easy to come by, with third-party tools like SteamDB only telling a part of the story, as the game is available across Steam, Quest, and both iOS and Android.

Still, every once in a while the company will toss out a few salient numbers like they did via a recent X post:

  • 158,192 Record Concurrent Users
  • 100,000 Daily [
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‘Vertigo’ Developer is Working on Upcoming ‘Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades’ Sequel

By |May 7, 2026|

Zach Tsiakalis-Brown, the one-man show behind PC VR action-adventure games Vertigo (2016) and Vertigo 2 (2023), revealed he’s working with Rust Ltd on their upcoming sequel to Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3VR).

Tsiakalis-Brown revealed in a new video he’s been working with Rust on H3VR2 since early 2024, officially taking on gameplay programming and technical art for the upcoming sequel in 2025.

Image courtesy Rust Ltd

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Sequel to Acclaimed VR Shooter ‘Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades’ Coming to Quest & PC VR

By |May 7, 2026|

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (H3VR) is one of those silly, but surprisingly realistic PC VR shooters that kept on giving well after its release on Steam Early Access in 2016. Now, developer Rust Ltd announced a sequel is coming, and it’s a “full fledged” extraction shooter.

Revealed during the Creature Feature & Friends 2026 showcase, H3VR2 is coming to Quest 3 and 3S as well as PC VR headsets via Steam. Since the original is a PC VR-only game, this [
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Everything Announced at Today Creature Feature & Friends VR Showcase

By |May 7, 2026|

We got an eye-full of VR stuff during today’s Creature and VR Games Showcase livestream, which showed off a bevy of new VR games and updates coming to a headset near you.

Here’s the full drop, frontloaded with a very obvious headliner: the upcoming sequel to Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades.

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Sequel

Get ready to shoot, loot, and scoot as a sentient hot dog in the sequel to Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3VR), the [
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Tackling the Unique Challenges of Moderating Social VR at Scale

By |May 7, 2026|

Social VR pushes moderation challenges to the surface in ways that non-VR titles are often able to avoid. Voice, immersion, and highly social design raise the stakes while economic realities also create limitations around moderation coverage. The good news is that data-backed approaches show there is another path.

Guest Article by Dr. George Ng

George is a co-founder and CTO of GGWP, where he works on systems that help online communities understand their [
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The 50 Best-selling Quest Games of All Time – 2026 Analysis

By |May 6, 2026|

It’s been a little over a year since Meta revealed its top 50 best-selling games of all time. Here’s the rankings as they stand today, and why they haven’t really changed that much.

Not a lot has changed in Quest’s top 50 best-selling games list, which is partially to be expected since Meta’s list ostensibly covers sales since the original Quest was initially released in 2019.

Note: If you want to skip the analysis, you’ll find the full list at the [
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Remakes of Iconic ’90s Puzzle Games ‘MYST’ & ‘RIVEN’ Finally Come to PSVR 2 This Month

By |May 6, 2026|

Cyan Worlds announced it’s finally bringing remakes of the studio’s most iconic puzzle adventures, MYST (1993) and RIVEN (1997), to PS5 and PSVR 2 this month.

Like the remakes on PC, which were released in 2021 and 2024 respectively, Myst and Riven will support both flatscreen and VR gameplay at launch, which is coming May 19th.

As you’d imagine, both games are very much products of their time, as original puzzles are faithfully recreated alongside adapted visuals, which transforms [
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XPANCEO is Hoping to Solve AR Contact Lens Challenge with Ultra Tiny Solid-State Batteries

By |May 5, 2026|

If augmented reality glasses are the future, AR contact lenses are probably a bit farther away. Still, smart contact lens startup XPANCEO says it’s hoping to address at least one of the technology’s main issues with the inclusion of miniature solid-state batteries.

In partnership with France-based solid-state battery startup ITEN, XPANCEO announced it’s developing a proof of concept AR contact lens with a built-in microbattery—something the companies hope will solve a main challenge in ocular wearables right now: conventional batteries [
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VR Veteran Behind ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ & ‘Creed: Rise to Glory’ Reportedly Shutting Down

By |May 4, 2026|

Survios, one of VR’s most senior game studios and developer behind Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024), is reportedly shutting down, as a majority of staff have been laid off.

While Survios hasn’t publicly announced the shutdown at the time of this writing, the reduction in headcount appears to be drastic enough to all but confirm that the VR veteran studio is closing up shop.

Dylan Ralston, previously a Combat Designer at Survios, says in a LinkedIn post on Saturday the studio is “essentially shuttered, [
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VR Extraction Dungeon Crawler ‘Reave’ Has Been Cancelled After Months in Open Beta

By |May 2, 2026|

Reave was an upcoming VR extraction dungeon crawler from Alta, the studio behind Township Tale. The company announced that the game has been cancelled despite the game being in a mature enough state for months of open playtesting.

Following the successful launch of Township Tale on Quest in 2021, studio Alta announced it had raised more than $12 million in investment to expand its studio and accelerate development of the game.

In April 2024 the studio revealed it was working on a new game, at the time codenamed [
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Making a Punchier User Interface for VR in ‘Beat the Beats’

By |May 2, 2026|

When we started working on Beat the Beats, we had one clear mission: we wanted a super cohesive experience from the moment you start up the game. This implies treating UI and menu time as seriously as the gameplay itself.

Guest Article by Lucas Gonzålez Hernanz

Lucas González Hernanz is a Spanish game developer with over 15 years of experience, having worked on titles such as Lego Star Wars Saga, Lego Marvel, Little Big [
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VR’ Review – Totally Radical Beat ’em Up Action

By |May 1, 2026|

While I don’t think anybody was really asking for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in VR, much less a story-driven campaign with optional co-op: it’s here. And I’m so glad it is, because it’s totally radical.

Developer: Cortopia Studios
Publisher: Beyond Frames Entertainment
Available On: Quest, SteamVR , Pico
Reviewed On: Quest 3
Release Date: April 30th, 2026
Price: $25

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There tends to be a common mantra when branded VR games come out: “it’s alright, but it’s probably only going to [
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4 Ways Teachers Are Using AI

By |April 30, 2026|

Researchers looked at more than 150,000 prompts from more than 4,400 K-12 teachers interacting with AI. Here’s what they found.