Wooster Games, the studio behind Animal Company, announced earlier this year that its free-to-play Quest title had surpassed one million monthly active users (MAU), putting it on the fast track to becoming the next big social VR phenomenon. Now, the studio reveals it’s vaulted to the fifth highest-grossing Quest games of all time in just a year.

Launched on Quest in early access last July, Animal Company takes Gorilla Tag’s arm-powered locomotion mechanic and mashes it up with the game loop of Lethal Company—hence the name. […]

Sharp announced it’s releasing a prototype VR haptic controller in Japan, which aims to reproduce the sense of touch in VR while serving a familiar button layout.

Japan-based Sharp says its VR haptic controllers can let users sense texture thanks to “multi-segmented tactile elements” placed on the device’s fingertips. Various vibration patterns on the surface are meant to convey different textures, such as smooth, rough, etc., the company says.

“Although the haptics are not at a level that reproduces the real thing, by changing the parameters we have been […]

Quest 3S is on sale starting at $250 during a four day Summer sale from Meta. Accessories compatible with both Quest 3 and Quest 3S are also on sale with a 20% discount.

• Quest 3S (128GB) is on sale for $250, a $50 (17%) discount
• Quest 3S (256GB) is also on sale for $330, a $70 (18%) discount

Both deals are available directly from Meta from today through 9:00AM PT on July 24th (your timezone here).

Both headsets include a copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow […]

Ahead of an upcoming technical conference, researchers from Meat’s Reality Labs Research group published details on their work toward creating ultra-wide field-of-view VR & MR headsets that use novel optics to maintain a compact goggles-style form-factor.

Published in advance of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Emerging Technologies conference, the research article details two headsets, each achieving a horizontal field-of-view of 180 degrees (which is a huge jump over Meta’s existing headsets, like Quest 3, which is around 100 degrees).

The first headset is a pure VR […]

Pico, the XR headset maker owned by TikTok parent ByteDance, is reportedly developing a mixed reality device aimed at rivaling Meta’s next-generation XR headset.

According to a report from The Information, Pico is currently working on a pair of mixed reality “goggles” codenamed ‘Swan’, which are said to be thin and lightweight—reportedly weighing around just 100 grams.

Citing three people with direct knowledge of the project, The Information reports that the device features a hybrid design that offloads processing to a tethered […]

Varjo announced that starting next year, it’s no longer supporting its fleet of third generation XR headsets, which includes XR-3, VR-3, and Varjo Aero.

As first spotted by XT Today, Varjo says it’s now “focusing our manufacturing efforts on the XR-4 Series headsets,” which released in late 2023.

The Finland-based company notes in a support FAQ that its companion software, Varjo Base, will receive software updates and bug fixes until the January 1st, 2026 cutoff date.

Bigscreen unveiled a new ‘VRChat Edition’ of its slim and light Beyond 2e PC VR headset, which the company says is specifically designed for die-hard users of VR’s most popular social platform.

Bigscreen began shipping the first production units of Beyond 2 late last month, which includes both the standard Beyond 2 and its eye-tracking enabled variant, Beyond 2e.

Now, the company announced it’s also launching an exclusive VRChat Edition of the Beyond 2e, slated to start shipping out sometime in September 2025.

As far as […]

Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024) is pretty amazing on its own, offering up enough frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at across its Crashloop story mode. Coming July 27th, Clone Drone is getting a fresh injection of content with its new ‘Skyscrapper’ endless mode, letting you scrap through increasingly difficult challenges until your very last clone is slashed to bits.

I got a chance to go hands-on with the Skyscrapper mode on Quest 3, which mixes and matches the games enemies into new and unique patterns, serving up some […]

PlayStation’s annual summer sale just kicked off, tossing a ton of deep discounts your way on some of the best PSVR 2 games out there.

There are a ton of great games currently on sale—available between today and July 29th—many of them PSVR 2 mainstays that should easily help you fill out your game library.

Some of our favorite PSVR 2-natives include Metro Awakening, Red Matter 2, Ancient Dungeon VR, Until You Fall, The Last Clockwinder, Arizona Sunshine Remake, and Arizona Sunshine 2—which range between 25%-60% off.

You can also nab a […]

UK-based startup Freeaim kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign yesterday to support the release of a pair of motorized shoes designed to enable natural walking in VR, essentially giving your feet two independent treadmills to walk on.

VR treadmills are usually pretty costly and bulky, which means they mostly appeal to enterprise. Now, Freeaim has unveiled its VR Shoes, which aims to reduce the cost and footprint of immersive VR locomotion devices.

Freeaim VR Shoes so this by incorporating robotic wheels and motion sensors to […]

I got a chance to go hands-on with a beginning level of World War Z VR on Quest, the first VR entry into the storied zombie franchise. And like the novel, 2013 film and the handful of flatscreen games that followed, it’s chock-full of zombie hordes, which you take on with the help of two AI companions. While it promises up to 200 zombies on screen at any given time—by far the most I’ve ever heard of in a VR game—I walked in with a single question. […]

It was announced recently that Meta is partnering with military tech company Anduril to bring XR technology to the battlefield. New job listings indicate the company is also looking to expand its XR tech into the medical field.

Meta is of course best known for in the XR space for its consumer VR and MR headsets like the Rift and Quest, but the company also thinks its XR tech has a bigger role to play. While Meta has dabbled in the education and […]

Indie VR studio Patient 8 Games released a new trailer for Memoreum during UploadVR’s summer games showcase, revealing it’s coming a little later than planned.

Previously slated to release on Quest in September, Patient 8 has now confirmed its sci-fi space horror game Memoreum is now set to launch on the Horizon Store on October 9th, 2025.

You may recognize Patient 8 from its hit Half Life: Alyx mod, ‘Return to Rapture’, which mashed up Bioshock levels with Half-Life lore. Now, Memoreum is set to be the studio’s first ‘ground-up’ […]

Indie studio Creativity AR announced its MacGyver-inspired VR puzzle adventure Fixer Undercover is coming to Quest and SteamVR headsets next year.

The studio released a demo of Fixer Undercover on Quest last year via the now-defunct App Lab, offering up a taste of the spy-themed puzzle game.

During the UploadVR summer game showcase, Creativity AR showed off a new trailer for the game, which is officially coming to PC VR headsets via Steam and Quest in Q1 2026.

As ‘Agent 404’, you disguise yourself as a normal maintenance […]

Indie studio The Voxel Agents announced a VR expansion of their hit puzzle adventure Hidden Memories (2018) is coming to Quest and SteamVR headsets in August.

Called Hidden Memories The Gardens Between, the upcoming VR game is said to be “an expansive reimagining” of the original, which launched on PC, console and mobile platforms in 2018.

The VR-exclusive sequel takes place two decades after the original story, offering up 40 new puzzles scattered across the game’s narrative, which follows childhood friends Frendt and Arina as they relive seminal […]

During Upload VR’s summer game showcase, developer Triangular Pixels showed off more of its upcoming sequel to spy-flavored puzzle adventure Unseen Diplomacy (2016).

The sequel, Unseen Diplomacy 2, has been years in the making, and now Triangular Pixels has released a new trailer showing off more of the game’s room-scale interactions—a feature that made the 2016 original such a pioneer in the space.

While we got a brief look in May when Triangular Pixels initially announced Unseen Diplomacy 2, the studio showed off new […]