Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale is wrapping up today, offering up the last chance to nab one of the best deals in VR gaming.

Launched last October, Quest 3S is normally priced at $300 for the 128 GB variant, and $400 for the 256 GB variant. It supports all of the same virtual and mixed reality games as Quest 3, albeit in a slightly bulkier (and cheaper) package.

Now, on the last day of Prime Day, you can still grab both versions […]

Indie XR studio Yumebau today released BuildPort Xumia in early access on Quest, bringing fast-paced, physics-driven space combat and the ability to build out your own spaceships from scratch.

Now available on Quest 3 and 3S, BuildPort Xumia is a bit of a cross between a toned down Kerbal Space Program and an arena multiplayer shooter, offering up the ability to take down baddies in your own spaceship, which is built, wired and packed full of useful components.

In BuildPort Xumia, you’ll essentially be able to […]

Grit and Valor – 1949 (2025) is getting VR support soon, bringing the game’s real-time roguelite action to Quest, PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets.

Released on PC earlier this year, Grit and Valor – 1949 lets you command an elite squadron of tiny mechs, as you seek to topple the Evil Axis forces and liberate Europe from their legion mechanical minions.

Players pick their mech combat style, choose their pilots, and upgrade mechs with a variety of unlockable parts, like new cockpits, engines, bodies, legs, and weapons.

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It was rumored last year that Meta was seeking a minority stake in French-Italian eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica, not only the largest eyewear manufacturer in the world, but also Meta’s partner behind its growing line of smart glasses. Now, a new report suggests the deal has gone through.

Citing people familiar with the matter, a Bloomberg report maintains Meta has acquired just under 3% of EssilorLuxottica, which is suspected to be worth €3 billion (~$3.5 million).

Meta is reportedly considering additional investment in the […]

Meta announced it’s now added an official Zoom app to the Horizon Store, letting you host and join online meetings as your Quest avatar.

This isn’t the first time Quest users could jump into a Zoom call in VR. In 2021, the company integrated Zoom into Horizon Workrooms, its all-in-one immersive collaboration app. That was more focused on face-to-face VR meetings though, which could also allow you to include webcam participants into a single immersive space.

Now, users just looking for Zoom and […]

Smart contact lens startup XPANCEO announced it’s secured $250 million in Series A funding, putting its valuation at $1.35 billion and minting it as XR’s most recent unicorn.

The funding round was led by Opportunity Venture (Asia), which led the company’s $40 million Seed round in 2023, bringing its overall funding to $290 million, according to Crunchbase data.

XPANCEO, a UAE-based company, says the new funding will “accelerate the company’s mission to launch the world’s first all-in-one smart contact lens,” which is […]

ShapesXR (2021), the 3D and XR prototyping platform, just got a new animation feature that allows design teams to make their XR prototypes even more expressive and lifelike.

The studio says the new ‘Animation’ feature introduces an “easy-to-use frame-based animation system, enabling creators to add transitions and dynamic interactions between scenes—all without writing a single line of code.”

Things like UI motion, storytelling beats, or interactive gestures can all be scripted with ShapesXR’s Animation feature, the studio says, noting that it’s designed to make XR prototypes “more immersive, […]

Apple quietly acquired 3D avatar company TrueMeeting in January, which could help bolster the company’s digital Personas on Vision Pro.

French language outlet MacGeneration first spotted the news via a European Commission filing, which includes a non-confidential summary of mergers and acquisitions.

Details of the acquisition are still thin, however it appears Apple acquired the Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley-based company in January 2025, obtaining its 3D avatar tech stack and hiring a number of its employees.

Founded in 2019 as CommonGround-AI, TrueMeeting […]

Meta announced in January it was working on a home theater environment for Horizon OS, which would let Quest users view content on a massive screen in a proper theater setting. Now, a leaked prototype of the environment shows that it’s focusing on multiplayer too, making it look a bit like VR’s most popular shared viewing app, Bigscreen.

Quest already has a few fragmented theater-style features, although no single first-party app that lets you easily invite friends to watch things socially. Meta has made a number of attempts […]

Between 2019 and 2022, Meta went on a veritable shopping spree of experienced studios to help push its VR game portfolio, culminating in nine VR studios acquired to date. Here we take a look what’s happened over the past six years, including everything from recent successes to outright shutdowns.

Note: This is an updated version of this article from October 2024, as we continue to track ongoing developments of Meta’s studios.

Acquisition by Meta usually means a few […]

Resolute Games launched a crowdfunding campaign late last month to kickstart a VRMMO called Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist. Now the campaign has officially crossed the $100,000 mark, and it’s not showing any signs of stopping.

Launched on June 24th, the Eldramoor campaign is hoping to revive some of the fun of recently shuttered VR MMO Orbus VR.

Founded by ex-Orbus players, Resolute Games celebrated some early success with the Kickstarter. Within just 1.5 hours of going live last month, the project had already crossed its “all or nothing” […]

Meta recently unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN, the company’s latest smart glasses created in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica. Now, data miner and serial leaker ‘Luna’ has obtained images of what appears to be Meta’s next pair of smart glasses, this time including a built-in display and wrist-worn controller.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported in January that Meta was working on two new pairs of smart glasses: a sportier unit styled by Oakley—officially confirmed last month—and a high-end pair, codenamed ‘Hypernova’, which features a built-in […]