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‘Dead Space’ Style Sci-fi Horror Game ‘Memoreum’ Delayed to October

By |July 14, 2025|

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’ […]

MacGyver-inspired Puzzle Adventure ‘Fixer Undercover’ Comes to Quest & PC VR Next Year

By |July 14, 2025|

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 […]

Expansion of Cozy Puzzle Adventure ‘Hidden Memories’ Comes to Quest & PC VR in August

By |July 14, 2025|

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 […]

‘Unseen Diplomacy 2’ Shows Off More Room-scale Spy Madness in New Trailer

By |July 14, 2025|

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 […]

Amazon Prime Day Brings Big Discounts to Quest 3S and Accessories

By |July 11, 2025|

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 […]

CREAL Secures $8.9M Funding to Miniaturize Light Field Display for AR Glasses

By |July 11, 2025|

Switzerland-based light field display startup CREAL announced its closed a $8.9 million equity funding round, which the company says will accelerate the miniaturization of its light field module for AR glasses.

The equity funding round was led by ZEISS, the Germany-based optical systems and optoelectronics company, with participation from new and existing investors, including members of the UBS private investor network.

This brings the company’s overall funding to $32 million, with previous investors including […]

Now on Quest Early Access, ‘BuildPort Xumia’ Lets You Build & Fly Your Own Homemade Spaceships

By |July 11, 2025|

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’ Brings Real-time Roguelite Tactics to All Major VR Headsets Next Month

By |July 10, 2025|

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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Meta Reportedly Invests $3.5 Billion in EssilorLuxottica, Further Strengthening Smart Glasses Partnership

By |July 10, 2025|

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 […]

‘Zoom’ App Comes to Quest, Letting You Join Work Meetings as Your Avatar

By |July 9, 2025|

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 Maker Raises $250M Investment at a Whopping $1.35B Valuation

By |July 9, 2025|

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 […]

Spatial Design Prototyping Tool ‘ShapesXR’ Adds Powerful Animation Features

By |July 8, 2025|

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 Acquires Digital Avatar Company TrueMeeting to Bolster Vision Pro Personas

By |July 8, 2025|

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 […]

Quest’s Leaked Theater Environment Suggests Meta Could Be Gunning for Social VR’s ‘Bigscreen’

By |July 3, 2025|

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 […]