Meta’s final Quest update of the year is bringing some big improvements to hand-tracking and using the headset as a virtual desktop with Windows computers. But it might be some time before the features reach everyone.

The Quest v72 update is starting to roll out today. Its headlining feature is the Windows 11 Remote Desktop seamless connection feature the company had announced earlier this year.

Windows Mixed Reality Link

Once set up, Meta says Quest 3 and 3S users will be able to simply look at their Windows 11 […]

1 in 3 Quest owners have downloaded Gorilla Tag, making it the most successful game ever on standalone VR. Gorilla Tag, created by studio Another Axiom, has emerged as a standout success in the virtual reality gaming space, not just as a game but as a cultural phenomenon. Launched in 2021, it has quickly amassed over 12 million users and generated more than $100 million in revenue.

Guest Article by JP Minetos

JP Minetos works on the Investment Team at Hartmann Capital, a frontier venture fund investing […]

Skydance’s Behemoth (2024) launched last week across all major VR headsets with the proviso from the studio was planning patches to address a variety of performance and gameplay issues.

Developer Skydance Games says we can expect a patch on December 12th, 2024 covering issues experienced across all platforms, which includes Quest 2/3/Pro, PSVR 2, and PC VR headsets via the Horizon Store (Meta only) and Steam.

While we didn’t notice any of the outstanding bugs in […]

Roto VR, the UK-based creator behind 360-degree VR chairs, announced a new funding round of £2.4 million (~$3 million) which the company says will be used to fulfill demand of its recently launched Roto VR Explorer chair.

Led by Pembroke VCT, the continuation of company’s second funding round includes participation of existing as well as new angel investors from both the UK and US.

According to Crunchbase data, this brings Roto’s total investments to £3.9 million (~$5 million) following […]

Meta announced it’s partnering with Lightstorm Vision, James Cameron’s 3D film studio, to produce spatial content across multiple genres, including live events and full-length entertainment.

The agreement includes the production of live sports and concerts, feature films, and TV series featuring “big-name IP,” Meta says in a recent blog post, noting that Quest will be Lightstorm Vision’s the exclusive MR hardware platform.

Meta says the collaboration with Lightstorm Vision will include the co-production of original stereoscopic content, but also […]

A recent report from The Information maintains Meta has started outsourcing some design for upcoming headsets amid a shift to move part of its production out of China. Now, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth refutes those specific design claims, saying headsets will continue to be designed “in house.”

According to The Information (non-paywalled via SeekingAlpha) Meta is reportedly planning to move half of its Quest headset manufacturing from China to Vietnam, a step done to avoid upcoming steep import […]

Indie studio Windup Minds have finally announced its long-awaited virtual pet simulator, Stay: Forever Home, bringing a cute little canine friend to Quest in early 2025.

The studio says Stay: Forever Home blends AR, VR, and unscripted AI to create a more realistic pet companion that is unique to each player, resulting in what it calls a game that “loves you back.”

Skydance’s Behemoth showcases a lot of hard-won lessons in VR design, which is mostly thanks to the studio’s pioneering work on its most successful VR game to date: The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020). As an original IP in the action-adventure genre, Behemoth goes in a pretty familiar direction when it comes to the game’s narrative, which would otherwise make it difficult to stand out in the crowd were it a standard video game. In VR though, there are precious few that provide such a monster-sized […]

Data from Amazon US suggests that Quest headsets didn’t sell as well over Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2024 as compared to 2023.

Based on data from Amazon US, in 2023 about 170,000 Quest headsets had sold in the 30 day window surrounding Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In 2024, that number was around 146,000 Quest headsets, representing a drop in sales volume of 14%. This may not be representative of other retailers.

That’s a surprising outcome considering Meta just launched […]

Skydance’s Behemoth is coming in hot, although it may be coming in hotter than  expected. Developer Skydance Games tells Road to VR it’s already planning post-launch patches for its first week on Quest and PSVR 2.

A Skydance Games representative tells us it’s experienced a “cascading hardware failure that delayed the testing and certification of Skydance’s BEHEMOTH across all platforms.”

This however won’t delay release, we’re told, as “the team has since recovered,” with the proviso that the studio is releasing patches on PSVR 2 and […]

Green Hell VR (2022), Incuvo’s VR adaptation of the popular open world survival game, is finally getting the long-promised co-op mode this month on Quest and PSVR 2.

First announced in April 2023, Green Hell VR’s co-op mode is nearly here, launching December 16th for free to owners of game on PSVR 2 and Quest 2, 3 and 3S.

The co-op edition is said to build on the game’s challenging solo play by allowing teams of up to four players, who arm themselves with melee or ranged weapons […]

A recent report from South Korea’s Yonhap News maintains Samsung is set to unveil a pair of XR glasses at its annual Unpacked product event, which is expected to take place sometime next month.

Samsung promised back in July we’d be hearing more about its forthcoming “XR platform” before the end of this year, which it’s developing in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

We still don’t know precisely what form its “XR platform” will take, with previous rumors suggesting work on […]