Pavlov Shack will soon be arriving on Facebook’s new App Lab platform for Oculus Quest. Launched yesterday, App Lab allows developers to distribute content to Quest without full store approval from Facebook or necessitating sideloading. Developers simply share a link to their content and then users can download and even buy the experience as if...
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Beat Saber Sells 4 Million Copies
Beat Saber, one of the most popular VR games on the market, has sold over four million copies to date. The news was confirmed today as part of a post on the Oculus Blog detailing developer success on the Quest platform. This means that Beat Saber has doubled its audience in less than a year...
VR Storytelling Faces Familiar Challenges At Sundance 2021
The Sundance Film Festival has, for many years now, proved a useful means of gauging the state of VR filmmaking early on in the year. The problem is that, even after all this time, the story hasn’t changed all that much. 2021’s modest selection of VR movies — seven of the 14 total projects in...
60+ Oculus Quest Apps Made More Than $1 Million
Six Oculus Quest titles cleared $10 million in revenue and one third of all the paid apps available on the store — more than 60 total — have earned more than $1 million. The figures were released in a blog post authored by Mike Verdu, VP of Content at Facebook Reality Labs. Verdu’s post acknowledges...
Here Are The 12 VR Games Launching Via ‘App Lab’ On Oculus Quest
Now that non-store distribution options are officially available, we’ve rounded up the 12 VR games that debuted with App Lab on Quest today. Give them a try now! Here is the full list of all 12 games. Keep in mind that while some of them are free, like the beta version of Ancient Dungeon and...
Facebook Starts Rolling Out Messenger To Oculus Quest
Facebook started the process of adding Messenger to Oculus Quest and Quest 2. The feature is tied to Oculus Party creation so you can jump into a game together from a conversation. The feature marks another step on the path of backing social VR features with a Facebook account. The feature was first announced in...
Resolution Games Casual Titles See 500% Boost From Quest 2 Launch
Following the launch of the Oculus Quest 2 late last year VR developer Resolution Games saw a 500% boost in downloads for their titles, including Angry Birds VR, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale, Acron, Bait!, and Blaston. The news was announced today following a slew of milestone announcements from Facebook regarding their standalone VR headset. In...
Oculus ‘App Lab’: Quest Platform Gets Non-Store App Distribution
Developers can now distribute Oculus Quest apps without going through full store approval or requiring sideloading. Oculus Quest is a semi-closed console-like platform. The Oculus Store was previously the only official way to distribute apps. Owners can however declare themselves developers to enable sideloading, with games & experiments available from 3rd party service SideQuest, which...
PSVR-Supported Concrete Genie Is Free On PS Plus From Today
It’s not often that Sony’s PlayStation Plus service gives out PSVR-enabled games, so it’s worth pointing one out today. Concrete Genie, a super-sweet PS4 game from 2019, is one of February’s free games, and is available to download now. It’s a fantasy adventure game in which a young protagonist brings his gloomy town back to...
Flight Simulator VR Performance/Control Fixes Incoming As Feedback System Revealed
Flight Simulator VR performance fixes are on the way according to a new feedback system that specifically targets the VR integration for the game. In developer Asobo’s latest developer Q&A session, head of Flight Sim Jorg Neumann revealed that “quite a few” people were playing the game in VR. But, even then, the numbers aren’t...