SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Impressive flying game Warplanes: WW1 Fighters is graduating from App Lab to the full Oculus Quest store. We first wrote about Warplanes in January when it was on SideQuest and in March it moved to App Lab where it racked up more than 500 ratings (with 92 percent of them being 5 stars). Facebook has...
ARVORE’s latest VR game Yuki is available today for Quest and PC VR, but how does it hold up against other bullet hell arcade shooters? We’ve spent some time with the game and have our hands-on impressions. From the team behind Emmy-winning immersive experience The Line and the popular retro VR Pixel Ripped series, Yuki...
Looking for a list of the all-time best VR games? We’ve got you covered with our full list. For the past few years at Upload, we’ve kept separate, regularly updated lists of the best VR games on individual platforms, including Quest, Rift, SteamVR and PSVR. But, as the industry continues to grow, the content library...
Platformer’s Casey Newton interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his plans to make Facebook “a metaverse company”. If you’re not familiar with the term, “metaverse” simply means a massively social digital alternate universe. The term was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, which also popularized “avatar”. Some consider individual platforms like...
Facebook will deprecate its proprietary Oculus APIs in favor of industry standard OpenXR. Facebook says new features “will be delivered via OpenXR extensions” starting with v31, echoing language release by Valve last year regarding new features on SteamVR being connected to OpenXR as well. According to Facebook, in August of 2022 the existing Oculus Native...
Facebook shared some details about its experimental Passthrough API to enable new kinds of mixed reality apps for Oculus Quest 2. The feature may also serve as the foundation for the company’s long-term efforts in augmented reality, effectively turning Quest 2 into a $299 AR developer kit. When asked if the feature is coming to...
One of VR’s highest selling games and an early showpiece of consumer-grade positional tracking is getting review bombed after developers removed scenes depicting self-harm. The Poland-based developers of SUPERHOT VR issued an update to the game (version 1.0.22.1) on July 21, 2021 with the following text: “Skip disturbing scenes” toggle was added in a previous...
Rhythm ‘n Bullets Definitive Edition is now available on PSVR, after releasing on PC VR in late 2020 and Quest earlier this year. The game is a VR rhythm game that, as the name implies, merges music and bullets. According to Blake Gross from studio DB Creations, the team was “inspired by classic retro shooters...
I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar is launching on August 24th for all major headsets and is shaping up to be a must-buy sequel. Earlier this summer Jamie Feltham tried out a tiny slice of the title from Pittsburgh-based Schell Games and now we’ve played through half of its six...
The release of Lone Echo II for the Oculus Rift platform on August 24th will mark the end of an era as the last exclusive project funded by Facebook for its PC VR platform. We’ve known it was coming for quite a long time with Facebook ending sales of Rift S, the cancelling of future...
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