VRScout

MAY 2, 2021

Race other players across a series of VR obstacle courses in this physics-driven multiplayer experience. Upon logging into the game, you’re presented with several options, including the ability to switch server locations, join random games, or create your own private room with friends. MarathRUN’s Demo 1st trailer!

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Already have some basic game dev experience and looking to get into VR? Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation.

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VRScout

MAY 12, 2020

Spaceteam , the super infectious mobile game in which players frantically perform a series of goofy tasks and shout out commands in order to keep their spaceship from blowing up, is coming to the Oculus Quest, PC VR, and PlayStationVR as a full VR experience called Spaceteam VR. But as a VR game, it’s a pure joy to play.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ditch your controllers and go “hands-on” with these free sideloadable games. This past December, Oculus introduced native hand-tracking functionality for the Oculus Quest, offering users the chance to navigate the Oculus Home interface with their bare hands as opposed to the Touch controllers. VIRTUALPIANO.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

VR games need to achieve high, stable performance to look good and play comfortably. Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. SEE ALSO Oculus CTO: Quest is 'In the Neighborhood of Xbox 360 / PS3 Processing Power'.

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VRScout

JULY 7, 2021

If so, then today’s your lucky day as Polish developer Immersion Games has announced that its magical VR disc golf experience Disc Ninja will be arriving on Oculus Quest headsets next month. Image Credit: Immersion Games. Image Credit: Immersion Games. Disc Ninja arrives on Oculus Quest headsets on August 5th.

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VRScout

AUGUST 23, 2021

Sharing your VR fitness journey has never been easier thanks to new improvements to Oculus Move and file sharing. Facebook is today rolling out update v32 for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, introducing a variety of improvements to the Oculus Move app, App Gifting, Messenger, and file-sharing system. Sync VR Media.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Zuckerberg confirmed that the company will begin shifting away from the Facebook brand over the course of the year into 2022. According to Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, soon to be CTO of Meta, the name change will also affect the Oculus product line. The post The Oculus Quest Is Now The Meta Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The frantic food game Clash of Chefs VR just received a major update that lets you ditch your Oculus Touch controllers and cook delicious cartoon food with your own two hands. Over the course of 80 fast-paced levels, you’ll cook food from all around the globe, including American, Italian, Japanese, and Mexican.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Facebook (Meta) today announced the rollout of update v34 for the Oculus Quest platform. Over the course of the next month, you’ll see a variety of new features make their way to your headset, including Android phone notifications, Passthrough API, and improved voice commands. Image Credit: Facebook (Meta).

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VRScout

APRIL 22, 2021

Yesterday’s Oculus Gaming Showcase featured several exciting reveals as well as long-awaited updates on highly-anticipated titles such as Lone Echo II , Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge , and I Expect You To Die 2. Carve Snowboarding is scheduled to launch this Summer on Oculus Quest headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. Since I had to make some tests with Oculus MRC for our game HitMotion: Reloaded (download it now on SideQuest !) Are you ready to implement Oculus MRC like a boss?

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VRScout

MAY 27, 2021

The creator of 1080 Snowboarding returns with a brand new game built from the ground up for VR headsets. Available now on Oculus Quest, Carve Snowboarding is easily one of the most interesting action sports games currently accessible on VR headsets. on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2021

Another month, another exciting Oculus Quest update. Facebook today announced the rollout of yet another software update for Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets. This latest update also introduced the ability to plan future sessions directly from the Oculus app. Image Credit: Facebook. Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Use your incredible gorilla strength to parkour up trees and cliffs in this low-fi game of tag. Don’t let the simple visuals and barebones gameplay fool you, Gorilla Tag is easily one of the more engaging PvP multiplayer games available at the moment, due in large part to its unique locomotion mechanics.

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Road to VR

JULY 20, 2020

Oculus has introduced new party features which allow groups of players to launch into the same app together and to move from one app to another. Expanding on that work, this week the company introduced improvements to the Oculus Party system. Image courtesy Oculus. We’ve reached out to Oculus for confirmation.

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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2019

Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Have you ever wanted to attend a course on VR software design from the comfort of your own headset? The company wants applicants to have experience in game development, particularly in Unity. Your wish is about to come true.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2022

Fortnite doesn’t natively support VR headsets, however an update coming to the popular battle royale shooter today reportedly holds mention of Oculus, possibly pointing to future VR support for the game. Epic added stuff related to Oculus (Quest, Quest 2 & Mobile) in today's update.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2021

After launching on Quest back in September of 2020 and “coming soon” to Steam ever since, the well rated VR mini golf game Walkabout Mini Golf finally has a July 15th release date on Steam, supporting all PC VR headsets and cross-play with the Quest and Oculus PC versions.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2021

Since its introduction on Oculus Quest headsets earlier this year, the Oculus App Lab has served as an excellent resource for Quest developers, allowing them to share their games and apps with the community prior to Oculus Store approval. Each of the three games will appear hidden to you at first.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This past May, a user by the name of “Siroto” left a post on Mojang’s official feedback site requesting the release of Minecraft on the Oculus Quest. Minecraft on Oculus Rift / Image Credit: Microsoft. We’d love to have the game on all the platforms. Feature Image Credit: Microsoft.

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VRScout

MAY 21, 2019

What’s on deck for the Oculus Quest? After what feels like eons of waiting, the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset is finally available to the public, along with over 50 immersive launch titles. Let’s take a look at five ambitious VR experiences coming soon to your Oculus Quest: Vacation Simulator. The Under Presents.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This week Facebook announced the launch of cloud-streamed games from Facebook Gaming. These are games which are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to your computer. Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

Facebook offers a closer look at the legendary action/horror game redesigned for Oculus Quest headsets. When Resident Evil debuted on the original PlayStation console it changed the way we looked at video games. Today, we received additional details regarding this VR adaptation as part of the Oculus Gaming Showcase.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2020

Despite the visually breathtaking graphics and captivating sound offered by modern video games, sometimes you just can’t beat a good old fashioned board game. Everything is designed to replicate a classic in-person game session. Drop your ten-sided dice and go sign up for the closed beta. Image Credit: Studio Shinto.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2021

Those familiar with massively multiplayer online games are no doubt familiar with Roblox. Originally released back in 2006 on desktop PCs, the wildly popular multiplayer sandbox game has since expanded onto multiple platforms, amassing a rabidly loyal fanbase of mostly younger players in the process. Image Credit: Oculus.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Originally announced last year at Facebook Connect 2020, Oculus this week confirmed that The Climb 2 , the direct follow-up to 2016’s The Climb , will be arriving next month on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets. Of course, it wouldn’t be The Climb without a wide assortment of physical accessories.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2020

Schell Games’ VR hack-and-slash roguelite Until You Fall is leaving Early Access on PC sometime in fall 2020. Along with it comes two new platforms, PSVR and Oculus Quest. Of course, as a roguelite it lacks any real narrative beyond a setting and a bit of lore, but it definitely makes up for it in the combat department.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. Credit: Vertigo Games. The Design. The Visuals.

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2019

We’re less than a week away from the long-awaited release of the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset and with over 50 launch titles already confirmed, it appears as though we’ll have plenty of content to look forward to this coming Tuesday. In The Under Presents, we collide theater and gaming.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2021

Facebook’s latest update introduces several long-awaited features designed to improve how we work and play on the Oculus Quest. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Compared to standard mixed reality capture, the process described by Oculus is painfully simple. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Live Overlay.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Today I publish a very specific post to help Oculus developers in a particular situation I’ve been myself in: how to publish an update to an App Lab experience of yours when the “Production Channel” is missing in the Oculus Developer Hub interface and the web uploader has been deprecated. My story with this problem.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

First released in 1995 to a small, but passionate group of fans, award-winning strategy game Settlers of Catan would eventually go on to become one of the most influential board games ever released. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. You’ll bargain with entertaining in-game characters who are just as strategic as real-life ones.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. What’s more, the course will be taught in VR, so you can connect remotely and learn from Silkin—virtual face to virtual face.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2019

Social VR activity hub Rec Room today introduced a new mini-game called ‘Stunt Runner’ Looking a bit like Sprint Vector , the game will have players speeding through a virtual obstacle course. SEE ALSO Studio Behind Social VR App 'Rec Room' Raises $24 Million in Funding.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here, we’ll recommend some games and apps that might be the perfect introduction – or long-time favorite – for players coming to the medium a little later on. We’ll be focusing on games and apps that move a little slower – after all, “ VR sickness ” can be a problem for newcomers at any age. Wander (Quest).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry — 2023 Technology is evolving at a fast pace. 2023 is currently shaping up to be the year of promise for the VR gaming industry. Virtual reality games, in particular, have come a long way from the lukewarm response they received in their early years. What is VR — A Quick Explanation!

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