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MARCH 14, 2025

Sell all of your useless collectibles and prepare your wallets, because Steam’s annual Spring Sale is here, offering up big discounts on some of PC VR’s biggest and best games. Steam’s Spring Sale, which goes from now until March 20th, may not have the crazy number of titles you might find over on the Quest Spring Sale going on right now, although there are some heavy hitters worth your raw GPU power.

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MARCH 14, 2025

If you dont already have an immersive learning strategy, youre missing out on an incredible opportunity. Countless reports and case studies have shown immersive learning has the power to accelerate skill development, improve knowledge retention, and reduce costs. In fact, according to a frequently cited study from PWC, employees trained with XR are more confident, efficient, and engaged than their peers.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Meta’s big Quest Savings sale is here,offering up to 50% off tons of VR games, experiences, and bundles galore. The Spring Sale, which goes from now until March 23rd, is bringing the best deals to some of the most critically-claimed VR games out there on Quest. You can nab Skydance Games’ legendary action-adventure game Skydance’s BEHEMOTH for just $20 (50% off), Vertigo Games’ Quest-exclusive Metro sequel Metro Awakening for $28 (30% off), and recent remake of one of the

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MARCH 14, 2025

Quest's highly anticipated "Passthrough Camera API" is now available for all developers to experiment with, though they can't yet include it in store app builds. The new capability was announced at Meta Connect 2024 in September as coming this year. Now it's here, as an experimental release for Quest 3 and Quest 3S. That means any developer can experiment with it, and even distribute APKs using it on platforms like SideQuest, but they can't yet include it in Meta Horizon Store apps.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Road to VR

MARCH 14, 2025

Phaser Lock Interactive, the studio behind Quest exclusive Primal Hunt (2023) and a host of early PC VR games, announced it’s shutting down, citing a “challenging economic climate and the current state of the gaming industry.” Founded in 2015, the Austin, Texas-based VR studio was behind a number of PC VR games over the years, including bow-shooter Twisted Arrow (2016), andreal-time strategy games Final Approach (2016) and Final Assault (2019).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 14, 2025

This week’s XR landscape is marked by significant advancements across diverse sectors, from gaming development to healthcare and content creation. Meta’s decisive shift towards OpenXR promises to streamline game development, while the NHS sees tangible benefits from VR-based pain management. Meanwhile, AI is revolutionizing training and content creation, with platforms like Cicero delivering hyper-realistic scenarios and GIGABYTE partnering with TAICCA to launch an AI-driven XR conte

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MARCH 14, 2025

People Can Fly, the publisher behind Bulletstorm VR and Green Hell VR, will stop publishing VR games after this year. The Warsaw-based studio recently confirmed it's phasing out publishing VR titles once the next game from developer Incuvo, currently known as Project Bison, releases in Q4 2025. Spotted by MauroNL , People Can Fly says its market analysis found a significant reduction in investments in the production of new VR games by VR hardware platform holders.

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EON Reality

MARCH 14, 2025

IRVINE, CA. – March, 14, 2025 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking AI Income Program, a comprehensive ecosystem designed to address the growing gap between AI advancement and human adaptation in the global workforce.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Black Mirror Season 7 features a headset resembling a Quest Pro but with reverse passthrough, seemingly mocking Apple Vision Pro's EyeSight feature. 0:00 / 0:01 1 A one second clip from the official trailer shows a character tapping the side of the headset to activate reverse passthrough. If you're not familiar with that term, it refers to when a technically opaque headset mimics transparency to outside observers by showing a rendered view of your eyes on a positive parallax (depth-in) 3D displa

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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The original Arizona Sunshine is ending support for its online multiplayer this July, citing Unity's discontinuation of the UNet Service. One of modern VR's oldest hits, the original Arizona Sunshine has continued supporting online multiplayer ever since its launch in 2016. However, developer Vertigo Games confirmed this is now coming to an end on July 1, 2025 as a result of the discontinuation of the UNet Service, which powers the game's online multiplayer functionality.

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MARCH 14, 2025

I went to a Metallica concert in Mexico with my Apple Vision Pro. After Whiplash, I left my couch in Manhattan to find my AirPods Pro in another room. I needed to hear One and Enter Sandman a little bit louder. As I type this, I'm now considering what a pair of AirPods Max can offer when it comes to future concerts like this one. I've never really been drawn to headphones, but as I ponder attending concerts like this I guess I'm now in the market.

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MARCH 14, 2025

DigiGods, the free-to-play social VR/MR sandbox, received its most ambitious patch yet with the upcoming Warzone update. Out now on Quest, the Warzone update for DigiGods promises to fully revamp the sandbox game's gunplay system. Developer Squido Studio states this latest content update provides an enhanced weapon feel, precision controls, and heightened satisfaction, promising improvements to ballistics and weapon recoil.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Dungeon crawlers are a common sight with VR releases, which makes the fact that Pixel Dungeon stands out from the crowd all the more impressive. Some of the best VR games are the ones you can sink either a few minutes into, or a couple of hours, and it never feels like your time is wasted. Pixel Dungeon is one such case; a dungeon crawler with a decidedly retro-inspired aesthetic.

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Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Hide the Corpse now includes randomized body spawning, updated tutorials, and more to its wacky physics-based gameplay. Developed by Realcast, Hide the Corpse asks you to scramble around retro-looking maps, scrambling to hide its jello-bodied protagonist, Gus, as the clock ticks down. Within four-minute bouts, you'll need to jam Gus into as many human-sized hiding spots as will fit him, with successful attempts rewarding you with more wacky levels.

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