XR = eXtended Reality (everything VR, AR, MR)

🥳 But there’s more:

🏙️ Into the Radius 2’s biggest update yet adds a new city zone and more

🚗 Porsche’s new Apple Vision Pro app lets you explore and customize the $250K 911 Spirit 70.

🧠 A system leveraging AI and VR has demonstrated over 85% accuracy in detecting autism in young children

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #62

Discounts and Tips

🤩 Don’t forget you can get up to 25% discounts when you buy a game from the Meta Quest store. Go here and look for your game (we’re not affiliated with the website, but it’s a great tool).

🛠️ Meta now offers refurbished Quest 3S headsets starting at $270, saving buyers up to $40 with the same accessories and warranty as new units.

🌌 Meta has discounted all Star Wars VR games on Quest through May 5 to celebrate Star Wars Day, including the Vader Immortal series and Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge.

XR Games

🏙️ Into the Radius 2’s biggest update yet adds a new city zone, customizable gear, new weapons, and revamped audio for deeper immersion and replayability.

🌅 Echoes of the Sun brings a post-apocalyptic puzzle adventure to PC VR next month, blending telekinesis, solar magic, and emotional storytelling in a world scarred by catastrophe.

👽 Alien: Rogue Incursion’s latest patch on Meta Quest 3 addresses major bugs, improves performance and visuals, and adds dynamic lighting to enhance atmosphere after a shaky launch.

🔌 Elsewhere Electric delivers a spooky, story-rich co-op puzzle adventure where VR and mobile players team up to unravel eerie mysteries across a mysterious facility. Coming this summer.

🧩 Puzzling Places expands beyond VR in 2026 with a new PC version supporting both flatscreen and Steam Deck play, alongside a long-awaited PC VR release and cross-platform progress syncing.

🚀 Meta-backed space sim Remnant Protocol blends strategic planning with cockpit dogfights and is launching on Quest and SteamVR in late 2025.

🏀 Just Hoops brings its fast-paced VR basketball arcade experience to PlayStation VR2 later this year, featuring updated physics, multiplayer modes, and dynamic scoring.

🚴‍♂️ Legends BMX hits Quest headsets on May 8, turning your living room into a trick-filled skate park with freestyle mixed reality cycling and weekly challenges.

XR Entertainment

🎤 Step into the spotlight as Doja Cat with Meta Horizonon's first-ever musical artist avatar, launching just in time for her Scarlet Tour VR concert re-premiere in Music Valley, running through May 5.

🚗 Porsche’s new Apple Vision Pro app lets you explore and customize the $250K 911 Spirit 70 in mixed reality, blending luxury car shopping with immersive tech.

🖌️ Soul Paint invites users to express and explore their emotions in VR by drawing directly onto a virtual version of themselves in a serene, introspective environment.

🌊 Realms of Flow expands with four new free VR experiences on Quest, transporting users to coral reefs, northern lights, and abstract dreamscapes through artful, meditative immersion.

🥁 Smash Drums is bringing its rhythm-fueled chaos to PlayStation VR2 on May 15, featuring 120fps performance, adaptive triggers, new visuals, and an exclusive social mode for gameplay capture.

XR News

📉 Meta's Reality Labs reported a $4.2 billion loss in Q1 2025, continuing its massive metaverse investment amid layoffs and rising hardware costs due to new U.S. tariffs.

😔 Meta is reportedly letting go of over 100 employees within its augmented and virtual reality hardware and games division.

🖥️ New AR software is set to provide Windows laptop users with a portable, expansive 100-inch virtual multi-monitor workspace.

✨ Varjo has launched Teleport 2.0, significantly enhancing its photorealistic 3D scene capture service with "best-in-class" quality.

✋ The new Reality XR Glove from StretchSense promises highly precise hand tracking for more natural interaction in immersive training simulations.

📺 Sony's updated holographic displays offer enhanced glasses-free 3D experiences for professionals with improved features and software support.

⏳ Reports indicate Meta employees are working extra to ensure their smart glasses featuring a HUD ship by October.

🗓️ A design flaw in a circuit board has caused the first batches of the Bigscreen Beyd 2 headset to be delayed, now expected to ship in June.

🥽 Apple is actively adding support for its visionOS platform to the open-source Godot game engine, broadening development tools for the Vision Pro.

🧠 A system leveraging AI and VR has demonstrated over 85% accuracy in detecting autism in young children by analyzing their movements and gaze in virtual environments.

👟 Reebok has introduced smart glasses for athletes that include a voice assistant powered by ChatGPT for hands-free information and training assistance.

📱 The companion application for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses has been renamed the Meta AI app and updated with new artificial intelligence capabilities.

🏠 Homerise is a new application for Apple Vision Pro that allows users to control their smart home devices within an augmented reality overlay.

🚚 Amazon is furthering its work in AR smart glasses, evidenced by an investment in IXI and internal testing of Amelia glasses for delivery drivers.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu