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

🥳 But there’s more:

🎮 Meta is refreshing Horizon+ this August with two monthly games - Wreckin' Raccoon and Iron Rebellion.

👓 Retro3D revives old red-and-cyan anaglyph glasses, restoring depth to vintage 3D photos and films.

💸 More than $500,000 was raised within the first 24 hours of Unseen Reality's Kickstarter for URXR One.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #112

XR Games

🖼️ Valve's Great on Frame curated page has swelled past 50 titles optimized for Steam Frame, now blending native VR games with flatscreen hits like Hollow Knight: Silksong, Portal 2, and Hades.

🔐 An open VR preview has been pushed live for Escape Simulator 2, letting players test its core escape rooms early on Steam's beta branch ahead of a still-undated full VR release.

🧤 After debuting on PlayStation VR2 back in June, the goalkeeper sim CleanSheet Soccer 2 arrives on Meta Quest this September 17.

🎮 Meta is refreshing Horizon+ this August with two monthly games - Wreckin' Raccoon and Iron Rebellion - alongside five catalog additions, among them I Expect You To Die 2 and Surviving Mars: Pioneer.

✈️ Though its VR build stumbled into Steam Early Access with crashes and a rendering bug, G-Rebels - Reakktor's G-Police-inspired futuristic flight sim - wins praise for an outstanding, deeply satisfying flight model.

🔫 Cybercore Protocol transforms your scanned room into a descending sci-fi elevator under siege, fusing wave shooting, melee, and light tower defense across 45 mixed reality levels on Quest.

XR Entertainment

 🎶 Beat Saber now packs Gone for Good, a free track that GRAMMY-nominated producer Haywyre composed from scratch and precision-mapped to the game's difficulty curves and slicing mechanics, rolling out to all players via a standard update.

👓 By tapping the Quest 3 and 3S color passthrough cameras, the Early Access app Retro3D revives old red-and-cyan anaglyph glasses, restoring depth to vintage 3D photos and films displayed on a nearby TV, phone, or print.

XR News

 🕶️ On September 16 in Los Angeles, Snap will stage a consumer-focused event delivering the first in-depth demo of its $2,195 Specs AR glasses across AI, work, entertainment, and shared-AR features, ahead of fall shipping.

💻 NVIDIA has pushed its XR AI platform into public beta, handing developers a library for building spatially aware, multimodal agents that let AR glasses perceive, reason, and assist during enterprise tasks like factory repair and surgery.

💸 More than $500,000 was raised within the first 24 hours of Unseen Reality's Kickstarter for URXR One, the 93-gram tethered mixed reality glasses packing dual micro-OLED displays and a 90-degree FOV.

🌐 After snapping up rights to the AltspaceVR name, SideQuest CEO Shane Harris plans to revive the shuttered social VR platform this fall as a spiritual successor built alongside original team members.

🎯 Ghosts of Tabor, Silent North, and GRIM have had their publishing rights sold off by Beyond Frames for $1 million, a near-term cash move as developer Combat Waffle rides out the VR market's downturn.

AI Games

📱 On Meta's Q2 earnings call, Zuckerberg told investors that LLMs are dramatically speeding up product development, letting the company ship stand-alone apps like Forum and Seller faster, with more consumer products promised soon.

🤖 Meta has rolled out Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent powered by its Muse Spark model that fans large jobs out to parallel sub-agents, positioning a cheaper challenger to OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu