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

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #20

Discounts and Tips

🥳 Save up to 74% on 140+ VR titles during the Meta's August Sale, running until August 25.

🆓 One more final Free Weekend from Meta - try out Asgard’s Wrath 2 and "Contractors Showdown" with three-hour trials, starting August 16, along with a 20% discount offer if you purchase after playing.

XR Games

🏰 Medieval Dynasty New Settlement's latest update brings significant graphical enhancements and performance modes to Quest 3. 

🐟 Astro Hunters VR launches on Steam with a 10% discount and a packed roadmap featuring upcoming updates. 

🕷️ The latest Dungeons of Eternity update introduces an Arachnophobia Mode to replace spider monsters with friendlier alternatives. 

🙀 Exploding Kittens VR will offer a clever and faithful adaptation of the classic card game. Coming to Quest this fall. 

🔫 Metal: Hellsinger VR launches on major VR headsets starting September 26th, with pre-order bonuses available. 

🔫 Last Stand turns your living room into a mixed reality PVP battlefield, using everyday objects as tactical cover for 1v1 shooter battles. Coming this winter. 

🧌 Pre-orders are now live for the epic VR action-adventure Behemoth, releasing November 14 on Meta Quest.

👽 Alien: Rogue Incursion, a single-player action-horror VR game, releases on Quest, PSVR 2, and SteamVR on December 19.

🧱 Make It Stable, a quirky tower-building game blending Katamari Damacy and Jenga, is coming soon to Quest and Apple Vision Pro.

XR Entertainment

🦋 Kid Pilot, a nostalgic, physics-based flight adventure, is now available on PC VR. 

🤲 The latest Quest headset update introduces seamless multitasking in Horizon OS, allowing users to run VR apps alongside 2D content on Quest 3 and Quest Pro.

🌏 FLY, a spiritual successor to Google Earth VR, brings immersive Earth-scale exploration to Quest and Vision Pro.

🪑 The Roto VR Explorer chair, designed to reduce VR nausea by matching head movements with real-world rotations, is now available for preorder at $799.

🏃 The Virtuix Omni One VR treadmill, priced at $2,595, is launching on September 10 after over a decade in development.

XR News

🥽 Apple may release a lower-priced Vision Pro headset next year, potentially dropping the cost significantly from the current $3,499 price.

🖥️ Looking Glass is launching new 3D monitors this month, bringing spatial computing to workplaces with enterprise-focused and consumer models.

😭 VR studio Archiact is closing down after more than a decade and publishing over 35 titles.

👓 Novobeing partners with BrinkXR to bring immersive nature experiences to its XR patient platform.

🥽 The new Pico 4 Ultra VR headset is set to launch in China on August 20, with no confirmed release date for other regions yet

🕶️ The volumetric 6DoF content platform Gracia is now available on Quest 3 with a 50% resolution boost, though still with lower clarity than on PC VR.

🤑 ArborXR secures $12M in funding to enhance its platform for managing AR and VR devices, aiming to meet growing enterprise demand.

👓 Vuzix launches the M400 Xtreme smart glasses, designed to withstand extreme weather conditions.

🤩 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).

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu