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🥳 But there’s more:

💥 Marvel's Deadpool VR has been announced for Meta Quest 3 and 3S.

🔦 Stranger Things: Catalyst will launch at Sandbox VR locations.

🔬 Meta has unveiled Project Aria Gen 2, its advanced research glasses featuring enhanced comfort.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #67

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 Horizon+ grants instant access to a growing library of 30+ VR games, curated monthly bundles like Adrenaline Rush and Shadows of Fate, plus exclusive discounts - all for $7.99/month.

XR Games

🧗 Reach, the newly announced single-player VR epic from nDreams, promises full-body freedom, gesture-driven action, and narrative choice in a breathtaking physics-powered adventure.

💥 The highly anticipated Marvel's Deadpool VR, bringing the irreverent hero to life, has been announced for Meta Quest 3 and 3S.

🧩 Word enthusiasts can now enjoy Wordomi, a unique 3D crossword puzzle game that has officially launched out of early access on Meta Quest.

🕹️ Neon Cipher blends immersive first-person and strategic third-person puzzle platforming, requiring players to manipulate environments and engage in cyberspace mazes.

🐵 A unique crime sandbox experience awaits as Grand Theft Animals, featuring an ape-like protagonist in an open world of mischief, launches into early access on Quest.

⏳ Players must master time-loop mechanics in UnLoop, an atompunk VR puzzle game set on a space station, launching this fall on Quest and Pico.

🤖 Co-op action-adventure game Titan Isles pits players against robots and colossal Titans in a ruined world, arriving later this year on Steam and Meta Quest, with PlayStation VR2 in 2026.

🌍 What Comes After, an episodic VR survival game from Allware Studios, emphasizes emotional storytelling and community survival through short, puzzle-driven missions in a post-apocalyptic setting.

XR Entertainment

🎵 Fans of Beat Saber on Meta Quest VR can now Say the Magic Word and groove to Lady Gaga's electrifying new track, Abracadabra.

🔦 A new multiplayer VR experience, Stranger Things: Catalyst, developed in collaboration with Netflix, will launch at Sandbox VR locations in late 2025, immersing players in Hawkins, Indiana.

XR News

🔬 Meta has unveiled Project Aria Gen 2, its advanced research glasses featuring enhanced comfort, improved computer vision, and sophisticated tracking, to be demonstrated at CVPR 2025.

🎓 HTX Labs, an immersive learning software company, has secured a significant $5.8 million grant from AFWERX to dramatically scale its XR training solutions.

🔎 Etsy co-founder Robert Kalin's new startup, Dopple Works, is developing Loop, a portable, hand-held magnifying glass-like XR device with potential 6DOF tracking and camera capabilities.

🏎️ Pimax has strategically invested $2.5 million in Motorsport Games to bolster its presence in the VR sim racing genre, showcasing its headsets at the 24 Heures du Mans event.

🌐 The Quest web browser now supports experimental automatic colocated WebXR, allowing multiple headsets to share a synchronized virtual space for immersive web experiences.

🤝 Meta is intensifying efforts to ignite social XR through spatial computing, integrating 3D photos into Instagram feeds and introducing new Horizon OS features for Quest users.

👓 Rokid will globally launch its new ultralight AR Spatial glasses, boasting triple virtual desktop screens and a 300-inch "cinema mode," on AliExpress with a special discount during the 618 sale.

✨ Syntech has unveiled four new Made for Meta-certified accessories, including an XR headset backpack and head straps, designed to elevate comfort and immersion for Quest 3/3S users.

🕶️ Snap plans to introduce full-featured dimensional AR glasses, codenamed Specs, to consumers in 2026, integrating AI capabilities like multimodal AI lenses with OpenAI and Gemini.

💡 Lumus has unveiled an upgraded Z-30 optical engine for AR glasses at AWE 2025, promising improved power efficiency, increased brightness, and a 30-degree field of view for daily wear.

⚡ Qualcomm's new Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 chipset for smart glasses boasts a smaller size, improved power efficiency, and an enhanced NPU capable of running small language models on-device.

🎮 High-end iPad games are anticipated to arrive on Apple Vision Pro later this year.

🍎 Apple’s visionOS 26 brings PSVR2 controller support, eye-scrolling, spatial widgets, improved Personas, and richer shared experiences to Vision Pro, marking a major leap in immersive usability.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu