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🥳 But there’s more:

🥊 The Thrill of the Fight 2 has left Early Access and now delivers a full-boxing VR experience on Quest.

🏠 Hyperscape worlds can now be shared, letting Quest and mobile users capture real rooms as immersive 3D replicas.

🕶️ Pico’s next-gen 2026 headset is expected to pair ultra-dense 4K micro-OLED displays around 4000 PPI.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #87

XR Games

🥊 The Thrill of the Fight 2 has left Early Access and now delivers a full-boxing VR experience on Quest, combining a new single-player career mode with refined, community-tested multiplayer and smarter AI opponents.​

💃 Les Mills XR Dance is stepping onto Steam next month, bringing its 40+ choreographed routines, Monstercat EDM tracks, and multiple difficulty levels from Quest and Pico over to PC VR fitness fans.

🧤 CleanSheet Pro has launched on Quest as a subscription-based VR goalkeeper simulator, offering motion-captured drills, promotion/relegation leagues, MR support, and a companion mobile app for serious soccer training.

🤖 Of Lies and Rain on Meta Quest drops you into a long-running war against a ruthless AI overlord called A.D.E., where you must fight to overthrow your machine rulers in a dystopian future.​

🌙 Claymation puzzler The Midnight Walk is getting a physical PS5/PS VR2 edition via Pix’n Love, following its well-received digital release that was praised for striking visuals and a memorable dark fantasy adventure.

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XR Entertainment

🏠 Hyperscape worlds can now be shared, letting Quest and mobile users capture real rooms as immersive 3D replicas and invite friends to hang out together inside them via simple links and on-device rendering upgrades.​

⚽ On Vision Pro, upcoming immersive content will drop fans right onto Real Madrid’s pitch during Champions League action and into Red Bull’s extreme skiing and big-wave surfing adventures, all shot with high-end 3D camera rigs.

🏊 POOLS has surfaced on PS VR2 with native 120Hz support, rebuilt visuals, and a free demo, turning its liminal swimming-complex wanderings into an even smoother and eerier VR walking-sim experience.

🏨 Hotel Infinity, born from failed attempts to port Manifold Garden into VR, evolved into a purpose-built room-scale puzzle game that bends impossible architecture around a tiny playspace and has quickly become a showcase for VR’s unique strengths.

XR News

📈 A new ARtillery Intelligence report forecasts global headworn AR and AI glasses revenue jumping from about $2.6 billion in 2024 to roughly $14 billion by 2029, driven by Android XR, Apple’s smart glasses push, and consumer devices like Ray-Ban Meta and future Snap Spectacles seeding mainstream demand.​

🩺 Snke has introduced SnkeXR, a medical-grade AR glasses platform powered by Lumus waveguides, purpose-built for surgical and clinical workflows with sub-millimeter tracking accuracy, bright 1440×1440 displays, and ergonomic design for long procedures.

🌍 Meta’s WorldGen research tool can already turn a single text prompt into a fully navigable 50×50m 3D world, exporting to engines like Unity and Unreal while highlighting current limits in large-scale, multi-layered, and performance-optimized environments.

🪖 Rheinmetall is integrating Varjo’s XR-4 mixed reality headsets into mobile land-training simulators, letting NATO forces practice driving and weapons scenarios.

✈️ Under a $369 million, 7.5-year contract, Pinnacle Solutions will deliver a T-7A Maintenance Training System for the U.S. Air Force, using its VXT VR/AR framework, smart classrooms, and high-fidelity virtual aircraft models to modernize maintainer training for the Red Hawk jet.

🧩 Godot’s latest updates bring deeper OpenXR support, including render-models, spatial anchors, plane and marker tracking, OpenXR 1.1 features, and a universal OpenXR APK, positioning the open-source engine as a more compelling alternative to Unity for XR developers.

🕶️ Pico’s next-gen 2026 headset is expected to pair ultra-dense 4K micro-OLED displays around 4000 PPI with a custom passthrough chip targeting sub–12 ms latency, signaling ByteDance’s intention to challenge Apple’s Vision Pro on visual quality and mixed reality responsiveness - though likely outside North America.

👓 Meta has launched a US trade-in program for its non-display smart glasses that also accepts select AirPods, Beats, and Galaxy Buds, offering up to about $113 in credit toward new Ray-Ban Meta or Oakley Meta models while excluding the Ray-Ban Display line and other discounts from stacking.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu