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

🥳 But there’s more:

🏰 Civilization VII VR launched on April 10 exclusively for Meta Quest 3 and 3S

👉 MIT researchers unveil a tool that brings personal items into mixed reality

✈️ Lufthansa expands in-flight entertainment with Meta Quest 3

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #59

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).

XR Games

🐶 The mixed reality pet simulator Stay: Forever Home for Meta Quest has been delayed to April 24, 2025, to allow more time for polishing the experience.

🏰 Civilization VII VR launched on April 10 exclusively for Meta Quest 3 and 3S, featuring immersive empire-building, mixed reality support, and a customizable war table for strategic gameplay.

🕹️ Pinball FX VR is now available on Meta Quest, letting players build a customizable home arcade with classic and original tables in both virtual and mixed reality environments.

🛖 Vestiges: Fallen Tribes, a strategic VR deck-building auto battler with campaign, sandbox, and PvP modes, launches on Meta Quest on April 24.

🦅 Exer Gale, a hands-only bird-like flight racer with multiplayer and free-fly modes, enters Early Access on Meta Quest this June.

🗡️ The physics-based hit Besiege is getting a $20 VR remake for Meta Quest in May, featuring reworked sound, haptics, and full campaign support with PC import compatibility.

😨 The Midnight Walk, a $40 cozy horror adventure built from real clay models, arrives May 8 on PSVR 2 and PC VR, blending binaural audio, eye-tracking mechanics, and environmental puzzle-solving.

🔫 Starvault VR is a 5v5 sci-fi fantasy FPS MOBA built for VR, featuring physics-based combat and unique hero movement, coming soon to Meta Quest 2 and 3.

🕵🏻 Hitman: World of Assassination on PSVR2 gets a major update April 10, enhancing immersion with improved haptics, aiming, and over 100 bug fixes.

🐿️ Alex and the Jets is a $8 kid-friendly mixed reality game for Quest 3 that turns your home into an action-packed playground with squirrel-led dogfights and donut-fueled power-ups.

🧟 Silent North, the new open-world VR survival horror game from the creators of Ghosts of Tabor, is now in Early Access on Quest and PC, offering solo and co-op gameplay in a dangerous, zombie-infested world.

🦸‍♂ Hollywood studio HEROmation unveils The Phoenix Gene, a VR superhero rail shooter and book series for Meta Quest, combining multiverse action with rich storytelling.

🧗 FastHands is a hand-tracked parkour game coming to Quest on May 8th, featuring procedural levels, unique locomotion, and slingshot combat.

XR Entertainment

🎪 Dream Park (formerly Future Circus) is building mobile mixed reality theme parks for public spaces, aiming to deliver immersive, multiplayer outdoor adventures using VR headsets.

👉 MIT researchers unveil InteRecon, a tool that brings personal items into mixed reality by capturing both their appearance and interactive behavior for lifelike, memory-rich digital replicas.

⛩️ Tyffonium’s immersive, bilingual VR attractions in Japan blend storytelling, 4D effects, and free-roam gameplay, offering a uniquely magical experience for tourists and VR fans alike.

XR News

🚨 A new deflectometry-based eye-tracking method captures over 40,000 data points per shot, potentially revolutionizing VR headset accuracy and enabling more efficient foveated rendering.

🥊 Meta and UFC signed a multiyear partnership to deepen fan engagement using Meta’s platforms, including Quest and smart glasses, with new AI-powered and XR experiences planned for UFC events.

🪖 Lumus was chosen by Holochip to provide the optical engine for the Navy-funded H50 AR headset, designed for secure, high-performance maintenance of critical U.S. Navy equipment.

🕶 Vuzix receives a $500K smart glasses re-order from Augmex to support growing AR-powered logistics and remote assistance solutions across Europe.

✈️ Lufthansa expands in-flight entertainment with Meta Quest 3, offering mixed reality experiences and the world’s first VR car test drive at 30,000 feet.

🖼️ Quest Games Optimizer 12.6.0 adds background images, theme customization, and clearer performance boost info for a more personal and powerful UI.

⌨️ Researchers release XR TEXT Trove, a free catalog of 170+ XR text input techniques to help developers create faster, more comfortable typing solutions in virtual and augmented reality.

📢 Report suggests Apple Vision Pro 2 has entered mass production.

🌐 Meta Connect returns on September 17–18 with major XR updates, while new AI-focused LlamaCon debuts April 29 to spotlight Meta’s growing AI ambitions.

🤩 Pico expands its full-body tracking system with a new €50 waist tracker, enhancing VR movement accuracy, especially when sitting or lying down.

😎 Google unveils prototype AR smart glasses with built-in display and Gemini integration, offering real-time memory aids, translation, and transcription.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu