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

🥳 But there’s more:

🦖 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has unveiled a new Jurassic World Archipelago DLC

🚢 The full Titanic VR experience is now available on Quest 3 and 3S

🔮 Meta is now betting hundreds of billions on AI super‑intelligence

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #73

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's Horizon+ VR subscription now includes the acclaimed puzzle game The Room VR: A Dark Matter and the co-op shooter Starship Troopers: Continuum for Quest headsets.

XR Games

🛡️ Besiege VR, where players construct and pilot powerful siege engines, is now available on Meta Quest, offering a 55-level campaign and new VR features that allow players to feel the scale and weight of their creations.

🌊 Selkies Interactive has announced Echoes of Mora, a narrative-driven underwater adventure with optional PC VR support, where players use "Echoes" to solve puzzles and explore a flooded village.

🎥 Syberia VR unveils its first trailer, showcasing a Meta Quest 3 - exclusive, fully immersive reimagining of the classic point‑and‑click adventure - offering seated, standing, and room‑scale gameplay and launching later in 2025.

🦖 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has unveiled a new Jurassic World Archipelago DLC, allowing players to fly planes through a virtual re-creation of a dinosaur-filled world.

😻 Walkabout Mini Golf is set to release a new course on August 14, 2025, a virtual Tokyo populated by cats from Neko Atsume and capybaras, allowing players to explore a unique and charming environment.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between, an atmospheric puzzle-adventure game about two friends, has officially launched on Meta Quest, bringing its poignant story to VR.

🥊 Boxing Underdog, a VR boxing game for Quest, is receiving praise for its impressive body tracking, realistic physics, and AI opponents that learn from player movements, providing a strategic and immersive fighting experience.

⚔️ The single-player action-adventure game Arken Age has been announced for Quest 3 and 3S, promising 100% content parity with its PC VR and PlayStation VR2 counterparts at a native 72 FPS.

🌑 The sci-fi horror game Into Black, which immerses players in a dark and suspenseful narrative, will be released on PlayStation VR2 and Steam on August 28.

XR Entertainment

💅 Nailit!, a free virtual nail art studio for Meta Quest 3, has launched with hand-tracking technology, allowing users to apply custom virtual creations to their hands without controllers.

🚢 The full Titanic VR experience, which includes the 1912 sinking as a survivor and sub-exploration of the shipwreck, is now available on Quest 3 and 3S after its release from early access.

🪂Soaring through the Alps and Himalayas in a free, hour-long 360° 3D showcase - Red Bull and Meta invite you to experience human flight via Meta Quest TV.

XR News

💡 A sleek pair of Halo AI glasses - with built-in HUD and natural‑language ‘Vibe Mode’ - was unveiled by Brilliant Labs, promising lightweight comfort and $299 pre-orders shipping November 2025. 

💼 With $150 million behind their push into AI-powered wearable tech, Google and Warby Parker are mounting a direct challenge to Meta’s Ray‑Ban smart glasses dominance in enterprise. 

🔮 Meta, once the metaverse pioneer, is now betting hundreds of billions on AI super‑intelligence - shifting focus away from spatial computing toward massive AI data centers like Prometheus and Hyperion slated for 2026. 

⏳ Though absent from major launch events, Samsung reconfirmed its mysterious Project Moohan XR headset is still arriving this year, albeit without a named release date or price. 

🧠 Mark Zuckerberg warned that lacking AI‑capable smart glasses could put people at a “cognitive disadvantage,” emphasizing their future role as a pervasive, multimodal AI interface. 

🍎 Tim Cook reiterated Apple’s continued, unwavering commitment to visionOS, applauding the lifelike Personas and advanced spatial widgets of the visionOS 26 update. 

🤖 Meta brought AI into the Horizon Worlds editor - introducing Creator Assistant and Style Reference tools to streamline creation of immersive experiences worldwide. 

🎥 On Quest, the Instagram app now uses AI to convert videos into 3D automatically - bringing Reels to life with depth in Horizon OS. 

🌌 DeepMind’s new Genie 3 system generates interactive, prompt‑driven 3D worlds on the fly - pushing us tantalizingly close to Holodeck‑style immersion. 

👓 Meta detailed its ultra‑wide FOV Boba 3 prototype (180°×120°) and hyper‑realistic Tiramisu headset – moving headset immersion beyond current Quest limits ahead of SIGGRAPH 2025.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu