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

🥳 But there’s more:

🔫 Next week, the 10-million-player mobile shooter Vortex 9 jumps to Quest with full crossplay.

🎵 Beat Saber finally lands in the Horizon+ subscription catalog as a base game with 62 songs.

🦢 PICO’s new OS 6 introduces a Spatial Engine with 360° multitasking and dev tools.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #95

XR Games

 🧪 A new sandbox update lets Slime Lab players freely concoct, customize, and experiment with slime creations without the old mission constraints.

🎣 Fish! transforms VRChat into a cozy, island-hopping fishing escape where you upgrade rods, buy boats, uncover secrets, and haul in thousands of quirky catches.

​🔫 Next week, the 10-million-player mobile shooter Vortex 9 jumps to Quest with full crossplay, bringing its candy-colored arenas, absurd weapons, and pet-powered battles into VR.

​🧟 Zombie Army VR’s online co-op servers, tied to Unity’s retiring Multiplay hosting, will be shut down at the end of March, leaving the game as a primarily single-player experience less than a year after launch.

​🤖 Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections will have fans piloting mecha via controller-free hand-tracking, trading deep interaction fidelity for easy, casual access across a planned three-part VR narrative series.

​🎢 In The Amusement, arriving on Quest and PC VR April 16, you play Samantha Burkhart returning to her late father’s ruined theme park to revive rides, solve puzzles, and unpack a fractured family history.

XR Entertainment

🧗 Peak Rhythm, a beat-driven climbing game arriving March 5 on Quest Early Access for $12.99, has you grabbing, twisting, and double-gripping holds in time to multi-genre tracks while chasing leaderboard glory.

🎵 Beat Saber finally lands in the Horizon+ subscription catalog as a base game with 62 songs, but its 239 DLC tracks remain separately paywalled, nudging subscribers toward ongoing purchases atop the monthly fee.

XR News

👓 Just months before Snap’s consumer Specs launch, longtime AR chief Scott Myers abruptly departs after a reported strategy clash with CEO Evan Spiegel, raising questions about confidence in the upcoming glasses.

🦢 PICO’s new OS 6 introduces a Spatial Engine with 360° multitasking and dev tools, while its 2026 “Project Swan” headset promises 4,000‑PPI MicroOLEDs and a dual‑chip design to push mixed reality performance.

​🎮 Horizon+ has quietly grown into a 1‑million‑subscriber, ~$100M‑per‑year Quest service, bundling around 100 top VR titles into Meta’s $8‑a‑month “all‑you‑can‑play” catalog.

​📱 Meta is steering Horizon Worlds toward being a mostly mobile platform and stripping it out of Quest’s store and UI so the headset can refocus on third‑party VR apps instead of Meta’s own social worlds.

​🕶️ Flush with a fresh $100M Series B - its second such raise in six months - Viture is doubling down on display glasses that turn your existing 2D media into giant virtual screens, plus Spacewalker tech that adds 3D flair.

​✨ Google’s Gemini‑powered XR Blocks tools let Galaxy XR users type simple prompts like “bubbles that pop when I touch them” and instantly spawn shareable interactive 3D scenes in-headset.

​🎮 Andrew Bosworth now says the subsidized era of Meta‑funded prestige VR games - the “gravy train” - is over, and that his real failure was not content quality but failing to build hardware and software that attract enough new paying users.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu