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

🥳 But there’s more:

First gameplay trailer for Batman: Arkham Shadow was revelead at Gamescom 2024.

Alien: Rogue Incursion pre-orders are available.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #32

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

🔫 Into The Radius, a hardcore VR survival shooter, launches on PS VR2 on September 19 with enhanced features for immersive gameplay.

🔫 nDreams reveals Vendetta Forever, a SUPERHOT-inspired VR shooter, coming to Quest and PSVR 2 in October 2024.

🎬 Action Hero, a cinematic VR FPS inspired by blockbuster action films, is set to launch on Quest 2/3/Pro later this year.

🔫 Combat Waffle Studios (Ghost of Tabor) announces two intense VR survival games, Silent North and Grim, on Meta Quest, Steam, and PSVR 2.

🎸 Band Space, a VR multiplayer rhythm game simulating four instruments, launches this fall on Quest and SteamVR.

☀️ The Arizona Sunshine remake, featuring enhanced graphics and gameplay, launches on October 17, 2024, for PSVR 2, Meta Quest, and SteamVR.

📺 Flat2VR Studios announces VR ports for WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, Roboquest, Flatout and Trombone Champ: Unflattened

🔫 Meta's VR version of GTA: San Andreas, announced in 2021, is "on hold indefinitely" with no further updates or releases planned.

🙀 Slender: The Arrival VR has been delayed until 2025 to allow for additional development time.

🔫 The VR stealth shooter Mannequin leaves Early Access on September 12, 2024, with a full release featuring visual improvements for Meta Quest 3.

🥷 Fracked, a VR action game, is coming to Meta Quest 3 and Quest 2 on August 29, 2024, offering fast-paced shooting and fluid movement mechanics.

👽 Pre-orders are now live for Alien: Rogue Incursion, an all-new VR action horror game set in the Alien universe, launching on Meta Quest on December 19, 2024.

🔫 Spatial Ops, a mixed reality shooter for Quest 3 with a two-hour single-player campaign and multiplayer modes, is expected to release in fall 2024.

🧩 Snapstick, an absurdist comedic VR puzzler featuring over 500 puzzles and quirky characters, is coming to Quest on October 3.

5️⃣ Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 is coming to Pico headsets, following its release on Quest, PC VR, and PSVR 2, though the Pico release date is still unknown.

🦇 First gameplay trailer for Batman: Arkham Shadow was revelead at Gamescom 2024. Coming in fall 2024.

XR Entertainment

🔗 Meta Quest HDMI Link allows you to connect Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets to HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C devices for a seamless VR experience with 2D content on a large, low-latency screen. 

🎥 The immerGallery app now lets you use Quest 3 as a boundaryless 3D camera, allowing stereoscopic photos without boundary restrictions.

🤓 The Sol Reader, a VR glasses-style e-reader with E Ink screens for immersive reading, is now available for $399.

XR News

🏣 Meta Caddy is a new mixed reality CAD software for immersive 3D modeling and collaboration, now available for free on Meta Quest.

🌍 DPVR's P1 Ultra 4K VR headset is being used by Travel Africa Network to create immersive travel experiences for promoting African tourism.

👓 Google rebrands its open-source VR modeling tool as "Open Blocks," now maintained by the community-led Icosa Foundation.

🍀 E.ON is using virtual reality to train engineers in green technologies at its UK net zero academy, enhancing skills without leaving the training site.

🥽 The Pico 4 Ultra, a mixed reality headset with new features like color passthrough and full-body tracking, officially launched in China, with no details yet on international availability.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu