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

🥳 But there’s more:

🤖 Pixelity confirms EVANGELION: Δ Cross Reflections is still in development, with a three‑part story adaptation and a playable demo

🕶️ Oakley Meta’s Athletic Intelligence Super Bowl‑tied campaign will spotlight smart Ray‑Ban‑style glasses with celebrity ads

👓 Snap is carving out its upcoming AR glasses business into a startup‑like subsidiary called Specs Inc

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #91

XR Games

🧊 Set in a frozen 1930s Arctic facility, Dread Meridian launched on Quest, blending scarce resources, puzzles, and PvP monster‑hunting into a Lovecraft‑inspired survival horror experience.

🛑 After CD Projekt’s DMCA over his paid Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod and a follow‑up strike from 505 Games, Luke Ross has taken down all his Patreon VR mods and paused billing while he considers shutting the project entirely.

📈 Having pioneered many core VR interaction standards since 2016, Job Simulator has now accumulated over six million installs across headsets, with Owlchemy’s new F2P title Dimensional Double Shift already surpassing one million downloads.

🤖 Despite a wave of recent VR cancellations, Pixelity confirms EVANGELION: Δ Cross Reflections is still in development, with a three‑part story adaptation and a playable demo debuting at Evangelion’s 30th‑anniversary event in Tokyo next month.

🪄 Soon arriving on Quest, The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand lets players trace wand patterns to cast evolving spells in an apocalyptic city, offering both endless arcade survival waves and a more structured story campaign.

XR Entertainment

🏀 Apple’s Immersive Lakers replays on Vision Pro turn NBA games into intimate courtside experiences that showcase VR’s strengths, even as camera limits, neck strain, and headset weight keep it from feeling truly mainstream yet.

🕶️ Oakley Meta’s Athletic Intelligence Super Bowl‑tied campaign will spotlight smart Ray‑Ban‑style glasses with celebrity ads from Spike Lee, Marshawn Lynch, and iShowSpeed to hype always‑on AI for sports fans.

XR News

📉 Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth frames recent VR layoffs and project cuts as “right‑sizing” after headsets grew more slowly than expected, with Horizon now focusing almost entirely on its faster‑growing mobile audience.

🚨 Industry veterans warn that Meta’s retreat from VR content funding is alarming for 2026, yet they argue the medium will endure thanks to passionate gamers, rising teen adoption, and new platforms from Google and Valve.

🏃‍♂️ Virtuix has stepped onto the Nasdaq as “VTIX,” securing 11 million dollars plus a large credit line to ramp production of its Omni One VR treadmill and expand into consumer, enterprise, and defense training markets.

⛳ In response to a tougher VR market, Mighty Coconut has cut a quarter of its Walkabout Mini Golf team, plans slightly fewer annual courses, and is raising future DLC prices by one dollar while prioritizing headset versions over mobile.

🧭 Starting with Horizon OS v85, Quest’s Navigator shell will become the default home interface while the low‑performing Horizon Feed is gradually removed, signaling less in‑your‑face metaverse promotion and more emphasis on core app access.

👓 Snap is carving out its upcoming AR glasses business into a startup‑like subsidiary called Specs Inc., aiming to attract dedicated investors and talent while keeping consumer Spectacles development strategically distinct from Snapchat’s main ad business.

🕶️ Announced for release this summer, Lynx‑R2 is a standalone MR headset boasting unusually wide 126‑by‑103‑degree lenses, high‑resolution 3K passthrough cameras, and an open, repairable LynxOS platform positioned between Quest 3 and Galaxy XR on price.

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