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XR = eXtended Reality (everything VR, AR, MR)
📣 If you only read one thing today 📣
🧱 Tripo AI raising $50M to scale native 3D foundation models that can generate production-ready meshes in seconds.
📢 This directly attacks one of XR’s hardest bottlenecks - high‑quality asset creation - by making dense, clean 3D models far faster and cheaper to produce at scale. Fast, AI-driven 3D generation could massively expand the amount of usable VR/AR content.
🕶 This affects not just games, but all XR domains: training, industry, social, and simulation.
🥳 But there’s more:
🤖 Night City will soon be walkable in co‑op VR arcades, as CD Projekt Red and Zero Latency create a free‑roam Cyberpunk 2077 experience.
🧱 Bloxer turns Tetris-style block matching into a full-body VR workout experience.
🖐️ A new AR system turns any surface into a touchscreen.
eXtend your gaming:
Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #99
Discounts and Tips
🎮 Sony’s 2026 Spring Sale delivers deep discounts across more than 70 award-winning PS VR2 games, bundles, and DLC until April 22.
XR Games
🪐 Launched on Meta Quest, nDreams’ Oh My Galaxy! lets players sling asteroids in whimsical VR or MR across 100+ stages to defend cute planets from energy‑siphoning invaders.
🤖 Night City will soon be walkable in co‑op VR arcades, as CD Projekt Red and Zero Latency create a free‑roam Cyberpunk 2077 experience built specifically for location‑based venues worldwide.
🍭 In Sugar Madness, a newly‑trailed candy‑themed VR FPS, players will soon mow down “candymorphs” with wild weapons , with an open playtest arriving via Discord before its Spring 2026 Quest launch.
🕵️ While Innerspace’s Spymaster only hits Early Access on May 7, hands‑on GDC impressions highlight its agent‑swapping, time‑rewinding espionage missions as smooth, inventive, and ripe for completionist tinkering.
⛳ Later this summer, the best‑selling Quest sim GOLF+ is slated to tee off on Steam with cross‑play ambitions, shared physics, and the same expansive DLC course ecosystem PC VR golfers have been waiting for.
🌌 After nearly two years in development, Into the Radius 2 is leaving Early Access on April 23 with a complete story campaign, new weapons and anomalies, expanded mission types, and quality‑of‑life systems carried over from the original.
XR Entertainment
🧱 Blending fitness with puzzle mechanics, Bloxer turns Tetris-style block matching into a full-body VR workout experience.
🎼 At the BBC Proms, Apple’s immersive video format places viewers inside a 180° 3D concert, capturing orchestral performance with spatial depth and realism.
XR News
✂️ Around 700 Meta employees, including staff inside Reality Labs, have just been laid off as the company restructures amid massive AI spending and ongoing mixed‑reality losses.
👓 Meta and EssilorLuxottica are rolling out prescription‑first Ray‑Ban Meta “Blayzer Optics” and “Scriber Optics” frames from $500, adding ergonomic tweaks plus a wave of new lens colors and styles for their broader smart‑glasses lineup.
🧱 Flush with a fresh $50 million round led by Alibaba and Baidu Ventures, Tripo AI is pushing new native‑3D foundation models that can spit out production‑ready meshes in roughly two seconds for millions of creators across gaming, robotics, manufacturing, and XR.
🖐️ A new AR system turns any surface into a touchscreen - using a camera to detect subtle skin changes when you tap, eliminating the need for special hardware.
Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!
Bobby Voicu
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