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

🥳 But there’s more:

🏎️ ApexX Racing Championship launched September 30 on Meta Quest, offering five tracks, multiple cars and an immersive showroom.

🌍 Sandbox VR opens its first Spanish venue on October 1, in Barcelona’s Les Glòries district.

💰 A $1 million prize pool has been put up by Meta for its new Start developer competition.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #117

XR Games

🚚 Due on Quest in Early Access this October, Arizona Truck Driver from The Wizards studio Carbon Studio turns trucking into a business sim, with six trucks to maintain, NPC drivers to hire, and seasons that change road conditions.

🧩 Hands replace controllers entirely in Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities, a room-aware version of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's puzzler that wraps its music and visual effects around your real surroundings and arrives on Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3/3S in 2027.

🏎️ ApexX Racing Championship launched September 30 on Meta Quest, offering five tracks, multiple cars and an immersive showroom while debuting at 50% off ($9.99).

⚖️ Players will present evidence by hand and shout "Objection!" aloud in Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR, the Capcom series' first VR entry, which AMATA brings to the Meta Horizon Store in 2027.

XR Entertainment

🏀 Six unscripted therapy sessions between Draymond Green and sports psychologist Dr. Carrie Hastings, shot in stereoscopic 180° VR during his 2025–26 Warriors season, make up Open Season, the first Meta Presents original, which premiered September 29 in the Quest TV app.

🌍 Sandbox VR opens its first Spanish venue on October 1, in Barcelona’s Les Glòries district, pushing its location-based VR network beyond 90 venues worldwide.

XR News

👓 Meta’s Wearables Device Access Toolkit 1.0 began rolling out September 30, giving developers a stable SDK for accessing cameras, microphones, motion sensors, audio and displays across Meta’s AI-glasses portfolio. Meta also opened standalone Web Apps for Ray-Ban Meta Display to developers using ordinary HTML, CSS and JavaScript, potentially lowering the barrier to creating third-party software for display-equipped smart glasses without a native app or dedicated SDK.

📈 Orders for Virtuix's Omni One treadmill have roughly tripled since Quest support arrived in June, the company says, with its compatible library now topping 75 games and Meta VR Glasses support expected.

🕶️ VONDER's first AI glasses start at $299 with neither camera nor display, turn speech into text memories while deleting the audio, and ship in the US from November.

💰 A $1 million prize pool has been put up by Meta for its new Start developer competition, which runs until November 18 and rewards seated, fully hand-tracked apps for the upcoming VR Glasses.

🥽 Weighing about 100 grams because their compute and battery move into a 300-gram puck on an optical tether, Meta VR Glasses, the finished form of Project Phoenix, will cost $1,299.99 when they arrive in spring 2027.

🖥️ On PCs with two discrete graphics cards, Steam Link automatically picks the Nvidia one for VR streaming, and Valve has confirmed there is currently no way to override that choice.

AI News

💼 Meta has opened its Muse AI agent to small businesses, offering free usage-limited access that connects to tools like Shopify, Slack, Stripe, and Meta ad accounts.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu