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

🥳 But there’s more:

The first VR Premier League licensed football game is here.

Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded received its first major patch.

Qualcomm, Samsung and Google are developing mixed reality smart glasses to push adoption.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #35

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

⚽️ Rezzil announces the upcoming launch of Premier League Player, exclusive to Meta Quest, allowing fans to experience key “Moments” from the 2023-2024 season.

🐶 Pets & Stuff is a fun and accessible VR pet grooming game where players care for various animals.

🎲 All on Board! is a VR platform aiming to become the digital home for board games, launching on Steam and Meta Quest in early 2025.

🧩 Puzzle Sculpt offers a spatial puzzling experience on Apple Vision Pro, replacing traditional minesweeping with logic-based sculpting. 

✈️ Sky Runner, formerly Bomber Drone, offers Quest 3 pilots an immersive drone experience with room-mapping gameplay and a new track editor for creating custom courses.

🎶 Starwave is a unique VR rhythm game set in space, offering creative freedom and immersive music experiences, according to this review.

😱 The Exit 8 VR, a subtle VR horror game that blends puzzles with unsettling experiences, is now available on Meta Quest and will soon launch on PC VR.

♣️ Vestiges: Fallen Tribes, a PC VR auto battler with strategic card gameplay, launches in early access on Steam on October 3.

🤕 Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded received its first major patch, following a poorly received launch on Quest 3.

⚔️ The VR fantasy RPG Sword Reverie is coming to Meta Quest in late 2024 or early 2025.

🪲 Metamorphosis VR, a narrative adventure inspired by Kafka's novel, arrives on Meta Quest on October 10.

XR Entertainment

🎹 Beat Saber introduces a new Shock Drop feature with Eminem's track Houdini as the first surprise release, now available for $2.

🛞 Subside, a realistic VR diving simulator, launches on PC VR on September 17.

⬆️ PS5 Pro's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) will automatically upscale all PlayStation VR2 games in a future firmware update. 

🤐 Emperor is a VR movie available for free on Meta Quest, telling a moving story through unique visual art and interactive experiences.

XR News

🕶️ Qualcomm, Samsung, and Google are developing mixed reality smart glasses that will connect to smartphones, aiming for widespread adoption.

🥽 Chinese company Play for Dream launched a Kickstarter to bring its Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 mixed reality headset, similar to Apple Vision Pro, to the global market, including the US.

🦿 Pico Motion Trackers, primarily used for leg tracking, can also be used for custom object tracking and integrated with external devices via USB-C.

📱 Meta will introduce its new Spatial App Framework at Meta Connect 2024, enabling easier development of immersive apps for Meta Horizon OS using familiar mobile development tools.

🥽 Meta accidentally leaked the Meta Quest 3S, a rumored budget version of the Quest 3, ahead of its official reveal.

🥽 The Vision Pro Hackathon, Vision Hack, is taking place this week with $25K in cash and prizes across multiple categories.

🕶️ Sharp and Japan's largest telecom NTT Docomo have unveiled MiRZA, lightweight AR glasses launching this fall, with advanced optics, 6DOF tracking, and Snapdragon AR2 Gen1.

🤩 You can now share your first-person view in Messenger video calls on Quest headsets, displaying both passthrough and virtual content.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu