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

🥳 But there’s more:

🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City hits Quest, PC VR, and Pico on April 30.

🕶️ THE BLACK MIRROR EXPERIENCE debuting at Infinity Experience in Montreal,

📈 ARtillery Intelligence forecasts global XR revenue nearly doubling from $28.5 billion in 2025 to $61.4 billion by 2030.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #100

Yes, 100. We’ve telling you what happens in XR for the last 100 weeks (a little bit more, truth be told, because we might’ve skipped a week or two). But still, 100! 🤩

Thank you for being here, reading what we write and giving us the feedback that wee need. Thank you! 🙏

XR Games

🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City, a cel‑shaded co-op VR beat ’em up where you and three friends battle the Foot Clan under new leader Karai, hits Quest, PC VR, and Pico on April 30 with a pre‑order discount.

🎬 Fast Travel Games has permanently slashed the price of its cinematic VR shooter Action Hero from $19.99 to $9.99 on Quest, making the blockbuster parody campaign far more impulse‑friendly for new players.

❄️ XReal Games is building Zero Caliber: Frostbite as a Far Cry‑style open‑world VR shooter - with vehicles, co‑op, and emergent encounters against soldiers and zombies - alongside a second, still‑secret hardcore mil‑sim.

🧩 Tammuz: Blood & Sand, a stationary “Rubik’s Cube on steroids” box‑puzzle adventure set around a single desert pillar, mixes god‑lore storytelling with intricate mechanical challenges on Quest and PC VR.

🚀 Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars, a story‑driven mixed reality and VR game developed with author Andy Weir, will arrive late 2026 to let you play as Ryland Grace during a critical, Rocky‑assisted crisis aboard the Hail Mary.​​​​​

XR Entertainment

🕶️ THE BLACK MIRROR EXPERIENCE, a location‑based VR attraction debuting at Infinity Experience in Montreal, blends physical sets and headsets to drop up to six visitors into a moral‑choice tech dystopia centered on LifeAgent, an overhelpful home robot.

XR News

 🧑‍🤝‍🧑  Despite Rec Room’s shutdown and Horizon Worlds’ pivot to mobile, VRChat’s founders insist the platform is thriving, pointing to record concurrent users and a booming creator‑driven avatar marketplace as proof it’s “not going anywhere.”

🕶️ Through a wave of spring and summer updates, Meta’s Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart glasses gain nutrition logging, WhatsApp message summaries, live‑translation for more languages, on‑foot navigation across all US cities, display recording, neural handwriting input, and expanded country availability.

📐 Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset now offers Google’s experimental auto‑spatialization, which converts 2D apps, sites, images, and videos into lightweight 3D experiences while also adding hand‑visible home space, wall‑pinnable windows, session resume, and a growing XR app catalog.

📈 ARtillery Intelligence forecasts global XR revenue nearly doubling from $28.5 billion in 2025 to $61.4 billion by 2030, with headworn AR overtaking VR and mobile AR, enterprise spend ceding share to faster‑growing consumer XR, and smart glasses shipments surging past 50 million units annually.

📦 Amazon is rolling out Vuzix M400 and Ultralite Pro AR smart glasses across warehouses and infrastructure sites in the US and Canada, using hands‑free displays to boost efficiency today while piloting future server‑room and robotics workflows.

🎮 Valve’s new Steam Link beta app for Apple Vision Pro streams flat Steam games over Wi‑Fi at up to 4K with adjustable curved “theater” screens, but native PC VR titles still aren’t yet supported and will eventually require compatible motion controllers.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu