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

🥳 But there’s more:

🪐 Once called Janet’s Planets, Terry’s Terraforming lands on Quest 3 on October 22 for $14.99.

🎩 Rarely open to outsiders, Hollywood’s Magic Castle can now be visited on Vision Pro.

🔋 Battery life climbs by up to 12% with SteamOS 0.4 on Steam Frame.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #119

XR Games

🪐 Once called Janet’s Planets, Terry’s Terraforming lands on Quest 3 on October 22 for $14.99, tasking players with reshaping dying worlds for picky aliens over six hours, while a Steam version will follow later.

📲 Developer mode and USB cables are no longer needed to sideload on Quest, as SideQuest now installs over Bluetooth-enabled wireless ADB and fetches existing Steam ports directly in the headset.

🔫 Three years after its last major update, Mothergunship: Forge gets the “Thank You, Recruit!” patch, jumping to Unreal 5.7 and adding Ascension and Daily modes plus optional hand tracking on Quest.

🪄 Gesture-drawn spells make The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand, a gothic Quest wave shooter out for $19.99, easy to learn but grindy to master, earning it 3.5 stars from UploadVR.

XR Entertainment

🏈 Select live college football games are being streamed by ESPN in 180-degree 8K with Dolby Atmos through Quest’s TV app, every week through the January 2027 CFP National Championship.

🪖 Starting October 27, D-Day VR Museum will also run on an ordinary PC monitor, though developer Lichtblau IT keeps the existing VR mode fully available under the same Steam listing.

🎩 Rarely open to outsiders, Hollywood’s Magic Castle can now be visited on Vision Pro through You Are Here, two 20-minute immersive episodes capturing Siegfried Tieber’s live close-up magic.

XR News

 🤝 Under a deal signed in December 2025, 419 Sony XR patents covering head-mounted displays and mixed reality are being transferred to Meta, with 43 US patents already reassigned between June and September.

📡 An unannounced Xreal “AR Glasses Computing Kit” has cleared the FCC with Wi-Fi 6E at 160MHz, though the filing names no glasses, chipset or launch date.

🙂 Once version 0.3.0 leaves testing, free social app VR Realms will mirror facial expressions on Quest Pro and let desktop players drive their avatars with a webcam.

🔍 Interior and exterior photos of Pico Space Pro have surfaced in Japanese regulatory filings, exposing the delayed Vision Pro rival ahead of its expected Q4 launch.

🔋 Battery life climbs by up to 12% with SteamOS 0.4 on Steam Frame, an update that also sharpens streaming colors and reduces “Error 17” connection failures.

💾 Meta VR Glasses will be the company’s first standalone headset with expandable storage, and SanDisk is supplying official Made for Meta microSD Express cards and USB-C drives for it.

AI News

🧠 Billed as Meta’s first frontier models, Muse Wonder and Wonder Full match Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra in Meta’s own tests, while claiming the lead on long-term memory.

🎧 Stripped of camera and display, Ray-Ban Meta Audio went on sale on October 13 for $349, fitting Meta AI, open-ear speakers and a 12-hour battery into a 43-gram frame.

🛒 It’s no budget play: Alibaba’s Qwen Glasses N1, now sold in China from roughly $450, pair a 50MP camera with the Qwen assistant, while a Pro model adds eye tracking and iris payments.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu