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

🥳 But there’s more:

🚀 Star Citizen’s 4.6 update quietly promotes VR from hacky config tweaks to a proper settings toggle.

🎬 In parts of Europe, Disney+ Premium subscribers on Apple Vision Pro suddenly lost Dolby Vision and 3D playback.

👓 Snap’s AR glasses business has been carved out into a new Specs Inc subsidiary.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #93

XR Games

🕵️ InnerspaceVR’s newly revealed Spymaster will let players juggle three agents, rewind time with a C.A.S.S.E.T.T.E gadget, and pull off stylish VR heists to thwart Protocore’s global surveillance plot.

​🐢 This spring, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City is set to drop on Quest, SteamVR, and Pico, inviting you to literally become a Turtle in co-op rooftop brawls against Shredder’s Foot Clan across comic-book New York.

​🚀 While not yet ready for a full launch fanfare, Star Citizen’s 4.6 update quietly promotes VR from hacky config tweaks to a proper settings toggle, smoothing menus and experience as CIG inches toward deeper headset integration.

​🪐 Marking nearly a decade of post-launch evolution, No Man’s Sky’s Remnant update introduces the Gravitino Coil gravity gun plus a salvage-and-recycling loop, letting players repurpose wreckage into loot, parts, and new armor in both flatscreen and VR.

XR Entertainment

🎵 Just in time for his historic Big Game halftime, Bad Bunny’s Latin trap hit Me Porto Bonito lands as a $1.99 Beat Saber Shock Drop, bringing his syncopated rhythms into VR slashing for the first time. 

🎬 In parts of Europe, Disney+ Premium subscribers on Apple Vision Pro suddenly lost Dolby Vision and 3D playback, likely due to an HDR patent dispute that forced Disney to strip those standout formats from its catalog there.

XR News

🧠 EVA, a cross-platform AI learning assistant from SkillsVR, now orchestrates unified VR, mobile, and web workforce training while auto-tracking every learner interaction for real-time performance insight.

​🤫 After paying around $1.6 billion, Apple has folded “silent speech” startup Q.ai into its future wearables strategy, eyeing jaw-tracking, camera-based text input for ultra-discreet AR glasses control.

​🕹️ Facing a global memory and storage crunch, Valve has paused to rethink when Steam Frame and Steam Machine will ship and how much they will cost, even as it still targets a first-half-of-2026 release window.

​👓 Snap’s AR glasses business has been carved out into a new Specs Inc subsidiary so the company can sharpen focus, court outside investors, and push a lighter, more capable consumer Specs headset to market this year.

​🌐 With 18 additions including TDK, Goertek, and multiple optics specialists, SPIE’s AR Alliance has significantly broadened its membership to accelerate a cohesive, global supply chain for next-generation AR hardware.

​🏃 Virtuix’s Omni One Core VR treadmill, now opening orders across Europe ahead of April shipments, invites PC VR players to physically run, strafe, and crouch in 360 degrees at home - if they’re willing to spend around €2,995.

​🏥 Forecasts suggest AR and VR in healthcare will surge from roughly $1.03 billion in 2026 to $7.27 billion by 2035, as immersive tools spread from surgical planning and training into rehab, mental health, and telemedicine workflows.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu