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

🥳 But there’s more:

🪖 Onward’s biggest update ever arrives March 25,

🚢 Titanic VR is setting sail for Quest 3

💡 Meta AI rolls out in 60+ countries across Europe

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #56

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).

🔖 Meta's Spring Savings offer up to 50% off hundreds of MR apps and bundles on Quest through March 23.

🏷️ Sony slashes prices on top PSVR 2 titles like Resident Evil Village and Gran Turismo 7, with discounts up to 70% through March 26.

XR Games

💃🏽 BEATABLE is a new hand-tracking rhythm game for Quest that transforms your real table into a musical instrument, launching April 10 in early access.

🤖 RoboCop: Streets of Anarchy, an official VR arcade game with an original story, is set to launch in late 2025.

🧟 Arizona Sunshine's original online multiplayer will shut down on July 1, 2025, due to Unity's UNet service discontinuation.

💥 Doom 2 horror mod Total Chaos is getting a full Unreal Engine 5 remake with VR support, launching July 24.

🪖 Onward’s biggest update ever arrives March 25, adding two maps (including a remaster), 13 new weapons, full operator customization, and major visual and gameplay overhauls across all platforms.

🧩 Balls To The Wall, a new Quest game, fuses match-3 puzzling with mixed reality shooting, offering 20 levels, multiplayer, and Candy Crush–meets–Duck Hunt gameplay.

XR Entertainment

🛝 Dreampark turns public spaces into mixed reality amusement parks using Quest 3, aiming to offer downloadable theme parks you can deploy anywhere.

🚢 Titanic VR is setting sail for Quest 3, bringing immersive shipwreck exploration to standalone headsets for the first time.

XR News

💵 Google is reportedly acquiring eye-tracking startup AdHawk Microsystems for $115M to enhance Android XR headsets and glasses with low-power, camera-free eye-tracking technology.

🛠 Valve’s Steam Link app appears to be expanding to Pico and HTC Vive standalone headsets, with datamining also hinting at a new SteamVR wireless dongle to enhance PC VR streaming across multiple devices.

😔 People Can Fly will cease VR game publishing after Project Bison launches in late 2025, blaming reduced funding from major VR platform owners and shifting focus away from the struggling VR market.

📣 Campfire expands its spatial collaboration platform to support HTC VIVE and Varjo XR headsets, enhancing multi-user workflows across more professional-grade devices.

💡 Meta AI rolls out in 60+ countries across Europe, but remains unavailable on Meta Quest and Ray-Ban smart glasses outside select regions.

🎬 Bigscreen sells more Beyond 2 headsets in 4 hours than Beyond 1 did in its first 2 months, signaling strong demand for the upgraded VR device.

😞 LG disbands its XR product division after Meta partnership talks collapse, redirecting efforts toward long-term R&D instead of near-term commercialization.

🍟 McDonald’s Japan debuts its first official VRChat world themed around fries, featuring interactive elements and music stars like Ado, YOASOBI, and Hololive’s Suisei as part of its latest Tiro Remix campaign.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu