Virtual & Augmented Reality news

Google has announced an upcoming AR game, Space Invaders: World Defense, which is built as a showcase of the company’s latest AR tool.Over the last few years Google has been steadily working on its AR developer toolset, ARCore. This week at Google IO 2023, the company added a brand new tool to its kit called Geospatial Creator.
Geospatial Creator gives developers the ability to create world-anchored digital content that will appear in the same location for all users. Built on a founda

Tamagotchi’s are back! Sort of…Pokémon GO creator Niantic has released a number of location-based augmented reality (AR) games since the launch of its first title, Google Ingress, back in 2013. This includes the now-defunct Harry Potter: Wizards Unite as well as the more recent Pikmin Bloom.
Niantic’s latest game, Peridot, launched earlier this week on iOS and Android devices, and although we’re only a couple of hours in, we’re already loving this addictive

Square off against other players in a variety of challenges in this Super Smash Bros-like third-person competitive fighting game.
QUANTAAR, a new VR party brawling game from developer PumpkinVR, will finally launch on June 7th on SteamVR, Pico 4, and Meta Quest headsets after being in beta since 2022. The cross-platform battle royale pits players against one another in a variety of PvP games across the world. The game promises numerous modes, characters, and features that will keep you coming ba

We’re back for another dose of mind-bending puzzles à la Bob the Fisherman. The sequel offers up a longer, more emotionally complex story while packing in a ton of new puzzle mechanics that makes Another Fisherman’s Tale feel leagues ahead of the original in almost every sense.
Another Fisherman’s Tale Details:
Available On: SteamVR, Quest 2, PSVR 2Release Date: May 11th, 2023Price: $30Developer: Innerspace VRPublisher: Vertig

Red Matter 2, the sci-fi VR puzzle adventure for Quest 2 and PC VR, is bringing its best-in-class graphics and interactions to PSVR 2 next week.Update (May 11th, 2023): Vertical Robot announced Red Matter 2 is headed to PSVR 2 on May 18th. This is said to include 120fps, foveated rendering, 4K remastered textures, enhanced lighting & bloom, and custom controller & immersive haptics. You can wishlist the game on PSVR 2 here.
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As a part of its big send off, Meta has already deprecated first-party social features on the original 2019 Quest, which includes access to Parties and Meta Horizon Home. If you thought you could keep using Quest 1 with other social VR platforms though, your choices are about to get even more limited, as VRChat is soon dropping support too.
The studio announced it was dropping support in a recent developer update, stating that VRChat will no longer provide support for the Met