Virtual Reality

One of the questions about how Vision Pro users will be able to share content with people who don’t have their own $3,500 headset may be answered, as MacRumors points out code discovered in Apple’s visionOS 1.0 beta 4 release about mirroring content to other devices and sharing via AirPlay or FaceTime.

Developer Steve Troughton-Smith spotted a fun little note today on the download page for the Xcode 15.1 beta that says a Mac with Apple Silicon is required if you want to develop for visionOS.

Developer Innersloth announced that the game won’t receive updates or further support on the platform starting October 4th, 2023. As for why, the developer cites “the discontinuation of the Rift S headset, and many Rift players already moving to SteamVR.”

Remember the whole microscandal about Zuck’s VR legs?

Among Us VR adds to the growing library of games available to PlayStation’s next-gen VR system, which includes No Man’s Sky, Beat Saber, Resident Evil Village, and a lot more.

This clip shows off The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, one of the Quest 2’s headliner games, alongside its upgraded Quest 3 version. We’re still looking at a game powered by a mobile chip, but it’s a significant detail boost.

Zuck just talked about productivity apps on the Quest 3, including Microsoft Office. I swear to god, if you stick me in a virtual Excel hellscape, I will yeet myself from existence.

After last year’s Quest Pro kind of flopped you might have thought there would be less discussion of mixed reality and the metaverse, but nope. Zuckerberg opened the Meta Connect developer conference talking about how the Quest 3 is a mixed reality headset for everyone.

Though the stream is delayed, you can see our first impressions of Meta’s headlining hardware product — the $499 Quest 3, shipping October 10th — here.

Tomorrow, Meta will explain why you should pay $500 for a Quest 3 at Meta Connect... and I’m starting to wonder if Lego will be part of the pitch. See the blocks in Zuck’s image below? They’ve got trademarked Lego logos on top!

In a new report, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple will ship 400,000 to 600,000 of its mixed-reality headsets in 2024, an estimate that’s lower than the expected 1 million shipments.

Netflix’s hit TV show has been adapted into a high-end VR experience called Squid Game Virtuals that you’ll be able to try at Sandbox VR locations. I think the show was intense enough, so I’ll probably pass on the VR version, but if you want to check it out, it’ll be there to tide you over ahead of season two.

During Sony’s September State of Play, we got our first look at a new Ghostbusters game for the PSVR2, Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghostlord.