The UEVR mod,
, and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios have enabled VR support in a variety of high-selling Unreal Engine games.
Aided by the UEVR mod,
and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own.the ceaseless work of Team BeefMeanwhile, the open source project Delta combined with changing Apple policy finally opened the floodgates to emulator support of classic game systems across Vision Pro and other Apple platforms.
Henry Stockdale and Don Hopper have been following the latest for UploadVR using their headsets at home, of course, but they also travelled to San Francisco earlier this year to meet with studio representatives, interview sources, and check out demos first-hand at the Game Developers Conference, with Don offering us a look at Angry Birds in mixed reality from the conference.
Before flying out to San Francisco, Don hopped in the Dune Ornithopter and flew over Arrakis trying to complete rescue missions in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Don Hopper failed the final mission in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Henry’s
hands-on review. Starship Home is
as one of Quest 3’s first exclusives and, now, just a few months after Laser Dance showed us its cool ideas, Niantic’s Hello, Dot wows with even the most simplistic interactions paired with Meta’s latest dynamic occlusion.highlighted the impressive laser-dodging game as mixed reality’s most impressive demo to dateAll these changes are set against one of Meta’s most significant foundational changes in years. Instead of a separate early access section with hard-to-find listings, Meta’s App Lab system is merging with the main Quest store as Horizon OS takes shape.on the way from Creature tooMajor VR & Mixed Reality Games On The Way
Watch Don and I discuss all this and more in our hour-long live recap video embedded above with teaser trailers for some of the games included.
There are more big announcements and reveals planned for June, including at our own UploadVR Showcase late in the month, which is likely to be followed by a quiet period as many professionals take summer vacations. We’ll also get an idea of which games will be the most influential in influencing VR purchases through 2024. After
‘s success as Iron Man, the expectations for this title are high. We’ll be releasing more content throughout the year, but as we write, the UploadVR Showcase is still in
. We’ll have more throughout the year and, as of this writing, we’re still
for the next UploadVR Showcase.