Brand ambassador and referral programs are everywhere, aiming to drive engagement and sales through influencers and loyal fans alike. But last week, Pimax crossed a line, the company publicly admitted. It was discovered the PC VR headset company was secretly aiming to launch a program that offered rewards for verifiably positive forum posts—an ostensible attempt
Cortopia Studios, the team behind GORN 2 (2025), announced it’s working on a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ game which is slated to land on Quest and SteamVR headsets sometime next year. We haven’t seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City in action yet, as Cortopia Studios and publisher Beyond Frames Entertainment only released a quick trailer announcing
Gexagon, the developer behind early access PC VR shooter sandbox Hard Bullet, announced the game’s physics-based madness is finally available on Quest 3. Hard Bullet initially landed on Steam Early Access in 2020, bringing brutal gunfights and physics-based melee action to PC VR headsets—basically like the sandbox mode in Blade & Sorcery (2024), albeit with realistic guns
VR indie Triangular Pixels announced its pioneering room-scale VR spy game Unseen Diplomacy (2016) is finally getting a sequel, and it’s coming to Quest 3 and SteamVR headsets this year. Initially released in 2016 for PC VR headsets, Unseen Diplomacy was one of the first VR experiences to include a unique room-scale locomotion method that “redirected”
COLD VR (2025) developer ALLWARE and publisher Perp Games announced their Superhot-inspired shooter is getting a host of updates next month in a new COLD VR: SUB-ZERO Edition. As a spiritual successor to smash-hit shooter Superhot VR, Cold VR serves up a healthy dose of time-distorting action. Instead of time speeding up when you move though, Cold VR completely flips the
Meta announced it’s now running a test in Quest’s latest Horizon OS release (v77) that overhauls the platform’s dock-based UI for a new launcher overlay. Additionally, Meta says some users will also see 3D Instagram photos in their feed on Quest too, which is neat. First teased at Connect 2024, Meta is finally bringing Navigator
Valve founder Gabe Newell’s neural chip company Starfish Neuroscience announced it’s developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces—and it may be coming sooner than you think. The company announced in a blog update that it’s creating a custom, ultra-low power neural chip in collaboration with R&D leader imec. Starfish says the chip
Eye-tracking company Tobii announced it’s partnering with Prophesee to develop its next-generation of eye-tracking for AR/VR headsets and smart glasses, which will be based on Prophesee’s unique event-based vision system. In short, Prophesee makes specialized cameras and sensors that work more like human eyes. Instead of recording everything like standard camera, their technology only captures
Google has released its second Developer Preview of the Android XR software development kit (SDK) following its initial release late last year, introducing new features and improvements including wider support for immersive video, better adaptive UI layouts, hand-tracking in ARCore for Jetpack, and more. Announced at Google I/O, the billet of updates to Android XR SDK
Neat Corp, the veteran VR studio behind the Budget Cuts series, announced its next VR game Crossings, which lets you melee and spell-cast your way through the Norse afterlife. The co-op roguelite takes you through “an ever-changing world in a quest for vengeance and survival in an epic Adventure through the Norse afterlife,” Neat Corp says. “Meet fellow