A group of independent researchers built a device that can artificially induce smell using ultrasound, with no consumable cartridges required.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/researchers-...
Lucent VR, a recently-released exploration experience, is one of the most technically stunning and artfully inspired destinations on Quest 3.
Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/lucent-vr-is...
Google's "Vibe Coding XR" Gemini workflow lets you rapidly build interactive mixed reality WebXR experiences by simply describing what you want with text:
The thing that people don't realize about running a company is how much time and energy will be sucked out by dealing with a lot of background BS that you don't ever get to see.
Things seem a lot simpler on the surface, but this stuff is genuinely draining and it's hard to catch a break.
As Meta drops VR support for new Horizon Worlds, we take a look at the people who run virtual venues on the platform and what they intend to do after the pivot:
Unique daily likers as a graph over the last year. It's down from about 1.6 million a day a year ago to 1.1 million a day now.
I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.
The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.
When you hear "but no one uses AI" it's worth bearing in mind that's...extremely not correct. It has reached mass adoption and use way quicker than other online technologies did, contentious as it is (and forced upon us as it often is).
This is from a recent Ofcom report:
One of the reasons that the willful blindness about AI from people with platforms on the left is shortsighted is that “hope it goes away” doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.
MrSurviv0r's all-in-one VR Mod Installers streamline the process of getting Resident Evil 2, 3, 4, 7, Village, and Requiem playable in full VR on PC:
Star Trek: Infection is out today on Quest 3, and we went hands-on with the VR survival horror game ahead of its release.
Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/we-boldly-go...
The new Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles promise "all-day comfort" for prescription wearers, with overextension hinges, interchangeable nose pads, and optician-adjustable temple tips.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta...
Important to note that the vast majority of Rec Room's players are non-VR.
Over on the other site, its impossible to just get a feed of games stuff without getting the THE WORLD IS FUCKING OVER IN TWO WEEKS schitzo-posting, along with just... barbarism.
Over here, it's 2015-style "If you don't do/believe X, you should UNFOLLOW ME RIGHT NOW" nonsense.
It's a problem..
Meta is launching two new prescription-focused smart glasses this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports:
Sony is again increasing the price of PS5 and PS5 Pro, bringing the buy-in price for a full PlayStation VR2 system up to $1000, higher than it was at the headset's launch:
Apple's WWDC 2026 is set to take place from June 8, and visionOS 27 will likely be announced during it:
Multiple developers of popular paid Quest games tell me they're elated at this news
Meta's lawyers successfully shut down VRPirates, which was by far the largest and most prominent source of pirated Quest VR games:
Maid of Sker VR only enhances its eerie atmosphere in virtual reality. While some features left me wanting, it's a great way to play the Welsh folklore-inspired survival horror.
Here's my latest review for UploadVR.
We sat down with Lucas Martell from Mighty Coconut at GDC 2026 to talk about bringing Hollywood principles to the design of Walkabout Mini Golf:
Twenty One Pilots' 2015 hit Stressed Out is the latest Beat Saber Shock Drop track.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/twenty-one-p...
Autodesk VRED now has an immersive mode that streams to Apple Vision Pro via Nvidia's CloudXR, and Kia, BMW, Volvo, and Rivian are already using it.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/autodesk-vre...
French XR startup Lynx has entered compulsory liquidation, meaning it must shut down and its R2 headset will not be launching:
Coatsink's charming flight adventure game Skytail releases next week on Quest headsets.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/telekenetic-...
On second thought, doing this automatically using an AI model fed the color buffer and motion vectors would make far more sense.
And would be very much Nvidia's style.
Ubisoft is ending game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the studio behind Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Assassin's Creed Nexus VR:
Finally taking at least *some* advantage of headset displays.
What I still badly want to see, though, is Nvidia release a 3D SDK for flatscreen games on GeForce Now. Take *true* advantage of headsets, please!
I have some questions as to how exactly decisions are made at Meta.
ICYMI: X-Plane 12 and iRacing will be officially playable on Apple Vision Pro, streamed from your PC via Nvidia CloudXR, with your physical accessories blended in using mixed reality passthrough.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/x-plane-irac...
