Virtual Reality

Current song: “Three Drums” by Four Tet.

Alex Heath, Kylie Robison, and I are all at Meta’s Connect conference to cover the show.

The Meta app has started teasing improvements to Horizons avatars when users try to edit them, according to an X post spotted by UploadVR.

A Reddit user posted an off-screen video of a certainly real-looking ad for Meta’s leaky Quest 3S VR headset, as reported by UploadVR.

Or, is it quietly bringing Windows-native VR games to the leaked Meta Quest 3S? Or Windows-native games to Arm, period? Or is this just another experiment?

The device already supports spatial video, but the latest iOS 18.1 developer beta brings spatial photos to the iPhone 15 Pro too. This allows for a more immersive experience when viewing photos on Apple’s Vision Pro headset.

My biggest problem with Sony’s PSVR2 PC adapter was controllers that kept misbehaving — even though I was using Sony’s first-recommended TP-Link UB500 Bluetooth adapter to pair them.

Or if it does, then it’s very well hidden. There’s no 3.5mm audio port apparent in any of the images shared in a South Korean forum post that UploadVR spotted yesterday.

The button, which was mentioned on official support pages, according to UploadVR, will let you toggle between passthrough and full immersion on the unannounced headset.

With the “GAZEploit” attack, researchers found they could predict what somebody was typing on the Vision Pro’s virtual keyboard by analyzing the eye movements of their Persona, according to Wired.

The “Quest 3S,” which Meta could sell without controllers, is slated to debut at Meta Connect on September 25th and 26th and could be priced at $300 or $400, writes Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.

Batman: Arkham Shadow is the next entry in the Batman: Arkham series but with a twist...it’s in VR. Camouflaj, the studio known for another superhero VR experience, Iron Man VR, debuted the first gameplay trailer during Opening Night Live 2024. Arkham Shadow will be a full-length, VR game launching exclusively on the Meta Quest 3 sometime in October.

Trombone Champ: Unflattened, which is launching this fall, looks just as silly as the flatscreen game.

That’s because the all-time greatest virtual reality gaming system, the Nintendo Virtual Boy, is now available (in emulator form) on the Vision Pro via the VirtualFriend app. I’ve been testing this emulator for some time — check back soon for my impressions.

⭕ If you’ve got USB-C on a reference design GPU, you may not need the adapter at all. Some report you can plug the headset right into certain cards once you install the app.

A new environment in the Paramount Plus app for the Apple Vision Pro transforms your surroundings into Bikini Bottom, complete with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward’s homes. If you decide to watch SpongeBob in the environment, SpongeBob himself will join you with a bowl of popcorn.

In the Apple Vision Pro, that is. Disney Plus has rolled out a National Geographic edition virtual environment for its visionOS app that lets you watch movies in a snowy corridor in Iceland’s Thingvellir National Park.

It’s a busy time for Alien fans, with Romulus hitting theaters soon and a TV series in the works. But don’t forget about Rogue Incursion, a promising VR game that got a new trailer at SDCC. It’s launching in holiday 2024.

Apple has released Lake Vrangla, one of two Vision Pro Environments that have spent months marked “coming soon,” and boy is it moody.

Whatever this “Vision for you” is, the silhouette HTC shows at the end looks very pointedly Vision Pro-like, while also looking like it fits into the HTC Vive Focus 3 design mold.

Demos on this Meta blog show how the company will implement its promise to bring AI to its VR headsets. Like the company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, you can ask it questions about things you see (in passthrough), and it will answer.