VR Download

Echo VR fans plea with Mark Zuckerberg, VRChat & Bigscreen avatar changes on the way, Meta's smartglasses & AR hardware roadmap, codec avatars, a neural wristband for everyday use, and Meta Quest's roadmap.

We discuss Meta Quest getting direct touch menus, PSVR 2's PenTile OLED suxbpixel layout, Valve Index open source hand tracking, and Meta's plans for 2024.

We welcome Henry Stockdale to the podcast with his review of PSVR 2 and then David Heaney rejoins to give his technical analysis of the hardware. We cover Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Call of the Mountain, best launch games, haptics, eye tracking and more in the next-generation PS5-powered VR system from Sony.

Bigscreen Beyond is announced! An ultra lightweight VR headset with SteamVR Tracking leads off our show. We also discuss Meta updates including the Quest interface getting touch, Supernatural getting formally acquired, and updates planned for Horizon. We also discuss Brad Lynch's statement on headset leaks, and we close out the show talking about unboxing PlayStation VR2.

We discuss PlayStation VR2's latest details, Samsung & Google returning to VR, Meta's latest moves and the legacy of Echo VR.

We discuss Meta dropping the Quest Pro price to $1,100, Apple's tools for easy to build AR apps, Echo VR shutting down, Rec Room exploring full body avatars, PSVR 2's sales expectation and AR/VR entering a new phase of adoption.

This week we discuss the upgraded Quest hand tracking 2.1, Microsoft's huge layoffs and its effect on mixed reality, Apple's latest VR/AR headset details, and close out our coverage of CES with a discussion about some impressive haptics demos we had with Contact CI and HaptX.

We discuss new developments related to Microsoft's militarized Hololens AR technology and Tilt Five's progress toward consumer AR. We also cover Meta Quest Move syncing with Android, Unity supporting OpenXR hand tracking and Mojo Vision ceasing work on their smart contact lens.

Our super-sized episode covers CES 2023 demos of headsets including the Vive XR Elite and Pimax Portal View. We also discuss Windows Mixed Reality growing on Steam with Reverb G2 discounts, Bigscreen co-watching with Disney & Amazon Prime, Meta ending Quest 1 Updates, Roblox rumored for Quest in 2023, Intel's latest Wifi chips, Quest 2's GPU performance boost. 

We discuss our picks for best VR content of 2022 and look back at 10 years of Oculus VR headsets. 

We've got a mega-sized two hour episode to cover the end of 2022 VR news with Virtual Desktop reverting its big change, portals supported to other apps in Quest, shared space co-location arriving on Quest Pro, Meta planning automatic room scanning, the future of lens display tech and higher resolutions in VR, Microsoft teasing HoloLens 3, and a new headset from HTC Vive expected at CES 2023....

Valve moved VR Support out of Steam's sidebar, Samsung reportedly has a dev kit incoming, Virtual Desktop made a change that has some folks talking, Quest 2 and Quest Pro are now selling in Germany, the Touch Pro controllers now work on Quest 2 and PSVR 2 pre-orders are now open to all. We also discuss Avatar and the potential of 3D movies to look great on the latest generation of VR headsets...

Pico 4 appears on the SteamVR Hardware charts, a game-changing WebXR Open in Quest feature, a big change to Quest Pro passthrough recording, the latest Quest mobile app redesign and changes to the avatars in home.  We also talk about the latest Apple headset delay and how we're trying to recognize the best VR content.

We discuss how the Meta Quest 2 will be sold in Germany, the new DPVR E4 wired SteamVR headset, Meta talks with Samsung & LG for displays, Meta's % of investment in Horizon Worlds, perceptual superpowers,  do AR glasses need a display?

We discuss Meta's downsizing of 11,000 people, the Pimax Portal crowdfunding effort, Red Matter 2's graphical differences on Pico 4 vs. Quest 2, sales of Pico 4 and the latest Vive headset leak.

We discuss the Remote Display app for the Quest home experience which includes multitasking support, as well as Meta cost cutting, the scale of Apple's investment in AR & VR and the big topic -- PSVR 2's release date and pricing.

Meta Quest 3 looks like it is lining up for release in 2023. We also discuss hand tracking launching in VRChat as well as Meta's revenue drop for its Reality Labs division. We also dive deep into how Meta might package the Quest 3 and build accessories to reach different prices. 

We review the Quest Pro headset and deliver our first podcast recorded partially in Meta's high-end standalone. We also talk about Pico 4 Pro, HaptX G1 gloves, and the question of whether HP and Microsoft are done with Windows Mixed Reality.

We've got an extra-large episode as we dive deep into our review of Pico 4 alongside details surrounding Quest Pro. We've got analysis of Touch Pro haptics and benefits of foveated rendering on Quest Pro as we talk about Valve's latest job listing, HTC's newest teases and a big open discussion about everything from Horizon World's struggles to the idea of Virtual Desktop a...

Meta announced Quest Pro focused on remote work priced at $1500. We've gone hands-on with the device and spoke to some of Meta's top executives about the company's future-focused work on EMG wristbands for AR/VR input and hyper-realistic avatars to transform long-distance communication. 

We discussing the D-Link VR Air Bridge priced at $99, SideQuest Raising $12 million from Google Ventures, Sony PSVR 2's production forecasts, the Lenovo ThinkReality VRX and our biggest topic of the day, the Quest 3 Design leak.

We discuss Meta's trackerless Quest 2 body tracking paper, the first shipments of the militarized HoloLens to the US Army, Rec Room Studio, cloud streaming - and ask: is Pico 4 the Quest 2 killer?

We discuss PSVR 2 dropping support for original PSVR games and the major upcoming Pico 4 announcement. We also discuss the new NVIDIA RTX 4080 & 4090 cards, Unreal Engine 5's Nanite & Lumen systems in VR, and new Quest recording options.

We tried the next-generation PlayStation VR2 headset and interview the hotel worker who leaked the Meta Quest Pro headset's design onto the Internet!  We also discuss HTC Vive Focus 3 getting face and eye tracking add-ons, Steam corrected its hardware survey, the prospect of Disney bringing its park attractions home, Meta's efforts to add legs to avatars, and a listing which details the...