Author: James

visionOS 26.2 improves tracking in Travel Mode and officially supports using Apple Vision Pro in cars and buses.When Apple Vision Pro launched in early 2024, it was the first headset to feature travel mode, a toggle for operating the location tracking system inside a moving vehicle.Over the years since then, Meta, Pico, Snap, and Google have implemented their own travel modes on their headsets.When it first launched, Apple’s Travel Mode was designed specifically for airplanes. Last year’s visionOS 2 was updated to officially support trains. And with visionOS 26.2 released last week, Apple Vision Pro also officially supports cars and…

Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Series 6-inch Mini Comic Wave 2 figures are popular among collectors, and all include a small comic book cover. This wave includes Astonishing X-Men Beast, Phoenix (Excalibur’s Rachel Summers), Silver Surfer, Black Widow, Daredevil, and Feral. Beast was inspired by his appearance in Marvel Comics’ Astonishing X-Men #1, released in 2004, which gave the X-Men new costumes and became one of the most memorable X-Men comic series of all time. Thank you to Entertainment Earth for sending me the Hasbro Marvel Legends Series 6-Inch Mini Comic Wave 2 Astonishing X-Men Beast Figure for review. Entertainment Earth offers…

GORN 2 has received a new “Dungeon Brawler” mode in a winter-themed update for Quest, PC VR, and PlayStation VR2.Available now on all platforms, GORN 2 is a comical over-the-top arena brawler that pits you against five sons of an afterlife god after an untimely death. The main campaign has you taking part in a series of arena battles while defeating muscular gladiators, but publisher Devolver Digital has announced the addition of a dungeon crawler mode. Aptly known as the “Dungeon Brawler” update, the update also includes various winter-themed additions, including ice floors, new dungeon hazards, and the ability to…

Pocket Lands offers a promising new sandbox for building digital worlds. Early access is currently available on Quest. Read on for the full review.People with creative minds always find a way to express their individuality, regardless of the means at their disposal. Pens, paintbrushes and digital tools. Video games like Minecraft have exploded in popularity by allowing you to freely shape the world of voxel art, allowing people to craft futuristic spaceships, vast cities, and medieval towns. The old quote applies: If you build it, they will come. Pocket Lands aims to provide a world-building sandbox and give inspired people…

Let’s fight future crimes! Chicken Fried Toys is now offering the first release of COPS ‘N Crooks, along with the highly anticipated release of Marshall Sundown, part of their 4-inch figure line. Cops and the Impostors is a 1988 animated television series, and Hasbro has released a toy line based on the series. This was a 6-inch scale action figure with the type of articulation seen in Marvel Legends. You can tell that this vintage series was more than a decade ahead of its time. Chicken Fried Toys is offering a new line of brand-inspired 4-inch figures, and the first…

Quest’s Hand Tracking 2.4 update brings major improvements to Fast Motion mode, improving handling of fast movements such as punches and swings.Since introducing controller-free hand tracking as a software update for the original Oculus Quest experimentally in late 2019 and generally available in early 2020, Meta has continued to improve its features and gradually close many of the gaps in tracking quality compared to controllers.Hand Tracking 2.0 in 2022 improves handling of quick movements, occlusions, and two-handed contact. Hand Tracking 2.1 in early 2023 reduces tracking loss and the time to reacquire a hand after it is lost, and also…

Meta Horizon Store’s 2025 Holiday Sale offers discounts on blockbuster Quest games for the next three weeks.Right now, you can get Quest versions of titles like Alien: Rogue Incursion, Arizona Sunshine games, Asgard’s Wrath 2, Skydance’s Behemoth, Metro Awakening, Reach, Resident Evil 4, and more for 20% to 65% off.You’ll also find discounts on a variety of indie titles, including Arken Age, Bonelab, Dungeons of Eternity, Eleven Table Tennis, Figmin XR, GOLF+, Into Black, Mist, Pistol Whip, Titan Isles, Walkabout Mini Golf, and VRider SBK.The sale ends just under three weeks from now on January 4th at 11:59pm PT, giving…

Puzzling Places adds Journey Mode, remastered puzzles, improved hand tracking, and more in a free update.The VR jigsaw game developed by Realities.io, known for turning real-world locations into tactile 3D puzzles, is rolling out a major update for the holiday season. Its star feature is Journey Mode. This is a new way to play designed to provide a gentler, less effortful experience.Instead of the game’s usual loop where players retrieve all the pieces of a disassembled puzzle at once, Journey mode starts with one piece in the middle and can only add a small set of pieces at a time.…

On December 21, 2025, Ebenezer Scrooge is finally possessed by a disembodied spirit wearing a headset from Quest 2 onwards.Then, the first fully fleshed-out story of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in consumer VR will be played on a loop around the holidays each year, playing a performance captured spatially through an agile lens.Architect and producer Alex Coulomb wrote in a direct message: “One of the things we were finally able to accomplish on this vacation was a way to perfectly document everything that happens during a live show.” “Mo-cap, show cues, audio, and even audience action. And it’s completely…

Stealth shooter Espire: MR Missions is getting a standalone release in early access, free for existing Espire 2 owners.Espire: MR Missions, released last month, expands on the mixed reality mode previously seen in Espire 2: Stealth Operatives. It comes with 29 different missions that dynamically adapt to your home, eliminating guards and avoiding traps between 21 small single-room missions and 8 large multi-room missions. It is currently being released for the broader Quest platform. Developer Digital Lode detailed their rationale for releasing this standalone, advising that as mixed reality technology evolves, “MR mode has proven to be extremely difficult to…