Author: James
Supernatural continues to rank at or near number one on the Meta Quest charts following Meta’s decision to pause content updates and lay off much of the team responsible for one of VR’s most effective fitness apps.Many in the VR fitness community are considering that option. Supernatural has always been positioned as a premium experience. At the time of this writing, access is by subscription only, with users paying $9.99 per month or $99 per year. This recurring revenue, coupled with strong engagement and brand awareness, made Supernatural feel like a rare success story in consumer VR fitness.Mehta said the…
The latest Game of Thrones spin-off follows the lovable loser as he introduces us to a different side of Westeros. Photo: B) Stephen Hill 2024 When we first meet the tall Lord Duncan (Peter Claffey) at the beginning of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, he is busy burying his childhood squire, Sir Erlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb). “Dunk” claims to be a knight and has been knighted by Sir Arlan. True, there were no witnesses. Indeed, few in Westeros remember Ser Arlan, including his former employers. Dunk himself also comes across as an incredibly naive person, trapped in a…
The heartwarming return of Tricky Wu, the true star of the series. Photo: PBS Someone told me last week that Tricky Woo is fine after this four year time jump, so I’m excited to report that Tricky Woo is alive and well and relatively well. And it’s his birthday. Tricky Woo, if we could send Barbra Streisand dog cloning technology back in time, Mrs. Pumphrey would definitely use it, and even though your soul leaves us, your exact DNA will remain. Tricki Woo: The true star of the All Creatures series. This week we have a high-stakes affair with an…
Finn Wolfhard traded the Upside Down for 30 Rock to echo the post-Bowen Yang era. Photo: Esther Kuhn/NBC Please zoom in on Finn Wolfhard’s chin hair. It’s barely there, but it’s there. The Stranger Things actor is ready to reintroduce himself as an adult now that the show is over. “I have to say, I think it’s amazing that 400 million people got to watch my adolescence,” he says in his monologue. So it makes sense that his first stint hosting Saturday Night Live was a way to establish himself beyond being Mike Wheeler. And when it comes to first-time…
In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg acquired Oculus VR for billions of dollars on the premise that virtual reality would become the foundation of personal computing.In 2026, virtual reality is really starting to take root on these foundations with OpenXR and Flatpaks. Operating systems based on VR headsets with eye tracking as a key feature are currently receiving updates from Google, Valve, and Apple.New walled gardens are rapidly being built while old walled gardens are falling down. Valve is coming for gaming, Google is relying on Android APKs, and Apple is building new kinds of live sports and TV experiences, all using…
The RDR Live script is so bad that it’s impossible to tell how the queens will actually perform in the challenge. It’s cruel to watch. Photo: MTV There was a time when I too defended RDR Live as a concept. “As a general rule, I’m against comedy challenges where girls don’t write their own material, but RDR Live was a lot of fun,” I wrote in 2023, when the challenge first appeared. At the time, I had no idea what level of unpleasantness this show would reach. Typically, the show has a pretty rough script, and one of the challenges…
Legendary Tales is a dark fantasy RPG with physics-based combat that was just released on Quest.Nearly two years after its initial release on PC VR and PlayStation VR2, Legendary Tales is now available on MetaQuest 3 and 3S. We found it to have “satisfying” physics-based combat throughout extensive dungeon exploration, promising over 15 hours of content. Fully playable in solo or online co-op mode, you can experience a quest-driven story from start to finish with friends. Although no specific porting features were mentioned, developer Urban Wolf Games said the Quest version includes “cutting-edge system updates not yet released for PCVR…
Fun Train said it will not renew its publishing license for Tarzan VR from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and will delist the game from all platforms.The Tarzan game was panned and titled “Lord of the Fumble” and earned a rare “Averted” rating in our review. The publisher is lowering the game’s price to $4.99 for as long as it can until it’s gone, and claims that if you buy it, it will “remain in your library and be fully playable” even after it’s no longer sold new. Fun Train “will no longer support the game after January 31, 2026.”Fun Train…
Meta will end its Quest for business program in 2030, end sales of commercial SKUs next month, and reduce existing subscriptions to $0 per month.The program, which has been called “Meta Horizon Managed Services” since last year, was the latest in the company’s official offering for enterprise headset deployments, which includes commercial licenses and warranties, priority support, and mass-scale device management (MDM).It started out as Oculus for Business, a $900 SKU of the original Oculus Rift that launched in 2017. The Oculus Go and Oculus Quest Enterprise SKUs were also available in the program until they were replaced by Meta…
Meta is discontinuing its Horizon Workrooms VR conferencing software on February 16th.For those who don’t know, Workrooms is Meta’s collaborative productivity app for Quest headsets, first released in 2021. Workrooms lets you view your PC monitor in VR and share your screen with your teammates as a meta avatar in a virtual meeting room. People who don’t own a Quest can still participate via webcam via the web interface.The app also has Solo Personal Office, which gives you a free extra monitor, effectively turning your laptop into a triple monitor setup.Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms to power remote workFacebook is trying…