Ben Lang

With Amber Moak from Resolution Games, Dwayne Waite Jr from Schell Games, Christopher Bennison from DualNorth, and Ben Lang from Road to VR; Moderated by Jim Squires Marketing XR games is a special… PANEL: You've Made a Great Game, Let's Tell the World About it: XR Games Marketing

If you're interested in insights on marketing VR games, my panel discussion from AWE is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/FIB3iom-_cI

There's only so much you can say in 50 minutes, but with decades of industry experience on this panel, newer developers/studios to soak up some hard-won knowledge.

In addition to ‘Dancing with the Stars’ can we get a ‘Fighting with the Stars’ where celebrities work with fight choreographers to do some sick live-action combat scenes?

With a live action Zelda movie on the horizon, any fan of the music needs to listen to this incredible reorchestration of the Ocarina of Time soundtrack, expertly arranged and played by a full orchestra. It captures how epic the game felt to me as a kid: open.spotify.com/playlist/6G6...

If you need a giant sign in the bathroom that says “dry,” something definitely went wrong in the design process.

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Meta Researchers Reveal Compact Ultra-wide Field-of-View VR & MR Headsets Ahead of an upcoming technical conference, researchers from Meat’s Reality Labs Research group published details on their work toward creating ultra-wide field-of-view VR & MR headsets that use novel…

👓👀 www.roadtovr.com/meta-researc...

New cinematic trailer for Asgard's Wrath II... interesting that they're doing fresh marketing for this. youtu.be/Apv8sAOInBM

How it started ➡️ How it's going

(if you use Google Calendar, reply and RT and I'll get you into the forthcoming alpha)

Meta has released its spatial audio plugin for the popular audio tool Wwise: developers.meta.com/horizon/blog...

What's the best 'cooking management' game in VR?

Anyone have suggestions for an Apple Watch sleep tracking app? Apple's built-in sleep tracking isn't giving me enough data (I'm primarily interested in how much I'm tossing/turning at night). I've tried some third-party apps but so far they seem to give a lot of data but don't boil it down well.

Bluegrass is the EDM of acoustic music, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

I'd love to see a @Steam feature for devs to offer seamless group discounts of multiplayer games. Having friends all buy and try a game together has significant ramifications for retention, so incentivizing a group buying is in everyone's interest.

Total speculation, but I have a feeling the reason why Boz recently said they rolled out recent Quest updates with know issues because (for undisclosed reasons) they "had to," was to get some things in place before the launch of the Quest 3S Xbox Edition.

Lofi Worlds

Cool WebXR project from Andreas Sundquist. Explore a range of AI-generated gaussian splats of fantastical places. Check it out in your headset of choice! lofiworlds.ai

Has anyone ever had the sensation of being 'still stuck in VR' after removing their headset (ie: the real world feels fake for some reason)? I've heard a few anecdotes over the years, especially for people who are new to VR, but I'm interested in digging deeper into this phenomenon.

You get the idea : P

Glad to see a special edition Quest that leans toward a specific use-case without causing fragmentation. But I can't believe there still hasn't been a Beat Saber edition!

Weird idea but I'd love to see a @BeatSaber x @boburnham collab where they bring some of the most musical tracks from INSIDE to Beat Saber. Think there could be some really fun maps to be made with his comical lyrics, and some of his songs are legit jams.

Logitech announced a new VR stylus for Vision Pro last week, but the company has been working on them at least as far back as 2019 with the VR Ink Pilot Edition, which used SteamVR tracking. Did anyone buy one or know someone who did? I'm not sure if the Pilot Edition was ever actually mass produced

Half the Size & Half the Price is What Vision Pro Needs to Take Off Apple has set the bar for UX on a standalone headset. As soon as the company can get the same experience into a smaller and cheaper package, it’s going to become significantly more appealing to a…

Among Vision Pro users, I almost never see people asking for new hardware features/improvements. Most people simply want a smaller form-factor. That says a lot about the state of the software and the headset's capabilities. I'm in the same camp; wrote this recently: www.roadtovr.com/half-the-siz...