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Starting next week you can play Walkabout Mini Golf without controllers. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/walkabout-...

Ordered two pair the same day this article published and they just shipped.

I wore Snap SPECS AR glasses on a walk through Central Park in New York. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/snap-specs...

Engage appears to be going offline at the end of the month. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/engage-liq...

You can now support me easily with Stripe right here on Bluesky from the profile page here or @goodvirtualreality.com.

Supernatural is reborn in early access as an independent fitness company again. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/supernatur...

Listen now to The Verge's Sean Hollister discussing the prospect of Meta selling every set of VR Glasses it makes and what that means in a broader context. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/braving-th...

Sean Hollister from The Verge recently came on the Good VR Podcast to discuss Meta VR Glasses, Steam Frame, and the state of the industry. Listen now as a paid supporter on Substack and find it publicly on all podcast platforms Wednesday. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/braving-th...

Sean Hollister from The Verge recently came on the Good VR Podcast to discuss Meta VR Glasses, Steam Frame, and the state of the industry. Listen now as a paid supporter on Substack and find it publicly on all podcast platforms Wednesday. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/braving-th...

Spymaster 1.0 is out now! 💥😎💥 We pushed hard to complete the game with incredible new missions, story mode and lots of tweaks here and there. Was a tough one to get through (games were you can manipulate time ...🤪), but really proud how it ended up.

The National Videogame Museum in Dallas isn’t a huge space but you could spend a day in there playing through 50+ years of gaming history. There’s an arcade before the gift shop and playable Virtual Boy in the VR section with Rift DK1 on display.

Pull up a chair and stay a while. 🍂 Soft light, a home-cooked meal, and everyone around the table. 🕯️🍂 Sometimes the cosiest places are the simplest ones. Out now in Puzzling Places! #PuzzlingPlaces #VRGaming #MetaQuest

Coverage of live theatre and our sense of “play” in VR continues with this thoughtful conversation talking to Brendan A Bradley about the recent win of an Emmy award for a performance in VRChat. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/emmy-award...

Walkabout Mini Golf just became VR’s best hand tracking game ready for Android XR and Meta VR Glasses. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/walkabout-...

This is the fundamental takeaway I see killing transparent optics & it’s great to see The Verge express it. A year from now I’m unsure the Snap Specs still ship because of this. The reason you put a computer on your face — the content — is worse in transparent optics even if the “world” is better.

Sold out!

One of the reasons I pour a tremendous amount of time into covering Walkabout, doing a design tour each release, is because I see them as barometer of the overall VR market. If their creative engine can’t run then VR as a games platform is truly in trouble.

More layoffs at Walkabout Mini Golf studio Mighty Coconut. There was a round in January too.

Prescription lenses are now available to purchase for Steam Frame from Zenni Optical. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/steam-fram...

Finish VR’s biggest week in years with a listen to @nchan.bsky.social @scottstein.bsky.social & @ibrews.bsky.social talking Meta VR Glasses. open.substack.com/pub/goodvr/p...

Meta VR Glasses change the conversation around virtual reality. Tested's Norman Chan, CNET's Scott Stein, and Agile Lens' Alex Coulombe each tried out the new device this week and discussed details from their hands-on time. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/meta-vr-gl...

Huh, joining FaceTime from Steam Frame worked pretty well. Shared my view from inside Frame using the built-in browser.

Good Virtual Reality isn't physically at Meta Connect but there's more to come virtually. Here's my initial breakdown of what's brewing in VR glasses between Apple & Meta. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/meta-vr-gl...

Hold onto your hot dogs, H3VR2 is coming November 12 to Quest 3 and 3S. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/h3vr2-rele...

Now posting Good Virtual Reality mainly to Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Substack. Recent podcast interviews introduce VR as both a medium and personal computing platform, from seniors socializing in standalone to recording podcasts in Chrome downloaded directly to a linux headset.

Thrive Pavilion offers a full schedule of activities for seniors to connect in virtual reality. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/thrive-pav...

One of the best episodes of the Good VR Podcast yet talks with Norman Chan of Tested about the path from Oculus Rift DK1 to Steam Frame. Even better, we recorded this conversation in a pair of linux desktops in fully immersive standalone Steam Frames.

Just recorded a podcast with an organizer behind a senior center group in VRChat. From posting on Bulletin Board Systems in the 1980s to world hopping in VRChat in the 2020s is quite the journey through the ages of the Internet.

The prospect of a worsening chicken-and-egg problem in PC VR is a scary thought for VR developers but it’s one worth considering with ongoing component issues. open.substack.com/pub/goodvr/p...

420 achieved with Steam Frame exclusive content.

Phew. I think Resonite might get some Steam Frame support after all x3 To be clear though, I still think it's kinda ridiculous that devs have to go through the whole lottery process in the first place. As much as I like Valve as a company, as a VR dev I often feel we're left to dry.

A lot of people who want to buy Valve's Steam Frame are on the waitlist now. As the component shortage drags on, it's not a good sign for the Steam VR ecosystem. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/steam-fram...

SPECS go on the nose to put a snap in chat. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/snap-chat

Here's an excellent behind-the-scenes talk with Norm and Ian about their respective experiences reviewing Steam Frame. Great to hear their voices and insights, incl. a few gems in there. It's like a well-worn comfort blanket for me. 😅

Tested’s Norman Chan joined the Good VR Podcast to talk about 14 years believing in headsets from Oculus Rift DK1 to Steam Frame. The first podcast recorded Frame to Frame. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/norman-cha...

Steam Frame is launching today, and with it comes a new way to play the Steam version of Cubism! On standalone Frame, you can now play in your own room using passthrough! Try it yourself here👉 tinyurl.com/5a6a4ccs

I’m likely to start recording my podcasts in Steam Frame going forward given how successful this first test was. I am TIRED. Just gotta drop that Stripe link one more time. Support independent journalism. buy.stripe.com/7sY8wPeTAcnG...

A big day for Good Virtual Reality with something exclusive, something for everyone, and something publishing first for my paid supporters — a podcast made in Steam Frame. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/tipatat-ch...

The passthrough color spatial camera from Arcturus is a must-have accessory for Steam Frame. Exclusive coverage here. youtu.be/6X-e8FLZxcQ

Steam Frame starts at $1059 but you'll want the 1 terabyte version at $1299. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/steam-fram...

Moss development studio Polyarc closed. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/moss-devel...

Alex Coulombe's Agile Lens works at the intersection of architecture and theatre with some very thoughtful ideas shared on the Good VR Podcast about the future of VR productions. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/agile-lens...

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