In addition to some rumors that allowed us to take a look at the first realistic render of the Cambria viewer, in the past few hours the Meta projects for simulated realities have also materialized in various announcements regarding the Meta Quest platform.
In the past few hours, Meta Platform Inc, once known simply as Facebook, has communicated several news arriving on its VR viewers, while the rumors about its first viewer for mixed reality have also begun to circulate with greater insistence.
In the late afternoon of Wednesday 19 April, the Meta Gaming Showcase 2022 event was held online which, in just under an hour, allowed you to appreciate the news related to virtual reality gaming that, between ports and original titles, will arrive on Menlo Park’s VR headsets, with Zuckerberg motivating the company’s commitment to VR gaming with the fact that it will be through this form of entertainment that many users will approach the Metaverse for the first time and, consequently, the company will is activated to better support developers to bring “increasingly exciting gaming experiences” to this platform.
Building on the success achieved two years ago with The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, the survivor horror-style saga set by Robert Kirkman in New Orleans, its sequel, Chapter 2, arrives (later this year, thanks to Skydance Interactive). : Retribution, which will allow its development to continue, making decisions, between fewer resources and more enemies, to face the new threat that looms over the city.
NFL Pro Era, the first officially licensed game of the American football championship, arrives on the Meta Quest platform (thanks to StatusPRO). By leveraging the data of the relevant League, users will be able to create and lead their team towards the final victory at the Super Bowl, also facing friends in the stadium that they most love, increasing the skills of the players after training.
The developer Digital Lode and the distributor Tripwire Interactive, on the other hand, bring the sequel to the already acclaimed spy-game Espire 1: VR Operative to Meta Quest 2. With Espire 2 the player will be able to try his hand in co-op in a specific campaign, or face another one alone, with the first person shooter which, in this case, will require the player to engage in thwarting a new nuclear threat, represented from the launch of an impossible-to-track supersonic missile.
From Vertical Robot arrives, on Quest 2, in order to take advantage of all its graphic capabilities, the new chapter of the Red Matter saga, with the second episode that picks up where the first one ended: the player will always find himself having to solve puzzles, will have new gadgets available, including a jetpack that will give him more mobility, and he will have to travel the Solar System to stop the spread of Red Matter.
Now the exclusive for the PlayStation VR, towards the summer 2022 the videogame Moss: Book II, by Polyarc, will also arrive on Quest 2, in which the mouse Quill, continuing the events of the first episode, will have to definitively save the Earth, defeating a winged tyrant who is hunting her, in the same castle where her uncle Argus was held prisoner, then freed. RuinsMagus – by CharacterBank Inc – is a fantasy-based narrative video game set in the ruins of an underground kingdom, in which the player must collect precious artifacts in order to increase their skills, over the course of twenty missions, and become a Magus. It will arrive on Quest 2 later this year.
The famous musical game Beat Saber will earn, in the Electronic Mixtape, a new pack of songs with the likes of Darude, Pendulum, Marshmello, Deadmau5, Zedd. By the end of the year, the new title of Stress Level Zero, Bonelab, will also arrive on PC VR and Quest 2, which, taking advantage of the capabilities of VR, and with full support for mods, will see the player in the role of a fugitive, who escaped an execution. , who will have to run, fight, climb, and unravel the mysteries of an underground laboratory, in environments where everything will react to the user.
Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 VR game, thanks to Armature Studio and Oculus Studios, has earned the free update represented by the “The Mercenaries” mode which, rebuilt in VR, will allow, in addition to consulting exclusive online rankings, to compete in about twenty of new challenges with which to earn bonuses that can also be used in the main campaign, such as the Golden Guns, weapon skins, and the Classic Horror Mode (to play in black and white) and Big Head.
Innersloth has confirmed the arrival, by the end of the year, of the transposition of Among Us, Among Us VR, thanks to the Schell Games team, which will also collaborate with Meta for 3 other titles. Cities: VR, arriving on April 28th, is the port of Cities: Skylines, a city builder by Fast Travel Games that will require the user to create and manage their ideal city, but in virtual reality. It will take a long time, being expected by the end of the year, before we can play Ghostbusters VR, a title edited by nDrems which, set in the franchise of the well-known saga of the Ghostbusters, will be a cooperative game in which you will play with three other people to capture new ghosts. thanks to the proton backpacks.
The occasion of the Gaming Showcase 2022 event proved propitious to announce the arrival, made available in the main menu of Quest 2 through the Personalization section, of Crystal Atrium, a new environment for the virtual space which is accessed with the viewer, characterized by a balcony with various pools filled with mystical purple crystals.
The second news at Menlo Park altitude also concerns simulated realities. Specifically, by putting together the confidences of some users who have been able to use it, and of the supply chain, the first render of the future challenger of Microsoft Hololens, or rather of Meta’s viewer for mixed reality, the Cambria project was created ( o Seacliff), lighter and slimmer than the usual Oculus viewers, with one camera per side, multi-lens lenses, two 2.48-inch miniLEDs for a resolution of 2,160 x 2,160 pixels, and an elaborate tracking system (head, eyes, and maybe even moods and emotions).