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VR Download: New Quest Leak Discussion Live In VR With Hand Tracking!

This week’s VR Download marked a major milestone for our virtual reality-based podcast, networked across 3 continents.

As usual our roughly hour-long meet up in VR covered the week’s news and what we’ve been doing. Harry Baker in Australia reviewed In Death and rated its impressive bow mechanics and deep world a 4/5. Meanwhile, I grappled with month five of self isolation in the United States with my kids by taking turns stealing acorns from a tree in Resolution Games’ fun party game Acron.

And oh what a week it was for VR news.

Discussing The New Quest Leak With Expressive Networked Hand Tracking

For the first time this week we were able to do the broadcast from our virtual studio live from three standalone Oculus Quests spread around the world with our actual hand movements tracked and networked for more natural and expressive communication.

In case you’re unfamiliar, we settled on Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific as a solid time to broadcast our VR Download live to YouTube. Our team is spread across the world and some of us haven’t even met one another. So we’re faced with varying Internet connections, seasons, weather and even time of day, and we sometimes use microphones and tracking systems with different qualities and capabilities. Even our studio built in-house by David Heaney using Unity and Oculus Avatars runs on ever-changing software systems. Altogether, this means our broadcasts are not without their occasional hiccups, but we’re proud of the progress we’re making to improve production quality while chronicling the rapidly evolving VR landscape.

We’re immensely thankful to our regular viewers who have been tuning in week after week and joining us on this journey. Now that we’ve unlocked hand tracking with Quest support there’s a lot more possibilities for us to think about in terms of guests we can have on and ways we can present information to our viewers.

This week we covered:

Check out the latest episode above and you can listen to the VR Download also on Apple, Google, Spotify, TuneIn/Alexa, Stitcher, and more usually within a couple of hours of airing. If you haven’t yet subscribed to the UploadVR YouTube channel and turned on notifications yet, we recommend it. We’ve started focusing on fewer and higher quality videos on our channel and we’d love to see you tune in live during our streams and VR Download to talk with us and our supportive community about the amazing virtual worlds we visit and the incredible technologies making them possible.

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Rockstar AAA, Valve Vader, HP Reverb G2, Half-Life 3 Not VR?

The VR Download is UploadVR’s weekly show about all things VR and AR, broadcast from our virtual studios in the metaverse!

The News Discussion this week:

At the end of each show, we discuss a Hot Topic. This week’s: Will PlayStation VR2 take PC-VR’s limelight?

As always, episodes are available for listening on Apple, Google, Spotify, TuneIn/Alexa, Stitcher, and more within a couple of hours of airing.

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Five Nights At Freddy’s VR Trailer Gives A Look At Captured Quest Gameplay

Steel Wool Studios released a new trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted this week that gives over a minute of Oculus Quest footage.

Even though the game has been out for quite some time on SteamVR and on PSVR, the upcoming Oculus Quest version feels like an opportunity for new life. Just as with many games over the last year, releasing again on Quest is a great opportunity for Five Nights at Freddy’s VR to have a lot of success.

Not only is the standalone Quest a great device in and of itself, but it’s also naturally more shareable and easy to show off as quick demos to people and Five Nights at Freddy’s VR is the perfect game for that. Millions of people are familiar with the franchise from the PC games to the mobile games, so it won’t require a lot of introduction.

This trailer gives us a great glimpse into what the Quest port will look like. Not all Quest ports are created equally, as evidenced by Robo Recall and Red Matter — two ports on completely different ends of the “how close is this to the original” spectrum. But based on this quick look, Five Nights at Freddy’s VR looks like a pretty solid job.

We’ll have our full review, video footage, and livestreams for you to consume with your eyeballs next week. Until then, let us know down in the comments if you plan on playing Five Nights at Freddy’s VR. Why or why not?

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