VR news of the week: TikTok in VR, controller issues, and new smart glasses

VR information of the week(Image credit score: Android Central)As a part of a weekly collection, Android Central Senior Editors Michael Hicks and Nick Sutrich are rounding up the entire information on {hardware}, recreation bulletins, leaks, and funky updates associated to the Meta Quest 3, Oculus Quest 2, and different VR headsets. Welcome one, welcome all to the weekly VR information recap for the week ending November 3, 2023. This previous week has been jam-packed with all types of reports from the VR, AR, and total XR area together with large bulletins from Qualcomm and Samsung.Plus, we’re having a look at extra Meta roadmap leaks for upcoming Ray-Ban Meta sensible glasses releases and even asking what is going on on with Meta Quest 3 controller monitoring.And let’s not neglect concerning the bevy of video games launched this previous week, in addition to one other handful of widespread Quest video games getting graphical upgrades for Quest 3 customers.Controller monitoring woes(Image credit score: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)Almost all of this week’s information is enjoyable and constructive, so why not get the destructive out of the way in which first? As extra individuals are getting their palms on the Meta Quest 3, we have been listening to of elevated reviews of controller monitoring points.Long story quick, just a few retailers have reported that Quest 3 controllers aren’t tracked as precisely as Quest 2 controllers. That could seem unusual provided that Meta is using each LED monitoring plus AI monitoring fashions which had been designed to make sure accuracy and velocity.Gamers who play fast-paced VR video games like Beat Saber, Eleven Table Tennis, Synth Riders, and others say that their controllers often glitch for a quick second throughout quick actions. As you may count on, that is inflicting plenty of frustration and inflicting gamers to overlook observe blocks or hits in video games.Meta says it is at present wanting into the issue, though the corporate has but to answer emails we have despatched inquiring concerning the potential points.For what it is price, my very own Quest 3 controllers acquired an replace immediately however I could not discover any revealed changelog to see what was included within the replace. Meta has traditionally been good about updating its headsets often so we count on this to get fastened quickly.TikTookay involves Pico(Image credit score: Pico)Looking to do some late-night TikToking? You’ve bought a brand new technique to do it should you’ve bought a Pico 4, as dad or mum firm ByteDance lastly added a technique to scroll the world’s hottest social media platform from the consolation of your VR headset.As UploadVR reviews, the TikTookay app is now formally out there on the Pico retailer however is little greater than the Android app floating in digital area. At least the headset’s crystal-clear show and pancake lenses imply that scrolling by way of your feed will look nice.Plus, this additionally signifies that posting content material to the social community is simpler than ever earlier than, so you’ll be able to seize one thing tremendous wonderful in VR and submit it immediately.Meta Quest customers may at all times sideload the app to their headset for a near-identical expertise however they’d be lacking the built-in TikTookay sharing performance.Quest 3 video games galore(Image credit score: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)The Meta Quest 3 has seen an unimaginable launch, and that features tons of recent video games which have launched because the headset got here out just a few weeks in the past. The finest October Meta Quest video games had been appropriately Halloween-themed, although, together with large releases from Ghostbusters and an excellent reboot of the 90s puzzle journey title, The seventh Guest.In addition to that, we have seen a lot of Quest video games get graphics updates to utilize the brand new headset’s improved processing energy. The seventh Guest bought an unimaginable replace proper after launch that included even higher volumetric FMV sequences — it is really onerous to imagine they’re higher than what we noticed at launch — and widespread Rainbow Six-like recreation Breachers simply bought its large Quest 3 graphics replace, as properly.In addition, Floor Plan 2, RUNNER, Hubris, and several other different video games additionally noticed large graphics updates for Quest 3 {hardware}. We’ve additionally gotten phrase from the builders of Genotype and PowerWash Simulator VR {that a} Quest 3 replace is being labored on and issues are coming alongside fairly properly.The way forward for sensible glasses(Image credit score: Michael Hicks / Android Central)We could have simply seen the discharge of the second-generation sensible glasses from Meta and Ray-Ban, however rumors of the third era are already making the rounds. Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses 2 seems to be to be a good larger bounce than we noticed with this yr’s launch, including in a brand new show that sounds an terrible lot like Google Glass.This “Viewfinder,” as rumors name it, is alleged for use for “viewing incoming text messages, scanning QR codes, and translating text from another language in real-time.”Meta seems to be to be trying to launch its very first pair of AR glasses known as “Project Artemis” someday in 2027 that are stated to be using Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) shows. These are the identical kind of show utilized in Google Glass and each Magic Leap glasses so it is not an costly, rising show kind.To offset the load and dimension of a VR headset, Meta is alleged to be inserting each the battery and chipset in a hip or wrist-mounted puck of some type. Meta is alleged to be together with 5G connectivity and a touchpad on this puck, making it potential to make use of it as a means to make use of the glasses like a smartphone.Meta’s Project Artemis goals to be the corporate’s first-released AR glasses product in 2027.Beyond that, Meta is trying to launch an much more full-featured pair of AR glasses known as Project Orion. Orion is alleged to be a limited-quantity merchandise and can probably value upwards of $2,000.These would characteristic MicroLED shows baked into the lenses, much like how a number of the finest sensible glasses do proper now. INMO Air 2 involves thoughts once I consider this design.You’d management these glasses with a wrist-mounted controller that appears quite a bit like a wise watch, utilizing faucets and different gestures to navigate by way of content material on these glasses, possible much like how Apple Vision Pro gestures work. Meta has been engaged on a majority of these gesture watches for some time now, so it is smart to see them starting to combine the tech into upcoming merchandise.