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Escape your friends’ escape room plans with Meta’s new MR escape room game.

Meta announced Cryptic Cabinet on Thursday. The “open-source mixed reality showcase” serves as a reference app for developers who want to use its source code to make mixed reality games for the Quest headsets.

But it’s also a standalone game that generates furniture and other escape room puzzle elements in players’ environments. It’s available on the App Lab.


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Among Us VR is leaving the Oculus Rift Store.

Developer Innersloth announced that the game won’t receive updates or further support on the platform starting October 4th, 2023. As for why, the developer cites “the discontinuation of the Rift S headset, and many Rift players already moving to SteamVR.”

Players can get a SteamVR key for the game by submitting proof of purchase, using this form, by October 20th, 2023.


All the news from Meta Connect 2023

Meta Connect, the company’s annual conference, is back for 2023. It’s bringing a lot more details about the Meta Quest 3, the successor to Quest 2.

Guess what I found in the Oculus VR lobby a decade ago?

The other day, Vjeran discovered we still have the original Oculus Rift dev kit I brought back from Oculus HQ ten years ago. It made me nostalgic, so I decided to spruce up my story about touring their early offices to fix a little linkrot.

Then, an old photo suddenly caught my eye.

No idea how long this was on display, but it had a seat of honor at the front desk. Oculus sold to Facebook one year later.


“Warning: Facebook may cause loss of time, poor work ethic, obesity, social disorders, and possible interference of destiny.”

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My bad VR trip

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Facebook’s new name is Meta

The company announced the rebranding during Facebook Connect