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Reporting on XR for a decade+, co-founder of leading independent VR news pub @RtoVR. Journalist & analyst, not evangelist. https://t.co/stN1EmXG2Y

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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
5 months
In addition to running @RtoVR, I also host the Inside XR Design video series with deep dives exploring key concepts that make great immersive content. See all the episodes here: or read on for a summary of each to see if there's one you want to dive into.
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Pumped for laser pointer gameplay that’s better done with a mouse 🙃
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Matt - BMFVR
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Ok this is pretty big! Civilization VII coming to Quest 3 this spring!
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RT @SVVRLIVE: Looking to make progress on your XR project? Join us this afternoon for our free monthly Workjam and get motivated with like-…
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RT @RtoVR: Ex-Oculus CTO: ‘Beat Saber was much more important to VR’s growth than Half-Life: Alyx’ See more 👉http…
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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RT @XRarchitect: 15 minutes with o3-mini this morning Created Brick Breaker in WebAR Try it here: Tetris coming…
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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RT @pvncher: So glad to finally see a video of this! There's a ton of passed work in my years at Unity finally seeing the light of day!…
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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Meta wanting Horizon Worlds to break out on mobile, and to have it be a core destination for their headsets, are competing objectives. That’s been painfully clear given what’s happened to the mobile app.
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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@Heaney555 @ID_AA_Carmack @boztank Yes but as Carmack pointed out it becomes confusing when the company promotes MR content as being distinct from VR, and encourages developers to focus on MR, and then says “oh actually MR is also VR.”
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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Friendly reminder to check if your >60Hz monitor got reset to 60Hz. Just had a friend realize he’d been gaming for a year on 60Hz instead of 144Hz.
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Pirat_Nation 🔴
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Friendly reminder to turn this off if you haven't or recently reinstall OS and forgot.
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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@ID_AA_Carmack @boztank This is why I like XR as an umbrella term 👌
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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It's a weird situation where a truly impressive headset that's clearly influencing the broader XR market is just too expensive to recommend to most people. I'm really looking forward to what happens when Apple can bring this experience to people at a much lower price point.
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Road to VR
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Is Vision Pro Worth Buying in 2025? Our no-nonsense recommendation 👉
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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Nice to see Vendetta Forever with a user review score of 4.9 out of 5 over more than 100 reviews 🔥 @MeatspaceVR
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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I don’t know if VR Twitter is just quiet right now, or left Twitter for other platforms, but engagement on my posts seems way lower than usual over the last few months. Maybe they changed the algorithm 🤷‍♂️
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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@PlayGamesMovies @Heaney555 Yeah unfortunately they don’t share that data.
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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RT @SirWrender: Listen to these satisfying magnets 🧲🎧🤤
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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Is the default audio latency value of 96ms for Beat Saber on Quest 3 the same on every Quest headset? Should this value change for the 120Hz mode? @Split82 @ID_AA_Carmack
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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Dat art style 👀
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Vivarium Dev
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Here's a quick run through of the house! We've been building out the entire world with inter-connectivity, short cuts, and loops. Almost like a miniature Souls world, or a Zelda dungeon. I think it makes Vivarium very satisfying to navigate this way.
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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RT @_LucasRizzotto: I decided to create a Netflix-quality TV show in my bedroom for TikTok. And after 25 million views & 250k new follower…
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Ben Lang ᯅ (bsky @ben.roadtovr.com)
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@SamCSCole Good question. I definitely recall racing games being the defacto graphical benchmark for new systems, but in the last 10-15 years it hasn’t quite felt that way. I feel like cinematic action-adventure (Horizon Zero Dawn or Last of Us type games) have taken that spotlight.
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