VR.
Notes on the VR landscape from the studio's point of view — Meta Quest 2 as the standalone-VR moment, Meta Quest 3 with mixed reality, Valve Index as the PC-VR high-water mark, Apple Vision Pro and what consumer VR actually delivers in 2024–2025. Remiam doesn't ship VR client work today but watches the platform closely.
- 10 Oct 2023→
Meta Quest 3: mixed reality lands properly.
Full-colour passthrough. A real Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2. Pancake lenses. The Quest 3 doesn't replace the Quest 2 — it opens a new category. And it sets up an interesting collision with Apple in February.
- 19 Oct 2020→
Meta Quest 2: standalone VR is finally good enough.
$299. No PC. No wires. 4K-class display. Hand tracking out of the box. The Quest 2 is the first VR headset we'd actually recommend to a non-enthusiast — and it changes what we'll build.
- 12 Jul 2019→
Valve Index: PC VR's high water mark.
Valve just shipped the most ambitious consumer VR headset yet. 144Hz displays, finger-tracking controllers, $1000 for the headset alone. Glorious for enthusiasts. Not for everyone else.
- 4 Apr 2018→
Where VR actually is, in 2018.
Two years after the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive launched, the 'year of VR' keeps being next year. Here is the state of consumer VR for studios actually shipping projects.