Meta’s new VR headset forgot about the games
The company that brought virtual reality to the mainstream barely mentioned gaming when it showed off its new flagship headset. Credit: Meta I have a medium-intensity interest in virtual reality gaming. I’m excited to try Valve’s new Steam Frame, and an older VR headset design helped me lose a ton of weight.
- ▪The company that brought virtual reality to the mainstream barely mentioned gaming when it showed off its new flagship headset.
- ▪Credit: Meta I have a medium-intensity interest in virtual reality gaming.
- ▪I’m excited to try Valve’s new Steam Frame, and an older VR headset design helped me lose a ton of weight.
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| Original publisher | PCWorld |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pcworld.com/article/3245627/metas-new-vr-headset-forgot-about-the-games.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T12:05:37.009Z |
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The company that brought virtual reality to the mainstream barely mentioned gaming when it showed off its new flagship headset. That's bad news for anyone who likes VR. Credit: Meta I have a medium-intensity interest in virtual reality gaming. I’m excited to try Valve’s new Steam Frame, and an older VR headset design helped me lose a ton of weight. VR, more than any other technology, has the potential to change how video games are experienced. So it’s a little concerning to me that Meta, the multi-trillion-dollar company that rebranded itself around a virtual reality future…doesn’t seem to care about VR gaming. There’s a lot of information to unpack here, a big complicated mess of stuff to use a highly technical term.
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