{"id":859627,"date":"2026-09-25T01:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859627\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:32:13","slug":"meta-launches-1m-developer-competition-to-stock-vr-glasses-with-more-hand-tracked-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859627\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Launches $1M Developer Competition to Stock ‘VR Glasses’ with More Hand-tracked Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Meta\u2019s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated to award a prize pool of $1 million to spark the community to get cracking on Meta VR Glasses-compatible content.<\/p>\n

Meta is hoping to appeal to developers of both new and existing projects across entertainment, gaming, and productivity.<\/p>\n

Notably, if developers are submitting games, they\u2019ll be considering submissions in genres that work well for seated play, without controllers, such as puzzle, strategy, casual, social, and narrative experiences.<\/p>\n

\"\"Courtesy Meta<\/p>\n

Games must be \u201cfully usable with hands, end-to-end,\u201d Meta says, noting that Touch controller support is welcome, but not required.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a small team without a marketing budget, that visibility drives traffic to your Store listing and gives you something concrete to point to when you pitch a new project or recruit collaborators,\u201d Meta says.<\/p>\n

This comes ahead of the company\u2019s Meta VR Glasses announced at Connect <\/a>this week, which does support Quest\u2019s Touch Plus controllers, but doesn\u2019t ship with them, instead putting its onboard hand and eye-tracking as its preferred control scheme.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo captured by Road to VR<\/p>\n

Those are set to arrive sometime in Spring 2027, priced at $1,300. Check out our hands-on with Meta VR Glasses to learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The competition takes place from today until November 18th, 2026, and is offering up prizes ranging in value from $20,000 to $100,000 for successful submissions. Winners will be announced on or around December 11th, 2026.<\/p>\n

Since Meta VR Glasses run the same operating system as Quest, developers can prototype on Quest 3 in addition to using platform simulators like Meta XR Simulator (Unity<\/a> | Unreal<\/a>), Meta Spatial Simulator<\/a>, and Immersive Web Emulator\u2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interested developers can join the Start program<\/a> now to enter for competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Meta\u2019s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[74,179,509,180],"class_list":["post-859627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}