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See also: VR apps and Location-based virtual reality

A virtual reality game (also VR game) is a video game played through a virtual reality system, usually a head-mounted display that tracks the player's head so that the view of the game world changes as the player looks and moves. Since 2016, consumer headsets have added tracked hand controllers, so that reaching, grabbing, aiming and swinging in the room can be carried into the game.[1][2] This article is an overview of the medium; the wiki's directory of individual titles is at VR apps.

Arcade games were among the first commercial VR products. In 1990 W Industries showed what heise online describes as the first publicly accessible VR machine, an arcade system, in London. Sega, Nintendo and Atari all worked on home VR hardware in the following years, but only Nintendo's Virtual Boy reached stores, and it was discontinued in 1996.[3][4] According to heise online, the term virtual reality then "disappeared from living rooms for many years".[4] Interest returned with the Oculus Rift, whose Kickstarter campaign launched in August 2012.[5] When Facebook agreed to buy Oculus VR in March 2014, its announcement described gaming as the area where Oculus already had an advantage and named other uses as later targets.[6] Consumer PC and console headsets followed in 2016, and the standalone Oculus Quest in 2019.

The medium has its own design problems. Moving the player's view while the body stays still can cause VR sickness, so games offer teleportation, snap turning, vignettes and other comfort options, and Meta's store labels games by how intense their motion is.[7][8] Laboratory studies comparing the same game in a headset and on a flat screen have found a stronger sense of presence and stronger emotional responses in VR.[9][10]

Reviewed 6 October 2026. History, hardware, sales and store figures checked against the cited press, Meta, Sony, Valve and Nintendo pages, and paper details against Crossref, abstracts or full texts. About review dates.

Definition and characteristics

A VR game shows its world on the headset's display and updates the view from the tracked position and orientation of the player's head. Studies of VR games often compare them with "non-immersive" versions of the same game shown on a desktop monitor or television; Pallavicini, Pepe and Minissi used a desktop display in their 2019 study, and Lemmens, Simon and Sumter used a TV in theirs.[9][10]

The hardware decides how the player can act. The consumer Oculus Rift shipped in March 2016 with an Xbox One controller and the Oculus Remote rather than motion controllers; Lucky's Tale was included with every Rift, and pre-orders also received EVE: Valkyrie.[1][11] The HTC Vive, released the following month, came with two wireless controllers with haptic feedback and two location sensors, and buyers received Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption.[1] Oculus added its Touch controllers on 6 December 2016, releasing 54 games and experiences alongside them.[2] Steam lists "Tracked Controller Support" and "VR Only" as store features, for example on Half-Life: Alyx.[12]

Games are also designed for a particular amount of physical space. Seated and standing games keep the player in one spot, while room-scale games ask the player to walk around a cleared area. Meta's help pages recommend an unobstructed space of at least 2 by 2 metres (6.5 by 6.5 feet) for Roomscale play on Meta Quest headsets and offer a Stationary mode for playing while sitting or standing in one place.[13] Headset software shows a virtual boundary when the player nears the edge of that area; Meta describes its Boundary feature as "virtual walls that appear when you get too close to the edge of your play area", with a default Stationary area of 1 by 1 metre.[14]

History

Arcades and 1990s home systems

Commercial VR gaming began in amusement arcades. According to heise online, W Industries, the British company behind the Virtuality systems, presented the Virtuality 1000SU, an open capsule that the player stood in while wearing a large helmet called the Visette, at the Computer Graphics '90 trade fair in London in 1990; players moved through a polygonal world with a joystick, and the game was Dactyl Nightmare. Virtuality machines were then installed in theme parks, shopping centres and trade fairs in the United States, Japan and Europe.[3]

Console makers tried to bring VR into the home. In the United States, Sega developed the Sega VR headset for the Mega Drive from 1991, with head tracking, stereo headphones and two LCD screens; its planned games, including Nuclear Rush and Iron Hammer, were never released, and Sega stopped development in 1994; heise reports complaints of dizziness and nausea, especially among children. Sega did use VR in Japanese theme parks, where its VR-1 attraction used a Mega Visor Display built with Virtuality. Atari showed a Virtuality-based headset for the Atari Jaguar at CES in 1995, and Hasbro developed a home VR system that never became a product.[4]

Nintendo's Virtual Boy, developed under Gunpei Yokoi, used red LED displays and a moving mirror to show a stereoscopic image to each eye. Nintendo dropped the planned headset form and released it in 1995 as a stationary unit on a stand with an eyepiece. heise reports that only 22 games were released, that about 770,000 units were sold, and that Nintendo discontinued it in 1996.[4] On 17 February 2026 Nintendo began offering Virtual Boy games to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members; they are played by sliding the console into a dedicated accessory.[15]

In 1996 Randy Pausch of the University of Virginia and colleagues at Walt Disney Imagineering published a study of Disney's Aladdin attraction, in which guests wearing a head-mounted display (biocular rather than stereo) flew a magic carpet through a virtual world. The authors noted that most earlier VR research had concentrated on hardware and systems software. They fielded the system at EPCOT Center for fourteen months, observed over 45,000 guests, and reported that novices "care about what there is to do in the virtual world" rather than the technology itself, and that a background story and a concrete goal improved the experience.[16]

Development kits and the 2016 consumer launch

The Oculus Rift appeared on Kickstarter on 1 August 2012 with endorsements from game developers including John Carmack and Gabe Newell, and raised US$2.4 million. Oculus opened pre-orders for its development kit at US$300 in September 2012, and kits began shipping in 2013. Valve announced Rift support for Team Fortress 2 in March 2013, Half-Life 2 received official Rift support, and hobbyists modified other games such as Skyrim to work with the headset.[5] Facebook agreed to acquire Oculus VR for about US$2 billion on 25 March 2014, noting that Oculus had received more than 75,000 orders for development kits.[6]

Three tethered headsets reached consumers in 2016. The Oculus Rift began shipping on 28 March 2016 at US$599,[11] the HTC Vive shipped from early April at US$799,[1] and Sony's PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 launched in North America on 13 October 2016, with a US$399 core package that did not include the camera or Move controllers.[17] Sony said in January 2020 that it had sold an estimated 5 million PlayStation VR units by the end of 2019.[18]

Standalone headsets

The Oculus Quest began shipping on 21 May 2019 at US$399. It needed no PC, used inside-out tracking (Oculus Insight), and launched with more than 50 titles.[19] In March 2023, Road to VR reported, citing The Verge, that Meta's vice president of VR, Mark Rabkin, had told employees the company had sold nearly 20 million Quest headsets, while saying that newer buyers were less engaged than early ones.[20]

Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, a VR-only entry in the Half-Life series, on 23 March 2020.[12] It holds a Metascore of 93 on Metacritic for the PC version.[21] Sony launched the PlayStation VR2 for the PlayStation 5 on 22 February 2023 at US$549.99.[22] In September 2026 Valve opened reservations for the Steam Frame, a standalone headset that runs SteamOS on a Snapdragon chip and can also stream games from a PC over Wi-Fi 6E; the 256 GB version is priced at US$1,059 and the 1 TB version at US$1,299, and Valve scheduled the first purchase invitations for 18 September.[23]

Timeline

Selected milestones in VR gaming
Date Event
1990 W Industries shows the Virtuality 1000SU arcade machine, with Dactyl Nightmare, at Computer Graphics '90 in London[3]
1994 Sega stops development of the Sega VR headset for the Mega Drive[4]
1995 Nintendo releases the Virtual Boy; it is discontinued in 1996[4]
1 August 2012 Oculus Rift Kickstarter campaign launches[5]
25 March 2014 Facebook agrees to acquire Oculus VR[6]
28 March 2016 Consumer Oculus Rift begins shipping[11]
April 2016 HTC Vive ships with tracked controllers[1]
13 October 2016 PlayStation VR launches in North America[17]
6 December 2016 Oculus Touch controllers launch with 54 titles[2]
21 May 2019 Oculus Quest standalone headset ships[19]
23 March 2020 Half-Life: Alyx released[12]
22 February 2023 PlayStation VR2 launches[22]
14 September 2026 Valve opens Steam Frame reservations[23]

Design conventions

Locomotion and comfort

Moving through a game world that is larger than the room is a recurring design problem in VR games. Joseph LaViola described cybersickness in 2000 as distinct from ordinary motion sickness because the user "is often stationary but has a compelling sense of self motion through moving visual imagery".[24] Meta's locomotion guidance says that techniques "like blinks, snap turns, quick turns, smooth turns, position warps, and teleports help users reorient and move without discomfort", and that "these methods reduce vection".[8] A 2020 meta-analysis of 55 head-mounted display studies by Saredakis and colleagues found that gaming content produced the highest mean total Simulator Sickness Questionnaire score of the content types examined, 34.26, and that locomotion and exposure time also influenced sickness.[25]

The common techniques are:

  • Teleportation: the player points at a destination and moves there instantly. Bozgeyikli, Raij, Katkoori and Dubey studied a "Point & Teleport" technique at CHI PLAY 2016.[26]
  • Smooth (continuous) movement with a thumbstick, often paired with snap turning or smooth turning. Meta recommends offering smooth turning as an opt-in feature and keeping acceleration events "brief and infrequent".[8]
  • Field-of-view restriction (vignetting, sometimes called tunneling), which darkens the edges of the view during movement. Ajoy Fernandes and Steven Feiner of Columbia University showed at IEEE 3DUI 2016 that subtle, dynamic narrowing of the field of view reduced VR sickness in a 30-person study without lowering presence, and most participants did not notice it.[27][28]
  • Physical movement, from walking within a room-scale area to body-driven schemes. Costas Boletsis's 2017 review of studies from 2014 to 2017 found 11 techniques, including real walking, walking-in-place, point and teleport and joystick-based locomotion.[29] Gorilla Tag uses arm-based locomotion, which Road to VR notes was inspired by Lone Echo.[30]

Many games combine several of these. Half-Life: Alyx includes "Continuous" locomotion, "Shift" movement and "Blink" teleport; Valve explained in a 2020 video that it developed them from the teleportation used in its 2016 collection The Lab, and that player height and audio cues such as footstep timing shaped the design.[31] Meta suggests offering "Recommended", "Comfortable" and "Advanced" movement presets.[8] See Artificial locomotion and Locomotion for individual techniques.

Stores tell buyers what to expect. The Meta Horizon Store uses four comfort labels: Comfortable, Moderate, Intense and Unrated. Comfortable titles "generally avoid camera movement, player motion, or disorienting content and effects", while Intense titles "incorporate significant camera movement, player motion, or disorienting content and effects". Meta advises new users to start with Comfortable content.[7]

Hands and physical play

With tracked controllers, many actions that a flat game maps to buttons are performed with the body: reloading, throwing, climbing, ducking, or swinging a sword. Beat Saber is a block-slashing rhythm game.[32] When Oculus announced in February 2021 that it had sold 4 million copies across Quest, PC VR and PlayStation VR, Road to VR called it "VR's first killer app by scale" and, as far as it knew, the best-selling VR game to date.[33] Because these games ask for real movement, they have been studied as exercise (see Research below).

Social and asymmetric play

Multiplayer VR games range from online games where players see each other's tracked heads and hands as avatars to "asymmetric" games that mix headset and non-headset players. Sony's free The Playroom VR for PlayStation VR had six mini games in which up to four friends playing on the television joined the person in the headset.[34] Gorilla Tag is free-to-play on Meta Quest, with a paid version on Steam. In June 2024 Another Axiom said it had passed US$100 million in revenue, mostly from in-game cosmetics, with 10 million lifetime players, 3 million monthly and 1 million daily active users.[30][35] See Social VR and List of Asymmetrical Party VR Games.

Mixed reality games

Headsets with passthrough cameras also run games that place virtual objects in the player's real room, which overlaps with mixed reality and augmented reality. First Encounters, a mixed reality game that ships pre-installed on Meta Quest 3, applies a passthrough shader to a scanned mesh of the room so that players see their own walls until creatures break holes through them.[36]

Platforms and business

VR games are sold mainly through platform stores. A 2024 study of the medium drew 7,413 games from three of them: the Oculus store (Meta's store, now called the Meta Horizon Store), Steam and Viveport.[37] Sony sells PlayStation VR and VR2 games through its own store, and many games are released on several platforms; Beat Saber, for example, sold across Quest, PC VR and PlayStation VR.[33] VR apps lists platform editions for selected titles. Large platform holders have also bought game studios: Facebook acquired Beat Saber developer Beat Games in November 2019 and made it part of Oculus Studios as an independently operated studio in Prague.[38]

Meta publishes the most detailed figures about its store. In March 2025 its director of games, Chris Pruett, said that more than US$2 billion had been spent on Meta Quest titles to date and that total payments rose about 12% in 2024. He said most new devices in 2024 went to people buying their first Quest, a growing share of them aged 13 to 24, and that these newer players "really like online multiplayer games, including free-to-play".[39] A year later Meta said the Horizon Store's gross revenue for 2025 "was up very slightly year over year", that more than 100 titles had each grossed over US$1 million in 2025, that the Meta Horizon+ subscription had passed 1 million subscribers, and that teens were "currently the most active audience using Quest".[40]

Selected reported sales figures
Subject Figure Date Basis
PlayStation VR About 5 million headsets End of 2019 Sony estimate[18]
Quest headsets Nearly 20 million March 2023 Internal Meta presentation reported by The Verge[20]
Beat Saber 4 million copies, 40 million paid DLC songs February 2021 Oculus announcement[33]
Beat Saber Over US$255 million October 2022 Internal Meta documents reported by The Wall Street Journal[32]
Gorilla Tag Over US$100 million revenue June 2024 Another Axiom[35]
Meta Quest store Over US$2 billion spent to date March 2025 Meta[39]

Research

Academic work on VR games falls into a few groups.

Player experience. Shelstad, Smith and Chaparro had participants play the same strategy game on an Oculus Rift and on a monitor; the VR version scored higher on overall satisfaction, enjoyment, engrossment, creativity, sound and graphics on the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale.[41] Pallavicini, Pepe and Minissi had 24 young adults play Smash Hit in both conditions and found no difference in usability or performance, but higher self-reported happiness and surprise and a greater sense of presence in VR.[9] Lemmens, Simon and Sumter ran two experiments with 128 students using a survival horror game and a first-person shooter: VR produced stronger presence, lower heart rate variability and more fear, with presence mediating the effect on fear, but it was not more enjoyable than playing on a TV.[10] Mel Slater has argued that realistic responses in immersive VR come from two separate illusions: place illusion, "the strong illusion of being in a place in spite of the sure knowledge that you are not there", and plausibility illusion, "the illusion that what is apparently happening is really happening (even though you know for sure that it is not)".[42]

Physical activity. Szpak, Michalski and Loetscher had 36 participants play Beat Saber for 10 and 50 minutes; nobody dropped out because of sickness, and most aftereffects on accommodation, convergence and sickness scores returned to baseline within 40 minutes, although about 14% of participants still reported high sickness 40 minutes after the 50-minute session.[43] A 2025 study of 16 children with an average age of 10.7 found that Beat Saber produced light-intensity and Gorilla Tag light- to moderate-intensity physical activity, and that both were rated highly enjoyable.[44] An analysis of 498 store reviews of the 29 most popular VR exercise games on Steam, Viveport and Oculus found that players preferred realistic games, intuitive body movement and controls, and gradual increases in skill.[45]

Large-scale review studies. Lu, Ota and Dong collected 7,413 VR games and 176,428 player reviews from the Oculus, Steam and Viveport stores; players complained less about cybersickness and immersion than about performance, tracking and compatibility, and privacy concerns grew in later years.[37] A 2026 study of more than 1.3 million Steam reviews of first-person VR games by Guzsvinecz, Németh and Szűcs found cybersickness mentioned more often in negative reviews, linked with shorter playtime at the time of review, and identified the mitigation strategies players report, such as session control, seated play and locomotion adjustments; the authors recommend player-centred comfort options and customizable locomotion.[46]

See also

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