Civ VII is coming to VR

The Immersive Wire - 10 February 2025

Author

Tom Ffiske
February 10, 2025

Executive summary

Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:

  • Top Story: Civilization VII is coming to VR (analysis below).

  • Internship: Snap is offering a new AR-focused internship for UK university students as part of Innovate UK’s Immersive Tech Awards in 2025.

  • Other stories: Create Worlds has launched Wonderland Cloud, a multiplayer framework optimizing high-quality spatial audio for web-based VR. Experience MOD and Mojang Studios will launch Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue on 4 April 2025 at Corner Corner in London, which will include immersive technologies.

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Tom Ffiske, Editor of the Immersive Wire

Top story

Civilization VII is coming to VR.

  • Which headsets? Meta Quest headsets (Quest 3 and 3S) this spring, though pricing and an exact release date is yet to be confirmed.

  • What will it look like? The game features a board game-like projection into physical space using passthrough cameras or a virtual museum setting with a scenic backdrop. A video of it in action is here.

  • Create Worlds has launched Wonderland Cloud, a multiplayer framework optimizing high-quality spatial audio for web-based VR.

  • Experience MOD and Mojang Studios will launch Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue on 4 April 2025 at Corner Corner in London, which will include immersive technologies.

  • Katharina Haverich will present Virtual Weapons (Brecht fragments #1 - #8), a dialogue-based VR installation, at the Berlin School of VR in Neukölln during Berlinale 2025 on 13–14 February.

  • Kluge Interactive launched the Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE. Synth Riders Experience, exclusively on Apple Arcade for Apple Vision Pro.

  • Meta’s investment in virtual and augmented reality is set to exceed $100 billion in 2025, with Reality Labs reaching a record $19.9 billion in spending last year and selling 1mn Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2024.

  • Miketeevee has launched SkyHaven, a new chapter for the immersive VR game Shores of Loci, adding fresh challenges and stunning environments to its puzzle-driven experience.

Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.