PokerStars to launch PokerStars VR for Meta Quest Pro

PokerStars has announced the launch of PokerStars VR, a free-to-play social casinowhich will be one of the game titles chosen to launch alongside Meta’s flagship device, which offers players enhanced performance as well as full color passthrough for a full mixed-reality experience, face and eye tracking, and other technologies.

The PokerStars VR developers, Lucky VR have looking for new ways to take full advantage of these next-generation capabilities and integrate them into the free-to-play social casino videogame. Players using Quest Pro will be able to adapt their surroundings to suit their playing habits. Options will include a fully immersive virtual reality experience, partial immersion that brings objects or spaces from their physical world into the game through editable ‘passthrough windows’, and full mixed reality that enables players to bring core virtual game elements into their own world. Sophisticated face and eye-tracking will also bring a brand-new social dimension to PokerStars VR. The hallmark upgrade enables players to make and see realistic facial expressions in their customized avatars. Players can sit down together and smile, frown, and glance at their cards, just like a live environment.

 “Our goal with PokerStars VR is to push the potential of new technologies as far as we can to create a fun and authentic social casino game that really is limitless,” said James O’Reilly, Director of VR and Innovation at PokerStars. “We’re extremely proud to be part of the launch of Meta’s Quest Pro, which is a transformation in virtual and mixed reality. Our developers have been having great fun exploring what this technology means for our players and we can’t wait to show them what we have in store.”