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PS2 Classic GTA: San Andreas is coming to VR with the Oculus Quest 2

During its Connect 2021 event, Facebook Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is coming to the Oculus Quest 2.

It’s unclear when the game will release, how much it will cost or even really what the PlayStation 2 classic will look like running in virtual reality (VR). During the event, only a brief snippet of the game in action was shown off. Oculus’ website lists GTA: San Andreas for the Quest 2 as a “project many years in the making.”

Remasters of GTA: San Andreas, Vice City and San Andreas are set to release on November 11th across Xbox and PlayStation consoles, as well as mobile devices.

As fun as it would be to check out Grove Street in VR, I’m not sure a title like San Andreas could be played from the first-person perspective. That said, GTA V on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 featured a first-person mode, so maybe bringing San Andreas to VR isn’t that far-fetched.

Resident Evil 4 was recently ported to the Oculus Quest. While I haven’t tested out the game myself, it has received pretty positive reviews so far.

During its Connect 2021 event, Facebook also revealed that it’s changing its name to ‘Meta.’ 

Source: Facebook

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Facebook renames itself ‘Meta’

The Facebook company, not the social network, will now be known as Meta.

After about a week of speculation, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, Oculus and WhatsApp is now Meta.

The plan is to move the company’s branding furth away from the Facebook social network as it moves more into building the VR metaverse and other new tech projects. If you go Meta.com it redirects you to a Facebook site that explains the new VR space and what Zuckerberg is trying to create. This involves both VR and AR and so much more to really build out a digital world that is still intertwined with the real world in subtle ways.

While this all sounds crazy and futuristic, that’s because it is and a lot of it is a long way off according to Zuckerberg.

This also follows recent allegations that Facebook and Instagram are bad for people, especially younger girls and a push from U.S. government regulators to break the company up.

Source: Meta