Silently, I reach for a goblet, throwing it to the opposite side of the chamber. As the guard steps toward the disturbance, I emerge, sneaking behind him. With a flick of my wrist, my hidden blade emerges. He'll never take another step again. Also, his halberd starts fritzing on the floor before fading out of existence, a reminder that this is all virtual reality--or rather, VR within VR, the metatextual framing of Ubisoft's latest Assassin's Creed game.

Ubisoft has given us the first proper look at Assassin's Creed Nexus VR for the Meta Quest platform and confirmed a holiday launch window. The news comes via the company's Ubisoft Forward streaming event as part of the Summer Game Fest. Assassin's Creed Nexus VR releases for both the Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 2 and the recently-announced Meta Quest 3, though OG Quest owners are out of luck. We knew this was coming, as Meta just held a games showcase event that featured Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, but there's now a dedicated trailer. This trailer is light on actual gameplay and heavy on CGI cutscenes, but it definitely confirms that you play in first person as an actual assassin through the magic of VR.