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‘Roblox’ Launches on Quest Store, Casting a Shadow on Meta’s Own Social VR Platform
One of the biggest names in social gaming is now officially on the official Quest Store, launching out of App Lab starting today. Roblox is home to tens of millions of daily users and user-generated experiences, casting a clear shadow on...
Meta Avatars Finally Get Legs on Quest
Meta released a Quest software update via its public test channel (PTC), which lets users opt-in to try new features before they're pushed out to everyone. Among the v57 PTC update is a feature that's been notably missing from...
Meta Reveals New Prototype VR Headsets Focused on Retinal Resolution and Light Field Passthrough
Meta unveiled two new VR headset prototypes that showcase more progress in the fight to solve some persistent technical challenges facing VR today. Presenting at SIGGRAPH 2023, Meta is demonstrating a headset with retinal resolution combined with varifocal optics, and...
Meta’s XR Revenue Down 39% “due to lower Quest 2 sales,” as Quest 3 & Vision...
Meta's latest quarterly results show its Reality Labs XR division is again reporting an operating loss just south of $4 billion. Now, for its Q2 2023 results, the company says Reality Labs' revenue was down by 39% due to...
Meta CTO Says Quest 3 Announcement Timing Had ‘Nothing to do with Vision Pro’
Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth said this week that the announcement of Quest 3, which came just days ahead of Vision Pro reveal, had nothing to do with the timing of Apple's first public foray into XR.
"People won't believe...
Meta Reportedly in Talks With Tencent to Bring Quest to China
Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to get back in that country with Quest, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the report...
Meta Launches Monthly VR Game Subscription Service for Quest
Meta today announced a new VR game subscription service that will give you access to two hand-picked Quest games per month, priced at $8 per month, or $60 annually.
Called Meta Quest+, the subscription service will be available to Quest...
The Best Thing About Apple Vision Pro? Meta Finally Has Big Competition
Meta has undeniably been the lone looming Goliath in a field of smaller Davids in the XR scene for years now. With Apple finally making its entrance into the market, Meta won't be able to go at its own...
Zuckerberg Might be Teasing the First Glimpse of Quest 3 Ahead of Quest Gaming Showcase
Zuckerberg took to Instagram to tease an announcement for... something... ahead of its big Quest Gaming Showcase tomorrow. Signs are pointing to Quest 3.
We have no insider info on what might be behind the countdown clock on Zuckerberg's Instagram...
Meta Reaffirms Commitment to Metaverse Vision, Has No Plans to Slow Billions in Reality Labs Investments
Meta announced its latest quarterly results, revealing that the company's Reality Labs metaverse division is again reporting a loss of nearly $4 billion. The bright side? Meta's still investing billions into XR, and it's not showing any signs of stopping.
Meta...
Meta Layoffs Affect VR Teams at ‘Lone Echo’ & ‘Onward’ Studios
Meta is the midst of a second large round of layoffs, and this time a number of employees in its internal VR studios have been affected.
Business Insider reported earlier this week that Meta was increasing its focus on gaming-related projects...
Meta Quest Reportedly Had Over 6 Million Monthly Active Users Last October
A Wall Street Journal report maintains Meta's Quest platform had 6.37 million monthly active users as of October 2022.
The report doesn't include a breakdown of which headset is seeing the most engagement, however it's likely a majority of those users...
Meta Shows New Progress on Key Tech for Making AR Genuinely Useful
Meta has introduced the Segment Anything Model, which aims to set a new bar for computer-vision-based 'object segmentation'—the ability for computers to understand the difference between individual objects in an image or video. Segmentation will be key for making...
Meta Keeps the Oculus Name Alive as Third-party VR Publisher Becomes ‘Oculus Publishing’
Meta has nearly scrubbed all of its products of the Oculus name, however the company today announced its third-party publishing wing is getting a sort of rebrand that will see the Oculus name live on.
Meta announced at the Game...
Meta’s Second Mass Layoff Round to Affect 10,000 More Employees
Following a mass layoff at Meta late last year which affected 11,000 of its employees, the company announced today that it would be laying off another 10,000 workers through multiple rounds.
Update (March 14th, 2023): According to a Facebook post...















