Valve this week updated its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey to fix issues resulting in anomalous VR population data. The corrected figures return the survey to being one of the most useful pieces of public data about the...

Varjo, maker of high-end enterprise XR headsets, this week announced it has raised a $40 million Series D investment to continue building its Varjo Reality Cloud software and deliver a "true-to-life industrial metaverse." Varjo makes some of the highest-end enterprise...

HTC today announced it's releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. The company says its new trackers will offer "more natural and immersive VR experiences, new options for enterprises to measure user responses,...

First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind Firewall Zero Hour (2018), announced it's bringing the "next evolution" of its hit squad-based shooter to PSVR 2, calling it Firewall Ultra. The studio says in a PS blogpost Firewall Ultra will be "the next evolution...

Meta has acquired Lofelt, a Berlin-based startup developing advanced haptic technologies for VR and other devices. According to The Wall Street Journal, the acquisition took place earlier this summer, however the deal came to light only just last week. "Lofelt...

StrikerVR, longtime maker of haptic VR guns, is launching its most affordable product yet: the Mavrik-Pro. Though still primarily targeting VR attractions, the company says it plans to launch a consumer version of the new gun next year. StrikerVR makes...

Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a "multi-year broad strategic agreement" to collaborate on "customized virtual reality chipsets" for future devices. Qualcomm, a leading provider of smartphone processors, was an early mover...

Indie studio Played With Fire announced a new action-adventure game this week called Mixture, which lets you control two characters at once, or what the Poland-based indie calls "self-co-op." The game is slated to release on Quest 2 and PSVR...

Welcome to Road to VR’s first ever 'VR Modding Monthly', a series of articles to keep you up to date about all the exciting things going on in the wonderful world of the Flat2VR Modding community! What's the Flat2vr Modding...

Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced it's laying off a fifth of its staff and abandoning a number of projects as it bids to rebound with a more singular focus on becoming a leader in augmented reality in...

The Stalker-inspired survival game Into the Radius (2020) has seen its share of success on SteamVR headsets when it initially released in Early Access in late 2019. Now the studio says it's bringing the open world game to Quest...

Blacktop Hoops is an upcoming multiplayer streetball game that puts you on amateur courts where you chain together epic moves that all look straight out of NBA Street (2001). The game's Kickstarter is now live, promising to bring its realistic b-ball...

NVIDIA, one of the tech sector's power players, is pushing the Universal Scene Description protocol as the foundation of interoperable content and experiences in the metaverse. In a recent post the company explains why it believes the protocol, originally...

Multiple trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg over the weekend support the notion that Apple's long-rumored mixed reality headset will be running under the 'Reality' naming scheme. Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New...

The Transformers were set to take their first big step into VR earlier this year on PlayStation VR and PC VR headsets, however developers Meta4 and publisher Hasbro put an indefinite hold on its first-person shooter Transformers: Beyond Reality. Now the...