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NVIDIA Researchers Demonstrate Ultra-thin Holographic VR Glasses That Could Reach 120° Field-of-view

A team of researchers from NVIDIA Research and Stanford published a new paper demonstrating a pair of thin holographic VR glasses. The displays can show true holographic content, solving for the vergence-accommodation issue. Though the research prototypes demonstrating the...
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‘Beat Saber’ Electronic Mixtape Brings Fatboy Slim, Darude, Deadmau5 & More

Popular block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber just got an unexpected drop of 12 new tracks in its Electronic Mixtape paid DLC, which includes content spanning nearly two decades of electronic music. Beat Games, the Meta-owned developers behind Beat Saber, initially teased the...

Google Acquires MicroLED Startup Raxium to Bolster AR Ambitions

Google is adding to its portfolio of XR microdisplay designs and talent, as the company announced it's acquired microLED (µLED) designer Raxium. The acquisition was previously reported by The Information in March, however now Google has confirmed in a blog post that...

Prototype Meta Headset Includes Custom Silicon for Photorealistic Avatars on Standalone

Researchers at Meta Reality Labs have created a prototype VR headset with a custom-built accelerator chip specially designed to handle AI processing to make it possible to render the company's photorealistic Codec Avatars on a standalone headset. Long before the...

A Dating App for Meeting Avatars in VR Aims to Build Very Real Relationships

Flirtual is a dating app designed to match VR users together and to facilitate dates in social VR applications. The creators say it's a codification of a trend that's already happening—people meeting in VR and going on to form...

Project Cambria’s Price Will Be “Significantly Higher” Than $800, Meta Reveals

Following a report today which claimed Meta's upcoming Project Cambria headset would be priced at $800, rather than denying the information as a rumor, the company took the curious step of confirming the headset would be much more expensive. A...

Report: Meta to Release Four New VR Headsets by 2024, Starting with Project Cambria in September

According to a report by The Information, Meta plans to release four new VR headsets by 2024, and that's purportedly in addition to its AR devices. The Information reporters Sylvia Varnham O'Regan and Mathew Olson say they've seen an internal roadmap...

Reality Labs Chief Scientist Outlines a New Compute Architecture for True AR Glasses

Speaking at the IEDM conference late last year, Meta Reality Labs' Chief Scientist Michael Abrash laid out the company's analysis of how contemporary compute architectures will need to evolve to make possible the AR glasses of our sci-fi conceptualizations. While...

Wallace & Gromit is Coming to Quest 2 in ‘Grand Getaway’ Interactive VR Experience

Wallace & Gromit, Britain's iconic stop-motion duo, are getting their own interactive VR experience on Meta Quest 2 next year, developed by series creator Aardman, Meta, and VR pioneers Atlas V. Called Wallace & Gromit: The Grand Getaway, the interactive, single...

Quest Users Can Now Watch YouTube Together Thanks to ‘Bigscreen’ Update

Bigscreen is putting Meta to shame again, as the VR hangout app just got a serious bump in functionality for Quest users and PC VR users alike. Now VR's favorite social viewing app includes native YouTube support, so you can...
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‘After the Fall’ Gets New Arsenal, Free-for-all Mode & More in ‘Shock & Awe’ Update, Trailer...

After the Fall (2021), the co-op zombie shooter from Vertigo Games, is getting a nice little content bump today in its ‘Shock & Awe’ update, which brings to the game a new arsenal of weapons, a free-for-all deathmatch mode,...

Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned

Varjo today announced the launch of Varjo Reality Cloud, the company's XR cloud streaming platform that's aimed at making XR more scalable in enterprise settings by doing the heavy lifting of rendering in the cloud. At the outset the...

Zuckerberg Warns Shareholders: Metaverse Investments May Not Flourish Until 2030s

Today during Meta's Q1 2022 earnings call CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that they should buckle up for the long haul because the company's steep investments in XR and metaverse technologies aren't expected to flourish until the next decade. Today...

Maker of the Taser Acquires VR Studio to Bolster VR Police Training

Axon, the company best known for its Taser stun guns, has announced the acquisition of VR studio Foundry 45 which it says will bolster its VR training offerings. Founded in 1993, Axon is the company behind the well known Taser...
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10 Minute ‘Little Cities’ Video Shows VR City Builder in Action, Post-launch Roadmap Revealed

Little Cities, the upcoming city simulator for the Quest platform, is delayed until May 12th. Despite a pushback on launch plans, the team has released a 10-minute gameplay video and post-launch roadmap to get prospective city-builders excited. Little Cities is fundamentally ready...
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