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Quest Now Supports Paid App Subscriptions Directly in Oculus Store

Oculus today announced it is supporting subscriptions via the Quest platform. It's not only set to streamline a number of fitness and productivity apps which already offer subscriptions hosted outside of the ecosystem, but also make the subscription process...

Vicarious Surgical Aims to Raise $460M with $1.1B Valuation for VR Surgery Platform

Vicarious Surgical, a robotics-based medical company, today announced that it's merging with D8 Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company. Vicarious Surgical is slated to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it is expected to garner...

Quest 2 to Get Air Link for Wireless PC VR, 120Hz Refresh, Keyboard & Desk Tracking

Oculus today announced new features coming to Quest 2 in update v28, including Air Link for wireless PC VR streaming, support for 120Hz refresh rate, and the ability to track your desk and keyboard in VR for enhanced productivity. The...

Pico Neo 3 Specs Revealed: Snapdragon XR2, Physical IPD Adjustments & More

Pico Interactive announced last week that Neo 3, the Beijing-based company's next standalone VR headset, is slated to arrive to consumers in Asia starting May 10th, 2021, and to enterprise in the West sometime this summer. We had only...

HTC Announces VIVEcon Event on May 11th & 12th, Teases Headset Reveal

Following subsequent teases of an unannounced Vive headset, HTC today announced an event called VIVEcon, set for May 11th & 12th. While there's no details so far on what the event will entail, the company is clearly teasing the...

NVIDIA Adds Eye-tracking Support to VRSS Foveated Rendering Tech

NVIDIA is upgrading its Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) with support for headsets with eye-tracking, allowing the rendered application to improve performance by increasing quality where the user is looking, while decreasing it elsewhere. Nvidia today announced the latest version of...

NVIDIA CloudXR is Launching on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS

NVIDIA is continuing the rollout of its CloudXR technology on the three leading cloud computing platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. With the tech readily available from these providers, companies building products and services on these cloud providers...

HTC Teases “VR Headset Confirmed” with Photo of Veiled Device

As if there was any doubt about HTC teasing a new VR headset late last week, the company also reconfirmed that it's definitely on the way with an image of the device sitting under a veil. A blogpost titled "VR Headset?"...
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‘AGAINST’ is a VR Rhythm Game Aiming to Fuse the Best Parts of the Genre with...

AGAINST is an upcoming VR rhythm game from developer Joy Way that looks to be channeling the best parts of popular games in the genre with its own gritty flair and unique mechanics like wall-running, jumping, and weapon switching. Between Beat Saber, Pistol Whip,...

HTC Appears to be Teasing a New Vive Headset

Following the teasing that preceded its recently released VR accessories, HTC is back on the teasing train, this time showing what may well be a new Vive headset. The HTC Vive Twitter account shared a single teaser photo today saying,...

Neuralink Reveals Monkey Playing ‘Pong’ Using Only Its Brain

Neuralink, the brain-machine interface (BMI) company created by Elon Musk, released a video showing off a live trial of its brain implant in a monkey. Using the primate's own recorded brain data, Neuralink demonstrated that the monkey was not...
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Facebook Researchers Reveal Methods for Design & Fabrication of Compact Holographic Lenses

Researchers from Facebook Reality Labs have shared new methods for the design & fabrication of compact holographic lenses for use in XR headsets. The lenses used in most of today's XR devices are typical refractive lenses which can be fairly...

‘DAVIGO’ Takes a Step Closer to Launch with Release of Second Alpha Phase

DAVIGO is an upcoming VR game which pits players against each other in a David & Goliath-style battle. There's no official release day yet, however the game's alpha just got a big update that brings a bunch of new...

‘Alvo’ to Bring ‘CS:GO’ Style Action to PSVR Next Week, Quest & Steam Versions to Follow

Alvo, the long-awaited team VR shooter ostensibly modeled after Valve's CS:GO, is officially headed to PSVR on PS4 and PS5 on next week. The game, which was announced back in 2017, initially aimed to launch in 2018. The wait is...
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New Video Shows Off CREAL’s Latest Foveated Light-field VR Headset

CREAL, a company building light-field display technology for AR and VR headsets, has revealed a new through-the-lens video showing off the performance of its latest VR headset prototype. The new video clearly demonstrates the ability to focus at arbitrary...
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