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Next-Gen VR Dev Kits for PS5 Shipping Soon with “completely new VR format”
Sony today announced that its next-generation VR headset is coming—not in 2021, but it's definitely a thing. In an interview with GQ, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan says dev kit headsets are close to landing in the hands...
Sony Confirms Next-Gen PSVR is Coming, New Controllers to Feature DualSense Tech
Sony has been awfully quiet about the follow-up to its PSVR headset, which was initially released back in October 2016. Today the company publicly announced it is indeed working on its next-generation VR headset for PS5 consoles. There's only...
nDreams Announces $2M Fund for VR Devs Looking for a Publisher
If you're developing a VR game, you may be able to strike a deal with one of the most senior VR studios out there. nDreams, a developer and publisher of VR games, announced the creation of a $2 million...
Qualcomm Announces Tethered AR ‘Smart Viewer’ Reference Design with Onboard Co-processing
Qualcomm, maker of chips and technologies for mobile devices, today announced a reference design for a tethered AR headset which is tethered to a phone or PC but also contains its own chips to handle some onboard processing. The...
Veteran Indie VR Dev Revives ‘CRASHLAND’ for Quest, Launching Thursday
If you know your VR history you might recall CRASHLAND, an early VR prototype where players would defend themselves after crash landing on a hostile planet with little more than a radar scanner and a weapon. After the project went...
Samsung’s Leaked AR Concept Videos Reveal Its Augmented Ambitions
Leaked concept video featuring two Samsung AR devices has come to light. Although just concepts and not functioning products as such, it's clear the Korean tech giant is gearing up to compete with companies like Facebook and Apple as...
Lynx Reveals First Through-the-lens Footage of R-1 Mixed Reality Headset
French startup Lynx, which is designing a mixed reality headset (capable of both AR and VR), today revealed the first look through its novel optics.
The Lynx R-1 headset was first announced last year as a standalone headset centered around...
More Than 60 Quest Apps Have Generated Over $1 Million in Revenue
It seems the launch of Oculus Quest 2 has been a boon for both Facebook and Quest developers alike, as the company's latest standalone VR headset has brought the number of apps earning over the $1 million milestone to...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – February 2021
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...
This ‘Tilt Brush’ Port Brings Google’s VR Creation App to WebXR
Google stopped active development on Tilt Brush late last month, but also made the VR creation suite open source so anyone could get under the hood. We've seen a number of clones already, but this is the first port we've seen that lets...
‘Adam Savage’s Tested VR’ Season 2 Now Live, Taking You to Weta Workshop, Animax Designs &...
Adam Savage's Tested VR (2019) takes you to the heart of the maker scene, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the workshops of industry pros. Now the app's second season is live, which brings eight new episodes to the table...
What I Learned by Building an Iconic Weapon From ‘Apex Legends’ in VR
In the decade that I've spent studying and reporting on VR I've had the fortune of experiencing a wide range of VR game design—a craft which is still far from 'figured out'. And while I have no intention of...
Manus Announces SteamVR Tracker for Professional Creators, Pre-orders Now Open
Manus, the Netherlands-based startup behind a number of VR gloves, today announced pre-order availability for the company's first professional-level SteamVR tracker.
Called the Manus Pro Tracker, the company says the device is designed specifically for SteamVR-based motion capture, virtual production...
How to Record Videos on Quest 2 and Improve Capture Quality
Quest 2 has simple built-in video capture capabilities. In this article you'll see how to use them and, for advanced users, you'll learn how to increase the quality of the videos captured on Quest 2 and how to transfer...
JVC to Launch 120-degree FOV XR Headset for Enterprise Next Month
JVCKenwood announced late last year that it was testing the XR waters with a new headset for enterprise users which boasts a wide field of view (FOV) and 2.5k per-eye resolution. Now the company says the device is headed...



















