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CREAL Raises $7.2 Million to Bring its Light-field Display to AR Glasses

Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it hopes to bring to VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. In November the company raised CHF 6.5 million (~$7.2 million) in a Series A+ investment round to bring on new...
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Flight Combat Game ‘Project Wingman’ Launches Today with SteamVR Support

Project Wingman, an aerial combat game for PC, has launched today after beginning life as a successful Kickstarter in mid-2018. In addition to traditional monitor support, the game is fully playable with SteamVR headsets. Update (December 1st, 2020): Developed by Sector D2...

Pimax Launches “5K” Super VR Headset Featuring 180Hz Refresh Rate

Pimax, the company known for its wide field of view (FOV) VR headsets, have now launched the Pimax "5K" SUPER, a PC VR headset first shown in its prototype stage at CES 2020 earlier this year. The new Pimax "5K"...

Varjo’s New High-end XR-3 & VR-3 Headsets Expand Retina FoV While Reducing Weight & Price

Varjo today announced its latest high-end headsets, the XR-3 and VR-3, with a range of improvements including an expanded field of view, inside-out tracking, and a redesigned headstrap. While still expensive and definitely aimed at large enterprises, the new...

‘Rec Room’ Now Lets Premium Users Sell Creations for In-game Currency

Rec Room announced back in September that it was working on a way for its users to earn real cash by creating content for the game. In a recent update, the social VR platform has now taken its first...

AR ‘Mario Kart’ Ride to Open at Japan’s Upcoming Super Nintendo World

Universal Studios Japan today announced the opening date of its long-delayed 'Super Nintendo World' in its Osaka-based theme park, which is set to feature a Mario Kart-themed ride including AR headsets. The grand opening of Super Nintendo World is officially...

Oculus Quest 2 Cyber Monday Deals Feature Three Game Bundles

We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2020 deals, don't blink or you might miss the best Quest sales of the year! Updated – November 30th, 2020 Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday &...

‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ VR Support Launching in December for All SteamVR Headsets

If you're still waiting on VR support for Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), you won't need to twiddle your thumbs for much longer. According to a recent developer Q&A, Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC will launch with full SteamVR headset support sometime...

‘Half-Life: Alyx’, ‘Boneworks’ Get Rare Discounts Among Many Others in Steam Autumn Sale

The Steam Autumn Sale is here, running today through December 1st, 2020. With it comes rare discounts on top VR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) and Boneworks (2019), and heaps more popular VR titles, just in time for Black Friday and...

OpenBCI Announces Brain-Computer Interface Designed Specifically for VR/AR Headsets

OpenBCI, the neurotech company behind the eponymous open-source brain-computer interface (BCI), are making a new hardware and software platform specifically for immersive headsets. Called Galea, the company says its new hardware is designed to attach to both AR and VR headsets,...

Oculus CTO Wants Android Apps on Quest, But is “not winning” the Debate Within Facebook

Oculus CTO John Carmack has said publicly that he'd love to open up Oculus Quest to Android apps to boost the headset's usefulness, but admits he's "not winning" the debate internally at Facebook. Although the Quest home environment looks nothing...

Quest’s Official Non-store App Distribution Channel is Coming in Q1, 2021

Facebook announced back in June that it planned to offer developers a way to distribute Oculus Quest apps outside of the official, curated, Quest store. Now the company indicates it has "high confidence" that the feature will be deployed...

‘Espire 1: VR Operative’ Earned $3M in Revenue in First Year

Espire 1: VR Operative (2019) launched across all major VR headsets this time last year, bringing a mix of high-flying acrobatics and stealth combat to the table. Now developer Digital Lode says Espire 1 has generated "over $3 million in revenue"...

Oculus Extends Free ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Offer to All Quest 2 Owners Until January 31st, 2021

Oculus announced late last week that, starting on November 20th, new Quest 2 owners would be able to download the award-winning PC VR title Asgard's Wrath (2019) for free until January 31st, 2021. Following public outcry from early customers...

Veteran VR Studio of ‘Waltz of the Wizard’ Pausing PSVR Development Until Sony Addresses PS5 Roadmap

Veteran VR developer Aldin Dynamics, the studio behind Waltz of the Wizard, says it is pausing development on PSVR titles until Sony clarifies plans for the future of VR on PS5. While Sony has brought PSVR to PS5 thanks to backwards...
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