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Masters of Pie Secures $4.7M to Further Develop AR/VR Tools for Enterprise
Masters of Pie, an enterprise-focused AR/VR studio, announced its secured £3.6 million (~$4.7 million), something the company says will help double its development team and add support for cloud streaming and IoT data to its flagship product, Radical SDK.
The funding...
Months After Its Expected Launch, the ‘Oculus for Business’ Program is Still “Available Soon”
Back at the end of April, 2019, Oculus introduced "the new Oculus for Business" program, an enterprise-focused program which would see Oculus headsets sold with customized software aimed at large scale device management and business and commercial use-cases, along with...
Social AR/VR Workspace ‘Spatial’ Secures $14M Series A Financing
Spatial, a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million.
The latest funding round was led by White Star Capital, iNovia and Kakao Ventures, with...
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘people bought nearly $5M in Oculus Store content on Christmas Day’
In Facebook's quarterly earnings call yesterday, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Oculus Store had sold nearly $5 million worth of content on Christmas Day alone.
Zuckerberg says in the Q4 2019 earnings call that the Christmas Day boom was...
‘Crunch Element’ Inches Past Crowdfunding Goal with Less Than a Week to Spare
Crunch Element is an upcoming VR game that challenges you to breech heavily-guarded compounds with physics-based explosive charges, guns, and your wits.
Update (January 30th, 2020): Crunch Element has done it with only five days left to go. At the...
Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3 Million
Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...
5 Oculus Quest Hardware Mods for Better Comfort
Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. But still, you may find that once your wallet is...
Atari to Open Game-themed Hotels Across the US with “the latest in VR and AR”
Atari will soon be opening hotels in the United States that feature what they call "the latest in VR and AR." The move comes as a part of a recently announced deal with GSD Group, an innovation and strategy...
Startup Teases Standalone AR/VR Headset with ‘innovative optics and ergonomics’, Reveal Next Week
Stealth French startup LYNX is teasing the forthcoming reveal of its Lynx R1 headset which the company describes as a standalone headset with both VR and AR capabilities. Lynx says it will reveal the headset during a February 3rd...
Amazon Promises “single-digit latency” for AR/VR Streaming Over 5G with AWS Wavelength
Last month Amazon quietly announced the 'Wavelength' platform as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering. The new 'edge computing' service promises "single-digit millisecond latencies" over 5G networks. Amazon says the platform is made for "latency-sensitive workloads" including...
‘Halo Reach’ VR Mod ‘ReclaimerVR’ Shows Progress with Motion Controller Input
Halo Reach (2010), the final Halo game from the series' original developer, Bungie, launched on PC in December, and could now wind up with a VR support through an unofficial mod. Zack "Nibre" Fannon, the creator of the Alien: Isolation VR...
New Samsung VR Headset Design Surfaces in Recent Patents
Samsung recently filed patents with China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) office that shows off a few new designs in what appears to be two fairly similar PC VR headsets.
There's little to go on besides the photos of both...
Cas & Chary Present: ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gameplay Overview
Launched yesterday, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a heavy physics-based survival adventure game set in the zombie apocalypse of the Walking Dead universe. In this video and article, we wanted to showcase the core gameplay mechanics without spoiling too...
‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Coming to Quest & PSVR This Year
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020) launched on PC VR headsets yesterday, and basically established itself as one of the most gritty and violent entries into the VR horror-survival genre. Now, Skydance Interactive says both PSVR and Oculus Quest...
Now 150 People Strong, Varjo Talks Future Focus, More Affordable Headsets
Finland-based startup Varjo, maker of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has built an impressive product and charted a rapid growth, seemingly similar to the early years of Oculus. Now with 150 employees and some $46 million in venture funding, Varjo...




















