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VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S

It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path...

Samsung XR and EarthX Debut Environmentally-focused 360 Short Films

Samsung and EarthX have debuted a dozen immersive short films on the Samsung XR video platform from environmentally-focused filmmakers, with more to come. Samsung XR is Samsung's immersive video platform, and home to more than 10,000 videos. This week the platform...

‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Comes to PS Plus Members for Free Starting Today, ‘Black Dawn’ Update Now...

Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the tactical team shooter for PSVR, is headed to PS Plus members for free starting today, February 4th. Update (February 4th, 2020): Firewall Zero Hour is now free for PS Plus members who download the game...

Canon Unveils Enterprise-focused AR Headset ‘MREAL Display MD-20’

Japanese tech giant Canon today unveiled its next enterprise-focused AR headset which aims to replace its MREAL Display MD-10, which the company launched in Japan in mid-2016 for the astounding price tag of ¥9 million (~$82,300). The PC-tethered AR headset,...

LYNX Reveals Standalone MR Headset with Snapdragon XR2, Eye-tracking, & Novel Optics

French startup LYNX today revealed the R-1, a standalone VR headset built for pass-through AR and powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon XR2 chip. The enterprise-focused headset uses a novel lens design which makes it compact. Lynx is a new player...

‘Astro Bot’ Director Nicolas Doucet Takes Over as Head of Sony’s JAPAN Studio

Nicolas Doucet, the Creative Director and Producer behind PSVR exclusive ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission (2018), has been promoted to Director of Sony Interactive Entertainment's JAPAN Studio. As first reported by Gematsu, Doucet is said to continue his work as a creative director...

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...
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‘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...
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