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You Can Now Buy Unofficial Oculus Rift Facial Interfaces, Kickstarter Now Live

VR Cover, the company known for its aftermarket accessories for VR headsets, recently revealed their latest project, an array of Oculus Rift-compatible facial interfaces and foam padding that effectively replaces the one shipped stock with the Rift. Along with the big reveal of...

Meta: 124 Quest Apps Have Earned More Than $1M, 8 Have Earned More Than $20M

At GDC last month, Meta shared the clearest look yet at the number of apps reaching various revenue milestones on the Quest platform. So far, 124 apps have earned $1 million in revenue or more, while 8 have exceeded...

Google Daydream View Gallery & Roundup

Today was the big reveal for Google's first Daydream ready phone, Pixel, and the Daydream View headset, the first high-end VR headset from the company. We've got a high res gallery of the new headset and have rounded up...

U.S. Army Reportedly Taps Anduril & Rivet to Compete in Revamped XR Headset Military Contract

According to a Breaking Defense report, the U.S. Army has chosen defense startups Anduril and Rivet to compete against one another in its revamped Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) project, now called the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC), which is slated...

Meta Acquires 3D Lens Printing Firm Luxexcel to Bolster Future AR Glasses

Meta has acquired the Belgian-Dutch company Luxexcel, a 3D printing firm creating complex glass lenses for use in AR optics. As first reported by Belgian newspaper De Tijd (Dutch), the Turnhout, Belgium-based company was quietly acquired by Facebook parent Meta in...
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World of Darkness VR Game ‘Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice’ Revealed, Coming to Quest in Late...

During Meta's Quest Gaming Showcase today VR pioneers Fast Travel Games unveiled a new VR game set in the 'World of Darkness' universe called Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice. Billed as a single player adventure RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice puts you...

Meta Pushes Back on Reported Outsourcing of XR Headset Designs

A recent report from The Information maintains Meta has started outsourcing some design for upcoming headsets amid a shift to move part of its production out of China. Now, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth refutes those specific design claims, saying...

First Look: Nokia’s ‘OZO’ 3D VR Camera Aims at Professional Market with Real-time 3D Preview

Nokia today announced a new VR camera that they're calling 'OZO'. The camera, built specifically for the professional market, shoots 3D 360 degree video and captures surround sound audio simultaneously. Nokia is touting Ozo's ability to instantly preview the...
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Physics Simulator ‘Universe Sandbox’ Comes to Magic Leap 1

Universe Sandbox, the physics-based space simulator from Giant Army, made a splash on PC back in 2015, later getting VR support so you could physically smash the Moon into the Earth with your own two hands. Now Giant Army has released...

The Top 20 Best Rated and Most Rated Rift Games & Apps

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...

Quest Winter Sale Brings Deep Discounts to Top VR Titles, Ends December 26th

You might have checked out more than a few ways to spend your first $100 on the Quest Store, but the savings are so deep right now that you might just add a few more top VR titles to...

Resolution Games Estimates VR Has 5 Million Active Users

Resolution Games, which has been making VR games since 2016, estimates that the VR industry currently has around 5 million active VR users. In the VR industry it's hard to find good data on the number of headsets sold, and...
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Google’s Project Starline is a Light-field Display System for Immersive Video Calls

This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. This week during...

nDreams Raises £2.7M to Further Develop VR Games, Signs Deal to Bring Exclusive Content to VR...

nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies, have completed an additional £2 million investment with Mercia Technologies, and £700,000 from private investors to create more VR games. In addition, nDreams has signed a deal to bring exclusive new...

Early Versions of Meta’s Orion AR Glasses Envisioned a Neck-worn Compute Unit

Meta revealed its Orion prototype last year to show the progress it has made toward compact AR glasses. Today the company talked more about the prototyping process, especially regarding the 'compute puck' that offloads much of the heavy processing...
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