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Meta Discounts Quest 3S 256GB by $50 for Limited Time, Includes Free Copy of ‘Batman: Arkham...
Meta has bundled in a free copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow (2023) with new Quest 3 and Quest 3S purchases since September, with the offer slated to expire in April 2025. Now Meta is sweetening the pot by reducing the...
Pimax Raises Another $13.6M to Accelerate the Development of Its VR Headset Business
Pimax, the Chinese startup known for its wide field-of-view (FOV) PC VR headsets, has secured an additional ¥CN100 million (~$13.6 million USD) in an extension to its Series C funding.
According to an initial report from 36Kr (Chinese), the investment round was...
Vision Pro Knock-off Gets High Praise From Former Quest Engineer
Wait, Apple Vision Pro doesn't come in black, does it? Nope, but Play For Dream MR does. And with what some are calling the 'Android Vision Pro', owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned...
Sony’s Enterprise MR Headset Set to Release Next Month, Priced at $4,750
We haven't heard much about Sony's SRH-S1 standalone MR headset over the past year, which the company revealed at CES 2024. Now, the enterprise-focused device has an official launch date and price.
Released in collaboration with Siemens, the soberly-named Sony SRH-S1 is set...
Shiftall Reveals Quest ‘Expansion’ Controller, New SteamVR Controllers
Shiftall, the Japan-based creators behind MeganeX PC VR headsets, announced two new VR controller accessories at CES 2025—a SteamVR-compatible controller for PC VR, and a unique add-on to Quest Touch controllers that give users a scroll wheel and extra...
Physics Action Puzzler ‘BONEWORKS’ is Coming to Quest 3, Pre-production for Next Game Announced
Stress Level Zero's physics-based sandbox follow-up BONELAB (2022) has done spectacularly well on Quest, although the studio still hasn't brought its award-winning physics action puzzler BONEWORKS (2019) to Meta's latest standalone hardware generation. That's about to change.
If you haven't played on...
Sony Shows Off ‘The Last of Us’ Immersive Attraction Concept That Should Be VR, But Sadly...
Sony unveiled a new location-based entertainment (LBE) concept based on The Last of Us game and TV franchise. While it looks ripe for VR arcades, it appears to be skipping VR headsets altogether for an array of large format LED...
VR & Flatscreen Indie Hit ‘Exit 8’ is Getting a Live Action Movie This Year, Trailer...
Exit 8 (2023), the indie hit walking simulator for PC and VR headsets, is getting a live action film, bringing its Tokyo underground anomalies to the big screen this year.
Exit 8 is being made into a full-length film for worldwide...
Immersive Web Company Infinite Reality Raises $3 Billion From a Private Investor
Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company's "vision for the next generation of the internet." Not only...
Scientists Build an Itty-bitty VR Headset to Better Study Mice
Researchers at Cornell University have developed 'MouseGoggles', a miniature VR headset with eye-tracking for mice, which was used to study complex behaviors during neural recordings.
Traditional small-animal VR systems have been limited by their size, immersivity, and lack of advanced...
First Impressions of ‘Surreal Touch’ Third-party Vision Pro Controllers
Surreal Touch is a Kickstarter-backed third-party motion controller for Vision Pro. The first batch of controllers began shipping in December (right on time), and early impressions are starting to roll out.
XR industry veteran Nima Zeighami is the creator of...
NVIDIA Announces GeForce Now Cloud Gaming Support for Quest 3/S, Vision Pro & Pico Headsets
NVIDIA announced at CES 2025 that its extending support for its cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW to Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico headsets.
The announcement doesn't appear to include support for VR cloud gaming—i.e. the...
Sony Announces ‘XYN’ Standalone MR Headset Prototype for Creatives, Release Date & Pricing Still to Be...
Sony announced a new prototype version of its previously revealed XR standalone for enterprise. Codenamed 'XYN', the company says it's targeting creators looking to make spatial content.
Update (January 9th, 2025): A previous version of this article reported that XYN...
Somnium Begins Shipping VR1 PC VR Headset in the US, Announces Incoming Price Hike
Somnium Space, the Prague, Czechia-based social platform creator, has officially begun launching its PC VR headset, Somnium VR1, in the US. Additionally, the company announced its streamlining the number of available variants, bringing it to just three consumer-focused versions,...
Meta Officially Discontinues Quest Pro, Its First (and most expensive) Mixed Reality Headset
Meta has officially discontinued Quest Pro, the company's first mixed reality headset.
Meta announced back in September that it was winding down Quest 2 and Quest Pro sales. At the time, the company said remaining stock would be sold through...




















