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‘Firmament’ Kickstarter Boasts 10,000 Backers, But Still Needs Over $400K to Succeed
Cyan, the creators of genre-defining puzzle adventure games Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), are only a week away from the end of their latest campaign, a new VR puzzler called Firmament. With still over $400,000 to go, the company is...
Oculus Founder Vows to Create Audio Repair Kit for Rifts Out of Warranty
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has since moved on to greener pastures after leaving Facebook in 2017, founding his own border defense firm Anduril Industries. That hasn't kept him from mulling over some of the niggling issues with the now...
A Concise Beginner’s Guide to Apple Vision Pro Design & Development
Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in...
DC Entertainment Bringing ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Experience to Gear VR and Oculus Rift
Today it's been announced that Warner Bros., DC Entertainment, and OTOY are collaborating to recreate the iconic Batcave from Batman: The Animated Series in virtual reality for Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. OTOY is providing what they call...
Square Enix Launches Its First Vive-exclusive Game, ‘Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR’, in Japan
Videogame publisher and developer Square Enix, famous for its Final Fantasy franchise, among others, has launched its first game for the HTC Vive, Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR in Japan.
In collaboration with game developer GREE, Square Enix has published its first Vive title,...
NGCodec Closes $8M Series A Investment, Aiming to Make Low Latency Cloud-based VR a Reality
NGCodec, a cloud video processing company creating low latency codecs for video and interactive VR, announced the closure of an $8 million Series A funding round, bringing their total funds to $15.9 million. Investors in the most recent funding round...
‘Fruit Ninja VR 2’ Comes to SteamVR Headsets in Early Access, Multiplayer Coming Soon
Fruit Ninja VR (2016) is a quintessential game for novice VR players thanks to its simple and clear-cut task: slice up flying fruit in VR using your own two hands and rack up the points. Now developer Halfbrick Studios...
Playing ‘Beat Saber’ Could Burn the Same Number of Calories as Tennis
According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. With all that block slicing, dodging and leaning, you could burn as many...
Oculus is Considering an Over-ear Headphone Accessory for Rift S
Oculus announced its next iteration of Rift this week at GDC, Rift S. While there's a few key differences about the upcoming hardware specs-wise, it seems the company has also taken a page out of Go's playbook by including...
‘X Mask’ Aims to Bring Face-tracking to Consumers in Unique Facemask Form Factor
Dolami, a Japanese startup based both in the US and Japan, announced it raised 100 million yen (~$730,000) this week to help bring X Mask to market, a unique facemask capable of tracking a user's facial movements in VR....
WaveOptics Raises $26 Million to Expand AR Optics Supply Chain
WaveOptics, a manufacturer of diffractive waveguide optics for AR displays, today announced it has raised a $25 million Series C investment which will be used to continue building a large volume supply chain for the company's optics.
UK-based WaveOptics said...
AWE 2021 Returns With In-person Conference Planned for November
With nearly all major XR events cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, it's been a somewhat odd year for the industry. With vaccines starting to roll out in the US, AWE has set a hopeful November date as...
‘I Expect You To Die 3’ Action Revealed in New Gameplay Trailer, Coming Soon to Quest...
Schell Games announced during Meta's big Quest Gaming Showcase today that I Expect You to Die 3: Cog in the Machine is coming in Summer 2023. There's also a new gameplay trailer to show off the sequel's spy-flavored, escape...
Samsung Gear VR Heads to More than 100 Best Buys for Demo and Sale
Samsung is getting a bit more bold with what's so far been a fairly soft launch for the company's first mobile headset, Gear VR. Come March 27th, Gear VR will be available in more than 100 Best Buy locations...
The Best Black Friday VR Deals: Quest 3S, PSVR 2, Ray-Ban Meta & More on Deep...
Black Friday 2025 is a great time to grab some of the best deals on VR gear, including deep discounts on Meta Quest 3S, PSVR 2, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, VR games and more.
Meta Quest 3S
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