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AR Glasses Startup Nreal Secures $40M in Series B Financing
Nreal, the China-based company behind the Nreal Light AR glasses, today announced its secured another $40 million in funding.
As reported by TechCrunch, the latest financing round was led by Chinese video sharing platform Kuaishou, with participation by iQiyi, GP Capital,...
Meta Introduces ‘Super Resolution’ Feature for Improved Quest Visuals
Meta today introduced a new developer feature called Super Resolution that's designed to improve the look of VR apps and games on Quest. The company says the new feature offers better quality upscaling at similar costs as previous techniques.
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VR’s Trippiest Social-Music Platform ‘TheWaveVR’ Launches on Steam, Adds $4M in Seed Funds
Social VR platform TheWaveVR is now in open beta and delivering weekly DJ sets in its wild and weird environment filled with psychedelic interactive art. Distributing free of charge on Steam Early Access for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the platform lets you watch, host,...
‘Carly and the Reaperman’ Launches with Quest-to-Quest & Quest-to-PC Asymmetric Co-op
Asymmetric co-op VR games—where each user plays a wholly different gameplay role—are a rare breed. Fortunately, the well regarded Carly and the Reaperman has launched on Quest and brings with it more ways to play with friends.
Update (April 16th, 2021): Carly and...
Oculus Warns Users Not to Use Note 7 in Gear VR Headset Amid Exploding Phone Recall
Amid a global recall for the newly launched Note 7 due to exploding battery issues, Oculus warns that users should not use the device in the Gear VR headset prior to getting it replaced.
Following official confirmation of the defect...
Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month
Bigscreen has released the latest lineup of big-name movies premiering this month in its recently released 'VR Cinema' feature.
A virtual reality movie theater always has felt like an obvious shoe-in for VR, a sentiment illustrated by some of our...
One Explosion and Three Launch Aborts Later, HoloLens Finally in Use Aboard ISS
NASA has been quite active in experimenting with the latest AR and VR technology to explore how it might be useful for space exploration. They have several ongoing collaborations with Microsoft's HoloLens, including 'Project Sidekick' which aims to aid...
Virtual Reality Invades IndieCade 2014
The gaming world is pivoting towards virtual reality as more and more conferences and festivals begin playing with VR. This momentum was extremely prevalent at this year’s IndieCade in Southern California as about a quarter of the booths contained...
Gear VR Tops 1 Million Monthly Active Users
Oculus today announced a major milestone for Gear VR, the company's mobile VR headset made in collaboration with Samsung.
Gear VR launched at the end of 2015 with an agreeable price of $99. Following an aggressive giveaway alongside pre-orders of...
Jim Ryan Appointed President & CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony has officially announced that John Kodera has stepped down as president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), making way for previous SIE deputy president Jim Ryan to take the position.
Kodera is moving to a position in the...
Valve Index Now Available in 31 Countries Including Canada & Japan
This week Valve announced that the Index headset and other hardware can now be bought and shipped to Canada and Japan, in addition to 28 other regions.
Update (November 22st, 2019): Valve announced this week that the Index headset and...
Immersive Education with Google Expeditions, AR, & Virtual Tours
Google's mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and so it's a natural fit that they'd be a leader in creating educational experiences for AR & VR. Google Expeditions continues to...
News Bits: Oculus Connect Conference Registration Delayed
Earlier this week, Oculus VR announced Oculus Connect, a VR developer conference to be hosted at the end of September in Los Angeles, California. Registration was slated to open this morning at midnight, but Oculus says they need more...
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to Testify in Oculus Vs ZeniMax Lawsuit
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to give a deposition in the long-running dispute between virtual reality company Oculus and games publisher Zenimax media after the latter claimed its intellectual property was used to improve the former's Oculus...
Valve Reveals 2017’s Top Selling VR Games on Steam
At the start of the New Year Valve has released a look back at 2017's best selling VR titles on Steam.
Just in time for the end of the Steam Winter Sale (concluding January 4th @ 10AM PT), Valve has...



















