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‘Stay: Forever Home’ is Bringing a Loveable Little Mixed Reality Canine Pal to Quest Next Year

Indie studio Windup Minds have finally announced its long-awaited virtual pet simulator, Stay: Forever Home, bringing a cute little canine friend to Quest in early 2025. The studio says Stay: Forever Home blends AR, VR, and unscripted AI to create a more...

Snap Spectacles Offer a Peek into All-day AR with New Geo-location Platform Update

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, introduced its fifth-gen Spectacles AR glasses six months ago, and now the company is releasing a number of new features that aim to improve geo-located AR experiences. Released in September 2024, Spectacles are still very...

Quest New Year’s Game Sale Keeps the Discounts Rolling on Top VR Titles

Missed the Quest Winter Sale? Meta is offering up another opportunity to nab more paid Quest games on the cheap, including game bundles and a ton of top VR games. The Quest 'Celebrate 2023 Sale' is going from now until...

Nine Tips & Tricks for New Quest 2 Owners

Oculus Quest 2 is one of the best headsets for first-time VR users, and it's bringing plenty of new users into VR for the first time. Here's nine tips worth knowing right out of the gate to improve your...
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Action RPG ‘Swords of Gargantua’ Demo Now Available on Vive & Rift

We had a chance to go hands-on with Gumi and Yomuneco's Sword of Gargantua at GDC back in March, and while an official write-up never materialized out of the hectic game-filled dev conference, a demo for the studio's upcoming online action RPG...

‘Gorilla Tag’ Has Topped $100M in Revenue, Making it One of VR’s Most Successful Games

VR studio Another Axiom today announced that its breakout title, Gorilla Tag, has surpassed $100 million in revenue. The company shared other key metrics about its player population that shine light on the state of the VR market. Not long after...

Waveguide Maker DigiLens Announces New Investment at $530M Valuation

DigiLens, a maker of waveguide optics for AR glasses, today announced a second close of its Series D funding round, claiming a $530 million valuation. DigiLens is one of several companies building waveguide optics and positioning them for use in XR....

HTC Vive Pro Headset Permanently Reduced to $600

HTC Vive Pro launched in April 2018 with a few key improvements over the company's original 2016 HTC Vive headset, although its launch was marred somewhat by its steep retail price of $800 for the headset alone. Now the company...

‘Larcenauts’ Immersion Update Adds Two-handed Aiming, Manual Reloading & More

Impulse Gear announced that Larcenauts (2021), its 6v6 hero shooter for PC VR and Oculus Quest, is getting a few key updates today which focus on increasing immersion in the game. The cross-play hero shooter first launched June 17th with...

TPCAST Announces Business Edition Wireless VR Kit, Up to 6 Simultaneous Users

TPCAST, makers of a 60GHz wireless VR add-on for the HTC Vive, have announced a Business Edition version of the device which is said to allow up to six of the units to work in one local space without...

HP Reverb G2 Discounted to Lowest Price Yet for US Black Friday Sale

HP's Reverb G2 is a solid PC VR headset with class-leading resolution. Now the headset is on sale for its lowest price yet in the US for Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2022. The Best Reverb G2 Black Friday &...

How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics in VR

The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you'll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. NBC has partnered with...

Nokia Significantly Boosts OZO Capture Quality With Firmware and Software Updates

Nokia’s improvements to the software for their professional OZO VR camera platform are significant enough that the company has opted to now call their VR camera the 'OZO+', even though the hardware remains the same. This is the result...

Microsoft Announces Mesh, a Foundation for Building Multi-user XR Applications

Today during the Microsoft Ignite developer conference, the company announced Mesh, a new cloud-based service which Microsoft says will streamline the creation of multi-user XR applications. Soon to be offered under Microsoft's Azure cloud computing arm, Mesh is a foundation...

Meta Restructures Reality Labs to Better Focus on Ray-Ban Smartglasses and Other Wearables

Reality Labs, Meta's XR division formed in 2020, is now being reorganized into two distinct groups, 'Wearables' and 'Metaverse', which reportedly comes along a "relatively small" number of layoffs. As reported by The Verge's Alex Heath, Meta CTO and head of...
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