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Dave & Buster’s Hosts Wireless VR System from VRcade, ‘Time Zombies’ and ‘Interstellar Marine’s Bullseye’

Dave & Buster's Milpitas, CA location is now playing host to the restaurant arcade chain's first wireless VR system, an optically tracked solution created by VRcade. VRcade, a gaming and entertainment-centric division of VRstudios, have launched two titles on their...

iPhone 16 Adds Spatial Photos and Spatial Audio Capture for Vision Pro

Apple announced its new iPhone 16 is getting a little more spatial with the addition of both spatial photos and audio, essentially putting it in line with Vision Pro's capture capabilities. The company's big event on Monday didn't bring any giant revelations for...

Facebook to Discontinue Rift Product Line in 2021, Will No Longer Build PC-only VR Headsets

Capping off dwindling interest in the PC side of the VR spectrum, Facebook said today that it will discontinue the Rift product line early 2021 and will no longer build PC-only VR headsets. Though the company says “the Rift...

Pimax Promises a Sneak Peek at ‘Next-gen’ VR Product on October 25th

Pimax announced its holding a product event on October 25th that will introduce a next-gen VR headset, something that the company promises will be "several generations ahead of anything currently on the market." The event, dubbed Frontier 2021, was originally...

Reality Labs Revenue Drops to Lowest Point on Record Ahead of Quest 3 Launch

Meta today announced its third quarter earnings, revealing that revenue of its Reality Labs XR division dropped to its lowest point on record, just ahead of the launch of Quest 3. All eyes are now on the holiday season...
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Build Your VR Hardware with 3D Printing — USC Launches Open Source DIY VR Website

The University of Southern California's 'MxR' Lab today launched an 'open source' DIY virtual reality website. The lab is making freely available many of their innovative virtual reality hardware and software projects. Users can download schematics to 3D print...

Quest 2 Continues to Grow by Leaps and Bounds Among VR Headsets on Steam

Despite being marketed primarily as a standalone headset, Quest 2 is continuing its meteoric rise among VR headsets used on PC through Steam. Last month the headset picked up another 3.54% of the share of headsets on the platform,...

Magic Leap Promises “closer look” at Its AR Headset During Today’s Livestream

Magic Leap—which first announced its headset, the Magic Leap One, back in December—could finally offer a glimpse of what the device can actually do during a developer livestream hosted by the company today. Update (6/6/18, 5:40PM PT): The livestream concluded...

Magic Leap 2 Controller May Use On-board Inside-out Tracking, an Industry-first

A new photo of Magic Leap 2 appears to show the device's controller equipped with cameras for inside-out tracking which would be the first time we've seen the approach employed in a commercial XR headset. Though we learned plenty of...

Roto VR Picks up $1.86M Investment to Support Roll-out of Rotating VR Chair

Roto VR, the UK-based makers of the eponymous 360-degree VR chair, today announced its completed a £1.5 million (~$1.86 million) funding round. Investors include Consumer Venture Capital Trust, Pembroke VCT, and The TVB Growth Fund. You may remember Roto VR...

New PSVR Bundle with ‘Skyrim VR’ Will Include Updated Headset for $450

Sony is quietly releasing the new hardware refresh of PlayStation VR they announced last month in a newly revealed Skyrim VR bundle which delivers everything you need to jump into Tamriel with sword and fire spell in hand (except the PS4...

‘Beat Saber’ Vaults to #2 Most Downloaded PSVR Title of 2018, ‘Job Simulator’ #1 (again)

Sony today released a list of the top ten most downloaded titles of 2018, and while many of the same faces have made an appearance on PSVR's chart again, including the platform's launch day juggernaut Job Simulator at the number...

Intel Reveals Project Alloy, an All-in-one VR Headset With Mobile Positional Tracking

Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an "open platform." On stage at IDF 2016, Intel CEO Brian...

Custom Levels Coming to ‘Beat Saber’ on Quest

Beat Saber (2018) players on PC have a certain luxury of choice that their PSVR and Quest-owning counterparts simply don't: easy access to user-created mods that indefinitely expand the game's number of playable tracks, and now, an official level editor...

Google’s ‘Project Soli’ Radar Hand Tracking and How VR and AR Might Use it

Google's I/O 2015 conference last week was packed with technology with potential uses with VR or AR. The most unusual among them, Project Soli, uses radar technology to detect minute movements and gestures and translate them for input. Google ATAP (Advanced...
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