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Hand-tracking Pioneer Ultraleap Initiates Layoff Amid Major Restructuring
Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking module, informed staff on Wednesday that it was proposing a layoff amid a potential restructuring of the business that could see the company split in two.
The Bristol, UK-based company acquired Leap...
Quest 2 Goes out of Stock at Meta Store as Rumors Point to Next Headset
Availability of Quest 2 direct from Meta seems to have dried up, as the company's last-gen headset is now showing out of stock in nearly all regions—likely making way for what's next.
Although you can probably find new Quest 2...
Meta Ditches Its Own Tools in Favor of LIV Partnership for Mixed Reality Capture on Quest
There are a few great ways to market VR games, but there's arguably none better than by showing real people immersed in virtual environments thanks to mixed reality capture. While Meta has its own Mixed Reality Capture tool (MRC),...
New ‘Chrono Weaver’ Demo Brings More ‘Portal’ Inspired Puzzling to Quest & PC VR
Indie studio Ivory Crow Games have released a new demo for Chrono Weaver, a single player game that lets you make copies of yourself to solve physics-based puzzles.
Set in a mysterious science facility filled with mind-bending puzzles, you use...
Meta’s Social VR Platform Now Coming to Every Country Supporting Quest
Meta's social VR platform Horizon Worlds hasn't been available to everyone, with the company restricting the app's use to only a few countries. Now it's rightfully rolling out to every region where Quest is supported.
Despite being available on the...
2D to 3D Photo Conversion in visionOS 2 is the Real Deal
The 2D to 3D photo conversion feature coming to Vision Pro in VisionOS 2.0 makes a novel capability meaningful for the first time.
Cue “Apple didn’t even do it first!” in the comments.
You're not wrong. There’s been seemingly a hundred...
‘RIVEN’ Review – An Okay VR Port of an Awesome Game Still Worth Playing
RIVEN (1997), the sequel to iconic point-and-click puzzle-adventure MYST (1993), just got the VR treatment in its new remake. Unlike Myst, which felt a little too game-y and obtuse at times, Riven plays a lot more like a modern title, which thanks to Quest and...
Report: Sony Balks on PSVR 2 Game Development
Sony is getting ready to release tethered PC VR support for PSVR 2 this summer, but that may be one of the last meaningful things the company does for its increasingly latchkey VR hardware.
According to a report by...
Vision Pro Gets Its First Native City Builder Game Next Month
Apple Vision Pro isn't exactly brimming with XR games yet, although starting next month you'll be able to jump into a classic city builder that has been updated to include full mixed reality support.
Magic Fuel Games is releasing Cityscapes:...
‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Development Started in Late 2020, Rocksteady Alums Among the Dev Team
Batman: Arkham Shadow is the next big first-party title from Meta, headed exclusively to Quest 3 later this year. In an interview with the founder of the studio behind the game, we learned more about the origin of the title,...
Meta Releases Tool to Let You Force Quest OS Updates via PC Tether
Meta has released a tool that will allow Quest users the ability to force software updates via a tethered connection.
Update (11:50 AM ET): It appears the tool is now live. The original article reporting the tool prior to its...
Immersive Puzzler ‘Infinite Inside’ to Release on Vision Pro & All Major Headsets Next Month
Maze Theory today announced that its upcoming immersive puzzle-adventure game Infinite Inside is set to arrive next month, coming to all major headsets.
Initially released as a demo on Quest earlier this year, the full game is set to arrive...
New Meta Accelerator Aims to Fund Quest Developers Building ‘Lifestyle Apps’ Using MR, AI, & Hand-tracking
Meta announced a new developer accelerator aimed at kickstarting 'Lifestyle' apps for Quest which make use of mixed reality, AI and hand-tracking.
Meta says in the announcement selected participants of its new 'Meta Quest Lifestyle App Accelerator' can apply for seed-stage...
Oculus Founder’s New XR Headset Built Around “military requirements” but Also “used for non-military stuff”
This week at AWE 2024, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey spoke briefly about a new XR headset he's developing. Though the headset would see Luckey returning to the XR space, this one is being built with military, rather than consumer,...
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...



















