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Sales of Valve’s Index Headset Are Waning After Years of Surprising Longevity

Valve's Index VR headset is now more than four years old. Despite its age, the headset continued to sell at a surprising rate over the years—but as they say, nothing lasts forever. Valve launched Index with the goal of setting...

Late to PSVR 2, ‘Beat Saber’ Continues to Dominate Most Downloaded Charts

Beat Saber, VR's favorite block-slashing rhythm game, came to PlayStation VR 2 well past the headset's February 2023 launch, coming to Sony's latest VR headset in late May. And while Beat Saber topped the May charts within only one week...

Asymmetric VR Game ‘DAVIGO’ Among Most-Played Steam Next Fest Demos

Steam Next Fest, Valve's indie showcase featuring free demos for upcoming PC games, had the most demo downloads in Next Fest history last month, and among the top titles was the asymmetric VR game Davigo. Valve announced the 50 most-played...

Meta CTO Says Quest 3 Announcement Timing Had ‘Nothing to do with Vision Pro’

Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth said this week that the announcement of Quest 3, which came just days ahead of Vision Pro reveal, had nothing to do with the timing of Apple's first public foray into XR. "People won't believe...

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. Meta...

SteamVR Now Supports Automatic Controller Binding, Making Weird VR Controllers a Little Less Weird

Valve released its 1.26 update to SteamVR, which ought to make it easier to play any VR game using any type of motion controller thanks to automatic controller binding. The company initially released a Compatibility Mode in its 1.24 update...

Meta Reportedly in Talks With Tencent to Bring Quest to China

Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to get back in that country with Quest, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report...

HTC Quietly Retires Vive Cosmos in the US

After being out of stock for months, HTC quietly removed the US-facing product page for Vive Cosmos, its modular PC VR headset released in 2019. The discrepancy was first discovered by Reddit user 'Kody1996', who wondered why the Vive Cosmos...

Report: Samsung Delays XR Headset Due to Stiff Competition from Apple Vision Pro

Samsung's upcoming XR headset, which is meant to compete with Apple Vision Pro, has been delayed by "one to two quarters" from its reported early 2024 release target, according to an SBS Biz (Korean) report. Samsung announced in February it was developing...

This Quest Pro Game Recreates Sword Art Online’s Lovably Bad User Interface

Looking to immerse yourself into Sword Art Online (SAO)? While there are plenty of VR games that offer the sort of massive multiplayer immersion fans of the manga and anime series have craved over the years, a game built...

China’s Largest Telecom Forms Metaverse Industry Alliance, Including Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC & Unity

China Mobile, that country's largest wireless carier with over 940 million subscribers, has formed a metaverse industry alliance including some of the biggest names in China-based tech. As reported by Shanghai Securities News (Chinese), China Mobile announced during Mobile World...

Meta’s Twisted Pixel Studio is Building an Unannounced VR Title with Unreal Engine

Following the studio's acquisition by Meta late last year, we haven't heard much about Twisted Pixel, a veteran VR game studio which made several exclusive titles for Meta. Now we've learned of the first details of the studio's next...

Apple Reportedly Has No Plans to Make or Support VR Controllers for Vision Pro

If a recent Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman holds true, not only is Apple not planning to release a motion controller for Vision Pro in the future, but it may not even support third-party VR controllers at all. When the...

Former Oculus CTO Reviews Bigscreen Beyond: “like a prop for a futuristic movie”

John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, is known for giving his unfiltered thoughts on almost every aspect of the XR industry. While he departed Meta in December, concluding his "decade in VR," Carmack is still very...

Company Plans to Sell $40K Apple Vision Pro to People With a Desperate Need to Flaunt...

"Luxury" accessory maker Caviar plans to sell desecrated customized Apple Vision Pro for the high, high price of $40,000. The ridiculous price is the whole point. For anyone who has so much money that they don't have anything left to...
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