11 Tools for Painting, Modeling, Designing & Animating in VR
Though gaming is likely VR's most visible use-case so far, it's capable of so much more. Creatives are using VR for a wide range of artistic endeavors including painting, drawing, 3D modeling & sculpting, animating and more. If you're...
Collaborative Spatial Design App ‘ShapesXR’ Raises $8.6M, Expanding to Apple Vision Pro & Other Headsets
ShapesXR is a collaborative spatial design app built to make it easy to prototype spatial interfaces, interactions, and environments. The company announced today it has raised an $8.6 million seed investment, part of which the company plans to use...
‘Digital Lens’ Plugin for Eye-tracking Headsets Improves Visual Clarity & Pupil Swim
Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets.
Almalense argues that the lenses on most XR headsets today aren't...
Spy Puzzler ‘I Expect You To Die 3’ Release Dates Revealed for Quest & SteamVR, New...
Schell Games announced that I Expect You to Die 3: Cog in the Machine is coming soon on Quest, with its PC VR launch coming in September.
On Quest, IEYTD 3 is set to launch August 17th, while it's slated to arrive only...
Team Behind XR Productivity App ‘Immersed’ Announce Visor, a VR Headset for Work
The team behind XR productivity and co-working platform Immersed announced it's creating its own VR headset designed for work.
Following the lead set by Bigscreen with its recently unveiled PC VR headset Bigscreen Beyond, Immersed has partnered a still unnamed "tech...
After 6 Years in Person & 3 Remote, Why is Meta Connect Still Not Held in...
Oculus Connect. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Whatever the company is calling its annual XR developer conference, it's been nearly a decade since the first Connect was held—all of them either in-person or exclusively livestreamed. Pandemic notwithstanding, they all had...
‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Video Teases ‘endless dungeon’ Mode with Asynchronous Social Gameplay
Meta's Sanzaru Games released a new look at Asgard's Wrath 2 in a developer diary video that, in addition to showing off more of the upcoming action RPG, teases an opportunity to put your combat skills to the test against...
Meta’s Annual XR Conference Will Have an “In-person Presence” for the First Time Since 2019
Meta announced that Connect, its annual XR developer conference, will have an "in-person presence" this year, marking the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019.
Connect is set to take place on September 27th and 28th at...
Apple Joins Pixar, NVIDIA, & More to “accelerate next generation of AR experiences” with 3D File...
Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and development of a 3D file protocol that Apple says will "help accelerate...
Virtuix Raises $4.7M in Latest Crowd Investment, Plans to Ship 1,000 VR Treadmills by Year’s End
Virtuix, the company behind the Omni VR treadmill, announced it's raised $4.7 million through its latest crowd investment round. The Austin, Texas-based company also says it plans to ship 1,000 of its Omni One VR treadmills by the end of...














