[Industry Direct] Varjo Celebrates Best Headworn Device Nomination with $300 Discount on Varjo Aero

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Quest’s Favorite Rocket League-style Sport ‘NOCK’ Coming to PSVR 2 Soon, Trailer Here

NOCK, the Rocket League-inspired VR sport that arms you with bow and arrow, is coming to PSVR 2 next week, bringing its fast-paced action to cross-platform online play. First launched on Quest 2 in in early 2022, developing studio Normal says Nock will...

Quest Update Includes More Home Customization, In-headset App Notifications & More

The latest software update for Meta Quest, version v54, is now rolling out, bringing with it a few new quality-of-life features, such as new customization options for Home environments, in-headset app notifications, and better tracking for Quest Pro's controller. Customizable...

Build Wild Contraptions in ‘Rube Goldberg Workshop’, Now Available on Quest

Rube Goldberg Workshop is now available on Quest, letting you make tons of different crazy—dare we say—Rube Goldbergian machines. Built on Quest's Presence platform, users can choose to play either in virtual reality or mixed reality, the latter allowing you...

Emerging with $61M in Funding, This “AR laptop” Aims to Close the Loop on Virtual Desktop...

First it was the desktop. Then the laptop. And now, the... spacetop? That's the category that Sightful hopes to carve out with its new "augmented reality laptop" which combines a pair of augmented reality glasses with a keyboard, allowing...

Samsung Acquires eMagin Microdisplay Maker, Citing ‘significant potential growth’ of XR Devices

eMagin, the US-based developer and manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, announced a merger agreement with Samsung Display, a subsidiary of the Korean tech giant. Samsung says it anticipates "significant potential growth" of XR devices. The company announced in...

Meta & BMW Are Integrating AR/VR Headsets into Cars, Release Timeline Uncertain

Initially announced in 2021, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared an update on the company's research partnership with BMW, which focuses on integrating AR and VR into vehicles to make people more productive, social, and entertained while traveling. The ultimate aim...

‘Firmament’ Review – Complex Puzzles & Visual Richness Lacking a Native VR Touch

Firmament was created in the spirit of Myst, the studio's genre-defining puzzle adventure which maroons you in a strange realm with some very imposing architecture, all of which houses a smorgasbord of some patently challenging puzzles. In this respect, Firmament is kind...

[Industry Direct] Grab a Great Deal on VR Games during Fanatical’s Bundlefest Celebration

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Recent Valve Hiring Hints at Next-gen Index Headset in Development

Since the release of its first (and so far, only) VR headset in 2019 and its flagship VR game in 2020, Valve has been worryingly quiet about its future plans for VR. But recent hiring and job listings suggest...