Cas & Chary Present: Hands-on with Nreal Light, One of the First Consumer-available AR Glasses
Nreal is a China-based startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses, which aim for a sunglasses-like design. By hooking it up to your (Android) phone, it’s able to project virtual objects in your real environment and even allow you...
Rhythm-Action Game ‘AVICII Invector’ Coming to Quest 2 Later This Month
A VR version of rhythm-action game AVICII Invector (2019) is headed to Meta Quest 2 on January 27th, celebrating the music of the late Swedish DJ Tim 'AVICII' Bergling.
Like the game that launched on console and PC in 2019,...
Quest’s Home Environment May Soon Get The Social Capabilities We’ve Been Waiting For
Back in October, Meta announced that it would eventually transition its home environment to 'Horizon Home', giving it a fuller set of social features like being able to invite party members to visit, hang out, or launch into VR...
Historical Cooking Sim ‘Lost Recipes’ Coming to Quest January 27th
Schell Games today announced that Lost Recipes, its upcoming historical cooking sim, is set to release January 27th on the Quest platform, bringing with it the chance to cook ancient recipes in period accurate kitchens from around the world.
Arriving from the VR...
Meta Plans to Fuse Its ‘Horizon’ Apps & Make Them More Accessible… Eventually
Though Meta is steadily building up three social VR apps—Horizon Worlds, Horizon Venues, and Horizon Workrooms—the trio still exist as separate apps and hardly constitute a seamless experience. In the future the company hopes to change that and open...
HTC Announces Wrist Tracker for Vive Focus 3, Releasing in Early 2022 for $129
HTC unveiled a new VR tracker device at CES 2022 today, this time targeting its $1,300 enterprise-focused standalone headset, Vive Focus 3. It's slated to go on sale sometime early this year, starting at $129.
Unlike its SteamVR-compatible Vive Tracker,...
Mojo Vision Raises Additional $45M to Put Smart Contacts in the Eyes of Athletes
Mojo Vision announced it's raised an additional $45 million in its Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will support further development of Mojo Lens, its early stage smart contact lens.
Mojo Lens is ostensibly years away from commercialization,...
Sony Announces PlayStation VR 2 Specs Including Eye-tracking, HDR, & 110° Field-of-view
Today during Sony's CES 2022 press conference the company revealed the first details on PlayStation VR 2, including eye-tracking, a "4K" HDR display, and a 110° Field-of-view.
For the first time today, Sony confirmed that its next-gen VR headset for...
PSVR 2 is Getting a Made-for-VR Game in the ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ Universe
Today during Sony's CES 2022 press conference the company not only confirmed a bunch of PSVR 2 specs, but also announced Horizon Call of the Mountain, a new made-for-VR game that will take players inside the world of Horizon, one...
Qualcomm & Microsoft Partner on “custom AR chips” for Next-gen, Lightweight Glasses
Today during Qualcomm's CES 2022 press conference, the company announced a partnership with fellow tech-giant Microsoft which will involve "designing custom AR chips and integrating software platforms."
Qualcomm and Microsoft today strengthened their growing relationship in the XR space with...
