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HP is Using HoloLens to Help Customers Remotely Repair Industrial Printers

HP this week announced its 'xRServices' program which equips customers of its industrial printers with a HoloLens 2 headset, allowing the company to provide immersive remote support for repairs, training, and more. While many AR companies are focused on building...

Resolution Games Expands to Focus More Development on AR Games

Resolution Games, a leading developer of XR content, today revealed a new AR division of the company that will focus more directly on the creation of AR content. Today during the Augmented World Expo conference, Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm...

Qualcomm is Preparing Developers for the Coming Wave of Smartphone-tethered AR Glasses

Today at AWE 2021, Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform, a head-worn AR software suite the company is using to kickstart a broader move towards smartphone-tethered AR glasses. Qualcomm says its Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform offers a host...

‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Comes to Quest 2 Next Week With Cross-buy

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, first launched on PC VR headsets last year, is coming to Quest 2 next week. Cross-buy is confirmed, meaning players that bought the game on Oculus PC will own the Quest 2 version...

Niantic Kickstarts Its AR Metaverse with Release of Lightship SDK and $20M Developer Fund

At a special launch event today, Niantic announced it's opening up the Lightship AR Development Kit (ARDK) platform, a software development kit with the kinds of tools the company uses to make Pokémon Go’s ‘world-scale’ gameplay possible. And to attract third-party developers...
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‘The Secret of Retropolis’ is the Latest App Lab Success to Make the Leap to the...

Meta's App Lab now counts over 500 VR games and experiences, a majority of which still haven't passed the curation process to make the leap to the Quest Store. Now, well-rated adventure game The Secret of Retropolis has made the jump,...
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Animated Quest Series ‘Tales From Soda Island’ Releases Another Patently Charming Episode Today

Tales from Soda Island, an animated VR series built in Quill, just released its latest free chapter which takes users on another wild and beautiful voyage through a world of pure imagination. Called 'The School Trip', chapter five is accessible...

Time-traveling Adventure ‘Wanderer’ Releasing on PSVR & PC VR in January, Extended Gameplay Here

M Theory and Oddboy announced that their time-traveling VR adventure title Wanderer is officially launching on PSVR and PC VR headsets on January 27th, 2022. Update (November 5th, 2021): M Theory and Oddboy announced that Wanderer finally has a street...

Meta Hackathon This Month Challenges Devs to Use Its Latest XR Tools for $700,000 in Prizes

Meta (formerly Facebook) is offering up $700,000 in cash prizes this month in an XR hackathon aimed at developers and creators from all over the world. The objective: choose between Spark AR and Presence Platform and build something cool...

‘Blade & Sorcery: Nomad’ Review – Fun Physics-based Combat Slimmed Down for Quest 2

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad almost feels like a work of digital wizardry, as it brings a standalone version of the hit physics-based combat sandbox exclusively to Quest 2 for the first time. Although it doesn't feel as visually visceral as...