VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S
It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path...
Samsung XR and EarthX Debut Environmentally-focused 360 Short Films
Samsung and EarthX have debuted a dozen immersive short films on the Samsung XR video platform from environmentally-focused filmmakers, with more to come.
Samsung XR is Samsung's immersive video platform, and home to more than 10,000 videos. This week the platform...
‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Comes to PS Plus Members for Free Starting Today, ‘Black Dawn’ Update Now...
Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the tactical team shooter for PSVR, is headed to PS Plus members for free starting today, February 4th.
Update (February 4th, 2020): Firewall Zero Hour is now free for PS Plus members who download the game...
Canon Unveils Enterprise-focused AR Headset ‘MREAL Display MD-20’
Japanese tech giant Canon today unveiled its next enterprise-focused AR headset which aims to replace its MREAL Display MD-10, which the company launched in Japan in mid-2016 for the astounding price tag of ¥9 million (~$82,300).
The PC-tethered AR headset,...
LYNX Reveals Standalone MR Headset with Snapdragon XR2, Eye-tracking, & Novel Optics
French startup LYNX today revealed the R-1, a standalone VR headset built for pass-through AR and powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon XR2 chip. The enterprise-focused headset uses a novel lens design which makes it compact.
Lynx is a new player...
‘Astro Bot’ Director Nicolas Doucet Takes Over as Head of Sony’s JAPAN Studio
Nicolas Doucet, the Creative Director and Producer behind PSVR exclusive ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission (2018), has been promoted to Director of Sony Interactive Entertainment's JAPAN Studio.
As first reported by Gematsu, Doucet is said to continue his work as a creative director...
Masters of Pie Secures $4.7M to Further Develop AR/VR Tools for Enterprise
Masters of Pie, an enterprise-focused AR/VR studio, announced its secured £3.6 million (~$4.7 million), something the company says will help double its development team and add support for cloud streaming and IoT data to its flagship product, Radical SDK.
The funding...
Months After Its Expected Launch, the ‘Oculus for Business’ Program is Still “Available Soon”
Back at the end of April, 2019, Oculus introduced "the new Oculus for Business" program, an enterprise-focused program which would see Oculus headsets sold with customized software aimed at large scale device management and business and commercial use-cases, along with...
Social AR/VR Workspace ‘Spatial’ Secures $14M Series A Financing
Spatial, a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million.
The latest funding round was led by White Star Capital, iNovia and Kakao Ventures, with...
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘people bought nearly $5M in Oculus Store content on Christmas Day’
In Facebook's quarterly earnings call yesterday, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Oculus Store had sold nearly $5 million worth of content on Christmas Day alone.
Zuckerberg says in the Q4 2019 earnings call that the Christmas Day boom was...














