Sightful Cancels Headless AR Workstation ‘Spacetop’, Pivots to Windows AR Software

Sightful, the hardware startup working to carve out a new 'headless AR laptop' niche, has cancelled plans for its $1,900 Spacetop G1. Unveiled back in May, Spacetop G1 was set to be the company's first commercially available product following the...
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Hit Physics Platformer ‘Human Fall Flat’ is Coming to All Major VR Headsets This Month

Curve Games and No Brakes Games, makers of indie hit Human Fall Flat (2016), are bringing an entirely new version of the wibbly physics platformer to all major VR headsets this month. Update (October 9th, 2024): Human Fall Flat VR...

Vive Pro 2 Gets Best Price Yet in Amazon Prime Deal

Here's a deal that should be on your radar if you're in the market for a PC VR headset. For the next two days Amazon Prime members can get Vive Pro 2 at its steepest discount yet. Vive Pro 2...

Samsung Reportedly Deepens XR Ties with Google in Push for Ray-Ban Smartglasses Competitor

Samsung and Google announced in early 2023 that, along with Qualcomm, they'd be releasing an “XR platform” based on Android, which could also see the release of a high-end mixed reality headset. While we still haven't heard exactly what...

‘Band Space’ is Bringing ‘Rock Band’ Style Multiplayer Rhythm Gaming to Quest and PC VR This...

Smartmelon Games and Fast Travel Games announced its multiplayer VR rhythm title, Band Space, is set to launch on Quest and PC VR this month, bringing some very Rock Band-inspired gameplay to VR. Come October 24th, Smartmelon is launching Band...
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‘Metro Awakening’ Gameplay Shows Off Patently Tense Combat, Immersive VR Take on Familiar Mechanics

Leading up to its November 7th release, Vertigo Games detailed more about its upcoming standalone VR prequel to the Metro series, Metro Awakening, including some familiar survival mechanics at the heart of gameplay such as the gas mask, flashlight,...
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Meta Orion Interview Dives Deep Into Details Like Resolution, Battery Life, & More

Meta's biggest reveal at last week's Connect conference was definitely the Orion prototype AR glasses, which the company says it's been working on for nearly five years. It's a big deal not only because of how compact it is,...

‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom VR’ Quest Hands-on: Promises of Immersion Dulled By Restrictive Gameplay

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new sort of VR film hybrid for Quest, mashing up a movie's worth of real-time rendered narrative with sprinkles of first-person gameplay, billing itself an 'interactive anime'. On paper, it sounds really cool,...

Meta’s Head of XR Apologizes to Oculus Founder Regarding His Ousting

Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief, has publicly apologized to Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus who was ousted from the company in 2017 for political reasons. To this day, Meta (ex-Facebook) never publicly confirmed why Luckey was...

Meta Acquired 9 Leading VR Studios Starting in 2019: Here’s What’s Happened Since

Meta has aggressively expanded its VR game portfolio with the acquisition of nine VR studios since 2019. We take a look what's come of these deals over the last five years. Acquisition by Meta usually means a few things. Sometimes...