XR Industry News
The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.
Alibaba Launches Smart Glasses to Rival Meta Ray-Ban Display
Alibaba released a pair of display-clad smart glasses, ostensibly looking to go toe-to-toe with Meta Ray-Ban Display, which launched in the US for $800 back in September.
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China's Alibaba, one the world's largest retailers and e-commerce companies, just released its...
FluxPose VR Tracker Raises $2M on Kickstarter, Promising Compact 6DOF Body Tracking
FluxPose is a 6DOF tracking solution for full-body tracking that seems to be picking up speed on Kickstarter, having now garnered over $2 million in crowdfunding since its initial launch on November 29th.
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FluxPose is a full-body tracking system...
Pico Reportedly Releasing Vision Pro Competitor in 2026 with Self-developed Chip
Zhenyuan Yang, Vice President of Technology at Pico parent company ByteDance, reportedly revealed plans for Pico's next XR headset, which is said to sport a self-developed display chip and 4,000 PPI microOLED display.
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According to Chinese news outlet Science...
Godot Gets Big OpenXR Update Aiming to Attract XR Devs from Unity
Godot, the open source game engine, has included basic OpenXR support for a number of years now, allowing developers to easily publish their apps across a variety of XR headsets. Now, Godot just an update that brings even more...
VR Design Unpacked: This 2019 Game Still Sets the Bar for Open World VR
Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great immersive design. Today we’re looking at the clever design of Stormland's weapons, multi-modal locomotion, and open-world.
Editor’s Note: Stormland was released six years ago today! In celebration of the its release anniversary, we’re...
Watch The VR Games Showcase Right Here at 9AM PT
It’s very nearly time for the next iteration of the VR Games Showcase. VRGS is VR’s leading Direct-style digital showcase dedicated to revealing high-quality VR games and showing updates on some of your most anticipated projects.
We’ve got a massive...
Valve Says No New First-party VR Game is in Development
Steam Frame has finally been revealed and promises to let players access most of their Steam library (be it VR or otherwise) right from the headset. Unfortunately, that won’t include any new VR content from Valve, the company has...
Former Magic Leap Engineers Launch No-code AR Creation Platform, Aiming to Be ‘Canva of AR’
Trace, a startup founded by former Magic Leap engineers, today announced the launch of a new augmented reality creation platform the company hopes will become the "Canva of AR".
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Trace says it's targeting everyone from global brands to independent...
VR Games Showcase Brings Fresh Game Reveals on November 13, in Partnership with Road to VR
VR Games Showcase is back next week for its final show of the year, and it’s filled with new game announcements, trailers, and updates. For the first time, VRGS is proud to officially partner with Road to VR to...
Cambridge & Meta Study Raises the Bar for ‘Retinal Resolution’ in XR
It's been a long-held assumption that the human eye is capable of detecting a maximum of 60 pixels per degree (PPD), which is commonly called 'retinal' resolution. Any more than that, and you'd be wasting pixels. Now, a recent...
‘MultiBrush’ Studio Secures $4.5M Grant to Promote Positive VR Experiences for Elders
Rendever, the company behind Tilt Brush-based multiplayer Quest app MultiBrush (2022), has secured nearly $4.5 million in grant funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the company says it will use to bring its elder-focused VR...
Magic Leap Announces Multi-year AR Hardware Partnership with Google
Magic Leap announced this week at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia its latest AR hardware plans along with a renewed partnership with Google.
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Google and Magic Leap announced in May 2024 a “strategic technology partnership”...
Meta to Ship Project Aria Gen 2 to Researchers in 2026, Paving the Way for Future...
Meta announced it’s shipping out Project Aria Gen 2 to third-party researchers next year, which the company hopes will accelerate development of machine perception and AI technologies needed for future AR glasses and personal AI assistants.
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Meta debuted Project...
Galaxy XR is the Headset the Industry Needs to Take Its Next Major Step
Samsung's Galaxy XR is finally here, and with it, a perfect middle-ground of price and features to simultaneously turn up the competitive pressure on both Meta and Apple.
Over many years I had been patiently waiting for Apple to launch...
Researchers Propose Novel E-Ink XR Display with Resolution Far Beyond Current Headsets
A group of Sweden-based researchers proposed a novel e-ink display solution that could make way for super compact, retina-level VR headsets and AR glasses in the future.
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Traditional emissive displays are shrinking, but they face physical limits; smaller pixels...



















