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.

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.

Jesse Schell on the VR Design Principles of ‘I Expect You to Die’

Jesse Schell has been involved in virtual reality for over 20 years, and he's also the author of the popular The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. He was able to combine his background in VR and...

Google Says Global VR Search Volume Grew 400% in 12 Months

Google, who has now has several major VR initiatives underway, notes major gains in interest in virtual reality and 360 degree video capture and sharing. The company is now prompting brands to consider what role VR will play in...

Boost VC Invests in 15 More VR Startups in Latest Accelerator Class

Boost VC, a startup accelerator based in San Mateo California, announced its seventh accelerator 'Tribe' with 15 new investments in VR companies, bringing its total VR portfolio to 34 startups. Boost VC, which invests in bitcoin and VR startups, has...

Battlezone PSVR Dev Diary #1: The Importance of Feedback in Uncharted Territory

Welcome to the 1st in our 3 part series of developer diaries from Rebellion covering the making of the forthcoming PlayStation VR title Battlezone, a reboot of the 1980 Atari arcade classic in virtual reality. In this entry, Senior Designer...

$50M VR Venture Fund Announced by Japanese Mobile Game Giant COLOPL

COLOPL, mobile game giant in Japan, announced that they've opened a $50 million fund to invest in VR companies worldwide. Guest Article By Shun Kubota Shun is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Mogura VR, the largest VR publication in Japan, aiming to...

‘River’ VR Accelerator Startups Showcased at Founder Field Day (part 2)

The first class of Rothenberg Ventures’ ‘River’ VR accelerator have graduated. Thirteen companies, in which Rothenberg invested a combined $1.3 million, showed off their latest work at the company’s annual Founder Field Day event. Road to VR was on the...

4 Thoughts on Carmack’s ‘VrScript’ from Tony Parisi, Creator of VRML

Oculus CTO John Carmack has been working on a VR scripting environment called—simply enough—VrScript. After getting a glimpse of the environment at Oculus Connect, Tony Parisi had some thoughts to share. Guest article by Sophia Dominguez Sophia is the founder of AllThingsVR, a curated newsletter...

VR Analytics for Playtesting & Optimization with Cognitive VR

Cognitive VR is an VR analytics platform that has an impressive system for visualizing a player's movements and gaze within a 3D representation of a VR experience. Their SceneExplorer tool translates the 3D geometry from a Unity or Unreal...

Formed by Ex Pixar and Bungie Alumni, Limitless Entertainment Says “We will be the Pixar of...

Limitless Entertainment is a new startup created by Tom Sanocki who hails from two of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, Pixar and Bungie. He saw the promise of virtual reality and decided he had to be involved. We talked to Tom...

Nearly $700 Million Invested in AR/VR in 2015

According to a recent report by Digi-Capital, investors have injected some pretty big bucks into companies focusing on augmented and virtual reality lately. A total of $686 million in 2015 alone. The most interesting bit: they aren't counting Magic Leap. Digi-Capital,...

VR Developer Ecosystem is “Energetic” But “Fragile”, New Industry Report Suggests

The advent of consumer virtual reality seems to have reignited the fire in independent developers. But, although many are rushing headlong into VR content creation, just how sustainable is the ecosystem they're about to enter? In a preview of...
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HTC Vive ‘City Destruction’ VR Prototype Lets You Demolish Virtual Worlds

In all the talk over presence and immersion associated with virtual reality games, we mustn't lose sight of why we play games in the first place, for fun! When games come along that manage to fuse both, we get...

What $136 Million Invested in November Alone Says About the VR Industry

Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is...

FOVE Passes Kickstarter Goal in Under 4 Days

FOVE, the eye-tracking VR headset, has reached its crowdfunding goal in less than 4 days time. Stretch goals have yet to be revealed. After having quickly blown past the Kickstarter goal in the course of 96 hours, the landmark VR headset has come ever closer to...

Presence Capital’s $10 Million AR/VR Fund Counts HTC’s Phil Chen Among Founders

Presence Capital today announced they've raised a $10 million fund to invest in VR/AR companies through the new VC firm. Among other heads of the fund is HTC's Phil Chen, the purported "founder" of the HTC Vive project at HTC. Presence...
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