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.
Sulon Q AR / VR Headset Specs and High-res Images, Launches “Late Spring”
AMD's Capsaicin GDC event is over and we now have official high resolution images and technical specifications for the new Sulon and AMD powered augmented and virtual reality headset the Sulon Q.
Billed by Sulon as the world’s first and only...
One of the First Oculus Rift Games is Currently One of Vision Pro’s Best
Proton Pulse, originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game...
XR Insiders Reflect on Apple Vision Pro Development and Industry Impact
The Voices of VR Podcast never misses an opportunity to document the ongoing history of the XR space. With Vision Pro now in the hands of many, host Kent Bye recently interviewed two XR insiders that have been part...
Facebook’s 2021 XR Investments to Total $10 Billion, Even More in 2022 & Beyond
In the company's Q3 2021 earnings call Facebook today said it expects its XR investments this year to top $10 billion, and advised investors that it plans to spend even more than that in subsequent years.
Facebook's top brass believe...
Apple Vision Pro Will Have an ‘Avatar Webcam’, Automatically Integrating with Popular Video Chat Apps
In addition to offering immersive experiences, Apple says that Vision Pro will be able to run most iPad and iOS apps out of the box with no changes. For video chat apps like Zoom, Messenger, Discord, and others, the...
VR Industry’s Biggest Players Are Banding Together to Create an Open VR Standard
The Khronos Group announced on Tuesday that they have a critical mass of major VR players who are collaborating on a VR open standard. This VR open standard will have a software and hardware component that will enable VR...
Sony to Show Procedural Animation System at GDC, Making NPCs More Believable in VR
Sony's Magic Lab are set to demonstrate a new procedural animation system which it says allows VR characters found in VR to "imbue a sense of shared space with the player" with realistic eye, head and body movements.
GDC 2017...
Amazon Brings Augmented Reality Product Previews to iOS App
'Try it before you buy it', the old adage goes. Well, an AR preview might not exactly be 'trying it', but Amazon's new 'AR View' function aims to help you figure out if a crock-pot clashes with your marble counters,...
Presence Capital’s Amitt Mahajan Brings Lessons from Casual Mobile Games to VR
Presence Capital is a new early-stage venture capital firm that's focused on funding virtual reality and augmented reality startups. I had the chance to interview one of the co-founders Amitt Mahajan at the VRX Conference about this new fund...
New Asus ‘ZenFone AR’ to be Daydream VR and Tango Ready, Leak Details
Asus' latest smartphone, the ZenFone AR, has had its details leaked ahead of its CES 2017 unveiling tomorrow and the new device packs hardware certified for use with on both Google's Android Daydream VR and Tango platforms.
CES isn't officially...
VR Creation App ‘MakeVR’ to be “Spun Out” from Sixense, Now Hardware Agnostic
Steve Hansted from Sixense took to the stage at VR Launchpad in Mountain View, CA today to announce that the virtual reality 3D modelling application MakeVR, often used alongside the company's STEM motion controllers, is being "spun out" into a...
Varjo Secures $5.8M Investment to Accelerate Military-Grade XR Hardware
Varjo, the Finland-based maker of high-end XR headsets, announced it's secured a €5 million (~$5.8 million) minority investment from THEON, the Greece-based manufacturer of military imaging systems.
Structured as a convertible loan, the €5 million investment also includes the option...
One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect
Oculus' forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics of building a VR project, may just be the ticket...
HTC Joins VirtualLink to Support Connection Standard for Future VR Headsets
Back in July, many of VR's biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium, a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week...
10 Years Ago Zuckerberg Bought Oculus to Outmaneuver Apple, Will He Succeed?
A decade ago Zuckerberg made a $2 billion bet. XR was the future of computing, he wagered, and in buying a little known startup called Oculus, Meta would beat Apple to the punch.
An Unexpected Acquisition
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