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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.

Apple Releases ‘Submerged’ Short Film on Vision Pro, Announces Upcoming Content with The Weeknd, NBA &...

Apple today launched a new immersive short film called Submerged for free on Vision Pro, letting users explore a harrowing tale set in a WWII-era submarine. The company also announced its next slate of immersive content, including an NBA...

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...

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...
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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,...

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...

‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ Studio XR Games Lays Off Majority of Staff

XR Games, the Leeds, UK-based studio known for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever (2021), have laid off a reported 86 percent of its staff. The information was shared by María Fernanda Díez Huerta via LinkedIn, who was...
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‘Bounce Arcade’ is Like VR Pinball for Your Fists—And Exactly the Kind of Creativity VR Needs...

Bounce Arcade, recently announced and launching this Fall, looks like a unique fusion of pinball and VR, in a way that's truly native to the medium. It's an example of the body of VR-native gameplay mechanics that's still in...

Microsoft Discontinues HoloLens 2, Support to End in 2027 with No Successor in Sight

Microsoft announced to enterprise partners last week that it's discontinuing its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, and pulling the plug on support updates at the end of 2027, leaving many to question whether the Redmond tech giant is shelving...

New Spatial SDK Reflects Meta’s Push to Bring ‘Spatial Computing’ to Quest

Quest headsets have long been great for playing immersive games, but not so great for the kind of basic 'desktop productivity' that Apple's Vision Pro excels at. Now Meta is hoping to bring more 'spatial computing' into the fold...

Precision Glass Maker Completes Major Factory Expansion in Anticipation of AR Glasses Demand

In a strategic move that underscores the expected growth of the AR industry, SCHOTT—a global leader in advanced optics and specialty glass—has announced the completion of a new production facility in Kulim, Malaysia. This development comes just a day...

Meta Expects Orion-like AR Glasses to Launch Before 2030, Priced Between Phones and Laptops

On stage at Connect yesterday, Meta unveiled Orion, an AR glasses prototype that, while impressively slim, isn't making its way out of the Meta offices anytime soon. Still, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief Andrew Bosworth says an AR...

Meta Reveals ‘Orion’ Prototype AR Glasses with Impressive Field-of-view and Wireless Compute Unit

Meta today revealed a prototype of its first pair of AR glasses, codenamed Orion. The glasses are impressively compact, have a class-leading field-of-view, but also relies on a wireless compute unit that goes in your pocket. Although Meta has been...

Quest 3S Hands-on: Quest 2 Visuals with Quest 3 Power at an Unbeatable Price

Meta has finally revealed its latest headset, Quest 3S. Although it retains some of Quest 2's flaws, it creates much needed parity in power and features, all at an unbeatable price. Quest 3S has not only just been formally announced,...

Catch VR Games Showcase’s ‘XR Indies & Friends’ Livestream @11AM ET Today Ahead of Meta Connect

The team behind the VR Games Showcase are putting on a new livestreamed games event today focusing on independent developers and studios "both big and small." Just in time for what will certainly be a rush of XR news! Update...
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