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.
Immersed Visor’s First Big Showing Heightened Concerns About Deliverability
The Immersed IRL event, held yesterday in Austin, Texas was the company's big moment to showcase its upcoming headset and build confidence that it was on track to deliver on the promise of an ambitious headset. But a botched...
Meta’s Newest Quest Headset Could be Its Most Affordable Yet, According to Apparent Leak
Meta is widely expected to reveal the Quest 3S headset next week during the Meta Connect event. The company aims to introduce a new headset with mixed reality capabilities similar to Quest 3, but at a cheaper price. An...
Microsoft’s Struggling Military AR Headset Gets Boost From Oculus Founder’s Latest Venture
Anduril Industries, the defense tech company founded by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, announced it's partnering with Microsoft to boost the company's militarized, HoloLens 2-based AR headset, which is currently under contract by the United States Army.
The company maintains its Lattice...
Meta Extends Ray-Ban Partnership into 2030 to Make Smartglasses Fashionable
Meta and eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica announced they're expanding their smartglasses partnership into 2030, which promises to see further development of "multi-generational smart eyewear products" from the companies.
Working together since 2019, Meta and EssilorLuxottica released the first-gen Facebook Ray-Ban Stories...
Vive Focus Vision Announced with Mixed Reality & Eye-tracking, $1,000 Price & Pre-order Dates
HTC today revealed its next standalone XR headset, the Vive Focus Vision. The company appears to be appealing again to enterprise and prosumers, packing in a mishmash of specs from Vive Focus 3 and Vive Elite XR—priced at $1,000.
HTC...
Snapchat Reveals Latest Spectacles AR Glasses with Attractive Pricing for Developers
Today Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced the latest version of its Spectacles AR Glasses which the company is calling Spectacles '24. The new device makes notable improvements to field-of-view, resolution, and hand-tracking, and overhauls its software stack....
Veteran VR Studio nDreams Announces Layoffs Amid “challenging VR games market”
nDreams, one of the most veteran VR studios, today announced it's tightening the belt with a layoff round due to affect 17.5% of the company.
The Farnborough, UK-based studio maintains in the LinkenIn announcement that layoffs are in response to "a challenging...
‘Warhammer 40K: Space Marine VR’ Experience Coming to VR Attractions Next Week, Trailer Here
Revealed back in May, the first official Warhammer VR game for out-of-home VR attractions is now set to launch next week, coming to Zero Latency locations worldwide.
Update (September 16th, 2024): Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine VR – Warriors of Avarax is officially...
Mixed Reality Flight Sims Are Accelerating F-16 Pilot Training in Ukraine
Flight simulator company Dogfight Boss, and Varjo, the high-end XR headset creator, announced they've shipped their first mixed reality F-16 simulator to the Ukrainian Air Force to help accelerate pilot training. And there's likely more to come, as the...
Sharp & Japan’s Largest Telecom Unveil Lightweight AR Glasses ‘MiRZA’
Sharp and Japan's largest telecom NTT Docomo today announced a new pair of AR glasses called MiRZA, which is hitting the Japanese market sometime his Fall.
It would be pretty tough to mistake Mirza for a normal pair of glasses,...
VR Attraction Expects 280 New Franchise Locations Over Next Four Years
Sandbox VR, the location-based VR attraction, announced it's planning to open up 280 new locations within the next four years.
Having recently opened its 50th store, located on the Gold Coast in Australia, projections of rapid growth are thanks to...
Pico 4 Ultra Aims to Compete with Meta in Europe & Asia Amid Suspected Quest 3S...
Pico is releasing Pico 4 Ultra starting this month, where it's slated to take on Quest 3 across Europe and Asia—which could be right in time for Meta to unveil the allegedly cheaper Quest 3S.
Pico is releasing pre-orders for...
ArborXR Secures $12M Funding to Scale Enterprise XR Device Management Platform
ArborXR, an XR device management company working in the enterprise space, announced it has secured $12 million in new funding. The company says it will use the funding to further scale its mobile device management (MDM) platform, which allows...
‘Gorilla Tag’ Developer Reveals First Glimpse of Ambitious New Game
The developer of Gorilla Tag, one of VR's most popular and commercially successful games, has revealed the first clear look at its next game. Previously codenamed 'Project A2', the title has been officially dubbed Orion Drift, and aims to...
Snapchat and Meta Reportedly Plan to Reveal Dueling Visions of AR Glasses Next Month
According to a report by The Verge, both Snapchat and Meta will each reveal new AR glasses for the first time next month. Both companies have been working on such projects for years.
According to The Verge's Alex Heath, Snapchat...




















