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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.

Meta is Opening Quest’s Operating System to Third-party Headsets, Marking a Massive Shift in Strategy

Today Meta made what is likely to be an industry-altering announcement: it plans to open up the Quest operating system to third-party device makers. Asus, Lenovo, and Xbox have been tapped to create new headsets built on the operating...

OpenXR 1.1 Update Shows Industry Consensus on Key Technical Features

OpenXR, the open standard that creates a standardized way for XR hardware and applications to interface, has seen its first major update. OpenXR 1.1 evolves the standard by incorporating new functionality that was important to the industry but previously...

Pimax Has Two New Headsets on the Way While Older Promises Remain Unfulfilled

Pimax announced two new PC VR headsets today—both said to be launching this year—but it's more than a year behind schedule on other products. "Pimax has never been short on ambition, but its execution hasn’t always kept up." That's a line...

Enterprise Social XR Platform ‘Glue’ at Risk as Developer Declares Bankruptcy

Glue Collaboration, the Helsinki-based startup creating remote collaboration tools for XR, announced it has filed for bankruptcy, putting the future of its business-focused social platform Glue at risk. CEO Jussi Havu announced the news on April 10th, stating that Glue Collaboration...

Dyson is Actually Building that Viral AR Vacuuming App, But Only for iPhone

If you've been wondering when you could finally gamify your vacuuming routine after seeing one of the more viral AR videos on social mendia recently, Dyson has you covered, because it's actually making the thing for iPhone and one...

Netflix is Selling the ‘3 Body Problem’ Headset, But Sadly It’s Just a Prop

Netflix is selling the headset featured in its latest TV series 3 Body Problem, which heavily features characters accessing a shared virtual reality. Unfortunately, it's just a prop—but it's actually pretty cool as far as nonfunctional collectibles go. Sold direct from...

‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ Studio Has No Plans to Support VR for Upcoming Sequel

Ninja Theory, the studio behind award-winning VR-supported game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017), says there are currently no plans to bring its upcoming sequel to VR. Unlike the first game, which brought PC VR support in a free update in 2018,...

Warner Bros Announces New ‘Matrix’ Movie Directed by ‘The Martian’ Screenwriter Drew Goddard

Warner Bros. announced that The Matrix, one of the biggest film franchises to popularize virtual reality, is getting a fifth installment. The film, which doesn't have a release date yet, is set to be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Drew Goddard,...

VR’s Best (or possibly worst) April Fool’s Day Jokes This Year

April Fool's Day is more than just a time to pull harmless pranks. It's also about putting on your 'skeptic hat' and really asking whether you can believe your eyes, as trusted companies and key figures in XR dropped...

Vision Pro and Quest 3 Hand-tracking Latency Compared

Vision Pro is built entirely around hand-tracking while Quest 3 uses controllers first and foremost, but also supports hand-tracking as an alternate option for some content. But which has better hand-tracking? You might be surprised at the answer. Vision Pro...

Meta Announces “multi-million dollar” XR Development Fund to Boost Newly Formed Studios

Meta this week announced Oculus Publishing Ignition, a "multi-million dollar" fund aimed at newly formed XR studios. The company is offering money for VR and MR prototypes, with the potential for follow-on funding to turn those prototypes into full...

Apple is Adding Support for Vision Pro’s Input System to WebXR

Apple is adding support for Vision Pro's unique input system to WebXR, the web standard which allows XR experiences to run right from a web browser. One of the most unique things about Apple Vision Pro is its input system...

Survios Affirms ‘Alien’ VR Game is Still in Development

VR veteran studio Survios and 20th Century Games announced back in 2022 they were building a new game for VR, PC and console based on the well known sci-fi franchise Alien. Though we've heard very little about the project since,...

HTC is Giving Devs a Big Revenue Share Boost on Its VR Platform

HTC is sweetening the pot for VR developers selling content on its VIVEPORT VR storefront, on both PC VR and its standalone Vive XR Elite headset. HTC announced today that it will be increasing the revenue share of sales made...

After Building One of VR’s Most Successful Games, ‘Beat Saber’ Founder Plans to Take a Break...

Jan 'Split' Ilavsky, founder of Beat Games and creator behind VR's favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), left the studio late last month, stepping down from his position as the game's Creative Director. Now, Ilavsky tells Road to...
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