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.
STRIVR Secures $16M Series A Financing to Expand Enterprise VR Training
STRIVR, the immersive VR training company, announced a $16 million round of financing led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV) that is said to advance the company’s further expansion into the enterprise market. With this investment, GPV Managing Partner Ray Lane...
Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future
DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an experimental prototype that Google AI subscribers can try today. Granted, you can't...
New Official Dev Tool Tests VR Apps Against Oculus Platform Guidelines Before Submission
Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if...
To the ‘VR is Dying’ Crowd: There’s More VR Users on Steam Than Ever Before
A Road to VR analysis of the latest data from Valve's Steam Hardware & Software shows that VR users on Steam have not only been growing, but are at their highest point in history.
First generation VR hardware may not yet...
Rift Sale Eases Buyer’s #1 Concern, But All-in Cost Still Hinders Mainstream Traction
The six week Oculus Rift sale has made tangible waves within the VR community with its 'best-yet' $400 price point. And while the new price is bringing more early adopters into the fold, mainstream adoption is still hindered in...
Greenlight VR to Give ‘State of the VR Industry’ Presentation at VR Launchpad
Virtual reality market research firm Greenlight VR will share their latest data-driven insights into the consumer VR industry in a special presentation at VR Launchpad on October 20th.
Howie Leibach, Sr. Research Analyst at Greenlight VR, will take to the...
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,...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – January 2022
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...
‘Tokyo Chronos’ Studio MyDearest Secures $7.8M to Further Expand IP on Quest & PSVR 2
MyDearest, the Japan-based VR studio behind the Chronos adventure game franchise, announced it's secured $7.8 million (1.2 billion yen), something the studio says it will use to expand its existing IP for VR headsets, such as Meta Quest and...
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...
Rift and Windows VR Squeeze Marketshare from Vive in Latest Steam Survey
In the latest set of data from Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets posted gains in marketshare at the expense of the HTC Vive.
Each month, Valve runs a survey among Steam users to...
This is The Rogue Initiative’s Debut VR Fantasy ‘Crowe: The Drowned Armory’
Fledgling production studio The Rogue Initiative have revealed their first VR game project as Crowe: The Drowned Armory, an original sci-fi fantasy adventure which, from the newly release key art, looks promising.
The Rogue Initiative describe themselves as a "full spectrum...
Godot Gets Big OpenXR Update Aiming to Attract XR Devs from Unity
Godot, the open source game engine, has included basic OpenXR support for a number of years now, allowing developers to easily publish their apps across a variety of XR headsets. Now, Godot just an update that brings even more...
New Magic Leap Video Shows Your Home as a User Interface
The secretive augmented reality project Magic Leap enjoy their fantastical teaser videos, but their latest takes a more sober tone by demonstrating the potential for the technology as a user interface to your life.
There's not much new that exists...
Top Investors Discuss VR and AR Strategies and Opportunites at IMMERSE 2016
Business leaders gathered at this year's Seattle based IMMERSE Summit (previously Sea VR) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR's Michael Glombicki caught up with...



















