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.
Quest 2 is Vastly Outselling Quest 3 so Far This Holiday on Amazon
With such an alluring price point on Quest 2 during the Black Friday period, it makes sense the headset would sell more than Quest 3. But what will it mean for the company's effort to make mixed reality the...
Beyeonics Raises $11.5M to Further Develop AR/VR Surgical Visualization Platform
Elbit Systems, an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 million, which the company says will be used to expand product development and accelerate commercialization of its...
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,...
Matterport Raises $30 Million to Bolster Professional and Consumer Environmental VR Mapping
Matterport, a company specializing in the capture and digital reconstruction of real-world environments, has announced a $30 million Series C investment round led by Qualcomm Ventures.
The company says that the new investment brings its total funding to $56 million....
Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to Quest, But You’ll Need Your Own Gamepad
Meta and Microsoft today made good on their word to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming and the Game Pass library to Quest. With a subscription to Game Pass Ultimate and a supported gamepad, Quest can now be used to play...
Dent Reality Aims to Bring AR Indoor Directions to Malls, Airports & Retail Stores
Navigating indoors is still a pretty old school experience: you look for a map of shops, bathrooms, and accessibility ramps and follow signs to your desired destination, all the while knowing that the super powered computer in your pocket...
Google Partners With Magic Leap to Secure Key Tech for AR Headsets
Google and Magic Leap today announced a "strategic technology partnership." The move shows Google seeking to gain ground to keep up with the likes of Meta, Apple, and others in a race to control the AR headset market.
While consume...
Apple Expands Vision Pro Developer Labs to Two New Cities
Apple is adding two new locations to its Vision Pro 'Developer Labs so devs can get their hands on the headset before it launches early next year.
It might not feel like it but 2024 will be here before we...
‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...
Android XR Update Adds Deep Enterprise Support, Auto-3D Conversion & More
Samsung and Google announced a major software update to Galaxy XR, the Android XR-based headset, which includes deep enterprise support, automatic 3D conversion of photos and videos, and more.
One of the biggest bits in the update, now available on Samsung...
VR Analytics for Playtesting & Optimization with Cognitive VR
Cognitive VR is an VR analytics platform that has an impressive system for visualizing a player's movements and gaze within a 3D representation of a VR experience. Their SceneExplorer tool translates the 3D geometry from a Unity or Unreal...
Snap Plans to Launch New Consumer ‘Specs’ AR Glasses Next Year
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, today announced it's working on the next iteration of its Spectacles AR glasses (aka ‘Specs’), which are slated to release publicly sometime next year.
Snap first released its fifth generation of Specs (Spectacles '24) exclusively...
Meta & Plessey Announce Super Bright, High-efficiency Red MicroLED: an Important Piece in All-day AR
Meta announced in 2020 it was working with UK-based AR display maker Plessey, which was tapped to provide Meta with AR displays over the course of multiple years. Now the companies have announced they've developed what they're deeming "the...
Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools
Scope AR, the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform AR work training and on-site instruction tools.
The company's Series A was led by Romulus Capital,...
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.
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