Guns are cool. Magic is cool. Motion controls are cool. Combine all three with virtual reality and you have a prototype experience that looks, well, really cool! Developers have now had access to retail quality, VR-focused motion controllers via the...

SyncThink, a Berkeley-based eye-tracking and brain firm, announced the closing of a $3.5 million Series A-1 funding round led by Quadrant Management. The company expects to use the funds to continue development on their EYE-SYNC technology, a VR-based eye-tracking technology to help...

The Voices of VR Podcast never misses an opportunity to document the ongoing history of the XR space. With Vision Pro now in the hands of many, host Kent Bye recently interviewed two XR insiders that have been part...

Jesse Schell wrote the book "The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses," and his company Schell Games produced I Expect You to Die. It's one of the top-ranked VR games on Oculus Share, and it also won...

Apple has reportedly hired a highly respected virtual reality researchers Doug Bowman, as it continues to trail behind other major company's in the virtual reality race Formerly a Science Professor at Virginia Tech, where he had been Director of Human-Interaction...

Meta announced today plans to open its first ever retail store to give customers a chance to check out the company's hardware in person. The store will include a dedicated Quest 2 demo area and send participants home with...

Yeeps: Hide and Seek is an App Lab sleeper hit that the developers say reached 360,000 monthly-active users, even before its debut on the main Quest store this week. Speaking to Road to VR, the studio shares the impetus of...

Google is reportedly set to acquire Canada-based eye-tracking startup AdHawk Microsystems Inc., something that would strengthen the company's ongoing foray into XR headsets and glasses. As reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Google is allegedly acquiring AdHawk for $115 million, according to...

Meta has publicly stated that it wants to be "the Android of XR." But you know who else wants to be the Android of XR? Android XR, of course. Beyond debates about specs or features, one major factor is likely...

ShapesXR is a collaborative spatial design app built to make it easy to prototype spatial interfaces, interactions, and environments. The company announced today it has raised an $8.6 million seed investment, part of which the company plans to use...

Retinad, a company working to bring immersive advertising and analytics to virtual reality, has just closed a $500,000 early-stage round to bring their solution to market. Avoiding the worst case banner-in-your-face approach, the company is jumping feet first into VR,...

Late last year, Sightful announced it was cancelling its unique laptop with built-in AR glasses, instead pivoting to build a version of its AR workspace software for Windows. Now the company has released Spacetop for Windows, which lets you...

Today at CES Sony revealed a new standalone MR headset equipped with "4K" OLED displays. The headset is yet-unnamed, but the company says it's aimed at creatives building 3D content and will launch this year. Sony's unnamed standalone MR headset...

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any...

VR developer ForeVR Games today announced it has raised an additional $7 million in seed capital, bringing its total capital raise to $8.5 million. The studio is focused on bringing classic real world games—like bowling—into VR with an emphasis...