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.
Developing Rich VR Interactions Faster & Easier Using UltimateXR
Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. Toolsets like UltimateXR can speed...
Valve Corrects Steam Survey Data Revealing Latest VR Population Growth
Valve this week updated its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey to fix issues resulting in anomalous VR population data. The corrected figures return the survey to being one of the most useful pieces of public data about the...
Varjo Raises $40M Series D Funding to Expand Cloud-based XR Platform
Varjo, maker of high-end enterprise XR headsets, this week announced it has raised a $40 million Series D investment to continue building its Varjo Reality Cloud software and deliver a "true-to-life industrial metaverse."
Varjo makes some of the highest-end enterprise...
Meta & Qualcomm Join “Multi-year” XR Chip Partnership to Combat a Common Threat
Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a "multi-year broad strategic agreement" to collaborate on "customized virtual reality chipsets" for future devices.
Qualcomm, a leading provider of smartphone processors, was an early mover...
Meta’s PC VR Dominance Continues as Quest 2 Passes New Milestone
Quest 2 quickly rose to become the most-used VR headset on Steam, but last month it crossed a new milestone as the majority of headsets used on the platform.
Quest 2's aggressive price point and ability to be used as...
The Design & Implementation of Hand-tracking in ‘Myst’
Using Presence Platform’s upgraded Hand Tracking API, we introduced Hand Tracking with our most recent update to Myst on the Meta Quest Platform, titled 'Hands & More'. We’re super excited to finally let folks play Myst on Quest without...
Meta Releases ‘First Hand’ Demo to Showcase Quest Hand-tracking to Developers
Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company's controllerless hand-tracking tools.
Controllerless hand-tracking has been available on Quest for years at this point, and while...
Meta Says New Prototype Will Put Its Cutting-edge R&D in a Market-viable Headset
Back in June Meta revealed its latest XR R&D efforts through a handful of different prototypes designed to prove out various concepts. The next step, the company says, is to bring it all together into a single package that...
FTC Sues to Block Meta’s Acquisition of Top VR Fitness App Developer
In 2021 Meta announced its intention to acquire Within, the studio behind popular VR fitness app Supernatural; though neither company announced the deal price, reporting indicated a whopping $400 million price tag which may have caught the attention of...
Meta Raises Quest 2 Price to Stave off Growing Costs
Meta announced today something that we haven't previously seen happen in the middle of a VR headset's lifecycle—a price increase for Quest 2. To soften the blow, the company says it will include a free copy of the headset's...
‘Ultrawings 2′ Has ’10x More Sales’ on Quest, Developer Says, Despite Design Focus on PC VR
In a seemingly unprompted tweet this week, Ultrawings 2 developer Bit Planet Games said that despite building its latest game with a focus on the PC VR platform, the studio has seen significantly more sales volume on Quest 2.
Adding...
New Footage Shows ‘Red Matter 2’ Pushing the Limits of Quest 2 Graphics
In its announcement of Red Matter 2 earlier this year, developer Vertical Robot made the ambitious claim that it would deliver the "best graphics on mobile VR to date.” And now a new video shows the studio backing up its...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – July 2022
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s...
VR Studio Releases Free Unity Development Framework for Building Rich VR Interactions
Veteran enterprise VR studio VRMADA has released a public version of its VR toolset for quickly building immersive interactions for VR within Unity. Called UltimateXR, the studio says the tool is free and open source.
Our Guest Article by VRMADA...
‘Zombieland: Headshot Fever’ Studio Raises $7M to Continue Development on XR Games
XR Games, the indie VR studio behind Zombieland: Headshot Fever (2021), announced it's secured $7 million (£5.9m), something the studio says will used to grow both its team and intellectual property as it continues to develop new XR games.
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