A new online study of 12 western countries by Newzoo suggests that 11% of people are looking to buy into virtual reality within the next 6 months, that Spain is the most aware of VR and that Canada is...

At Connect 2021 last week, Meta revealed a new Quest rendering technology called Application Spacewarp which it says can increase the performance of Quest apps by a whopping 70%. While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus...

It has been a while since the guys from Kite & Lightning have been on the show, but that doesn't mean they haven't been pumping out some amazing things since we last spoke. Ikrima takes some time out of...

Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system. At least from the schedule, it doesn't seem Google is getting that vocal...

Over the last decade I've reported on and tested many different VR styluses, but none of them have actually caught on. But the new MX Ink stylus for Quest stands a real chance at legitimizing the VR stylus as...

Though people speak of the 'metaverse'—a vast network of interconnected virtual worlds—as a far flung future concept, in reality we already have the underlying structure built and functioning on a massive scale; it's called the internet and it connects billions...

As a leading social media company, it seemed like Meta would be in the best position to create a rich social experience on its XR headsets. But after almost a decade of building XR platforms, interacting with friends on...

Here's a name you may not expect to be entering the immersive wearable market, Canon. They just demonstrated a virtual reality viewer (this is not a traditional headset) at Canon Expo in New York, and it packs some interesting...

Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...

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...

Pimax announced Dream Air last December, aiming to take on the emerging segment of compact high-end PC VR headsets, such as Bigscreen Beyond and Shiftall MaganeX Superlight 8K. Initially planned for launch in May, the headset was delayed until Q3...

Rothenberg Ventures is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California. Started in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg, the firm has now invested in over 60 technology companies and was recently part of AltspaceVR's $5.2 million seed round. Dylan...

Niantic, the company behind the hit location-based mobile game Pokémon GO, have closed a $190.6 million Series C financing round, bringing the company's overall funding to more than $415 million to date. As first reported by Tech Crunch, documents filed with the...

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...

At Connect 2022 this month, Meta announced the Quest content store has surpassed $1.5 billion in purchased VR content since its launch in 2019, representing continued but decelerating growth likely due mostly to market seasonality. Update (October 18th, 2022): Article...