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.
Rezzil Secures $2.75M Investment for Oculus Quest Sports Training App ‘Player 22’
Rezzil, a UK-based VR sports training and analytics startup, announced that its secured an investment round of over £2 million (~$2.75 million), which will be used to promote its new consumer-focused sports training platform, Player 22.
Rezzil's investors include soccer professionals...
Aero Likely the First in a Series of Enthusiast Headsets from Varjo
Varjo's Aero headset is the first from the company that's meant to appeal to individual customers rather than large organizations... and it probably won't be the last.
Since the company's inception, Varjo has sold high-end enterprise headsets to the likes...
Pimax Apologizes After Secret Social Media Incentive Program Sparks Astroturfing Concerns
Brand ambassador and referral programs are everywhere, aiming to drive engagement and sales through influencers and loyal fans alike. But last week, Pimax crossed a line, the company publicly admitted. It was discovered the PC VR headset company was...
Meta CTO: 2025 is a ‘Make or Break’ Year for Meta’s XR Ambitions, Internal Memo Reveals
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth released an internal memo to employees, stating 2025 is going to be "the most critical year" for the company's XR efforts yet, Business Insider reports.
Titled "2025: The Year of Greatness", the memo (seen below) largely takes...
Apple Reveals Major Vision Pro Updates Coming in VisionOS 26, Developer Beta Available Starting Today
VisionOS 26 is Apple's next major update to Vision Pro. Expected to be released to the public later this year, Apple says developers will be able to start testing the new version starting today. The update adds some major...
Live Webinar: Get Insider Insights on Marketing XR Startups & Content This Wednesday
Join Road to VR's Ben Lang and VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi for a live discussion hosted by Spatial Collective about the challenges and opportunities of marketing XR startups, games, and apps.
Organized by XR veteran Don Stein, Spatial Collective is a network of...
Disney is Working on a VR Treadmill That Supports Multiple Users
Disney unveiled an omni-directional treadmill project it hopes to eventually scale up for users both in and outside of virtual reality.
Called HoloTile, the unique device is composed of individual 'tiles' that rotate and change pitch to accommodate to a...
Upcoming ‘Project Helix’ Xbox Will “Play Xbox and PC Games,” But PC VR Support is Unconfirmed
Microsoft today announced the codename of its next Xbox gaming console: Project Helix. Details are very light, but the company says Project Helix will "play your Xbox and PC games." Naturally that's got us curious about whether or not...
Varjo Reveals XR-4 Headset, Claiming Mixed Realty Visuals “indistinguishable from natural sight”
Varjo has announced its latest high-end enterprise headset, the XR-4. The company is going all out on the headset's mixed reality capabilities, saying that the view of the outside world as seen through the headset is "indistinguishable" from how...
‘Raw Data’ Developer Survios Raises $50 Million, Now Top Funded VR Dev Studio
Survios, the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data, has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date.
Survios'...
Three Totally Creative Uses of Quest Hand-tracking
Oculus brought controllerless hand-tracking to Oculus Quest as an experimental feature back in December, and while it's useful for navigating around the headset's menus when you don't want to pick up the controllers, developers have begun prototyping more creative...
This Company Wants to Refresh Workers by Sticking Them in Tiny Pods With VR Headsets
South Korea-based XR company NP Inc showed off a unique solution to combat employee fatigue at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week, combining a small pod with a VR headset.
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NP, developer of the MUA app for Quest, unveiled MUA’H...
Unity Labs’ Principal Designer on VR Scene Editor & Overcoming Perceptual Illusions
Timoni West is principal designer at Unity Labs, and she's been working on creating tools within Unity to be able to create VR from within VR. I first talked with Timoni in October about these content creation tools which were revealed...
Hands-on: Shiftall MeganeX Superlight Packs a Wishlist of Ergonomics Into a Tiny Package
Japan-based Shiftall is the latest company making an effort to deliver an ultra-compact VR headset for enthusiasts who are willing to spend big on maximizing their PC VR experience. Despite the tiny package, the MeganeX Superlight headset still manages...
Apple is Adding Support for Vision Pro’s Input System to WebXR
Apple is adding support for Vision Pro's unique input system to WebXR, the web standard which allows XR experiences to run right from a web browser.
One of the most unique things about Apple Vision Pro is its input system...


















