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.
AppliedVR Secures $29M Funding to Pursue FDA Approval for VR Pain Management Tech
AppliedVR, a virtual reality pain management startup, today announced it has secured $29 million in funding, something it aims...
Facebook’s Rubin: ‘The trajectory is clear, we’re going to get to AAA VR games’
Speaking on a panel at the online GDC Showcase today, Facebook's VP of Play, Jason Rubin, and Facebook Reality...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – March 2021
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its...
Pico Raises $37M Series B+ Financing, Neo 3 Standalone to Release in Q2 2021
Pico Interactive, the Beijing-based VR headset creator, announced it has secured a fresh funding round of ¥242 million RMB...
Psychic VR Lab Raises $8.5 Million to Grow Browser-based XR Development Platform
Japan-based Psychic VR Lab has announced the close of an $8.5 million investment to grow its cloud-based XR development...
VR’s 2021 Outlook: 14 Indicators in One Place
Hard data on the VR market is often difficult to come by, while broad 'industry reports' are often so...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – February 2021
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its...
What I Learned by Building an Iconic Weapon From ‘Apex Legends’ in VR
In the decade that I've spent studying and reporting on VR I've had the fortune of experiencing a wide...
Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High...
Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR...
Vertigo Games Acquires VR Arcade Game Distribution Platform SpringboardVR
Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2017) and upcoming VR shooter After the Fall, today announced that it has...
Oculus App Lab Lets Devs Distribute Apps on Quest While Bypassing Curation Process
Oculus today introduced a program called App Lab, a new effort which will allow developers to distribute their VR...
‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 4M Copies & 40M Songs, an Estimated $180M Revenue (and...
Beat Saber has officially reached 4 million units sold, Oculus today announced, along with 40 million songs of paid DLC,...
Total Quest Games Reviews Have Exceeded Oculus PC Reviews in Less Than Two Years
Adding to a growing number of data points showing why Facebook has shifted its attention away from Oculus PC is...
Zuckerberg: Quest 2 ‘on track to be first mainstream VR headset’, Next Headset Confirmed
During Facebook's Q4 2020 earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Quest 2 is "on track to be...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – January 2021
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its...
