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The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.

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.

VR Fitness Startup YUR Secures $1.1M Investment, Releases Calorie-counting Software for Quest

YUR, a VR fitness company, today announced it's secured $1.1 million in pre-seed funding, something the company says will help them to further use VR to address what it considers a 'worldwide epidemic of sedentary behavior'. The pre-seed investment round...

Applications for Vive X, HTC’s AR/VR Startup Accelerator, Close September 30th

The application deadline for HTC's VR startup accelerator program is coming up quickly on September 30th. Now in its fifth batch of investments, the Vive X accelerator aims to help grow the global AR/VR ecosystem by providing tools, expertise,...

WaveOptics Secures Additional $13M to Expand AR Optics Manufacturing

WaveOptics, a designer and manufacturer of waveguide optics for AR displays, announced it's raised a total of $39 million (£30m) in Series C funding, something the company says will help scale its business operations in the UK, US and...

Immersive Social Platform ‘VRChat’ Raises $10 Million in Venture Capital

VRChat announced today that it has closed a $10 million Series C investment to continue expanding its immersive social platform which is steeped in user-generated content. VRChat is an immersive social platform that allows VR and non-VR users to socialize...

Light Field Lab Secures $28 Million to Develop Holographic Displays

Light Field Lab, known for its advancements in light-field display technology, successfully completed a Series A funding round, scoring the firm over $28 million in venture capital to manufacture and distribute working products. The investment round was led by...

Sony Acquires Insomniac Games, Delivering a Strategic Blow to Oculus Studios in the Process

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday that the company is acquiring Insomniac Games, a storied game studio and one of the most experienced in VR development anywhere in the world. The studio has developed three Oculus exclusive titles, with its fourth...

OpenXR 1.0 Released, Microsoft Supports HoloLens 2 & WMR, Oculus Plans Rift & Quest Support

OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 release today. It's a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium...

DisplayPort 2.0 Supports Dual 4K VR Displays @120Hz

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has officially released DisplayPort 2.0, representing the first major update to the audio/video standard since the entrance of DisplayPort 1.4 back in March 2016. DisplayPort 2.0 is said to provide up to a 3×...

Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its...

Studio Behind Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Raises $24 Million in Funding

Against Gravity, the studio behind the popular social VR game Rec Room, has raised an addition $24 million in venture capital across two investment rounds. Speaking to TechCrunch, Against Gravity says that it has raised $24 million in venture funding in...

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 1 Million Milestone

Valve's monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...

Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

At the company's annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. ARKit 3 now offers real-time body tracking of people in the scene as well as...

Waveguide Maker DigiLens Closes $50 Million Series C Investment

DigiLens, a creator of waveguide optics and related manufacturing technology today announced the closure of a $50 million Series C investment, adding UDC Ventures and Samsung Ventures to its list of investors. Update (May 14th, 2019): DigiLens creates waveguide optics for...

Steam Survey: HTC & Windows VR See Gains as Oculus Awaits New Headsets

As the VR market is poised for a handful of new headsets launching in the coming weeks, the latest Steam Survey unsurprisingly shows Vive and Windows VR making some gains after Oculus discontinued the Rift ahead of the launch...

The Surprising Brilliance of ‘Vacation Simulator’s’ VR Paintbrush Tech

Having released the ever popular Job Simulator as a launch title for the HTC Vive back in 2016, Owlchemy Labs is one of the most veteran VR game studios that exists today. Over the years the studio has built a strong...
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