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.

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.

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...

Dent Reality Aims to Bring AR Indoor Directions to Malls, Airports & Retail Stores

Navigating indoors is still a pretty old school experience: you look for a map of shops, bathrooms, and accessibility ramps and follow signs to your desired destination, all the while knowing that the super powered computer in your pocket...
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Dev Shares Crash Course on VR Game Optimization for Oculus Quest & Mobile Hardware

VR games need to achieve high, stable performance to look good and play comfortably. Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. But there's a handful...

HoloLens 2 Hits the Ground as the U.S. Army’s Own AR “combat multiplier”

Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. Army late last year to bring the company's AR hardware platform to the battlefield. Now CNBC has gone hand-on with the modified headset based on the enterprise-focused HoloLens 2. Dubbed...

Sony Announces 4.2 Million PlayStation VR Units Sold

Sony today revealed its latest PlayStation VR sales milestone of 4.2 million units. The company says this figure represents headsets 'sold through' to consumers, as opposed to total outstanding units that might still be in the hands of distributors....

Epic Games to Award $100 Million to Devs with New ‘MegaGrants’

Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with 'MegaGrants' and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000. Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with...

Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools

Scope AR, the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform AR work training and on-site instruction tools. The company's Series A was led by Romulus Capital,...

OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard for cross-platform VR and AR development. It's backed by many of the biggest names in the VR and AR industries and has been in development by the consortium for two years now, organized by...

Valve Laid Off Contractors and 13 Employees, Some Working on VR

Valve today confirmed that the company laid off 13 full-time employees and an unspecified number of contractors. The layoffs are believed to have largely impacted the company's VR hardware group. Following news that some employees had been laid off at...

Rift and Windows VR Continue Growth Streaks at Expense of Vive in Latest Steam Survey

The latest data from Valve's Steam Survey shows the Rift and Windows VR headsets continuing growth streaks in their share of monthly-connected headsets on Steam, snatching share mostly from the Vive and Vive Pro. Each month Valve collects info from...

Mozilla Announces ‘Firefox Reality’ AR Web Browser for Hololens 2

Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently revealed Microsoft HoloLens 2. While Mozilla hasn't mentioned a release date yet, the company says they're...

WiGig Chip Company Peraso Technologies Closes $42M Financing Round

Peraso Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company creating mmWave technology and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) chipsets, announced that it has raised an additional $42 million in its Series D financing round. Peraso produces WiGig chip solutions for Fixed Wireless Access, a method...

Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to...

An internal email sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company's feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Update (February 14th, 2019): Sources tell Road to VR...

Oculus Brings More Lifelike Sound Propagation to Audio SDK 1.34

Despite being oft overlooked in the face of more attention-grabbing visuals, audio is an essential component to creating presence in VR. In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to...
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