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.
Go Touch VR Raises $1 Million for Haptic VR Tech, Shows off DK1 Design
Go Touch VR, which is developing a simple haptic device that's surprisingly effective, has raised €837,000 (approx. $1 million)...
Pimax Completes $15M Series A Funding Round
Pimax, the Shanghai-based VR headset manufacturer known for their upcoming wide field of view headset Pimax '8K', have raised...
Update: ZED Mini Turns Rift and Vive into an AR Headset From the Future
Stereo camera company Stereolabs has launched pre-orders for the ZED Mini, a smaller version of their stereo depth-mapping camera...
Apple Positions New iMac Pro for VR Development, Available Starting Thursday
Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR...
New Report from ILMxLab & Disability Visibility Project Shares Insights on VR Accessibility Design
The Disability Visibility Project recently published a report that highlights the accessibility issues relating to VR users with disabilities....
Varjo Secures $6.7M Investment, First Batch of “Human Eye-Resolution” VR Prototypes Shipping to Partners...
At Slush 2017, Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies today announced an additional investment of $6.7 million from the Finnish business development group Tekes to...
HTC Invests in 26 More AR/VR Startups in Vive X Accelerator
HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company's Vive X accelerator program. A total of...
Williams-Sonoma Acquires Outward for $112 Million to Expand 3D, AR, and VR Retail Visualization
Williams-Sonoma Inc has announced that an agreement has been reached to acquire Outward Inc for an all cash consideration of...
PSVR Black Friday Sales Reportedly Exceed Prior 18 Weeks in UK, “On Par” With...
Following the Black Friday shopping period, analysts report strong sales for the PlayStation VR headset in the UK, possibly...
Magic Leap Could Call its First AR Headset ‘Magic Leap One’
Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, might be calling its first device 'Magic Leap One', as suggested by...
‘Pokémon Go’ Studio Niantic Completes $200M Funding Round
Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they've taken on $200 million in...
Oculus Creates Guide to Help VR Devs Make Highly Optimized Games
Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls...
Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million
Citing sources close to the deal, TechCrunch reports that VR headset maker Vrvana has been acquired by Apple for...
Pixvana Raises $14M Series A Investment for Cloud-based VR Video Platform
Pixvana, a Seattle-based startup creating a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $14 million...
Free UE4 Template Makes Creating More Realistic VR Hands a Snap
Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source...
