Founded in 1993, Immersion Corp. designs and licenses haptic technology that's come to be used in gamepads you're well familiar with. Now the company is developing a new haptic programming system which aims to help game developers make better...

Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...

Samsung's upcoming mixed reality headset Project Moohan has largely been out of the spotlight since its unveiling late last year. According to South Korean outlet Newsworks (Korean), the headset's launch could be right around the corner. Citing industry sources, Project Moohan is reportedly...

Samsung and Google announced in early 2023 that, along with Qualcomm, they'd be releasing an “XR platform” based on Android, which could also see the release of a high-end mixed reality headset. While we still haven't heard exactly what...

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for...

The Disability Visibility Project recently published a report that highlights the accessibility issues relating to VR users with disabilities. This follows a survey created by Disability Visibility Project founder Alice Wong in partnership with Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab, which covered user...

STRIVR, the immersive VR training company, announced a $16 million round of financing led by GreatPoint Ventures (GPV) that is said to advance the company’s further expansion into the enterprise market. With this investment, GPV Managing Partner Ray Lane...

Qualcomm today announced its latest Snapdragon XR chip, the XR2+ Gen 2, a more capable variant of the chip that powers Quest 3. The company also hints that it will be used in the upcoming Samsung-Google headset. Qualcomm is at...

Amazon is reportedly developing a pair of consumer smart glasses which is slated to rival Meta's rumored 'Hypernova' smart glasses with display, according to a report by The Information. Citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans, The Information maintains...

Veteran VR developer Aldin Dynamics, the studio behind Waltz of the Wizard, says it is pausing development on PSVR titles until Sony clarifies plans for the future of VR on PS5. While Sony has brought PSVR to PS5 thanks to backwards...

A new annual conference from Greenlight Insights is angling itself to sate the growing desire for "actionable insights" from the rapidly expanding VR industry. The 2016 Virtual Reality Strategy Conference aims to layout the "new rules" of the VR...

If you've been wondering when you could finally gamify your vacuuming routine after seeing one of the more viral AR videos on social mendia recently, Dyson has you covered, because it's actually making the thing for iPhone and one...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. On the subject of virtual and augmented reality Apple is still largely...

While Meta's Quest has always relied heavily on cameras for tracking location of the headset, controllers, and the world around the user, developers haven't had the same privileged access to the headset's cameras. Earlier this year Meta gave developers...

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight...