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.
Meta Delays Puck-Tethered XR Headset to 2027, Next Quest “Large Upgrade” to Current Gen
Meta may be pushing back the release of an upcoming XR headset that tethers to a pocketable compute puck. Meanwhile, the company says its next-gen Quest will be a "large upgrade" over the current generation.
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Meta supposedly planned to...
Acer Has Cancelled its ConceptD OJO Headset
With no information some 10 months after the announcement of its latest VR headset, the ConceptD OJO, we started to wonder what had come of the device. After reaching out to the company, Acer has confirmed to Road to VR that...
Quest Black Friday Sales Volume on Amazon May Have Fallen Short of 2023
Data from Amazon US suggests that Quest headsets didn't sell as well over Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2024 as compared to 2023.
Based on data from Amazon US, in 2023 about 170,000 Quest headsets had sold in the 30...
Quest Sold $100 Million Worth of Games & Apps in Its First Year
This week marks the first year anniversary of Oculus Quest, Facebook's latest and greatest standalone VR headset. Today the company revealed that $100 million worth of Quest games and apps have been sold to date.
Facebook hasn't yet revealed the...
Etsy Co-founder is Reportedly Building a Wild Magnifying Glass-like XR Device
Robert Kalin, co-founder and former CEO of online marketplace Etsy, is reportedly building a hand-held, magnifying glass-like XR device.
As discovered by Low Pass, Kalin's new startup Dopple Works is developing a mixed reality device reportedly called 'Loop'. An application for the...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – March 2022
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...
Meta Buys Dev Behind VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’, Its Sixth VR Studio Acquisition in Two Years
Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural.
Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be...
Blackmagic’s New 8K Camera for Apple Immersive Video is Pre-ordering Now for $30,000
Blackmagic Design has revealed full specs and details for its new URSA Cine Immersive camera, specially designed to shoot 8K VR180 footage for the Apple Immersive Video format. Pre-orders for the $30,000 camera are open now, with shipping planned...
Quest 3 Has Higher Effective Resolution, But This is Why Vision Pro Still Looks Best
Take a look around the web at reviews of Vision Pro and you’ll find that practically everyone agrees: Vision Pro’s display is excellent. Words like “crisp,” “smooth,” and “4K," are commonly used when people are talking about the headset's...
Varjo to Shutter XR Cloud Streaming Platform ‘Reality Cloud’ Next Month
Varjo, the Finland-based creator of high-end XR headsets, says its pulling the plug on its cloud XR streaming platform ‘Reality Cloud’, which lets professionals stream and share immersive 3D content rendered on cloud-based GPUs.
It was only a month ago...
Snap Makes Spectacles AR Glasses More Affordable for Students & Teachers
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is making its latest Spectacles AR Glasses more affordable to students and teachers with a new educational discount that cuts the $1,200 launch price in half.
Initially released in September 2024, the company's fifth-gen Spectacles...
Felix & Paul Studios Win $6.8M Funding to Build “Global VR Studio”
Felix & Paul Studios, the creative and technical force behind 360 VR films such as 'Strangers' and 'Zarkana' have announced that they're to receive $6.8 in series A funding to expand their creative immersive enterprise.
Some of the earliest pioneers in...
This is The Rogue Initiative’s Debut VR Fantasy ‘Crowe: The Drowned Armory’
Fledgling production studio The Rogue Initiative have revealed their first VR game project as Crowe: The Drowned Armory, an original sci-fi fantasy adventure which, from the newly release key art, looks promising.
The Rogue Initiative describe themselves as a "full spectrum...
Jesse Schell on the VR Design Principles of ‘I Expect You to Die’
Jesse Schell has been involved in virtual reality for over 20 years, and he's also the author of the popular The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. He was able to combine his background in VR and...
Virtuix Goes Public During a Turbulent Moment for Consumer VR
VR treadmill creator Virtuix is going public, as its Class A ordinary shares will start trading today on the Global Market tier of the Nasdaq. The company's stock market debut comes as consumer VR investment and first-party content spending...



















