Oculus had announced almost a year ago now that they planned to take their Oculus Avatars system cross-platform. Now, with last week's release of Oculus Avatar SDK 1.28, the package is finally ready to be deployed cross-platform, meaning that...

While Palmer Luckey provided his own Magic Leap One headset to iFixit for their tear down, the founder of Oculus certainly had his chance for a proper review before the spudgers and screwdrivers came out, and he isn't pulling...

Ubiquity6, the AR startup that came out of stealth earlier this year, announced the successful completion of a $27 million Series B finance round. The latest round was co-led by Benchmark and Index Ventures, with Benchmark taking a seat...

Sony today announced that PlayStation has sold more than three million units, showing consistent sales over the course of the headset's nearly two years on the market. Announced on the official PlayStation blog today, the three million unit milestone is...

VR feels like it's simultaneously moving fast and slow. It's been two years and four months since the leading PC VR headsets, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, hit shelves. The leading high-end headset overall, PSVR, has only been...

Valve’s latest monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey is available. While the last few months have seen ups and downs, July turned out to be a surprisingly stable month for all the headsets on the map. Each month, Valve runs...

Pico Interactive, the Beijing-based standalone VR headset manufacturer, successfully completed a ¥167.5 million RMB (~$24.7 million) Series A funding round. To accompany the news, Pico also announced their second iteration of their Goblin standalone headset, dubbed G2. As reported by...

Supermedium, the team behind the eponymous VR web browser released earlier this year, recently raised a seed investment round of $1.1 million. As reported by Tech Crunch, funding comes from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Boost VC, Anorak Ventures, Candela Partners, Social...

Unreal Engine 4.20 officially launched today with heaps of updates. In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. On the AR front, UE...

Seismic Games, the studio behind Google Daydream's Blade Runner: Revelations (2018), has been acquired by Niantic, the force behind popular location-based games Pokémon GO, Ingress, and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Seismic Games released the news via a blog post, saying that from now...

A consortium representing many of VR's most prominent players—NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft—have backed a new connector standard called VirtualLink which the companies say was "developed to meet the connectivity requirements of current and next-generation virtual reality (VR)...

More than just the latest in a long line of niche gadgets, Oculus Go represents the linchpin of Facebook's lofty goal of putting one billion people into virtual reality. Built with the new or casual user in mind, the...

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company's career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. Now, a report from real...

The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs. Croatia match will be glued to a TV set, researchers from the University of Washington, Facebook,...

Having announced an $8.5 million seed investment back in March 2016, VR animation firm Penrose Studios is adding another $10 million to the pile for its Series A investment. Led by TransLink Capital, the round also saw participation by SalesForce founder...