Snapchat maker Snap announced it's formed a new business dedicated to its upcoming AR glasses. The News Called Specs Inc, the wholly-owned subsidiary within Snap is said to allow for "greater operational focus and alignment" ahead of the public launch of...

XR Games, the studio behind couch co-op VR game The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure (2019), has secured $2 million (£1.5 million) in a recent funding round, which was led by Praetura Ventures alongside existing investor ACT Capital...

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...

Japanese social VR startup HIKKY announced today that it has raised ¥6.5 billion (~$57 million), led by Japanese mobile network operator NTT Docomo. The startup says it will use the funds to expand its web-based metaverse platform. Founded in 2018,...

Apple's Vice President of Human Interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the company to lead a new studio within Meta's Reality Labs division. The move appears to be aimed at raising the bar on the user experience of Meta's...

LG announced a collaboration with Meta focused on strengthening the XR business of both companies. Following the release of Vision Pro, it has become apparent that Apple has a serious game plan for its XR line of devices. Now that...

If you're comfortable mucking around with a new open source project, you could be shopping on Amazon just by looking at an object with your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are pretty useful out of the box,...

John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that's intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world...

While there's a steadily growing number of quality VR games, it's still well understood that VR is in need of more great content. But what kinds of VR games should developers focus on creating? That's one of the primary...

Finland-based headset maker Varjo has announced it has raised a $31 million Series B investment to continue the development of its novel 'Bionic Display' headset which incorporates a high-density display with a wide field of view display as a...

A recent report from South Korea's Yonhap News maintains Samsung is set to unveil a pair of XR glasses at its annual Unpacked product event, which is expected to take place sometime next month. Samsung promised back in July we'd...

Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically. It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...

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,...

Meta today announced a $50 million fund to incentivize the creation of new and improved content in Horizon Worlds, the company's first-party social gaming platform. The move comes as many seasoned studios that build self-contained VR apps for the...

Vertebrae, a virtual reality advertising platform that promises to bring ad supported monetization to VR publishers, today announced a $10 million series A fundraising. Vertebrae's platform, now out of stealth, is currently in private beta for use by content publishers such as entertainment...