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The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.

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.

Top 10 Interviews from the VR Intelligence Conference

I was invited to cover the VR Intelligence Conference that debuted in San Francisco in November last year. It was a smaller but very focused gathering of decision-makers from a wide range of different industries where I had a chance...
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‘Sightline’ Dev Wants You to Build the Metaverse with ‘NEOS’, First Gameplay Video Revealed

Tomáš Mariančík, aka Frooxius, is the developer of Sightline: The Chair, one of the most accomplished VR experiences out there. So , news that the developers and his company Solirax are building a metaverse crafting experience that allows you...

Adobe’s Project Aero Aims to Help Creators Build AR Content

Adobe recently unveiled a new project that aims to take the company further into the realm of augmented reality. Called Project Aero, the newly announced AR authoring tool and multi-platform system that will soon deliver a way for developers...

Catch VR Games Showcase’s ‘XR Indies & Friends’ Livestream @11AM ET Today Ahead of Meta Connect

The team behind the VR Games Showcase are putting on a new livestreamed games event today focusing on independent developers and studios "both big and small." Just in time for what will certainly be a rush of XR news! Update...

Valve Takes ‘Onward’ Developer Under its Wing

VR exclusive online military simulator Onward has been wowing room-scale VR audiences since its inception and now lone developer Dante Buckley has been invited to continue development under gaming giant Valve's roof, at least for a short time. One of...

Oculus Offers Up Developer Quick-start Guide for Bringing Apps to Go

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company's first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. Oculus writes in a new post on their developer blog that Oculus Go...

nDreams Raises £2.7M to Further Develop VR Games, Signs Deal to Bring Exclusive Content to VR...

nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies, have completed an additional £2 million investment with Mercia Technologies, and £700,000 from private investors to create more VR games. In addition, nDreams has signed a deal to bring exclusive new...

Oculus Shares Optimization Tips for Unity-based Gear VR Projects

Chris Pruett, Oculus' head of developer relations and co-founder of Robot Invader, has recently released somewhat of a technical quick-start guide targeting potential Gear VR devs looking to get that extra mile out of their game or experience. The blog post, Squeezing Performance...
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New Footage Shows ‘Red Matter 2’ Pushing the Limits of Quest 2 Graphics

In its announcement of Red Matter 2 earlier this year, developer Vertical Robot made the ambitious claim that it would deliver the "best graphics on mobile VR to date.” And now a new video shows the studio backing up its...

Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey is Developing a New XR Headset

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he's working on a new XR headset. Luckey says in a post on X that he'll be talking more about the device at Augmented World...

Sightful Unveils ‘Spacetop G1’ Headless AR Workstation, Aiming to Best the Rest in Battery Life

Fresh out of stealth last year, AR workstation startup Sightful today unveiled Spacetop G1, which promises to let you work in AR for up to seven hours before needing a recharge. Initially revealed last year alongside the announcement the company...

4 Dev Demos Showing Off Apple’s New ARKit Tracking

Showcased at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, ARKit is a new core technology for iOS 11, due to launch this Fall, soon to enable augmented reality features on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads. As the iOS...

Pico Raises $37M Series B+ Financing, Neo 3 Standalone to Release in Q2 2021

Pico Interactive, the Beijing-based VR headset creator, announced it has secured a fresh funding round of ¥242 million RMB (~$37 million), something the company says will help launch new hardware. Update (March 11th, 2021): Pico has provided Road to VR...

Battlezone PSVR Dev Diary #1: The Importance of Feedback in Uncharted Territory

Welcome to the 1st in our 3 part series of developer diaries from Rebellion covering the making of the forthcoming PlayStation VR title Battlezone, a reboot of the 1980 Atari arcade classic in virtual reality. In this entry, Senior Designer...

Smartphone Giant Vivo Announces ‘Vision’ MR Headset, Copying Apple’s Name & Design

Another Vision Pro knock-off is coming to town, and this time it even has the 'Vision' name. While not a household name, China's Vivo is known for its sensible, mid-range smartphones, regularly ranking it in the top five smartphone creators...
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