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.
NVIDIA’s GameWorks VR Features & Integration with Unreal Engine
NVIDIA recently announced the first steps towards supporting foveated rendering with Multi-Res Shading as well as VR SLI integration in Unreal Engine 4. I talked with Nvidia's Tony Tamasi, the senior vice president of content and technology, at the VRX Conference...
$50M VR Venture Fund Announced by Japanese Mobile Game Giant COLOPL
COLOPL, mobile game giant in Japan, announced that they've opened a $50 million fund to invest in VR companies worldwide.
Guest Article By Shun Kubota
Shun is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Mogura VR, the largest VR publication in Japan, aiming to...
Building the Metaverse with janusVR
James McCrae wants to lower the barrier to entry for creating virtual worlds with janusVR. He has a PhD in computer science from University of Toronto, and he's created a sophisticated technology stack that allows front-end web developers to...
Developer nDreams Raises $3 Million More for VR Development and Publishing
UK based developer nDreams today announced the closure of a new $3 million (£2 million) investment, the second this year for the studio.
Bringing the studio's total fundraising in 2015 to $5.75 million, nDreams has raised an additional $3 million....
‘Sightline’ Dev Wants Your Feedback on Experimental ‘Holosphere’ Locomotion
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the developer behind the outstanding Sightline: The Chair and World of Comenius projects has devised a new locomotion system for VR, and he needs your help to make it better.
The prolific and irritatingly talented VR developer Tomáš Mariančík, the...
Presence Capital’s $10 Million AR/VR Fund Counts HTC’s Phil Chen Among Founders
Presence Capital today announced they've raised a $10 million fund to invest in VR/AR companies through the new VC firm. Among other heads of the fund is HTC's Phil Chen, the purported "founder" of the HTC Vive project at HTC.
Presence...
Presence Capital’s Amitt Mahajan Brings Lessons from Casual Mobile Games to VR
Presence Capital is a new early-stage venture capital firm that's focused on funding virtual reality and augmented reality startups. I had the chance to interview one of the co-founders Amitt Mahajan at the VRX Conference about this new fund...
Going Beyond Gaming and Entertainment with Clay Park VR’s Shauna Heller
Shauna Heller worked as a developer relations specialist focusing on non-gaming and non-entertainment experiences at Oculus for a year and a half before leaving to start her consultancy Clay Park VR. She's had a lot of exposure to the...
Tony Parisi’s ‘Learning Virtual Reality’ Book Now Available
At the end of November, around 60 people gathered at the offices of Rothenberg Ventures in downtown San Francisco to celebrate the release of VR pioneer Tony Parisi's new book Learning Virtual Reality. For the uninitiated, Tony is recognized...
What $136 Million Invested in November Alone Says About the VR Industry
Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is...
Watch Halo Played on Microsoft HoloLens in Augmented Reality
This is a video of Microsoft project manager Varun Mani, streaming a game of Halo: Guardians to his HoloLens, presented through the magic of augmented reality, straight onto his walls.
Microsoft's augmented reality wonder-toy HoloLens has flirted with the idea of becoming...
How Unity is Enabling this First Wave of Virtual Reality Experiences
Pete Moss is Unity's "VR Dude" in that he's been a long-time believer and advocate in the cross section between VR and gaming and how the Unity game engine could play a significant part. He talks to me about...
Comcast, Samsung, and HTC Join $6 Million Investment in VR Animation Studio ‘Baobab’
On the hunt for 'the Pixar of VR' a cast of big names have joined for a $6 million series A investment in virtual reality animation studio Baobab.
Baobab Studios today announced a series A funding round led by Comcast Ventures,...
Google Venture’s Investment Strategy and Outlook for Virtual Reality
Joe Kraus is a general partner at Google Ventures, and he was on a panel at the Virtual Reality Intelligence conference in San Francisco talking about VC investment trends in virtual reality. Joe predicts that 2016 will be a...
John Carmack Casts Critical Eye Over Gear VR Title ‘Bazaar’
John Carmack takes up his role as VR educator once again as he takes a technical deep dive into new Gear VR title Bazaar and analyses, ruminates on and illuminates where the developer could make changes to improve their...




















