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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.

Sony Acquires Insomniac Games, Delivering a Strategic Blow to Oculus Studios in the Process

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Monday that the company is acquiring Insomniac Games, a storied game studio and one of the most experienced in VR development anywhere in the world. The studio has developed three Oculus exclusive titles, with its fourth...

bHaptics Reveals Revamped Lineup of Haptic Accessories for VR, Pre-orders Now Live

bHaptics, the South Korea-based VR haptics creator, announced it's launching a refreshed lineup of its most popular haptics hardware, which are said to support over 270 titles across Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR headsets. The company today announced pre-orders...

Meta Has Sold Nearly 20 Million Quest Headsets, But Retention Struggles Remain

Meta has sold nearly 20 million Quest headsets, but the company continues to struggle with keeping customer using VR. According to a report by The Verge, citing an internal Meta presentation held today, the company has sold nearly 20 million Quest...

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...

Meta & Plessey Announce Super Bright, High-efficiency Red MicroLED: an Important Piece in All-day AR

Meta announced in 2020 it was working with UK-based AR display maker Plessey, which was tapped to provide Meta with AR displays over the course of multiple years. Now the companies have announced they've developed what they're deeming "the...

Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. Although many probably assumed that Valve's collection of VR experiences,...

‘Thunderbird’ Father-Son Dev Team Win ‘Best VR Experience’ at Vision Summit

For the past year, Tony Davidson and his 17-year old son Kai have been tucked away in the hills of Oregon collaborating on a VR experience that was inspired from one of Kai's dreams. Thunderbird is a puzzle adventure...

VR on the Open Web with A-Frame and WebVR

Is VR on the open web going to provide a good enough experience as to be a viable distribution platform for certain VR content? That's the big question that people have been asking for the past couple of years,...

Oculus Now Accepting OpenXR Apps on Quest & Rift, a Big Step for Cross-platform Development

OpenXR is a widely supported open standard which aims to make cross-platform VR development easier by allowing developers to build around a single API rather than porting their apps to many different APIs. Today the company announced that developers...

Fabric Engine is Working to Enable 3D Storyboarding and Editing Directly in VR

Fabric Engine is an authoring tool-set for easing the visualisation and building of content in virtual spaces. The team behind the project have built what they claim is a suite of software which helps quickly iterate on designs for...

A VR Newcomer Just Raised $7 Million to Build Social VR Games

VR developer ForeVR Games today announced it has raised an additional $7 million in seed capital, bringing its total capital raise to $8.5 million. The studio is focused on bringing classic real world games—like bowling—into VR with an emphasis...

Hands-on: Shiftall MeganeX Superlight Packs a Wishlist of Ergonomics Into a Tiny Package

Japan-based Shiftall is the latest company making an effort to deliver an ultra-compact VR headset for enthusiasts who are willing to spend big on maximizing their PC VR experience. Despite the tiny package, the MeganeX Superlight headset still manages...

Microsoft’s Struggling Military AR Headset Gets Boost From Oculus Founder’s Latest Venture

Anduril Industries, the defense tech company founded by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, announced it's partnering with Microsoft to boost the company's militarized, HoloLens 2-based AR headset, which is currently under contract by the United States Army. The company maintains its Lattice...

VITURE Calls XREAL Lawsuit “patent-troll-style” in Escalating AR Glasses IP Battle

AR glasses maker XREAL is taking its competitor VITURE to court over a patent dispute, claiming that it's selling and/or importing units into the US that infringe on its intellectual property. Viture claims however that Xreal is using the suit...

Meta Extends Ray-Ban Partnership into 2030 to Make Smartglasses Fashionable

Meta and eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica announced they're expanding their smartglasses partnership into 2030, which promises to see further development of "multi-generational smart eyewear products" from the companies. Working together since 2019, Meta and EssilorLuxottica released the first-gen Facebook Ray-Ban Stories...
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