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.

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.

Spacetop Launches Windows App to Turn Laptops into Large AR Workspaces

Late last year, Sightful announced it was cancelling its unique laptop with built-in AR glasses, instead pivoting to build a version of its AR workspace software for Windows. Now the company has released Spacetop for Windows, which lets you...

Quest Devs Can Now Publish Apps That Use the Headset’s Cameras to Scan the World

While Meta's Quest has always relied heavily on cameras for tracking location of the headset, controllers, and the world around the user, developers haven't had the same privileged access to the headset's cameras. Earlier this year Meta gave developers...

Android XR Is Coming – Just Don’t Expect Google to Shout About It Yet

Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system. At least from the schedule, it doesn't seem Google is getting that vocal...

Snapchat CEO to Keynote AWE 2025 as Company Aims to Strengthen Its Position in XR

The CEO of Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat and the Spectacles AR glasses, will take the stage at AWE 2025 in June to highlight the company's latest developments in AR. The prominent placement on the event's schedule comes...

Hands-on: ‘PresenZ’ Tech Converts Cinema-quality CGI into Volumetric Video on PC VR & Quest

PresenZ is a professional-grade tool for converting cinema-quality CGI content for 6DOF viewing in VR. With the recently updated Immersix app for PC VR headsets, you can demo the tech with a fresh batch of newly released content. A streaming...

Varjo is Leaning in on Training Sims & Bespoke Integration, ‘Aero’ Likely its First & Last...

Varjo, creator of high-end enterprise MR headsets, dipped its toes into the consumer VR market with the release of the Aero headset back in 2021. But now the company says its focus is narrowing on training sims and deeper...

Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR

Efficient text entry without an actual keyboard remains an industry-wide challenge for unlocking productivity use-cases in XR headsets. Researchers have created a comprehensive catalog of existing text entry techniques to codify different methods and analyze their pros and cons....

Meta’s Latest Quest Store Revenue Figure Signals a Steady but Stagnant Marketplace

Last month at the annual Game Developers Conference, Meta offered an update to the state of the Quest marketplace. Included in that update was mention that content on the Quest store has earned "over $2 billion." If that figure...

Nintendo Switch 2 Won’t Support the Original ‘Labo VR’ Kit

Despite wide-ranging backwards compatibility with Nintendo's previous consoles, we can't say we had high hopes for this one. As we suspected, Nintendo has now confirmed that its Labo VR Kit won't work on the newly unveiled Nintendo Switch 2. Released...

Meta’s Next-gen Smart Glasses Reportedly Set to Include a Display & Wrist-worn XR Controller

Meta is reportedly working on a version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses which will include a single display for viewing photos and apps. Now, according to a new Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman, the company is aiming to introduce it...

Sandbox VR’s ‘Squid Game’ VR Attraction Hits $30M Milestone, Expands with New Mini-game

Sandbox VR, the location-based VR destination, announced it's generated $30 million in ticket sales for its official Squid Game VR attraction. Additionally, Sandbox VR says it's expanding Squid Game with the addition of a new mini-game. Called ‘Repeat Racers’, the...

Infinite Reality Acquires Napster for $200M to Create Social Music Platform & Virtual Concerts

Napster. Now there's a name you haven't heard in a few years... or more likely decades. Now, immersive web company Infinite Reality announced it's acquired the brand for $207 million. Having just closed a $3 billion investment in January, Infinite...

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...

Bigscreen Beyond 2 Sold the Equivalent of 6 Months of Beyond 1 Sales in First 24...

Bigscreen Beyond 2 orders flooded in last Thursday at a surprising pace. Now, the PC VR headset maker notes that its next slim and light headset outsold the original in 24 hours by an impressive margin, making its first...

Samsung Reportedly Planning to Release XR Glasses This Year

We've been waiting to hear about Samsung's entrance into XR for a few years now, with the company's still unnamed mixed reality headset 'Project Moohan' set to debut sometime this year running Google's Android XR operating system. Now, a...
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