VR Development
‘Freeaim’ Motorized Shoes Give Your Feet Tiny VR Treadmills, Kickstarter Now Fully Funded
UK-based startup Freeaim kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign yesterday to support the release of a pair of motorized shoes designed to enable natural walking in VR, essentially giving your feet two independent treadmills to walk on.
VR treadmills are...
Spatial Design Prototyping Tool ‘ShapesXR’ Adds Powerful Animation Features
ShapesXR (2021), the 3D and XR prototyping platform, just got a new animation feature that allows design teams to make their XR prototypes even more expressive and lifelike.
The studio says the new 'Animation' feature introduces an "easy-to-use frame-based animation...
‘Stranger Things’ Multiplayer VR Experience is Coming to Sandbox VR Destinations Later This Year
Sandbox VR, the location-based VR destination, is working with Netflix to create a multiplayer VR experience based on the hit TV show Stranger Things.
Coinciding with the fifth and final season of the show, the upcoming VR experience Stranger Things:...
New Tobii Partnership Paves the Way for Next-gen Eye-tracking Tech in XR Headsets
Eye-tracking company Tobii announced it's partnering with Prophesee to develop its next-generation of eye-tracking for AR/VR headsets and smart glasses, which will be based on Prophesee's unique event-based vision system.
In short, Prophesee makes specialized cameras and sensors that work...
Google Releases Updated Preview of Android XR Development Tools
Google has released its second Developer Preview of the Android XR software development kit (SDK) following its initial release late last year, introducing new features and improvements including wider support for immersive video, better adaptive UI layouts, hand-tracking in...
Google Reportedly Set to Acquire Eye-tracking Startup to Bolster Android XR Hardware Efforts
Google is reportedly set to acquire Canada-based eye-tracking startup AdHawk Microsystems Inc., something that would strengthen the company's ongoing foray into XR headsets and glasses.
As reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Google is allegedly acquiring AdHawk for $115 million, according to...
Designing Mixed Reality Apps That Adapt to Different Spaces
Laser Dance is an upcoming mixed reality game that seeks to use Quest's passthrough capability as more than just a background. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to...
Apple Expands Vision Pro Developer Labs to Two New Cities
Apple is adding two new locations to its Vision Pro 'Developer Labs so devs can get their hands on the headset before it launches early next year.
It might not feel like it but 2024 will be here before we...
Meta Reveals New Prototype VR Headsets Focused on Retinal Resolution and Light Field Passthrough
Meta unveiled two new VR headset prototypes that showcase more progress in the fight to solve some persistent technical challenges facing VR today. Presenting at SIGGRAPH 2023, Meta is demonstrating a headset with retinal resolution combined with varifocal optics, and...
Sony Details PSVR 2 Prototypes from Conception to Production
Sony released a peek into the prototyping stages that led to PSVR 2, showing off a number of test units for both the headset and controllers.
In an extensive interview on the PS blog, PSVR 2’s Product Manager Yasuo Takahashi...
Meta Introduces ‘Super Resolution’ Feature for Improved Quest Visuals
Meta today introduced a new developer feature called Super Resolution that's designed to improve the look of VR apps and games on Quest. The company says the new feature offers better quality upscaling at similar costs as previous techniques.
Meta...
Vision Pro Dev Kit Applications Will Open in July
Apple says it will give developers the opportunity to apply for Vision Pro dev kits starting sometime in July.
In addition to releasing a first round of developer tools last week, including a software 'Simulator' of Vision Pro, Apple also...
Apple Releases Vision Pro Development Tools and Headset Emulator
Apple has released new and updated tools for developers to begin building XR apps on Apple Vision Pro.
Apple Vision Pro isn't due out until early 2024, but the company wants developers to get a jump-start on building apps for...
A Concise Beginner’s Guide to Apple Vision Pro Design & Development
Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in...
Apple Vision Pro Will Have an ‘Avatar Webcam’, Automatically Integrating with Popular Video Chat Apps
In addition to offering immersive experiences, Apple says that Vision Pro will be able to run most iPad and iOS apps out of the box with no changes. For video chat apps like Zoom, Messenger, Discord, and others, the...
















