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Meta Confirms Next-gen Consumer Quest Headset Planned for 2023

Meta quietly confirmed that its next consumer-focused Quest headset (likely called Quest 3) will launch in 2023. While it was a bit more than a year between the launch of the first Quest and Quest 2, it's now been more...

Meta Reality Labs Latest Revenue & Operating Cost Figures Aren’t Going to Make Investors Happy

In Meta's most recent quarterly earnings call the company shared the latest revenue figures of Reality Labs, the company's XR division. In the third quarter of the year the division hit new milestones... unfortunately not the kind investors like...

Hands-on: Quest Pro is the Dawn of the Mixed Reality Headset Era

Quest Pro has finally been revealed and we were lucky enough to be among the first to get a hands-on demo with this interesting new standalone VR MR headset. Update (October 25th, 2022): Quest Pro releases today—our review unit arrived...

Quest App Lab Soars to 1,440 Apps, More Than Tripling Those on the Main Store

In early 2021 Meta launched App Lab for Quest which allows developers to distribute their games on the headset without going through Meta's curation process. There's now 1,457 games and apps available on App Lab, more than triple the...

Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. While the features aren't yet fully optimized for VR, early developer experiments are showing impressive results. Unreal Engine 5 launched...

Quest Store Surpasses $1.5 Billion in Content Revenue, Showing Continued Growth

At Connect 2022 this month, Meta announced the Quest content store has surpassed $1.5 billion in purchased VR content since its launch in 2019, representing continued but decelerating growth likely due mostly to market seasonality. Update (October 18th, 2022): Article...

Quest Pro vs. Quest 2: Beyond the Paper Specs

Quest Pro has finally been revealed, and while it's a much more expensive headset, inevitably people are interested in knowing how it compares to Meta's next best headset, Quest 2. So here we're going to look at Quest Pro...
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Quest Pro Revealed with Snapdragon XR2+, Face-tracking, & More; Ships October 25th for $1,500

Today during Meta Connect the company finally revealed its high-end Quest Pro headset (formerly called Project Cambria). Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a new Snapdragon XR2+ processor along with a bevy of sensors for tracking the user's expressions...

Meta Reveals Touch Pro Controllers for Quest Pro, Also Compatible with Quest 2

Meta's new Quest Pro headset includes Touch Pro controllers which come with a bevy upgrades, and they'll work with Quest 2 as well. Meta says that Quest Pro and Quest 2 will co-exist as high-end and entry-level headset lines, and...

Expect 1-2 Hours of Quest Pro Battery Life, Says Meta; Included Dock May Ease the Pain

Despite a flood of leaks leading up to its official unveiling, there's one thing we definitely didn't know about Quest Pro before today: its battery life. And at Connect, Meta revealed we should expect between one to two hours...
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‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners: Chapter 2’ Coming to VR on December 1st

It's been a little over two years since The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020) shambled onto VR headsets, serving up 20+ hours of zombie-slaying nightmare fuel. Now the developers say its standalone sequel, Chapter 2: Retribution, is coming to VR in...

Quest v46 Update Brings ‘Lord of the Rings’ Home Area, Recent Apps Tab & More

Meta is getting ready to roll out Quest's v46 update ahead of its Connect 2022 developer conference next week, bringing to the platform a modest set of new features alongside a new Home environment inspired by The Lord of...

Alleged Quest Pro Leak Shows Meta’s Next-gen Headset in Action

Immersed, a startup known for its work-focused productivity app for VR, may have jumped the gun a little early, as the company posted a short clip of what appears to be Meta's upcoming Project Cambria mixed reality headset (aka...

Google Ventures Invests $12M in SideQuest to Create Main Content Hub for XR Ecosystem

SideQuest, the sideloading software and unofficial app store for Meta's Quest and Quest 2, announced it completed a $12 million Series A investment, this time led by Google's investment arm, Google Ventures (GV). Founded in 2019 by Belfast-based team Orla...

Report: Sony Plans to Produce 2 Million PSVR 2 Headsets by March 2023

Sony plans to release PSVR 2 sometime in early 2023, although exactly when is still a mystery. Now a Bloomberg report maintains the company is aiming to produce 2 million units by March 2023, which would signify a sizeable...
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