2023 Sections
Meta Releases Connect 2022 Schedule, Featuring Zuckerberg Keynote, John Carmack Talk & Dev Sessions
Meta Connect, the company's annual XR developer conference, is going all-digital again this year and it promises to share updates that look into the "near and far future" of the company. While there's still a little over two weeks...
Quest Update Replicates One of SideQuest’s Most Useful Features, Lets Parents Block Sideloading Entirely
Quest's v44 software update is rolling out now, and it's serving up some long-overdue video capture options along with it, like the ability to record in 16:9 aspect ratio, and increase frame rate and bit rate for video capture....
High-end Haptic VR Glove Company HaptX Raises $23 Million Investment
HaptX, which makes-enterprise focused haptic VR gloves, has announced the closure of a $23 million investment. The company says it will use the cash to accelerate the rollout of its next-gen products.
HaptX has been enhancing and refining its enterprise-focused...
Hands-on: ‘Resident Evil Village’ on PSVR 2 is a Visual Feast of Unprecedented Detail
Resident Evil Village is one of the best looking games on PS5 to date, and its forthcoming VR version will be one of the best looking games in VR to date. During a hands-on with RE8 on PSVR 2 I...
PSVR 2 Hands-on: Across-the-board Improvements Are Coming to Sony’s VR Headset
Sony's long awaited PSVR 2 isn't here just yet but after an extensive hands-on with the headset it's clear it'll be worth the wait.
Last week I visited Sony's PlayStation headquarters in San Mateo, CA to see PlayStation VR 2...
Developing Rich VR Interactions Faster & Easier Using UltimateXR
Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. Toolsets like UltimateXR can speed...
Valve Corrects Steam Survey Data Revealing Latest VR Population Growth
Valve this week updated its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey to fix issues resulting in anomalous VR population data. The corrected figures return the survey to being one of the most useful pieces of public data about the...
Varjo Raises $40M Series D Funding to Expand Cloud-based XR Platform
Varjo, maker of high-end enterprise XR headsets, this week announced it has raised a $40 million Series D investment to continue building its Varjo Reality Cloud software and deliver a "true-to-life industrial metaverse."
Varjo makes some of the highest-end enterprise...
Meta & Qualcomm Join “Multi-year” XR Chip Partnership to Combat a Common Threat
Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a "multi-year broad strategic agreement" to collaborate on "customized virtual reality chipsets" for future devices.
Qualcomm, a leading provider of smartphone processors, was an early mover...
Alleged Apple Trademarks Point to ‘Reality’ Branding for Long-rumored Mixed Reality Headset
Multiple trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg over the weekend support the notion that Apple's long-rumored mixed reality headset will be running under the 'Reality' naming scheme.
Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New...
Meta Drops Forced Facebook Logins with Rollout of New Meta VR Accounts Today
Starting today, Meta is finally pulling back from one of its most controversial moves affecting its VR users, which required all new Quest owners to sign up with a valid Facebook account in addition to forcing legacy Oculus account...
PlayStation VR 2 Launching Early 2023, Sony Confirms
Sony confirmed today that its latest VR headset, PSVR 2, will see a release date in 2023. The company's brief announcement didn't include a price for PlayStation VR 2, one of the last pieces of key info that's still...
New Logitech VR Accessory Aims to Bring One of Index’s Best Features to Quest 2
Logitech this week announced a new VR accessory which aims to bring the great off-ear audio solution of Valve's Index headset to Quest 2
Valve's unique off-ear headphones were a elegant solution for powerful yet comfortable audio on the company's...
Valve Adds Bugs in Latest SteamVR Update
Valve this week released the SteamVR 1.23 update which brings with it a new set of bugs.
Dead bugs, that is. The latest update to SteamVR includes a curious addition... a new SteamVR Home destination that includes CT scans of...
‘Iron Man VR’ Developer Remains “All-in on VR” and “Can’t wait to tell you more”
Developer Camouflaj has been pretty quiet since the 2020 release of one of our favorite PSVR games—Iron Man VR. But the developer recently teased that it has "exciting things on the horizon" and remains "all-in on VR."
Iron Man VR was...




















