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Sandbox VR Announces $37M Series B Funding to Expand Out-of-home VR Locations

Out-of-home VR destination Sandbox VR today announced an additional $37 million funding round that the company is using to support its continued expansion. In addition to its dozen worldwide locations, Sandbox VR says it's working to nearly doubling that. The Series...

Resolution Games Expands to Focus More Development on AR Games

Resolution Games, a leading developer of XR content, today revealed a new AR division of the company that will focus more directly on the creation of AR content. Today during the Augmented World Expo conference, Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm...

Quest v34 Update Brings ‘Space Sense’ Guardian, Android Notifications & MR App Publishing

It seems Quest owners are about to get a healthy dose of new features in the v34 update, something Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will bring the previously leaked 'Space Sense' Guardian system, push notifications in VR from Android...

Meta Buys Dev Behind VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’, Its Sixth VR Studio Acquisition in Two Years

Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural. Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be...

Oculus Expanding Quest Mixed Reality Capabilities With Enhanced Developer Tools

Oculus plans to further open up the mixed reality capabilities of Quest with new tools that will allow developers to build apps which more intelligently integrate with the user's real room. In the near future developers will also be...

Web & WebXR Apps Are Coming to the Quest Store With Multitasking

Oculus today announced that web apps and WebXR apps will soon be allowed into the main Quest store and App Lab. Apps served this way will support multitasking, allowing users to run them side-by-side for increased productivity. Developers will...

Quest’s Home Environment is Finally Getting Social Capabilities, Becomes ‘Horizon Home’

One of our longstanding critiques of Quest's social features is the lack of a simple, first-party place to meet up with friends. Finally that's set to change thanks to 'Horizon Home' which will enhance the existing Quest home environment...

Facebook’s 2021 XR Investments to Total $10 Billion, Even More in 2022 & Beyond

In the company's Q3 2021 earnings call Facebook today said it expects its XR investments this year to top $10 billion, and advised investors that it plans to spend even more than that in subsequent years. Facebook's top brass believe...

The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – October 2021

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of...

Sony Reveals Top 5 Most Played PSVR Games Ever

It's been five years since Sony released PlayStation VR on PS4 consoles, and to commemorate the anniversary its creators have released the top five most-played PSVR games to date. Unlike its monthly top-download list, Sony has stacked up all of...
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HTC Announces Vive Flow, a Compact VR Headset Focused on Casual Entertainment & Wellbeing

HTC today announced Vive Flow, its latest standalone VR headset. While the company just recently released the enterprise-focused Vive Focus 3, the Vive Flow aims for the consumer market with a compact size and feature-set that HTC has designed...

Apparent Leak Unveils HTC Vive Flow, Including Price & Pre-order Date

An apparent leak in HTC's marketing material has revealed images of the upcoming Vive Flow VR headset ahead of its October 14th unveiling. The headset, which is rumored to target consumers with a casual approach to media consumption, is...

CEO Shares First Details on Magic Leap 2, Announces $500 Million in New Funding

Magic Leap today announced that it has raised $500 million in new capital at a $2 billion valuation. This comes ahead of the launch of its upcoming AR headset, Magic Leap 2, which it promises will be smaller, lighter,...

Unofficial Quest App Store ‘SideQuest’ Raises $3M Seed Investment

SideQuest, the popular sideloading platform for Oculus Quest, has raised a fresh $3 million seed round, something its creators say will be used to help developers publish their apps across multiple platforms via OpenXR integration. The news was first reported in...

More Than Two Years After Launch, Valve Index is Now the Second Most Used Headset on...

While Quest 2 has certainly soaked up much of the attention as it quickly became the most used headset on Steam, Valve's expensive Index headset has proven its longevity, now taking second place among the most used headsets on...
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