New figures directly from Valve reveal the growth of VR users on Steam in 2021. Shared by Valve this week, the Steam 2021 Year in Review gives us some fresh official stats about VR usage on the platform. Valve says "new...

Steam Deck, Valve's handheld gaming PC that launched late last month, doesn't really have the horsepower capable of playing SteamVR games, although Valve chief Gabe Newell calls it a "stepping stone" to what could one day be Valve standalone...

Oculus quietly began selling officially refurbished Quest 2 units earlier this month and now Amazon is offering them with an even more generous one-year warranty. Starting in early February, Oculus began selling refurbished Quest 2 units with a $50 discount...

Sony finally lifted the veil on PlayStation VR2 along with the final design image of the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. Note: This news is breaking. We're updating this piece as new information comes in. We've been waiting for nearly a year...

Meta opened its Horizon Worlds social VR platform in December, rolling out its proto-metaverse project to Quest users in the US and Canada. During an all-hands company call this past week—where CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed Meta employees 'metamates'—the company announced...

Much ado has been made about Meta's latest avatars which juxtapose impressive expression against, well... a complete lack of legs. While full-body tracking is both desirable and achievable today with outside-in tracking systems, Meta doesn't think it's viable with...

Valve will soon offer official replacement parts for its Index VR headset (and possibly other Index products like controllers and base stations) via DIY repair site iFixit. Valve announced today that it plans to offer official replacement parts for "Valve...

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...

It's hard to find a single event with a bigger audience than the Super Bowl, which has made it one of the hottest pieces of advertising real estate anywhere. Meta went big this year with a 60 second ad...

We learned last week that PSVR 2 will use Fresnel lenses, which have a range of advantages over traditional lenses, but also come with a big downside: god rays. However, Sony may have a trick up its sleeve that...

The holiday period has consistently been a significant time of growth for VR and holiday 2021 was no different. Largely driven by an influx of new Quest 2 users, VR headsets on Steam handily reached a new record high...

An official product page for PlayStation VR 2 confirms some new details on the headset's optics and displays. Although the page signals that PSVR 2 is getting ever closer to becoming a reality, we still don't have a release...

As the most valuable tech company in the world, decisions that Apple makes tend to reverberate throughout the industry. Recent evidence strongly points to Apple planning to support WebXR on Safari and possibly its forthcoming XR headset, which would...

Australia-based Studio Alta, the developer behind A Township Tale, today announced it has raised a $12.4 million seed investment to expand its studio and accelerate development of the game. Studio Alta had been quietly developing its brilliant co-op focused VR game A...

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook's VR strategy by moving away from the PC. Quest 2, which launched in October 2020, has become the most popular VR headset on the market....