2023 Sections
Meta’s Head of XR Apologizes to Oculus Founder Regarding His Ousting
Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief, has publicly apologized to Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus who was ousted from the company in 2017 for political reasons.
To this day, Meta (ex-Facebook) never publicly confirmed why Luckey was...
‘Pistol Whip’ Review – Shooting for the Flow State
Formerly known for its linear, story-driven VR adventure series The Gallery, Pistol Whip is a surprising shift for Cloudhead Games into VR's rhythm and shooting genres. Surprising as it may be, the studio makes a strong case for fusing the two,...
Niantic Launches City-scale Visual Positioning System for Location-based, Multi-user AR
Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that AR devices can share the same frame of reference even on massive...
Latest Quest Update Brings Big Improvements to Virtual Desktop and Hand-tracking
Meta's final Quest update of the year is bringing some big improvements to hand-tracking and using the headset as a virtual desktop with Windows computers. But it might be some time before the features reach everyone.
The Quest v72 update...
‘Duck Season’ Releasing on Steam and Oculus Store September 14th, New Gameplay Trailer Here
Duck Season is a first-person adventure game created by Stress Level Zero, developers of multiplayer shooter Hover Junkers (2016). While it's hard to pin down exactly what sort of game it is with its unique, nostalgia-inducing narrative style and horror elements, we'll be...
Whether Hit or Flop, Apple’s Entrance Will Be a Pivotal Moment for XR
If the avalanche of recent reports can indicate anything at all, it seems Apple is entering the VR/AR headset market fairly soon, bringing along with it the most inflated expectations the industry has ever seen. It's probably going to be...
Pimax Delays Thin & Light ‘Dream Air’ PC VR Headset to Q3 2025, Reveals Cheaper ‘Dream...
Pimax announced Dream Air last December, aiming to take on the emerging segment of compact high-end PC VR headsets, such as Bigscreen Beyond and Shiftall MaganeX Superlight 8K. And before the company has even released Dream Air, Pimax revealed it's...
SteamVR Beta Restores Windows VR Headset Support on Windows 11 Thanks to Third-party Driver
The latest version of the SteamVR Beta automatically installs the third-party 'Oasis' driver, enabling compatibility with Windows VR headsets after Microsoft discontinued their support in the latest versions of Windows 11.
For years Valve has sought to support as many...
Hit Viral Song POP/STARS Comes to ‘Beat Saber’ Free on All Platforms
Beat Games today announced that the hit viral song POP/STARS by K/DA is now available as a free track in Beat Saber. The song comes from Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends, who created the virtual K-pop group K/DA which...
Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR2 Processor for Glasses-sized AR Devices
Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon AR2, its "purpose-built headworn augmented reality platform." Differentiating from the company's existing Snapdragon XR2 chips, Qualcomm says the AR2 architecture is better suited for creating AR glasses with low power consumption and compact form factors.
Today...
Quest 2 Stock Becoming Readily Available Following Holiday Scarcity
With the Winter holidays and the New Year in the rearview mirror, Quest 2 stock is becoming easier to find and available for delivery more promptly. While backorders in some regions spanned more than a month on the lead...
Meta Optimizes Quest Developer Tool for Apple’s Mac M-series Chips
Last week Meta released the latest version of the Meta Quest Developer Hub tool which has been optimized to work natively on Apple's M-series chips for better performance.
The Meta Quest Developer Hub (MQDH) is a collection of tools to...
Meta Shows Off Quest Hand-tracking Improvements, Claims “almost as responsive as controllers”
Apple is going all-in with hand-tracking for its upcoming Vision Pro, but can hand-tracking really replace proper VR controllers? Meta, Apple's main competitor in the space, isn't going so far as to make that particular claim, however the company...
Microsoft is Pulling the Plug on Windows VR Headsets
Microsoft announced this week that it plans to remove support for its entire WMR platform on Windows, which could make Windows VR headsets inoperable.
A Good Start
Microsoft was surprisingly quick to jump into the VR sphere back in 2017 when...
Valve Introduces Auto Resolution Optimization to Squeeze the Most Detail From Your VR Headset
Valve today released an update to SteamVR Beta that introduces a new system that automatically adjusts the VR game's resolution in accordance with your GPU's rendering ability. Presented by Valve Graphics Programmer Alex Vlachos in an official announcement, the auto-resolution...

















