AppliedVR, a virtual reality pain management startup, today announced it has secured $29 million in funding, something it aims to use in pursuit of FDA approval for its cognitive behavioral therapy-based pain management tech. The Series A financing round includes F-Prime...

In preparation for the reveal of its next VR headset, Sony today gave a first look at its next-gen VR controller for use with PS5, something that appears very similar to Oculus' Touch controller. Sony showed off the new controller...

Speaking on a panel at the online GDC Showcase today, Facebook's VP of Play, Jason Rubin, and Facebook Reality Labs' VP of Content, Mike Verdu, furthered the company's bullish outlook on Quest. The duo claimed that the platform is...

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...

After teasing last month that Quest 2 could get an update to enable a 120Hz refresh rate, Oculus confirmed the feature is on the way. Unfortunately it's not heading into beta this month as previously announced. Update (March 8th, 2021):...

Pico Interactive, the Beijing-based VR headset creator, announced it has secured a fresh funding round of ¥242 million RMB (~$37 million), something the company says will help launch new hardware. Update (March 11th, 2021): Pico has provided Road to VR...

Another month, another record high count for the VR usership on Steam. Quest 2, despite being a standalone headset, has helped to drive much of the growth thanks to its ability to connect to a PC to play PC...

Japan-based Psychic VR Lab has announced the close of an $8.5 million investment to grow its cloud-based XR development platform, STYLY. Psychic VR Lab is the company behind STYLY, a browser-based tool which allows creators to easily build cross-platform 3D...

Virtual Desktop, an Oculus Quest app which allows users to control their Windows PCs from inside the headset, now officially offers the ability to stream PC VR games wirelessly to the headset. Facebook had previously not allowed the feature...

Hard data on the VR market is often difficult to come by, while broad 'industry reports' are often so general that it's difficult to see what things look like 'on the ground'. To get a sense of VR's outlook...

Oculus today announced that it's rolling out a small but welcomed change to Quest's voice commands feature: the ability to activate it with a wake phrase—"Hey Facebook." Quest got voice commands last year, allowing users to double-tap the Oculus button...

Sony today announced that its next-generation VR headset is coming—not in 2021, but it's definitely a thing. In an interview with GQ, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan says dev kit headsets are close to landing in the hands...

Sony has been awfully quiet about the follow-up to its PSVR headset, which was initially released back in October 2016. Today the company publicly announced it is indeed working on its next-generation VR headset for PS5 consoles. There's only...

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...

In the decade that I've spent studying and reporting on VR I've had the fortune of experiencing a wide range of VR game design—a craft which is still far from 'figured out'. And while I have no intention of...