2023 Sections
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...
Educational Studio Kuato Raises $6M to Build Asymmetric VR Games
Kuato Studios, a UK-based creator of educational games, announced it has raised £4.5M (~$6.1M USD) as the company takes a stride into virtual reality gaming for the first time.
Led by Hong Kong venture capital firm Horizons Ventures, the company says...
Valve VR Programmer Aims to Extend SteamVR with AR-like Utilities, Launches ‘Aardvark’ Platform in Early Access
Long-time Valve VR programmer Joe Ludwig, working in his own capacity, is building an open-source platform to bring AR-like utilities into virtual reality. The project, called Aardvark, is something of an evolution of an extension of VR dashboards as...
Valve Index Surges Back into Stock Worldwide
Throughout 2020, Valve's Index headset has been at times significantly backordered or out of stock entirely. Heading into 2021, Index stock appears to be strongly returning, with all regions presently estimating shipment within two weeks for most kits.
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Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 2 Million Milestone
2020 was a big year for VR on Steam with the release of new headsets, Valve's flagship VR title Half-Life: Alyx, and the Coronavirus pandemic which drove large increases in gaming. These factors combined pushed monthly-connected VR headsets on Steam...
Oculus Quest 2 is Getting Multi-User Accounts and App Sharing Next Month
Facebook announced that its long-awaited support for multiple user accounts and device-specific app sharing is heading to Oculus Quest 2 starting next month.
The company says in a developer blog post the upcoming 'Multi-User' feature will let you add up...
Valve: Steam Saw 1.7 Million New VR Users in 2020, 71% Increase in VR Game Revenue
Valve today shared a handful of new stats revealing the growth of VR on Steam over the course of 2020.
In an 2020 year-in-review recap of Steam, Valve took note of SteamVR's growth over the last year.
The company said that...
For a Veteran Studio That’s Weathered the Storm, VR Has Become a Lucrative Business
Having started production on its first title even before the original Oculus Rift DK1 development kit was sent to developers, Canada-based Cloudhead Games is one of the world's most veteran game studios dedicated to virtual reality. The studio has...
Oculus Quest 2 Surpasses Original Quest in Monthly Active Users
In a look back at 2020, Facebook Reality Lab's head Andrew Bosworth revealed that Quest 2 quietly celebrated a few new milestones shortly after its October 13th launch.
In the blogpost, Bosworth says that despite the need for social distancing...
The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – December 2020
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...
Exclusive: Tundra Tracker Aims for Smaller, Cheaper Alternative to Vive Tracker for SteamVR Tracking
Tundra Labs, which makes chips and development kits for devices which use SteamVR Tracking, is building its own tracking accessory for the tracking ecosystem. The company is positioning its Tundra Tracker as a smaller, cheaper, and better alternative to...
Parents Who Gift Quest 2 to Kids Under 13 Years Old are in for an Unfortunate...
Christmas day has come and the evidence suggests that Quest 2 was a hot gift item this year. While it may have inspired screams of joy, it turns out that kids under 13 years old aren't actually allowed to...
Zynga Veterans Unveil New VR Studio ‘ForeVR’, Announces $1.5M Seed Funding
A new VR studio founded by a pair of Zynga veterans has emerged from stealth with some not-so-inconsequential funding. Called ForeVR, the studio recently revealed it's also raised $1.5 million to build VR games for all ages. The news was...
Arthur Technologies Raises $2.5M for Its VR Office Collaboration Software
Munich, Germany-based AR/VR software company Arthur Technologies today announced it's successful raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company is also launching a beta of its VR collaboration software, Arthur.
The seed round was led by Silicon Valley venture capitalist...
Oculus Unity Plugin Adds Experimental OpenXR Support & Latency-reducing Tech for Quest
The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. A new technique for reducing positional latency called 'Phase Sync' has been added to both the Unity and...



















