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An Unknown HTC Vive Headset Has Appeared in New FCC Filings

New regulatory filings for an unknown HTC Vive headset have appeared at the US Federal Communications Commission. Since the confused introduction of HTC's Vive Cosmos headsets earlier this year the company has been laying low on the hardware front while...

HTC Launches ‘Vive XR Suite’, a Bundle of VR Apps for Remote Productivity

HTC has officially launched the Vive XR Suite, a bundle of five enterprise-focused VR applications which are unified under a single login. The company has tapped the likes of VRChat, Museum of Other Realities, and ENGAGE to offer businesses a range of VR...

Oculus Founder to Match $5,000 Reward for Anyone Who Can Jailbreak Quest 2

Facebook's latest VR headset, Oculus Quest 2, isn't jailbroken yet, however one developer is offering up $5,000 to anyone capable of freeing the device from Facebook services. Now, Oculus founder and ex-Facebook exec Palmer Luckey says he'll be throwing...

Pimax Secures $20M Series B Funding to Further Develop Wide Field of View VR Headsets

Pimax, the Chinese startup building wide field of view (FOV) virtual reality headsets, has secured $20 million in Series B financing. Shortly after completing its successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2017, which garnered the company $4.2 million in crowdfunding to produce...

Quest 2 Drops Backwards Compatibility with Oculus Go Apps & Games

It was a little over a year ago when Facebook triumphantly announced that games and apps made for Oculus Go would live on in Oculus Quest. But now with Go long gone and Quest 1 out of production, the...

‘Blaston’ is a Fantastically Creative VR ‘Shooter’ That’s All About Making You Move

Blaston, the latest VR title from Resolution Games, is a 1 vs. 1 multiplayer VR game that thinks completely outside the box and explores new and interesting mechanics that challenge the notion of what a 'VR shooter' can be. I've...

Facebook Disguised Quest 2 Dev Kits as Clothing Irons to Avoid Prying Eyes

Even though Quest 2 was leaked well before it was officially announced, Facebook still did their level best to hide the box from prying eyes while en route to developers, camouflaging it as an ordinary household clothing iron. Now that...

Apple Adds LiDAR Scanner to iPhone 12 Pro for “Instant AR” & Depth Mapping

Apple today introduced its latest lineup of smartphones, including the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, both of which are equipped with a LiDAR scanner which will bolster AR capabilities. Like the iPad Pro introduced earlier this year,...

Quest 2 Teardown Reveals New Cooling System & Astoundingly Dense Interior

Oculus Quest 2 is Facebook's follow-up to the original 2019 Quest, offering a higher resolution display, higher refresh rate, lower overall weight, and a more powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset. A teardown of Quest 2 shows most of the headset's...

Quest 2 Elite Strap & Elite Battery Strap Review

Quest 2 is the first Oculus headset to get official head strap accessories. There's two to choose from: the Elite Strap, which offers a rigid strap with counterweight, and the Elite Battery Strap, which is essentially the same but...

Here’s Every Country & Store Where Quest 2 is Officially Being Sold

On the eve of the Oculus Quest 2 launch your favorite retailer might be backordered or out of stock of the headset, but have you looked elsewhere? Here's a complete list of official Quest 2 retailers and the MSRP...

Oculus Link Will Continue to Work with SteamVR After Native Integration into Quest Interface

In addition to a handful of upcoming performance upgrades, Oculus plans to eventually merge Oculus Link directly into Quest's interface instead of handing the job off to Oculus Dash (the Oculus PC interface) as it does now. The company...

10 Games Getting Quest 2 Enhancements at Launch

Oculus Quest 2 launches tomorrow, bringing along with it higher resolution, higher refresh rate, and a cutting edge Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset to drive native VR games on the company's most powerful standalone headset yet. Although all games out of...

Coatsink, Veteran VR Studio of ‘Jurassic World Aftermath’ and Others, Acquired for up to $85 Million

Veteran VR studio Coatsink, currently in development of Jurassic World Aftermath,  has been acquired for $30 million by game publisher Thunderful. Coatsink is a British game studio and publisher founded in 2009. Though the studio doesn't deal exclusively in VR games, about...

‘Swords of Gargantua’ Creators Thirdverse Secures $8.5M Funding for More VR Games

Thirdverse, the Tokyo-based VR game studio behind Swords of Gargantua (2019) and upcoming shooter Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds, announced that it's secured $8.5 million in funding, something the company says will allow them to grow and make more VR games. The Series...
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