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‘The Walking Dead: Onslaught’ Developers Survios Secures $16.7M Funding
Survios, the studio behind VR titles The Walking Dead: Onslaught (2020), Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), and Raw Data (2017), has secured another round of financing to the tune of $16.7 million. The news was first reported by Venture Beat.
Survios' latest...
Unofficial Quest App Store ‘SideQuest’ Raises $650,000 From Oculus Founder & Others
SideQuest is an unofficial app store for Facebook's Oculus Quest headset which offers an avenue for developers to distribute apps without being subject to Oculus' approval process. The team behind the project has raised $650,000 in seed investment, including...
Oculus Quest 2 Already Backordered by a Month in Canada, Three Weeks in US
Oculus Quest 2 won't launch until October 13th, but the headset is already backordered in Canada by a month and by three weeks in the US. Most regions are set to ship the headset within its first week or...
Osso VR Secures $14M Investment to Further Develop VR Surgical Training Platform
Osso VR today announced it has raised $14 million in Series A funding to further develop its VR surgical training platform.
The financing round was led by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, with participation from SignalFire, GSR, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures and OCA...
Facebook Lowers Price of Enterprise-focused Quest to $800
With the revelation of Quest 2, Facebook has quietly knocked down the entry price for its business-focused version of the headset.
Facebook only just made its Oculus for Business program openly available back in May, which basically let anyone buy...
Oculus Link Upgrades Will Bring 90Hz & Full Resolution to Quest 2, Native Interface Integration
Although Facebook is discontinuing its PC-only Rift product line, the company says that PC VR content will live on thanks to Oculus Link, which allows Quest and Quest 2 to tether to a VR ready PC and play high-end...
Quest Sold Over $150 Million Worth of Games & Apps Since 2019 Launch
Facebook just officially unveiled their next standalone VR headset, Oculus Quest 2. The company also announced that, since it launched in May 2019, Quest users have spent over $150 million on apps and games.
We still have no idea how...
Facebook Lays Out the Future of Work and Productivity on Quest
Facebook knows VR headsets aren't really great productivity machines yet, however higher-resolution displays, greater hand-tracking, and integration with hardware you already own, like a physical keyboard, may make that a reality. And with that in mind, Facebook outlined some...
Quest 2 Official Accessories Include Elite Strap, Elite Battery Strap, Carrying Case, & Fit Pack
Oculus is finally getting serious about offering first-party ergonomic accessories. The company will offer several accessories for Quest 2 to help you get the ideal fit.
Quest 2 ships with a soft strap, but from our review of the headset we...
Facebook to Discontinue Rift Product Line in 2021, Will No Longer Build PC-only VR Headsets
Capping off dwindling interest in the PC side of the VR spectrum, Facebook said today that it will discontinue the Rift product line early 2021 and will no longer build PC-only VR headsets. Though the company says “the Rift...
‘Vacation Simulator’ Takes on the Gig Economy in ‘Back to Job’ Update Today
Vacation Simulator (2019), Owlchemy Labs' laid back sequel to the madcap VR hit Job Simulator (2016), is getting its first big DLC drop today on SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest.
Update (September 10th, 2020): Vacation Simulator: Back to Job is now...
HTC Vive Focus with Next-Gen XR2 Chipset Appears on Geekbench
A newly posted Geekbench score may point to what HTC has up their sleeves next for Vive Focus, the company's class of standalone VR headsets.
As first spotted by TechGenyz, a variant of HTC Vive Focus using Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2...
AR Glasses Startup Nreal Secures $40M in Series B Financing
Nreal, the China-based company behind the Nreal Light AR glasses, today announced its secured another $40 million in funding.
As reported by TechCrunch, the latest financing round was led by Chinese video sharing platform Kuaishou, with participation by iQiyi, GP Capital,...
The VirtualLink Single-cable Headset Connection Standard Has Been Abandoned
VirtualLink was an open standard that defined a USB-C based connection protocol that was “developed to meet the connectivity requirements of current and next-generation VR headsets,” and backed by major VR industry players. The goal was to make a...
‘Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR’ Beta Updates Hint at “Upcoming hardware releases”
Updates to the beta version of Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, the official integration which allows Windows VR headsets to be used with SteamVR, hint at "upcoming hardware releases."
Update (September 2nd, 2020): A Microsoft developer says the reference to...




















