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Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Glasses for Research and Experimentation

Meta today revealed its next-gen glasses, Aria Gen 2, which the company intends to release to third-party researchers working on machine perception systems, AI and robotics. The company revealed its first iteration of Project Aria back in 2020, showing off a...

Oculus Quest System Update to Make Multitasking Easier, Experimental Features Coming Soon

In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus, Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today,...

Quest Fitness App ‘Supernatural’ Now Offers Annual Subscriptions, Starting at $149

Supernatural (2020), the VR fitness app for Oculus Quest, kicked off its subscription service late last month, offering up a fun and engaging gameified fitness routine for $19 per month. Now the developers Within have included an annual subscription...

‘Rec Room’ to Roll Out Full-body Avatars in March

Prominent VR social app Rec Room is getting full-body avatars soon, which will let users choose to either stick with the standard floating bean-body type, or go all-in with a fully-appendaged avatar. The studio says in a blogpost that it's bringing its...

Rokid Glasses Raise Over $1M in First Week, Proving Strong Demand for Display-clad Smart Glasses

Rokid, the China and US-based AR startup, launched a Kickstarter campaign last week for Rokid Glasses, frontrunning the competition with a pair of smart glasses housing green monochrome displays. Now, the crowdfunding campaign has surpasses $1 million, doubling the...

‘Stellar Cafe’ Hands-on – ‘Job Simulator’ Vibes & AI Powered NPCs That Don’t Actually Suck

Stellar Cafe is an upcoming VR game that's all about interacting with AI chatbots in some interesting ways. I went hands-on with the game's first level to see whether developer AstroBeam could truly hide 'the bot behind the curtain',...

‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games

ARKTIKA.1, now in development for more than two years, is shaping up to be a gritty VR shooter with a AAA look and feel. Ahead of the game's launch on the Oculus Rift we spoke with the game's executive...

Mozilla is Shutting Down Development on WebXR Social App ‘Hubs’

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, shuttered most of its web-focused XR development back in 2020. At the time, the company’s web-based social VR app Hubs was spared from the chopping block. Now, after a new organization-wide restructuring, all...

Microsoft’s Struggling Military AR Headset Gets Boost From Oculus Founder’s Latest Venture

Anduril Industries, the defense tech company founded by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, announced it's partnering with Microsoft to boost the company's militarized, HoloLens 2-based AR headset, which is currently under contract by the United States Army. The company maintains its Lattice...

‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to PC, Bringing the Platform’s 360 Videos to Vive, Rift, and Windows...

It's been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. The app is now available on Steam, officially for the Vive (but also functional with Rift and Windows VR headsets). Google expects YouTube...
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‘Bigscreen’ Coming to Mobile VR in Q2, Gear VR Alpha Test Starts Today

Bigscreen is a unique social VR application which lets users bring their desktop screens and all the capabilities of their PC into VR with them. That means friends can come together virtually for LAN parties, streaming sessions, and much...

The 5 Best Free Games on HTC Vive

Steam is chocked full of free games that support HTC Vive, but it may be difficult with all that choice to know exactly which games to start out with, especially if all that holiday shopping blew your wallet to...
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‘Pistol Whip’ Gets New DLC & Long-term Roadmap Reveal, Heading to PSVR in July

Hit VR rhythm shooter Pistol Whip got a brand new DLC level today on PC VR and Quest. Developer Cloudhead games also shared its long-term roadmap, including DLC planned for Q4 which will mark "a whole new era" for the...

Snap Spectacles Offer a Peek into All-day AR with New Geo-location Platform Update

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, introduced its fifth-gen Spectacles AR glasses six months ago, and now the company is releasing a number of new features that aim to improve geo-located AR experiences. Released in September 2024, Spectacles are still very...

New VR Fighting Game From ‘Synth Riders’ Studio Gets Steam Next Fest Demo Next Week

Kluge Interactive, the studio behind hit VR rhythm game Synth Riders (2019), announced its upcoming VR fighting game, FINAL FURY, will be featured at Steam Next Fest on October 14th, which of course means a playable demo. Final Fury is a...
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