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‘Meta for Education’ Program Exits Beta, Bringing Quest to the Classroom

Meta announced its 'Meta for Education' program is now out of beta, allowing schools and educational institutions from all over to fill their classrooms with Quest headsets and use a variety of education-focused XR apps and software. Initially announced last...

Red 6 Raises $30 Million for In-flight Military AR Training Platform

Red 6, a company building an aircraft platform with augmented reality capabilities designed for military training, says it has raised a $30 million Series A investment to further its mission. Founded in 2018, Red 6 is the creator of the...

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...
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Owlchemy Labs Shows Off New Convenience Store Level in ‘Job Simulator’

Owlchemy Labs's Job Simulator has become a staple demo in the HTC Vive demo reel thanks to its fun and intuitive room-scale interactions with everyday kitchen items. The studio has just revealed a teaser of another job that will...

VR Veteran Studio nDreams to Reveal “what’s next” at VR Games Showcase Next Week

One of VR's most senior studios nDreams announced they're getting ready to announce "what's next" at the VR Games Showcase next week. Coming August 15th and presented by industry veteran Jamie Feltham, the inaugural VR Games Showcase will cover titles targeting...
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New Trailer Offers First Look at ‘Star Wars: Beyond Victory’ Mixed Reality Game Heading to Quest...

ILM and Lucasfilm today revealed gameplay of their upcoming Quest 3 game, Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset, which offers up both virtual and mixed reality gameplay. In partnership with Meta, the studios served up a first hands-on with...
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‘Blacktop Hoops’ Graduates from Early Access After Racking up Over 15,000 Reviews

Blacktop Hoops (2024), the popular VR basketball game, is out of early access on Quest, now serving up multiplayer and single player streetball on standalone platforms and PC VR headsets too. Developed by Vinci Games and first released in April...

‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’ Nabs ‘Best VR/AR Game’ at The Game Awards 2017

The yearly fanfare of the Game Awards has come and gone, leaving Capcom with the award for Best VR/AR Game for their massively successful horror-adventure Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017), a game that equally supports both PSVR and traditional monitors. As a testament to its popularity, after its...

HTC & Shenzhen Government Team Up for $160 Million Investment Fund

Between HTC's Vive X accelerator and the VRVCA investor consortium that it heads, the company is already very active in the VR investment space. But today the company announced a brand new investment fund of some $160 million in...

Following Rift Delay, HTC Vive Backorder Pushes Into June

The HTC Vive opened for pre-orders back at the end of February and officially launched just last week on April 5th. The headset's backorder date is now into June for new orders. After the initial wave of pre-orders for the...

Stanford & Samsung Develop Ultra-dense OLED Display Capable of 20,000 PPI

Researchers at Stanford and Samsung Electronics have developed a display capable of packing in greater than 10,000 pixels per inch (ppi), something that's slated to be used in VR/AR headsets and contact lenses of the future. Over the years, research...
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Watch: 6 Minutes of Golem Gameplay on the PlayStation VR

Here's 6 minutes of gameplay from Golem, the forthcoming action adventure game from Highwire games, on the PlayStation VR - recorded at Sony's showcase event held during GDC 2016 in March. At GDC, Sony were out in force to mark...

Some of Vision Pro’s Biggest New Development Features Are Restricted to Enterprise

VisionOS 2 is bringing a range of new development features, but some of the most significant are restricted to enterprise applications. VisionOS 2 will bring some of the top requested development features to the headset, but Apple says its reserving...

VR is Getting an Official ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Game from ‘Demeo’ Studio

Resolution Games, developers behind VR tabletop game Demeo (2021), announced it's working with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to create a VR game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. We don't know much about the game for now—including...

Apple CEO: VR Has “Lower Commercial Interest” than AR, New Hires from Magic Leap & Oculus

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. On the subject of virtual and augmented reality Apple is still largely...
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