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AWE Expands Focus to Welcome XR Game Developers & Publishers to Major Industry Event

AWE USA 2025 has announced a new Gaming Hub program that expands the event's focus and programming to include XR game development and publishing. As far as industry events go, AWE USA has become our must-attend XR event of the...

‘Beat Saber’ Sells Over One Million Copies

Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind Beat Saber (2018), announced they've sold over one million copies of their popular block-slashing rhythm game—a figure calculated across all supported VR platforms. Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck announced the news in...

Social VR Platform ‘AltspaceVR’ Now Available on Oculus Quest

Social VR networking app AltspaceVR is now live on the Oculus Quest. The social VR app is best known for having been purchased by Microsoft in 2017 after nearly shutting down, but low-key visual design and wide accessibility have cemented...

Quest is Getting a Third-person Spectator View for Casting

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser. Today if a friend...

Quest Parental Controls to Include Locks on Apps, PC VR Linking & More

Meta announced it's bringing some new parental tools to Quest headsets in the next few months which are aimed at giving parents more control over what their teens see and do in VR. Meta's VR headsets, which are only intended...

Magic Leap Commits to OpenXR & WebXR Support Later This Year on ML2

In an ongoing shift away from a somewhat proprietary development environment on its first headset, Magic Leap has committed to bringing OpenXR support to its Magic Leap 2 headset later this year. Although Magic Leap 2 is clearly the successor...

Update to ‘PSVR 2 App’ for SteamVR Makes it Easier to Diagnose Controller Tracking Issues

Sony has released an update to the PlayStation VR2 App which allows the headset to be used with SteamVR content. The update makes it easier to diagnose controller tracking issues which have been proven problematic. The latest update to PlayStation VR2...

‘Puzzling Places’ is Finally Coming to PC, Arriving with VR and Flatscreen Support

Puzzling Places (2021) has been a long-time favorite immersive puzzle game, bringing a heap of its real-world scanned 3D jigsaw puzzles to players in both virtual and mixed reality. Now developer Realities.io is preparing to release it on PC, which...

Vive Pro Bundle With 2.0 Base Stations & Controllers Now Available at $1400

HTC today started selling the long-awaited Vive Pro headset and SteamVR 2.0 base station hardware bundle, making it the first instance of the 2.0 tracking hardware coming to market. The new hardware bundle, which includes the Vive Pro headset, two...
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‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ Follow-up Coming to Quest This Fall, Trailer Here

Corptopia Studios, developer behind VR puzzle-adventure Down the Rabbit Hole (2020), announced the release of a follow-up title that takes you back to the game's winding chasm of enigmatic dioramas. Called Escaping Wonderland, the standalone adventure is said to arrive on...

Apple Confirms Vision Pro is Launching in China This Year, Going Where Meta Can’t

Since its February 2nd launch, Vision Pro has been a US-only device, which means it only supports the US keyboard layout and emoji. Now Apple has confirmed that the international launch of Vision Pro is coming this year, which...

Magic Leap Shakes up Leadership with New CEO

Magic Leap, maker of one of the best AR headsets on the market, is making a major change to its leadership with a new CEO that will face the challenge of carving out territory for its transparent AR technology...

Google Teases Android Smart Glasses Ahead of I/O Developer Conference Next Week

Google may be getting ready to unveil a pair of smart glasses at its Google I/O developer conference next week, ostensibly hoping to take on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses. In a promo for Google I/O, Android Ecosystem President Sameer Samat showed...
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‘Mindshow’ Update Lets You Collaborate on Creations with Your Steam Friends

Mindshow, the app that lets you make animated movies in VR, just pushed an update that now lets you collaborate with your Steam friends to create something truly unique. The new 'VR Sharing' function lets you share and remix shows from inside the...

‘Transference’ Review: A Thrilling Film-like Adventure for the Digital Age

Transference (2018) is a single-player psychological thriller that takes place in a shadowy reflection of reality—the  simulation of a family's collective minds who've presumably been corrupted after the father, a scientist, tests his breakthrough procedure on himself, his wife, and...
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