Meta announced its LA-based pop-up store is returning as a flagship retail location, which is slated to arrive alongside more Meta branded pop-ups in New York and Las Vegas. The News The company opened its first retail store in Burlingame, California...

Meta announced it's discontinuing Horizon Workrooms next month, its productivity-focused VR platform, marking another step in the company’s ongoing restructuring of its VR and metaverse strategy. Originally launched in 2021 on Quest 2, Workrooms was not only the company's answer to remote...

Trace, a startup founded by former Magic Leap engineers, today announced the launch of a new augmented reality creation platform the company hopes will become the "Canva of AR". The News Trace says it's targeting everyone from global brands to independent...

Valve today announced that it's bringing its wireless PC VR streaming software, Steam Link, to five more headsets from PICO and HTC. The company also plans to make it easier for headset makers to bring Steam Link to even more...

The emulated version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) is getting an unofficial mod this week that will bring full 6DOF PC VR support to the game. The News Created by 'Crementif', the BetterVR mod for BotW promises to...

Forefront has been in early access for only a few months now, although Breachers (2023)  developer Triangle Factory is releasing the game's 1.0 update on April 23rd, which includes a new map, a few new weapons, class perks, and...

Meta launched a new developer competition through its Horizon Start program, which could net eligible XR dev teams a good slice of its $1.5 million prize pool. The News Meta's latest dev competition is seeking to spark "innovative, immersive experiences for...

Legendary programmer and former Oculus CTO John Carmack doesn't think Meta's developer incentive structure is healthy for the Horizon Store ecosystem, calling it "wasteful churn." The News While Carmack departed Meta in 2022, concluding his “decade in VR,” the one-time Oculus CTO...

In light of Reality Labs' reorganization, which has seen recent internal studio closures and layoffs, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey calls the doomer narrative "obviously false." The News Luckey literally kickstarted consumer VR more than a decade ago with the founding of...

Apple previously announced the Logitech Muse stylus for Vision Pro and added PSVR 2 controller support to VisionOS 26. Now we have an official release date for the stylus and a package of PSVR 2 controllers which will be...

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio, released a new mixed reality title exclusively for Android XR which expands the Job Simulator universe. The News Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind VR games Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), released both games on Android XR's...

Meta and eyewear partner EssilorLuxottica announced two new "optical-forward" pairs of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which are said to support nearly all prescriptions. Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses can already be paired with prescription lenses, although the latest pairs...

Sharp announced it's launching a crowdfunding campaign for a slim and light PC VR headset in Japan, called Xrostella VR1. The News Sharp first showed off a PC VR headset prototype at CES 2023, which was supposedly meant to ship sometime...

Steam Frame is still shipping sometime in the first half of 2026, although now Valve says the current component shortage has led the company to revise both price and release date of the standalone VR headset. Valve announced in a...

Meta has rolled out a new update to Quest that aims to drastically improve hand-tracking performance and reliability. The News The v83 update, which is rolling out now to Horizon OS, is said to increase reliability of hand-tracking in a number...