2023 Sections
Meta Ray-Ban Display Waveguide Provider Says It’s Poised for Wide Field-of-view Glasses
SCHOTT—a global leader in advanced optics and specialty glass—working with waveguide partner Lumus, is almost certainly the manufacturer of the waveguide optics in Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses. While the Ray-Ban Display glasses offer only a static 20° field-of-view, the...
Cambridge & Meta Study Raises the Bar for ‘Retinal Resolution’ in XR
It's been a long-held assumption that the human eye is capable of detecting a maximum of 60 pixels per degree (PPD), which is commonly called 'retinal' resolution. Any more than that, and you'd be wasting pixels. Now, a recent...
Snap & Qualcomm Announce Long-term Partnership, Affirm 2026 Launch for ‘Specs’ Consumer AR Glasses
Snap's new XR subsidiary Specs Inc and Qualcomm announced a multi-year partnership for Snap's upcoming AR glasses, with Qualcomm pledging Snapdragon chips for future iterations. The companies also reaffirmed that Snap's next-gen Specs are coming "later this year."
Specs Inc,...
‘Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow’ Hands-on: The Most Promising VR-Native Stealth Game Yet
Thief pioneered the stealth-action genre starting in the late '90s, and now the storied franchise is finally coming to all major headsets in its first made-for-VR game.
I had a chance to go hands-on with the latest build of Thief VR:...
Asymmetric PC vs. VR Game ‘Panoptic’ is Getting a Sequel with 1v4 Multiplayer and Quest Support
Panoptic (2020) is an innovative 'PC vs. VR' game that plays out like a game of 1v1 hide-and-seek, with one VR player seeking out a flatscreen PC player who tries to blend into the crowd. Now the studio behind...
HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries
HTC is donating over 110 HTC Vive systems to California and Nevada libraries through its new Vive Libraries Program, an effort to seed local communities with premium VR.
In a blogpost announcing the program, HTC's Chris Chin, Executive Director of Education...









