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...
‘Bigscreen’ Now Supports Windows VR, PSVR and Mobile Headsets Coming in 2018
Bigscreen, the social VR app which lets users connect in a virtual environment while retaining the ability to use (and share) their own PC desktop content, now supports Microsoft's 'Windows Mixed Reality' VR headsets. In 2018, the app will...
VR City Manager ‘Little Cities’ is Headed to Vision Pro Next Month
Little Cities (2022), the pint-sized VR city manager, is getting a new version for Apple Vision Pro that's all about mixed reality gameplay.
Called Little Cities: Diorama, the game will launch for Vision Pro through Apple Arcade on December 5th.
It also...
Bigscreen Beyond 2 Starts First Wave of Shipping, Aims for Immediate Fulfillment by September
Bigscreen announced it's officially begun shipping the first production units of Beyond 2, the company's latest slim and light PC VR headset.
Following a recent production delay, the company says in a blogpost that Beyond 2 headsets are now shipping, noting...
‘Firewall Zero Hour’ to Celebrate 1-year Anniversary with 6-day Free Trial Starting Tomorrow
Firewall Zero Hour (2018), the PSVR exclusive & team shooter from First Contact Entertainment, is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a six-day free trial for PS Plus members.
Starting tomorrow, August 28th, and going until September 2nd, the six-day free...
Hands-on: IBM Watson Brings Voice Commands to ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’
IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, today launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Before the service launched today, lone players could control the ship's other posts—Engineering, Tactical, Helm—by clicking...
HTC Announces New First-Party Titles, ‘Front Defense: Heroes’ & ‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’
HTC’s internal development and publishing arm Vive Studios has announced two new games coming to Vive in early December. Physics puzzler Super Puzzle Galaxy from 2 Bears Studio and multiplayer WWII shooter Front Defense: Heroes from Fantahorn Studio will...
YouTube is Finally Set to Get Social Viewing on Quest
Nearly two years ago, Meta announced that Quest's social space, Horizon Home, would allow users to watch YouTube videos together—something we've been wishing was easy to do in VR for a long time. Excitement waned, however, when the feature...
Vive Hangs Onto Steam Majority Market Share as Windows VR Headsets Enter the Fray
According to the just-released November figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the HTC Vive has scraped its way back from nearly losing the majority market share of VR headsets in use on Steam last month, finally ending a months...
Here We Go (Again): The VR Industry Is Spinning up Just like Online Video 10 Years...
Here we go again. A decade ago, it was online video that changed everything. Now virtual reality is set to change the world once more. As we approach the Q1 2016 Oculus Rift release date, you can literally see and...
Quest Pro vs. Quest 2: Beyond the Paper Specs
Quest Pro has finally been revealed, and while it's a much more expensive headset, inevitably people are interested in knowing how it compares to Meta's next best headset, Quest 2. So here we're going to look at Quest Pro...
VR Metaverse Company High Fidelity Raises $22 Million in New Funding
Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding.
The company, which has reportedly raised $17.45 million across four prior venture investments, has raised a new round of venture capital to the...
Sales of Valve’s Index Headset Are Waning After Years of Surprising Longevity
Valve's Index VR headset is now more than four years old. Despite its age, the headset continued to sell at a surprising rate over the years—but as they say, nothing lasts forever.
Valve launched Index with the goal of setting...
Valve Now Prompting Rift Owners to Install SteamVR
Although Valve has buddied up with HTC to create the Vive as SteamVR's flagship headset, the company has made it clear that they want SteamVR to be headset agnostic. Now Steam is identifying Rift users and prompting them to install...
Latest ‘Blade Runner VR’ Screenshots Show Incredible Attention to Detail
We reported a while back on a hobby project by 3D modeller Quentin Lengele to reproduce Rick Deckard's apartment from the classic dystopian Sci-fi flick Blade Runner (1982). Well, the project received an update recently with screenshots showing great progress and...




















