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Sony Reveals Standalone MR Headset with “4K” OLED Displays and Unique Controllers

Today at CES Sony revealed a new standalone MR headset equipped with "4K" OLED displays. The headset is yet-unnamed, but the company says it's aimed at creatives building 3D content and will launch this year. Sony's unnamed standalone MR headset...

Wi-Fi 7 Launches With New Features That Promise Reduced Wireless VR Latency

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that Wi-Fi 7 Certified products are ready to hit the market. The latest version of the Wi-Fi standard promises the possibility of "near-zero" latency for real-time applications like wireless VR streaming. The Wi-Fi Alliance (the...

Apple Reveals Alternate Headstrap That Will Ship With Vision Pro

Alongside the release date announcement of Vision Pro, Apple revealed a new headstrap that will ship with Vision Pro, alongside the originally revealed one. Apple today revealed a new headstrap for Vision Pro which it's calling the 'Dual Loop'. Compared...

Apple Announces Vision Pro Release & Pre-order Dates

Apple has announced an earlier-than-expected Vision Pro release date, right at the start of CES. As we talked about in our 2023 retrospective, Apple Vision Pro was certainly the most talked about story of the year. And now we've learned...

Panasonic VR Startup Shiftall Announces ‘superlight’ PC VR Headset, New Full Body Trackers

Panasonic subsidiary Shiftall announced it's releasing a new version of its MeganeX PC VR headset along with the next generation of its HaritoraX wireless body trackers. The company calls its next SteamVR headset 'MeganeX superlight', which is said to be...

Studio Behind ‘DOOM 3’ VR Port Announces Layoffs

Archiact, the veteran studio known for a host of VR titles, announced it's laying off a portion of its staff. The number of staff affected by the layoff hasn't been confirmed. The studio says however in an X post that it's...

New Qualcomm MR Reference Headset Shows What to Expect From Samsung

Alongside the announcement of the new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, Qualcomm also revealed its latest reference headset, a mixed reality device that's likely the foundation of Samsung's upcoming headset. Samsung announced last year that it's working with both Google...

Studio Behind One of PSVR 2’s Most Popular Multiplayer Games is Shutting Down

First Contact Entertainment, developers behind the tactical team shooter franchise Firewall, is shuttering the studio, citing the "lack of support for VR within the industry." Founded in 2016, First Contact has developed two of the PSVR platform's most visible exclusives:...

Exploring XR User Interface Interactions in ‘Idea Engine’

Idea Engine allows you to create and share VR and mixed reality experiences. Building such a general-purpose tool requires complex user interfaces. In this Guest Article, developer Brett Jackson shares his approaches to UI interaction. Guest Article by Brett Jackson Brett...

Qualcomm Announces More Powerful Version of Quest 3’s XR Chip

Qualcomm today announced its latest Snapdragon XR chip, the XR2+ Gen 2, a more capable variant of the chip that powers Quest 3. The company also hints that it will be used in the upcoming Samsung-Google headset. Qualcomm is at...

XR Year in Review: The Most Important Stories of 2023 and What They Mean for 2024

Somehow another year has come and gone. 2024 will mark the 13th year that we've been following this XR journey here at Road to VR. With an eye on that long-term perspective, it's once again time to reflect on...

Microsoft is Pulling the Plug on Windows VR Headsets

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to remove support for its entire WMR platform on Windows, which could make Windows VR headsets inoperable. A Good Start Microsoft was surprisingly quick to jump into the VR sphere back in 2017 when...

Road to VR’s 2023 Game of the Year Awards

"Virtual reality is dead." That's what we've been told about every six months for the better part of a decade now. Anyone who's been following the space though knows that more people than ever are playing VR games and opening...

Video Offers a Glimpse of Vision Pro Hand-tracking & Occlusion Performance

A video posted by a Vision Pro developer appears to show the current levels of hand-tracking and occlusion performance that Apple's new headset is capable of. Apple Vision Pro, expected to launch in the next few months, will use hand-tracking...

‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Hands-on: The New Benchmark for Quest Games

If you're just getting into VR, chances are you haven't played Asgard's Wrath, the Meta-funded RPG from Sanzaru Games that came exclusive to Oculus Rift in 2019. At the time, the 30+ hour adventure was one of the first...
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