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VR Education Startup Raises $12.5M to Teach Math and More Using VR in Schools

Prisms VR, an immersive platform for teaching math, announced it's raised $12.5 million in a Series A round, which the company says will be used to expand its VR math literacy platform to more schools across the US. Led by...

Meta Reality Labs Earnings Reveal a Less Successful Holiday Season & Highest Operating Costs Yet

Meta today revealed its latest quarterly earnings results, showing that Reality Labs, the company's XR and metaverse arm, had a smaller holiday season than the last, while operating costs have reached their highest levels yet. Today during the company's Q4...

Meta Optimizes Quest Developer Tool for Apple’s Mac M-series Chips

Last week Meta released the latest version of the Meta Quest Developer Hub tool which has been optimized to work natively on Apple's M-series chips for better performance. The Meta Quest Developer Hub (MQDH) is a collection of tools to...

Update: Sony Refutes Report That It Cut PSVR 2 Production Forecast

Following a Bloomberg report which claimed Sony had cut its production forecast for PSVR 2, the company flatly refuted the claim. Update (January 31st, 2023 – 12:51PM PT): Sony refuted a Bloomberg report earlier today that claimed the company had cut its production...

Meta’s Social VR App is Coming to Web & Mobile Soon, Alpha Begins for Members-only Rooms

Horizon Worlds, Meta's social VR platform for Quest users, is expanding with alpha tests of new members-only spaces, allowing creators to manage up to 150 card-carrying members in their private worlds. Meta says it's also gearing up to release...

Meta Drops Quest Pro Price to $1,100 for Limited Time, Challenging Vive XR Elite’s Major Selling...

It's only been three months since Meta launched Quest Pro, pitching its next-gen mixed reality standalone to enterprise and prosumers with the hefty price tag of $1,500. In an unusual move by the company, Meta has quietly slashed the price...

VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse

Gemba, the corporate VR learning platform, announced it's closed an $18 million Series A funding round, which the company says will be used to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. The latest funding round was...

NBA Deepens Multiyear Partnership with Meta, Bringing More Ways to Watch Live Games on Quest

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Meta announced they're extending a multiyear partnership which is set to bring a few new ways for basketball fans to enjoy NBA League Pass games on Quest. First signed in 2020, the deal essentially...

PSVR’s Top Downloads in 2022 Betray Stagnation, PSVR 2 Looks to Change That

It's more than a bit disheartening to see essentially the same top PSVR game downloads repeated throughout the years, although here's to hoping this may be the last time we utter the names Beat Saber, Job Simulator, and SUPERHOT...

Report: Apple’s MR Headset Said to Arrive Early 2023, AR Headset Sees Further Delays

Apple's long-awaited mixed reality headset is still deep under wraps, although recent reports have not only shed what appears to be new light on some of the features coming to the fruit company's first AR/VR headset, but also a...

2022 Was a Plateau Year for VR, Here’s What to Expect in 2023

The end of 2022 marks more than a decade since the Oculus Kickstarter sparked the modern era of VR. While the space has undoubtedly grown tremendously since then, 2022 felt largely like a plateau year, with Meta standing unchallenged...

PSVR 2 Unlikely to Ever Work on PC, Says Creator Behind PSVR 1 Compatibility Driver

No more ungainly break-out boxes to contend with; thankfully PSVR 2 connects to PlayStation 5 via a single USB-C cable. But if you think you'll be able to plug in that seemingly standard cable to a VR-ready PC to...

US Congress Halts Orders of Microsoft AR Combat Goggles Amid Reports of Headaches & Eyestrain

In 2021, Microsoft won a United States Army defense contract worth up to $22 billion which would support the development of an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on HoloLens 2. Now Congress...

Meta Sharpens the Axe for Quest 1: First-party Social Ends in March, Security Patches in 2024

It seems Meta is finally taking the original 2019 Quest behind the shed this year, as the company announced it's set to deprecate first-party social features on the device, which includes access to Parties and Meta Horizon Home. Meta also...

‘Gran Turismo 7’ Coming to PlayStation VR 2 at Launch

Sony has announced that the latest title in its longstanding racing franchise, Gran Turismo 7, will support PSVR 2 at launch. This week during Sony's CES 2023 conference, the company announced that Gran Turismo 7 will support PSVR 2 at the...
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