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Enthusiast-grade VR Treadmill ‘Virtuix Omni One’ Now Available for Pre-order

Virtuix, the company behind the Omni VR treadmill, launched a crowd-based investment campaign in 2020 to fund Virtuix Omni One, an at-home VR locomotion device targeted at enthusiasts. Previously only available to early investors, now the company announced it's opening...

Meta Releases Anti-piracy Tools for Quest Devs, Including Hardware-based App Bans & More

Meta announced it's introducing new anti-piracy measures for Quest developers that the company says will protect VR apps from "unauthorized modifications and potential security breaches." Called the Platform Integrity Attestation API (Attestation API), Meta says its new system is designed...

Samsung Partners with Google & Qualcomm to Release Android-powered XR Device

Samsung's 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company's Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. TM Roh,...

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...

The Five Most Interesting VR Haptic Technologies I’ve Seen in the Last Five Years

Next to sight and sound, haptics are one of the lowest hanging fruits for creating immersion in VR. But beyond the rumble we have in today's VR controllers there's lots of other immersive haptic tech yet to be widely...

HaptX’s Latest Haptic Gloves Are Smaller and Cheaper, But Still Bulky and Expensive

HaptX, the company known for its haptic gloves, today announced it's launching pre-orders for HaptX Gloves G1, a cheaper and more refined haptic glove device that's squarely targeted at businesses. The company says the new device includes a number of...

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...

HalfDive VR Headset Kickstarter Cancelled Due to Niche Appeal, Manufacturing Issues

Japanese startup Diver-X launched a Kickstarter for a unique VR headset called HalfDive that was designed to be used while laying down, drawing some pretty clear inspiration from hit anime Sword Art Online. Although the unique project managed to secure...

HTC is Teasing New VR Hardware in Cryptic Tweets

A series of cryptic tweets with teasing imagery have dropped on the official HTC Vive account in the last week, but what do they point to? It's been a year since we've seen new hardware from HTC. It was back...

Chinese ODM Goertek Aims to Produce Over 3 Million More VR/AR Headsets Annually

Goertek may not be a household name, but the China-based company is looking to gear up its manufacturing lines to produce a surprising number of VR/AR headsets and lenses soon. Goertek recently announced a ¥4 billion (~$572 million USD) convertible corporate...
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Cas & Chary Present: Checking Out the YAW VR Motion Simulator

I recently had the opportunity to test the YAW VR motion simulator, so I wanted to share my first impressions! Cas & Chary Present Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who...

Exclusive Hands-on: HP’s Reverb G2 is the King of Clarity

Today HP revealed its next-gen WMR headset, Reverb G2. While the original Reverb beat out the competition in resolution, some aspects of its display held it back from really capitalizing on all those pixels. Reverb G2 brings with it...

Vive Cosmos Elite Comes with a Free Copy of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’

HTC's Vive Cosmos Elite ships out today, and if all you were expecting in the box was the hardware itself and maybe a few free months of Viveport, you'd be wrong. Everyone who buys a Cosmos Elite is getting...

LYNX Reveals Standalone MR Headset with Snapdragon XR2, Eye-tracking, & Novel Optics

French startup LYNX today revealed the R-1, a standalone VR headset built for pass-through AR and powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon XR2 chip. The enterprise-focused headset uses a novel lens design which makes it compact. Lynx is a new player...

New Samsung VR Headset Design Surfaces in Recent Patents

Samsung recently filed patents with China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) office that shows off a few new designs in what appears to be two fairly similar PC VR headsets. There's little to go on besides the photos of both...
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