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Early Bigscreen Beyond Pre-orders Slip into Q4 Delivery Window

Bigscreen announced its thin and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond, is facing delays in production, which the company says will see shipping dates for initial preorders pushed later into October and November. Bigscreen CEO Darshan Shankar says in a...

Hands-on: Quest 3 is an Impressive Leap That’s Still Held Back by Software Struggles

Quest 3 is an impressive leap in hardware, especially in the visual department, but it continues Meta's tradition of building great hardware that feels held back by its software. Update (September 27th, 2023): Fixed the link to the second page at...

Bigscreen Beyond – Promising but Incomplete, Just Like This Review

Bigscreen Beyond is the most interesting and promising new dedicated PC VR headset to come out in years, and while there's a lot to like, we're still waiting on a key piece that will make or break the headset. Bigscreen...

Varjo Cuts Price of High-end Aero PC VR Headset by 50%

Varjo, the Finland-based creator of high-end XR headsets, announced their businesses and prosumer-focused SteamVR headset Aero is now permanently 50% off its original $2,000 price tag. Aero is essentially a pared down version of the company’s strictly enterprise headsets, offering...

Immersed Opens Pre-orders for Slim & Light ‘Visor’ VR Headset, Starting at $500

Immersed, the team behind the titular XR productivity and co-working app, announced Visor last month, a slim and light VR headset designed for work. Now the studio has opened "fully refundable" pre-orders for two distinct flavors of the device. Immersed...

Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

There's a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. The rumor is still unconfirmed, but when the world's oldest extant gaming company finally thinks it's time to make a dedicated XR device,...

Thin & Light PC VR Headset Bigscreen Beyond Now Shipping in US

Bigscreen announced it's now shipping Beyond, the company's thin and light PC VR headset unveiled earlier this year. Created by the same team behind the Bigscreen Beta VR app, Bigscreen Beyond is a tethered PC VR headset that uses Valve’s SteamVR...

‘Digital Lens’ Plugin for Eye-tracking Headsets Improves Visual Clarity & Pupil Swim

Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets. Almalense argues that the lenses on most XR headsets today aren't...

Team Behind XR Productivity App ‘Immersed’ Announce Visor, a VR Headset for Work

The team behind XR productivity and co-working platform Immersed announced it's creating its own VR headset designed for work. Following the lead set by Bigscreen with its recently unveiled PC VR headset Bigscreen Beyond, Immersed has partnered a still unnamed "tech...

HTC Quietly Retires Vive Cosmos in the US

After being out of stock for months, HTC quietly removed the US-facing product page for Vive Cosmos, its modular PC VR headset released in 2019. The discrepancy was first discovered by Reddit user 'Kody1996', who wondered why the Vive Cosmos...

Former Oculus CTO Reviews Bigscreen Beyond: “like a prop for a futuristic movie”

John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, is known for giving his unfiltered thoughts on almost every aspect of the XR industry. While he departed Meta in December, concluding his "decade in VR," Carmack is still very...

Quest 3 Pops up in Best Buy Listing With Clues About Resolution, Release Date

Quest 3 was announced just three weeks ago, and yet the headset is already listed at Best Buy. Though its resolution hasn't been officially announced, the page gives us a big clue. Meta offered a partial reveal of Quest 3...

Valve Index is Currently Selling for $600 Refurbished from GameStop

Looking to get your hands on arguably the best PC VR headsets out there? Well, you might consider GameStop's refurbished units for $600. Used, refurbished units typically sell through GameStop for $700, which includes the full kit and kaboodle: SteamVR...

Meta Shows First Glimpse of Quest 3 Mixed Reality Gameplay and Improvements Over Quest Pro

With Quest 3 now officially announced, Meta is emphasizing the device's improved MR capabilities. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram to share a first look at mixed reality gameplay on Quest 3 which was announced yesterday.   View this post on...

Bigscreen: Optical Improvements to Increase FOV & Clarity of Upcoming ‘Beyond’ Headset

Bigscreen Beyond, the slim and light PC VR headset from the creators behind popular VR app Bigscreen, is getting new optics in the production pipeline which the company says will feature improved field of view (FOV) and optical performance,...
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