— VR treadmill company Virtuix launched a crowd-based investment campaign late last year to further scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion device. Now, the campaign’s second phase (Series B-...
— Meta kicked off its big ‘Mega Summer Sale‘ on Quest this past weekend, bringing deep savings to VR games, apps, and DLC packs until June 29th. There are currently hundreds of games on sale, ranging fr...
— These are my last hours in the US! I’m starting to write this newsletter that literally in an hour, I’m going to the airport to return back to Europe. But I’m not returning to Italy, but I’m going to ...
— A Quest 3S Xbox Edition box has seemingly leaked, a year after Meta teased a limited-edition Quest "inspired by Xbox", and it's rumored to launch next week.
— Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms. ...
— Meta today revealed its next smart glasses built in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica— Oakley Meta Glasses. As a part of the extended collaboration, Meta and EssilorLuxottica today unveiled Oakley M...
— At AWE, I have been able to go hands-on with a new way to perform eye tracking, which is with event cameras from Prophesee. What are event cameras? Before sharing my hands-on impressions, it’s a good ...
— Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist is slated to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign next week, aiming to revive the fun of recently shuttered VR MMO Orbus VR. Coming June 24th, the Eldramoor Kickstar...
— TDK, the Japan-based electronic component and software company, announced it’s acquired SoftEye, the US-based smart glasses hardware and software maker. TDK calls the acquisition of SoftEye a “key mil...
— Vast's VR experience puts you inside Haven-1, set to be the first-ever private sector space station next year.
It's available on Quest, Apple Vision Pro, and PC VR.
— The day before yesterday, for the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to sit down with Philip Rosedale and spend some time with him. Philip is now back as CTO of Linden Lab (hence, of Second ...
— Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week that Vision Pro is set to support PSVR 2 Sense controllers when visionOS 26 launches this Fall. While still in developer beta, Y...
— I guess you’ve heard it: the funniest experience on the AWE showfloor was “Anywhere Bungee VR” by the Japanese company Logilicity. Of course, I’ve tried it. I want to tell you more about this experien...
— Meta Horizon Worlds Desktop Editor is getting AI Environment Generation "very soon", teased to let creators generate entire worlds from a text prompt.
— Meta-owned Beat Games announced its block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2019) will no longer receive updates on PSVR and PSVR 2 starting today, with multiplayer slated to go offline early next year...
— CM Games, the studio behind the Into the Radius series, announced it’s releasing its next game UnLoop in September, bringing single-player puzzles with a unique time-looping twist. As a spy infiltrati...
— Onward (2020), the tactical mil-sim shooter from Meta-owned Downpour Interactive, got its big 2.0 update in March, bringing improved visuals and a host of new content to the game. Now, Downpour Intera...
— Apple is bringing a huge visual upgrade to its Persona avatars on Vision Pro in VisionOS 26. After seeing the new system first-hand, it’s hard not to be impressed. But a major question remains—how wil...
— Since launching it in September, Meta has made significant improvements to its Spatial SDK that lets developers build Quest apps without a game engine.
— Quest owners in the US can watch all FIFA Club World Cup games for free, including a 3D tabletop representation, and the finals will be streamed in 180°.
— Vuzix, the veteran smart glasses maker, announced it’s secured a $5 million investment from Quanta Computer, the Taiwan-based ODM and major Apple assembler. The latest investment was the second tranch...
— A big hello from Cupertino, the city of Apple, here in the Silicon Valley! I’ll stay here a week to have meetings before going to Berlin to be a mentor at XRCC. I hope my time in the Bay Area will be ...
— Palmer Luckey’s military tech company Anduril recently announced a partnership with Meta to build “the world’s best AR and VR systems for the US military.” In two recent public conversations, Luckey o...
— Meta officially confirmed the expansion of its EssilorLuxottica partnership to include a pair of Oakley smart glasses—possibly arriving soon. Earlier this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that M...
— Jim Henson’s Muppets could be coming to VR following talks with Disney—possibly offering a clue at the sort of content Meta reportedly hopes to bring to its next VR headset. Disney held an event on Ju...