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Virtuix Raises $4.7M in Latest Crowd Investment Round, Plans to Ship 1,000 VR Treadmills by Year’s End

Virtuix, the company behind the Omni VR treadmill, announced it’s raised $4.7 million through its latest crowd investment round. The Austin, Texas-based company also says it plans to ship 1,000 of its Omni One VR treadmills by the end of this year. Earlier this year, Virtuix launched an equity crowdfunding campaign to further support the production […]

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1. August 2023

Meta Reveals New Prototype VR Headsets Focused on Retinal Resolution and Light Field Passthrough

Meta 'Butterscotch' varifocal prototype (left), 'Flamera' passthrough prototype (right) | Image courtesy Meta

Meta unveiled two new VR headset prototypes that showcase more progress in the fight to solve some persistent technical challenges facing VR today. Presenting at SIGGRAPH 2023, Meta is demonstrating a headset with retinal resolution combined with varifocal optics, and another headset with advanced light field passthrough capabilities. Butterscotch Varifocal Prototype Revealed in a developer blogpost, […]

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Meta’s New First-person Shooter Aims to Highlight Improvements to ‘Horizon Worlds’

Meta introduced a new game called ‘Super Rumble‘ to Horizon Worlds, something the company hopes will showcase a new generation of improved experiences on its own social VR platform. Released after a successful beta weekend in May, the free-for-all first-person shooter is said to highlight new improvements to Horizon Worlds, such as “better graphics, deeper […]

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31. Juli 2023

Only 1 Day Remains to Play ‘Echo VR’ Before Servers Go Dark

Tomorrow, Meta and Ready at Dawn are shutting down Echo VR, the free-to-play game that helped pioneer VR sports. Get in now before they pull the plug. Meta made no secret it was shutting down the zero-gravity sport Echo VR and its PC-only squad shooter variant, Echo Combat, having announced earlier this year it was sunsetting the games come […]

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Why Apple Can’t Ignore VR Forever

Apple Vision Pro is coming next year, not only making for the Fruit Company’s much awaited first XR headset, but also spurring a resurgence in public interest (and likely investment) in the XR space. At $3,500, Vision Pro is undoubtedly an expensive steppingstone to the company’s future augmented reality ambitions, but even if it’s ostensibly […]

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Co-op Shooter ‘Crossfire: Sierra Squad’ Launches on PSVR 2 & PC VR in August, Trailer Here

Smilegate announced that the Crossfire universe’s first VR game, Crossfire: Sierra Squad, is coming to PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets next month. Launching on August 29th, Crossfire: Sierra Squad promises both a 13-mission solo campaign and a number of co-op modes, which includes 50 squad campaign missions for both single and two-player co-op, and a […]

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29. Juli 2023

‘Among Us VR’ Gets New Polus Point Map, Trailer Here

Image courtesy Schell Games, Innersloth, Robot Teddy

Among Us VR (2022), the standalone VR version of the hit party game, just got a new map called Polus Point. Just in time for mass heat waves comes Polus Point, a decidedly chilly (and sometimes hot) addition to Among Us VR. The studios say the new map includes over 50% more tasks, including a […]

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28. Juli 2023

Meta’s XR Revenue Down 39% “due to lower Quest 2 sales,” as Quest 3 & Vision Pro Loom

Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) | Based on images courtesy Meta, Apple

Meta’s latest quarterly results show its Reality Labs XR division is again reporting an operating loss just south of $4 billion. Now, for its Q2 2023 results, the company says Reality Labs’ revenue was down by 39% due to lower Quest 2 sales, making for the worst quarterly performance in the past two years. Meta […]

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27. Juli 2023

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

Quest 2 next to Quest 3 | Image courtesy Meta

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 to detect whether an app’s server is interacting with an untampered VR device, thereby ensuring […]

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26. Juli 2023

VR Education App ‘Human Anatomy’ Now Available on PSVR 2

The PlayStation Store has a growing number of games built specifically (or optimized) for PSVR 2, although there aren’t a ton of educational apps yet that you might use to get a better understanding of complex subjects like the human body. Now the creators of Human Anatomy VR have released their medical educational tool on PSVR 2. […]

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