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New Quest 2 & Quest Pro Update Brings Performance Boost and New Home Environments

Meta says it’s has begun pushing out a software update which will bring some pretty profound performance boosts to both Quest 2 & Quest Pro. Update (June 21st, 2023): Meta says Quest update v55 is now starting to roll out to Quest 2 & Quest Pro users. The company is promising the update will deliver […]

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Quest 3 is Launching with Its Own New Controllers, But Will Also Support Touch Pro

If you’re not getting along with the company’s newly redesigned Quest 3 controllers when it comes later this year, dubbed Touch Plus, Meta says you’ll have the option of swapping in the company’s Touch Pro controllers. Meta unveiled its next headset Quest 3 today starting at $500, promising to be thinner and more powerful than Quest […]

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Meta is Dropping the Price of Quest 2 to Make Way for Quest 3

With the announcement of Quest 3, Meta is dropping the price of Quest 2 starting on June 4th to make way for its new flagship headset. The story of Quest 2’s price takes yet another turn. Let’s recap. When the headset launched in 2020, it started with a somewhat unbelievably low price of $300 for […]

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Meta Quest 3 Revealed: Coming This Fall Starting at $499

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company’s next XR headset today, Quest 3. The mixed reality headset is launching this fall for the starting price of $499. Only a few hours before the big Quest Gaming Showcase scheduled for later today, Zuckerberg showed the first look at Meta Quest 3, a standalone headset that he […]

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New Leap Motion 2 Brings High-end Hand-tracking to Standalone Headsets

10 years after the launch of Leap Motion—which garnered praise for offering some of the best hand-tracking in the industry—the company has announced a next-generation version of the device which now supports standalone XR headsets in addition to Windows and MacOS. Years before the modern era of VR, Leap Motion set out to build a […]

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Is No Man’s Sky Coming To Apple’s VR/AR Headset?

Beat Games’ Beat Saber may also be heading to the highly-anticipated XR device according to a new tease from the developer. We’re just a few days away from Apple’s 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference, during which the company is expected to reveal its long-rumored VR/AR headset. Rumors have been circulating over the past few weeks hinting […]

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Report: Bloomberg Goes Hands-On With Meta Quest 3

The headset supposedly uses 3 pill-shaped sensors to track the real world and create environment meshing for better passthrough. The Quest 3, codenamed Eureka, has a totally different look than previous Quest headsets and lets you add a digital skin to your real-world environment, according to a new report by Bloomberg. At the moment it […]

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Niantic’s New Mixed Reality Game Features An AI Owl

The creator of Pokémon GO launches its first mixed reality experience powered by the 8th Wall platform. Niantic, the creator of popular location-based augmented reality (AR) games like Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom, today launched Wol, an educational mixed reality experience powered by the 8th Wall platform’s Metaversal Deployment and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Available […]

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Elon Musk’s Brain-chip Startup Approved by FDA for Testing on Humans

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface (BMI) company, has announced that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct its first tests on humans. The company is developing minimally invasive brain chips which it hopes to use to restore vision and mobility for people with disabilities. Neuralink says it doesn’t have […]

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