Google’s New ‘Labs’ Team Brings AR/VR, Project Starline & Area 120 Under a Single Roof
Google is shaking things up with the reorganization of its AR/VR efforts, Project Starline, and Area 120 in-house incubator, dubbing the internal team ‘Google Labs’. As first reported by TechCrunch, Google is shifting a few of its notable forward-looking projects into a single team and bringing them under the leadership of Google veteran Clay Bavor. […]

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12. November 2021
Resolution Games Estimates VR Has 5 Million Active Users
Resolution Games, which has been making VR games since 2016, estimates that the VR industry currently has around 5 million active VR users. In the VR industry it’s hard to find good data on the number of headsets sold, and even harder to find data on the number of actual active users. This week Resolution […]

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‘Sword Art Online’ Inspired VR Headset Kickstarter Delayed by “a few days”, Reveal Video Here
Japanese startup Diver-X is looking to launch a SteamVR-compatible headset that seems to be taking a few ideas from popular anime Sword Art Online. The new style of VR headset—not a brain-computer interface like the “full dive” NerveGear featured in the show—was supposed to hit Kickstarter on December 6th, however it’s now been delayed by “a […]

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11. November 2021
Sandbox VR Announces $37M Series B Funding to Expand Out-of-home VR Locations
Out-of-home VR destination Sandbox VR today announced an additional $37 million funding round that the company is using to support its continued expansion. In addition to its dozen worldwide locations, Sandbox VR says it’s working to nearly doubling that. The Series B funding was led by a16z, and includes participation by Alibaba and Craft. According to Crunchbase data, […]

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10. November 2021
Report: Meta is Considering Physical Stores to Sell Its Vision of the Metaverse
Meta (formerly Facebook) is not only building its next generation of AR and VR headsets, but it’s looking to jumpstart a sort of immersive internet the company believes will one day be the future of human interaction—that’s the ‘metaverse’ everyone’s talking about. And to sell that idea to the masses, the company has allegedly discussed rolling […]

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NBA League Pass Games Return to Quest in ‘Horizon Venues’ This Month
The NBA officially kicked off its 2021-22 regular season in mid-October after having last year’s derailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting this week, Meta (formerly Facebook) is welcoming Quest users back to Horizon Venues for some more courtside action. You’ll be able to catch the first game on November 14th, which features the Golden State Warriors vs. the […]

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HP is Using HoloLens to Help Customers Remotely Repair Industrial Printers
HP this week announced its ‘xRServices’ program which equips customers of its industrial printers with a HoloLens 2 headset, allowing the company to provide immersive remote support for repairs, training, and more. While many AR companies are focused on building AR products, HP is making an interesting move in using the technology as an add-on […]

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Resolution Games Expands to Focus More Development on AR Games
Resolution Games, a leading developer of XR content, today revealed a new AR division of the company that will focus more directly on the creation of AR content. Today during the Augmented World Expo conference, Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm announced on stage that the company is spinning up an AR division. While the company […]

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Qualcomm is Preparing Developers for the Coming Wave of Smartphone-tethered AR Glasses
Today at AWE 2021, Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform, a head-worn AR software suite the company is using to kickstart a broader move towards smartphone-tethered AR glasses. Qualcomm says its Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform offers a host of machine perception functions that are ideal for smartphone-tethered AR glasses. The software tool kit […]

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9. November 2021
‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Comes to Quest 2 Next Week With Cross-buy
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, first launched on PC VR headsets last year, is coming to Quest 2 next week. Cross-buy is confirmed, meaning players that bought the game on Oculus PC will own the Quest 2 version as well. Oculus today announced that Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond has November 15th release […]

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8. November 2021