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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 blogpost that manufacturing bottlenecks have led to slower-than-expected production rates, making for what the company calls […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

2. Oktober 2023

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 the bottom of this page. After months of teasing and leaks, Quest 3 is finally, […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

27. September 2023

Bigscreen Beyond Review – 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 Beyond has one goal in mind: make the smallest possible headset with the highest possible […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

26. September 2023

Varjo Cuts Price of High-end Aero 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 industry-leading fidelity and advanced features such as eye-tracking. Released in October 2021, Aero was (and […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

21. September 2023

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 is offering a 2.5K per-eye Visor model for $500 and a 4K per-eye Visor model […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

20. September 2023

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, you know it’s going to be something special. Having seen how far the technology has come […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

11. September 2023

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 tracking standard. Priced at $1,000, the headset makes for an interesting value proposition for users […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

8. September 2023

‘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 being used to their fullest potential. By taking advantage of eye-tracking and smarter calibration, the […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

8. August 2023

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

The team behind XR productivity and co-working platform Immersed announced it’s creating its own PC 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 giant” to release its own VR hardware for the first time. Dubbed the Immerse […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

4. August 2023

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 product page was missing. “I am afraid the VIVE Cosmos headset has been discontinued in […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

6. Juli 2023