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After Building One of VR’s Most Successful Games, ‘Beat Saber’ Founder Plans to Take a Break from VR

Jan ‘Split’ Ilavsky, founder of Beat Games and creator behind VR’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), left the studio late last month, stepping down from his position as the game’s Creative Director. Now, Ilavsky tells Road to VR he’s taking an extended break from VR altogether. After creating one of VR’s most successful […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

14. März 2024

Virtuix Omni One VR Treadmill Nabs Support for Some Big VR Games

Virtuix, the creator of the Omni One VR treadmill, announced it now has a lineup of 35 games ready for the device’s broader launch later this year, including some big ones. Omni One was originally pitched in a crowd-based investment campaign in 2020, but is now slated to arrive to customers sometime in Q2 2024, […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

13. März 2024

Pico Reportedly to Release ‘PICO 4S’ Headset, According to New Trademark & Leaked Controller Design

Allegedly Leaked Pico Controllers | Image courtesy Nweon

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is coming up next week, which could give ByteDance’s XR subsidiary Pico Interactive a perfect opportunity to showcase what, according to a recent trademark and leaked controller model, could be its next standalone VR headset. A post by X user and serial sleuth @Lunayian shows a 3D model scraped from the Pico […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

11. März 2024

Sony’s Upcoming MR Headset Could Point the Way for Controllers on Vision Pro

Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers, but it’s clear Apple will need to support immersive hardware input somehow in the future, if only for the greater precision it might bring to industry professionals. Sony has a pretty interesting take on how to serve up ‘pro’ style controllers in its recently revealed enterprise-focused standalone, which could point the […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

6. März 2024

Looking for a Job in XR? The CIA is Hiring

As XR continues to grow, its relevance outside of entertainment use-cases does too. The technology has caught the attention of the US Central Intelligence Agency, which is now looking to hire an ‘extended reality specialist’. The CIA is one of the United States’ key intelligence agencies, primarily focused on foreign intelligence and national security. While […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

5. März 2024

Zuckerberg: Meta “almost ready” to Show Off Prototype AR Glasses

A previous report maintained that Meta is getting ready to show off prototype AR hardware at the company’s upcoming Connect developer conference in September, which up until now has been tightly under wraps. Now Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “almost ready” to reveal a pair of “unmistakably [AR] glasses.” Update (July 2nd, 2024): Zuckerberg sat […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

Meta Reportedly Rejected Google Partnership to Bring Android XR to Quest

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing Quest 3 | Image courtesy Meta

According to a report from The Information, Google and Meta held a meeting late last year wherein the two companies discussed the possibility of bringing Android XR to Meta headsets. While it’s said Meta rejected the partnership, which would potentially allow Quest headsets to run standard Android apps, Google is allegedly still open to the […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

1. März 2024

One of VR’s Most Sucessful Studios is Building Two Brand New Games

Cloudhead Games is one of VR’s most senior and most successful studios. Having not launched a new game since Pistol Whip in 2019, the studio tells Road to VR that two brand new VR games are in development. Cloudhead Games might be old-school as far as VR studios go, but it has always been forward-looking. Back in the […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

Newly Announced ‘Neuromancer’ TV Show Could Be Another Big Moment for VR to Make an Impact

Apple announced that it’s bringing a new show to Apple TV+ based on William Gibson’s award-winning cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984), offering another big moment for VR to take the limelight. According to Apple, the upcoming 10-episode drama series is slated to follow the novel’s narrative of “a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

29. Februar 2024

Newly Announced ‘Neuromancer’ TV Show Could Be Another Big Moment for VR to Make an Impact

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