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Fovii's launch this week on the App Store gives a huge signal boost for fans of the Apple Vision Pro and Vision OS, debuting a new home for immersive filmmakers on Apple. Emily Olman dives into the...

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, an immersive theatre experience built for VRChat, won an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program at this year's Emmy Awards ceremony.The project, headed by a small...

The creators of Human: Fall Flat have announced their next game, Tiny Flock, is coming this month. No Brakes Games, best known as the creators of Human: Fall Flat, have revealed that Tiny Flock is...

The Meta Virtual Display feature of Quest headsets has continued to receive improvements, including input forwarding, and the Mac version now offers the same core functionality previously exclusive...

The Fovii app is now available for Apple Vision Pro. It was founded by John Racine, who was NextVR’s VR Systems Specialist before the company’s acquisition by Apple in 2020.Racine later supported...

Lak Vijayaraghavan is an XR systems engineer whose career spans Magic Leap to TikTok Effect House. What are his biggest learnings and insights from that journey so far, and where does he see spatial...

Apple has bought Sonera, a California company that makes non-invasive sensors that can measure neural signals from the brain, with health benefits ranging from muscle monitoring to active thought...

A release date for the Steam Frame has not yet been officially announced. However, data mining by VR leaker Brad Lynch has unearthed a reservation system in Valve's back-end, suggesting the hardware...

Pico’s upcoming Apple Vision Pro competitor, Space Pro, was initially meant to debut earlier this month, although the ByteDance subsidiary cancelled the event and postponed its reveal and release...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? SimX has launched two nursing curricula that use its “Autonomous Simulation” approach, in which students complete VR scenarios independently, without...

FunFitLand is expanding beyond the headset with a new smartphone companion app for iOS and Android, bringing live heart rate data from compatible wearables directly into its VR workouts on Meta Quest...

A hand-tracked mixed reality investigation game reaches PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on September 9, nineteen months after its Quest launch and two seasons after the promised spring window. Nobody has explained how the mixed reality survives the trip.

Two FCC grants landed under Pico's grantee code on September 1. The head-mounted half is authorized for one radio band, 2402 to 2480 MHz. The tethered unit carries 5 GHz, 6 GHz and Bluetooth. The puck is not just a battery pack.

When spatial apps are intentionally designed to support curiosity and discovery, they feel more like engaging experiences than educational lessons.The Museas and Astronoma apps for Apple Vision Pro...

Entering the iconic Pyramids of Giza and uncovering new truths about how they were built is an experience most simply can’t try for themselves. They’re not Egyptologists for one, but it’s also...

This has been the week when the Unity Cube has come back into the spotlight it deserves. I updated it to the latest Meta SDK, and now it can go up to 240 Hz on Quest 3! It is the first (or one of the...

Samsung is shutting down two long-available augmented reality (AR) apps on Galaxy phones, with “Quick Measure” and “AR Doodle” both going away later this year. more…

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Meta announced Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere: An Immersive Experience on September 3, filmed at Billy Bob's Texas and shot for 3D VR 180. The announcement quantifies nothing, which leaves commissioning behavior as the only readable signal in a category both platform holders are treating differently.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a live theatre production performed inside VRChat for six people at a time, took Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the Creative Arts Emmys.

SteamDB shows two of the Steam Frame's seven backend packages changed on September 3 after sitting untouched since May 5, and Brad Lynch says a reservation system for two SKUs went live alongside them. The Steam Machine's packages moved six days before its lottery opened.

Sony's August 2026 PS VR2 download chart puts Job Simulator, Pavlov and Moss VR back in the top ten, all three dated February 22, 2023. Bootstrap Island reached number three in nineteen days on sale, and nothing from 2025 charted at all.

A new Pico device, highly likely to be the upcoming Space Pro, has received FCC certification.The FCC is the US regulatory agency with responsibility over wireless frequency use. Its approval is...

Realities.io shipped a five year birthday update for Puzzling Places on September 3. The feature list is filed under three platform headings instead of by feature, the three biggest additions are Quest only, and the passthrough slider is listed for a Valve headset that has not shipped yet.

Cozy 3D puzzle game Puzzling Places is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a new weekly free puzzle initiative, a guest pass for multiplayer gameplay, and improvements in its usage of mixed...

Sci-fi VR team extraction shooter Drifters: Blackout Crew is holding an open playtest through Sunday morning. Blackout Crew is the latest title from Salmi Games (Sweet Surrender). You and up to three...

In Inside XR Design we examine specific examples of great VR design. Today we’re looking at the clever design of Red Matter 2’s ‘grabber tools’ and the many ways that they contribute to immersion....

Nvidia puts itself at the middle of the model marketplace, while OpenAI's political investments pay off, and another VR winter is upon us. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms, through...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In August, EA Sports Madden NFL 27 and MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls led the PS5 charts in the US....

Today, RayNeo has just launched RayNeo iO Smart Glasses, its new model of camera-free smart glasses. I had the opportunity to go hands-on with them, and in this article, I’ll share my first...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Optima has partnered with Arthur, a provider of an AI-powered spatial platform, to integrate AI more deeply into its immersive VR lessons for ... continue...

Stryker announced on September 1 that the first hip arthroscopy using SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro was completed at Duke Health. The more consequential document is FDA's De Novo record DEN250040, which created product code SIT and regulation 888.1150, a new Class II classification whose listed submission type is already 510(k).

TDK's AIsight unit closed its OQmented purchase in May and announced it on August 18, taking the patents and the engineers but not the product support, warranties or customer obligations. The technology has now had three corporate owners and two insolvencies in under a year.

The solo-developed Loony Laps is an arcade toy racer coming to Quest 3 and Quest 3S in Q1 2027. Created by solo developer Paulo Cunha, Loony Laps is an upcoming toy car racing game that brings the...

A recent update for the mixed reality factory management game Loop One: Done has the game's VR mode officially exiting beta.Loop One: Done's VR update has left beta on Quest. The factory management...

Finding Frida is a 41-minute VR documentary at Venice Immersive using photorealistic 3D scans and animated artwork to explore the life of forgotten Norwegian textile artist Frida Hansen.A miniature...

We’ve seen several stories about Apple Vision Pro being used in healthcare settings. This week, Stryker announced the completion of the first surgical procedure using an innovative new app on Vision...

Knights of Fiona brings nearly every element of a typical JRPG to VR while exposing the challenges the genre presents when translated to virtual reality.I have been playing JRPGs my entire life,...

Discovery: Rogue Planet, out now for Quest 3, feels like it was ripped straight from the narrative FPS games of the late '90s & early aughts, with all the good and bad that comes with that.Halo....

Which VR headsets are showing the most traction among consumers? The latest consumer survey from ARtillery Intelligence and Thrive Analytics tackles this question and we break it down in the latest...

Valve has pushed an update to the Steam Link PC VR streaming app on Quest that finally includes the ability to play games via wired connection. As first spotted by data miner and serial leaker ‘Luna’...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? TDK Corporation has acquired assets from OQmented, a Germany-based developer of MEMS-based laser beam scanning and display technologies, folding them into...

HTC published US store listings for the Vive Eagle on September 3 at $499. Three configurations are buyable, seven say Coming Soon, and the 90 language translation in the marketing is the paid tier, not the two years of VIVE AI Plus that ships in the box.

Valve's Steam Link public beta on Quest can now stream over a USB-C cable, riding on NCM support Meta added in Horizon OS 2.5. It still wants your Wi-Fi on, and a one-star open-source repo documents why.

Following Virtual Desktop's implementation of the feature, the latest Public Beta release for Valve's Steam Link on Quest adds support for wired USB PC streaming. Meta Horizon OS 2.5 and later...

The 33-minute immersive experience makes you the star of an animated film on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. Out on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest, Starclash is an animated film that places you...

The hour-long Android XR experience is made in collaboration with Google and narrated by Margot Robbie.Galápagos: The Last Eden will let visitors explore the wildlife, oceans and volcanic history of...

The mixed reality experience from writer Andy Weir launches on Quest, Pico, and Android XR this fall.Maze Theory has released a new trailer showing the first extended look at gameplay from their...

The Unity Cube is an objectively terrible game (it’s literally just a floating cube, after all) that was built to test the limits of what Quest content Meta would allow into its uncurated App Lab...

Steam Frame isn’t here yet, and we’re no closer to knowing the price or release date, although the component supplier behind the headset’s built-in camera tracking system is officially producing a...

While B2B spending in XR involves enterprise end users, B2B2C involves enterprises building things for their customers and marketing targets. How much are brands and enterprises spending today, and...

Bigscreen announced it’s permanently lowering the price of its slim and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond 2, which now starts at $959. The long-awaited Halo Mount is also now in production, with...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Astroport Space Technologies and XelerateVR have formed a strategic partnership to let human operators on VR treadmills control humanoid robots building on...

In XR News What’s the story? VR Expert and Treeview have formed a partnership to help enterprise customers identify, develop and deploy custom applications for the XREAL AURA optical see-through ......

Beyond 2 now starts at $959 and Beyond 2e at $1,159, down $60 each. The headset price did not move. The standard configuration swapped a $120 cushion built from a 3D face scan for a $60 universal one.

Amelia's Escape VR promises more than it ultimately delivers with a story that feels like it was just getting started when it ends.I am not going to bury the lead here. Amelia's Escape is too short....

The Meta Horizon+ Games Catalog also gets seven new titles added to the subscription service. It's the first of the month, and that means a whole new batch of games have been added to the Meta...

The Quest 3 has just been upgraded to run with crazy framerates up to 240Hz. And The Unity Cube is probably the first app on the Quest Horizon Store to support 200+Hz framerates! Keep reading this...

Pixelity Inc. has announced that a hands-on preview of its upcoming VR/MR experience Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections is coming to San Francisco on September 25. In addition to gameplay of the...

Pixelity Inc announced it’s hosting public demos soon in San Francisco for EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Hands-on...

FitXR's redesigned smartphone app introduces personalized strength, cardio and mobility workouts that can be completed without a headset, with members able to move workouts between mobile and...

Gunman Contracts is one of the most full-featured mods for Half-Life: Alyx (2020), and now the indie developer behind the project is about to release the long-awaited, built from the ground-up game...

The Half-Life: Alyx mod turned commercial shooter was going to launch the day Valve shipped the Steam Frame. Its Steam page now reads September 10, and the developer says the timing is his own.

FIBA's August 26 release hands L1VE a three-year exclusive on immersive live rights across the 3x3 World Tour, Women's Series and World Cup. It names the competitions and the capture technology, and no fee, no headset and no ticket price.

Bad Inmate, a physics-driven prison escape comedy from HyperVR Games in Riga, hits Quest and PlayStation VR2 together on October 15. Same-day releases on both headsets are rarer than they should be for a studio this size.

Meta's developer documentation now lists Quest 3 as accepting any integer refresh rate from 72 Hz through 207 Hz, with 240 Hz sitting behind developer mode and display scaling. The same page tells developers not to make an extended rate a requirement.

Hip Hop Mixtape 2 arrived on Steam on August 27 with eight tracks at $10.96 bundled, or $15.92 bought singly. Sixteen days after Beat Saber fell to $19.99, the first pack since the cut prices in at 55 percent of the game.

Kinetic Games did not tune Phasmophobia's VR character rig in v0.19.0.0, it replaced the whole thing and matched the model to your own arm length. Five of the ten VR fixes that shipped with it are about doors.

Zero Latency puts Jumanji into more than 150 venues in December while Schell Games runs its first layoffs and Pico cancels its own event. The out-of-home side of VR is growing, and a closure this month shows how fragile that growth still is.

Rockstar's 26-minute Extended Look put a 2019-era Quest on a character as a gag. With no PC version announced, the VR mod route that gave GTA 5 a second life is closed for years.