Valve hasn’t announced the price or release date of Steam Frame, its first standalone VR headset, although the company is reportedly getting ready with a promo that could bundle in its award-winning VR game Half-Life: Alyx (2020) for free. The News As first spotted by VR analyst and Valve watcher Brad Lynch, Valve appears to […]
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Meta just pushed an update to Quest 3 that’s effectively boosted the headset’s refresh rate up to 240Hz—or 207Hz at the headset’s full resolution. Whether you’ll actually be able to make good use of it remains to be seen though. The News As first spotted by ‘Luna’ on X, Horizon OS 2.7 just added support […]
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The investment and development community are constantly striving to find the next profitable sector in XR, turning to new business opportunities following a turbulent time in the consumer VR gaming space. One area of interest is in out-of-home XR attractions, known widely in the industry as Location-Based Entertainment (LBE) XR. The sector deploys XR as […]
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Schell Games, the veteran VR studio behind spy-themed puzzle series I Expect You to Die and Among Us 3D, confirmed it has laid off around 10 percent of staff. As initially noted by Game Developer, multiple Schell Games employees posted on LinkedIn late last week that the studio was conducting its first layoffs in its […]
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GTA 6 will surely be among the most asked for VR ports of the next decade, and that made a parody in the newly released gameplay showcase especially vicious. Developer Rockstar Games today finally made its big GTA 6 gameplay reveal, showing 26 minutes of gameplay from the highly anticipated title. In just two hours, […]
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Google is reportedly testing a new ‘Listening area’ mode for Google Live Translate on Android XR, something that sounds like a headlining feature for the company’s upcoming fleet of smart glasses. Google has always said it’s bringing real-time translations to its Android XR, so no surprise there, as the company promises its slate of smart […]
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Meta has introduced Meta XR Operator, an experimental tool designed to let AI coding agents autonomously build, test, debug, and visually verify VR apps. The News Using AI agents, developers have been able to speed up code-reading and writing in addition to running tests and fixing bugs, although verifying that all of it actually works […]
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CM Games announced its survival shooter Into the Radius 2 is finally coming to PSVR 2 next month. Into the Radius 2 is slated to arrive on PSVR 2 on September 24th, which is set to include the full single-player campaign at launch. The studio says the game’s planned two-player co-op should arrive sometime in […]
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Pico was set to debut its next flagship standalone XR headset early next month, however now the ByteDance subsidiary says it’s postponing the reveal and release date of its long-awaited Apple Vision Pro competitor. The News Initially teased earlier this year as ‘Project Swan’, Pico announced last week it was putting on a big product […]
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A newly granted patent from Arm describes a head-mounted system that analyzes motion in the images headed to a display, then sends control signals to ultrasonic transducers intended to stimulate the wearer’s vestibular system and control their sense of balance. The basic aim is to reduce the discomfort, dizziness, and motion sickness that the application […]
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