Scientists Build an Itty-bitty VR Headset to Better Study Mice

Researchers at Cornell University have developed ‘MouseGoggles’, a miniature VR headset with eye-tracking for mice, which was used to study complex behaviors during neural recordings. Traditional small-animal VR systems have been limited by their size, immersivity, and lack of advanced features such as eye-tracking. With MouseGoggles, which was the subject of a recently published paper, […]

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First Impressions of ‘Surreal Touch’ Third-party Vision Pro Controllers

Surreal Touch is a Kickstarter-backed third-party motion controller for Vision Pro. The first batch of controllers began shipping in December (right on time), and early impressions are starting to roll out. XR industry veteran Nima Zeighami is the creator of the Vision Pro Owners Club on Twitter, and backer #130 of the Surreal Touch Kickstarter, […]

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Science and Spacewalk Preps Fill Station Crew’s Day

Wednesday was packed with an array of advanced microgravity research promoting fire safety in space, exploring the effects of exercising in weightlessness, and testing futuristic piloting techniques. The Expedition 72 crew is also gearing up for a spacewalk to repair and upgrade science hardware on the International Space Station. NASA Flight Engineers Don Pettit and …

Best Earbuds Meta Quest 3: Upgrade Your XR Audio

If you’re looking for the Best Earbuds for Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets, you’re not alone. I personally think the speakers built into the Meta Quest 3v (and 3S) headsets are pretty decent – they’re definitely a lot better than those on the Quest 2, for instance – but they’re not ideal. Investing in […]

TikTok Promotes Lemon8 in the US as Ban Looms

Though Lemon8 will also be banned once the bill is enacted.

YouTube Looks to Simplify Shorts Creation from Longer Clips

YouTube’s testing another way to create Shorts from your longer content. 

Reddit Launches Trend Tracking, AMA Ads

Some handy new options from the Reddit ads team. 

Meta’s Revised Political Content Approach Could Benefit Threads

More political content could open up the Threads discussion.

CES 25: Sony announces XYN headset, and I went hands-on with the sister model

Hello everyone! This is the first article directly from CES of my life. Yesterday it was the second press day before the big opening of the event, and the only big company explicitly talking about VR in its keynote was Sony that announced the XYN headset. Let me tell you about that announcement, and let […]

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NVIDIA Announces GeForce Now Cloud Gaming Support for Quest 3/S, Vision Pro & Pico Headsets

NVIDIA announced at CES 2025 that its extending support for its cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW to Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico headsets. The announcement doesn’t appear to include support for VR cloud gaming—i.e. the ability to play play VR-native titles—but rather access to standard games playable across Windows, Mac, Android, […]

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