Jeff Minter and Atari are remaking ’80s classic arcade shooter I, Robot with optional PlayStation VR2 support.
Alien: Rogue Incursion Quest Graphics Comparison – Why You Want PlayStation VR2 Or PC
Alien: Rogue Incursion arrives on Quest 3 tomorrow, and we found it’s visuals to be vastly inferior to PlayStation VR2 and PC VR, with unpleasant shimmering and barely readable text.
PSVR 2 Holiday Sales Volume Grew Massively Year-over-year on Amazon
A big sale on PSVR 2 pushed the headset’s holiday sales volume on Amazon US higher than might have been expected, selling nearly five times more than last year. PSVR 2’s Black Friday and holiday sale brought a huge 42% discount on the Horizon bundle of the headset, dropping the US price from $550 to […]
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Oculus Founder’s Defense Company is Taking Over Microsoft’s Military AR Headset Project
Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril is taking over Microsoft’s beleaguered Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, which seeks to produce battlefield AR headsets for the United States Army. Although couched as a “partnership” of sorts, Anduril says the deal—still pending Department of Defense approval—includes assuming oversight of production of IVAS, including future development of hardware and software, and […]
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Keeping Crews Healthy Farther Away from Earth Key Station Research Topic
The Expedition 72 crew continued its research on Wednesday to better understand space-caused eye pressure changes and ensure crew members stay healthy on future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The orbital residents also kept up the continuous operations of critical science gear and life support systems on the International Space Station.
XR All-Stars: Challenges for the Immersive Enterprise Industry in 2025
The XR world is a growing space of opportunity. While headset news dominates and steals headlines, the ways in which immersive RT3D technology is used today reach many users in manufacturing, industrial, factory operations, and more. As use cases emerge, grander deployments of immersive solutions will follow. But with this comes challenges. For its second […]
Qualcomm AI Research to Boost Virtual and Augmented Reality Gesture Understanding
Recently, Qualcomm AI Research made several strides in promoting the evolution of XR by promoting new AI data sets to improve human-computing understanding in various business use cases. Specifically, the Qualcomm AI subgroup published various research datasets on common emerging technology use cases for businesses, including virtual and augmented reality applications. Moreover, these VR/AR AI […]
Meta Launches Digital Safety Program for Middle Schoolers
A new safety education initiative, which aims to raise awareness of online threats.
YouTube Expands Text-to-Speech for Shorts, Announces New Teen Safety Initiative
The latest feature update from YouTube.
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Is Taking Over The US Army IVAS Program, Replacing HoloLens
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril is taking over the US Army’s IVAS HMD program, replacing Microsoft’s customized HoloLens solution.
Stupid Cars Is Delightfully Frantic Traffic-Directing
Stupid Cars is a great starter game for Quest and a natural fit for VR.
Our full impressions.
John Carmack Offered A $1 Million Guarantee To Bring Team Beef’s Ports To The Quest Store
“I tried”
John Carmack says he offered id Software a $1 million sales guarantee to allow Team Beef to sell its VR ports on the Quest store.
Android XR Will Let Apps Access The Passthrough Camera View, Google Confirms
Android XR will let apps access the passthrough camera view to, for example, run custom computer vision models, Google confirmed.
PSVR 2 Gets Its First Game with Controller-less Hand-Tracking
Sony introduced hand-tracking support for PSVR 2 back in December, offering up the ability for developers to update their games and let players go hands-on thanks to the headset’s on-board tracking cameras. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the Wizard (2019) is the first to implement hand-tracking on PSVR 2. Waltz of the Wizard has grown […]
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John Carmack Pushed Microsoft to Make VR Fan Ports of ‘Quake’ & ‘DOOM’ Official, But Was Denied
Team Beef’s unofficial VR ports of classic Id Software games are undoubtedly fan favorites, letting you go head-first into a rash of ’90s retro titles like the original DOOM. Now, Id Software co-founder and former Oculus CTO John Carmack says he tried lobbying the Microsoft-owned studio for the chance to get those ports offered as official […]
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Crew Studies Space Agriculture, Biotechnology to Promote Future Missions
Tuesday’s International Space Station research objectives included learning how to grow crops on spacecraft and produce vitamins and nutrients in space to sustain crews farther away from Earth. The Expedition 72 crewmates also explored how the human body orients itself in weightlessness and serviced a pair of docked spacecraft.702
Biotechnology to Sustain Crews on Long Missions Tops Research Schedule
Biotechnology kicked off the work week aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 72 crew members explored ways to counter the effects of microgravity and produce vitamins and nutrients during long-term space missions.
Samsung Eyes XR Director Hire in Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Push, amidst Meta Ray-Ban, Apple Vision Pro Shark Tank
This week, a curious hire opportunity appeared over at Samsung, just in time for its concurrent augmented reality/mixed reality headset push. Specifically, the role is filling an XR Director gap at Samsung Research America as part of the division’s MPS (Mobile Platform Services), SRA, and Immersive Experiences (IMEX) Team. The LinkedIn job XR Director listing […]
Vuzix Supercharges AI-Ready Augmented Reality Smart Glasses for Frontline Workers
Recently, frontline AR solutions provider Vuzix debuted AugmentOS, a dedicated operating system for workplace immersive human-computer interfaces. The OS is ready for Vuzix’s portfolio of products, allowing end-users and developers to use products such as the Z100 smart glasses, which include AI functionality integration. AugmentOS is debuting as version 1.0. The launchpad application will include […]
Big Tech Players Emerge as Likely Partners for TikTok US
Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon are the names that look likely to partner with the app.
TikTok Expands In-Stream Shopping Push to Latin America
The next stage in TikTok’s broader in-app shopping push.
Meta Initiates Lay-Offs to Re-Align its Focus Around AI Development
Meta’s culling staff, while also hiring more machine learning engineers.
Meta Looks to Reduce Safety Barriers in AI Development
Meta’s looking to reduce the capacity for privacy and safety concerns to impede projects.