Vive Focus Vision Announced with Mixed Reality & Eye-tracking, $1,000 Price & Pre-order Dates

HTC today revealed its next standalone XR headset, the Vive Focus Vision. The company appears to be appealing again to enterprise and prosumers, packing in a mishmash of specs from Vive Focus 3 and Vive Elite XR—priced at $1,000. HTC launched pre-orders today for its new MR headset, Vive Focus Vision. Pre-orders are available from […]

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‘Minecraft’ to Drop PSVR Players Next Year, Leaving PSVR 2 Support Very Doubtful

Mojang, the Microsoft-owned studio behind Minecraft, announced it’s dropping support for the original PSVR next year, leaving any hope for PSVR 2 support firmly at (bed)rock bottom. As mentioned in the recent 1.21.30 (Bedrock) release notes, Mojang says that starting March 2025, PSVR users will no longer be able to play Minecraft on PS4. Not online […]

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Snapchat Reveals Latest Spectacles AR Glasses with Attractive Pricing for Developers

Today Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced the latest version of its Spectacles AR Glasses which the company is calling Spectacles ’24. The new device makes notable improvements to field-of-view, resolution, and hand-tracking, and overhauls its software stack. But it’s limited enough to remain targeted at developers. Spectacles ’24 is available starting today, and […]

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visionOS 2 Enhances Apple Vision Pro Features: Spatial Capture, Avatars, Hand-Tracking, Virtual Environments

This week, Apple updated its Vision Pro spatial computing headset, upgrading the framework to visionOS 2. Apple delivered optimised MR features, including improved spatial capture, hand-tracking, key productivity enhancements, virtual environments, avatars, and more. Like its success in bringing Apple smartphones and iPads into the business world, Apple appears to Be looking to repeat this […]

Lenovo, VictoryXR Discuss Keys to Education XR Scaling Success

Lenovo is growing its extensive XR partner portfolio to scale enterprise AR/VR/MR solutions alongside its ThinkReality VRX headset, creating new enterprise XR opportunities via an ecosystem of trusted solutions and hardware. Leveraging its XR ecosystem and long history in education, Lenovo partnered with VictoryXR to scale the adoption of immersive learning tools for a new […]

The Most Popular Social Apps Among Gen Z Consumers [Infographic]

YouTube continues to drive trends among younger consumers.

TikTok Begins Legal Defense Against US Sell-off Bill

It‘s unclear, at this stage, what the chances are of TikTok avoiding the enforced sell-off.

Meta Bans Russian State Media in the Wake of Covert Influence Program

Meta’s moving to ban RT from all of its services.

Sports Remain the Top Topic of Discussion on X

X is looking to win back advertisers with a new pitch. 

Hands-On: Snap Spectacles Are A Perfect Fit For Niantic’s Peridot, But Not For Pokemon

We went hands-on with Snap’s new AR Spectacles, finding them to be the perfect for for Niantic’s Peridot.