Author Archives: Sam Ochanji
Is Official Wireless Streaming Soon Coming to Quest?
Facebook’s standalone can already be connected to a PC to access the vast Rift Library via the Oculus Link cable connection. It now appears that Wi-FI streaming might also becoming…
Nreal Light AR Glasses Get Multi-User Shared Spaces and Now Support WebXR
Nreal has announced that its Light AR glasses will now support shared AR extent. There is a corresponding AR game as well as a new Devkit bundle that should make…
Oculus Quest Grossed Over $100 Million in Apps and Games Sales in First Year
This week marks the first-year anniversary since the double launch of the PC-based Oculus Rift S and the standalone Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets. During the anniversary, Facebook announced that…
Immersive Collaborative Apps ‘Spatial’ and ‘Immersed’ Coming to Quest
The official Oculus Quest store is set to have two new powerful and much-touted remote work apps later this year: Spatial and Immersed. The Immersed app shares some similarity with…
Oculus Quest Updates: Full Hand Tracking Release, New Work Options and New Safety Features
Oculus Quest is celebrating its first anniversary by rolling out a slew of new updates including improvements in the platform’s integrated and third-party software capabilities as well as some new…
Spatial Offers Free Access to AR/VR Holographic Meeting App
Spatial’s holographic meeting app enables people to meet virtually through either augmented reality or virtual reality. When the idea was once floated in 2018 when the startup came out of…
VR Hit Game ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Breaks Sales Records
Half-Life: Alyx has broken sales records to become possibly the fastest-selling virtual reality game ever. Half-Life: Alyx has already recorded more than one million owners less than two months…
Italian Airport Adopts Augmented Reality Thermal Scanning Helmets
The use of wearable thermal scanners in airports and other security checkpoints has been widely recommended in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the world which has precipitated…
SideQuest Racks Up 1 Million Downloads in Less Than a Year
The sideloading platform for Oculus Quest, SideQuest, says there have been 1 million downloads on its platform in less than one year. SideQuest was launched soon after the Oculus Quest…
Digi-Capital Report: A Continuing Downward Trend in XR Investments
The willingness to invest declines in times of adversity and the same applies when it to the XR market. The fourth quarter of 2019 witnessed a significant decline in the…