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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…
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…
Half-Life: Alyx Sees Steam User Base Double to 2 Million
The latest SteamVR hardware survey covering the month of April is out. According to the survey, the proportion of users with virtual reality headsets increased from to , coinciding with…
SteamVR Discontinues MacOS Support
Apple and Valve collaborated on MacOS support for SteamVR for almost a year but the plans for support went quiet after the summer 2017 announcement. Valve has now decided to…
Unlearn.ai Secures $12 Million in Equity Financing for “Digital Twins” Clinical Trials
has announced that it has raised $12 million in equity financing. The company designs software tools used in clinical research. Its “digital twin” approach to clinical trials where digital models…
Oculus Connect 7 Developer Conference To Take Place Online
With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the globe, this year’s Oculus Connect 7 -the most important XR conference in the calendar year- will take place online to avoid the risk…
Viveport Infinity Available for Just $27 in ‘Play at Home Sale’
With the rampant lockdowns following the COVID-19 crisis, a lot of people are now stuck indoors and are looking for ways to entertain themselves to keep up with the long…
Etee SteamVR Controller Hits Kickstarter Fundraising Goal, Demos Half-Life Compatibility
TG0 launched a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for the new finger tracking controller known as etee at the beginning of the April. The campaign has already realized its funding goal of…
HTC Now Offers a Vive Cosmos Wireless Bundle for $799 For is Anniversary Sale
HTC Vive anniversaries have typically been grand and pompous affairs with plenty of discounts as well as promotional offers. This year, with the COVID-19 raging around the globe, the event…
Apple to Buy VR Streaming Startup NextVR
NextVR was founded in 2014 as ‘NextVD’ just at the juncture when virtual reality was beginning to break out into the mainstream and when the hype around the technology was…