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Japanese Virtual IP Firm Raises $10 Million for Metaverse Play
Japan-based virtual IP firm Brave Group Inc raised $10 million in fresh capital as it looks to expand its business into the metaverse and web3 domains. The latest funding round…
Nreal Light Now Streaming Steam Games onto a Large Digital Screen
The Nreal Light and Nreal Air mixed reality glasses will soon be streaming Steam games onto a large digital screen. These two mixed reality glasses are both connected to an…
Meta Shares a New Concept Video of a Vision of the Metaverse and a Futuristic Headset Design
Meta has just released a concept video that showcases a vision of the metaverse along with images of a futuristic headset design and a fingertip input device. The video is…
TikTok Parent Company Investing in Virtual Reality
The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, is investing more into the virtual reality space based on a Protocol report. Citing a close source, the report says ByteDance is planning to…
Alleged Leaked Schematics for Project Cambria Headset Provide Fresh Tech Details
Meta has been pretty tight-lipped when it comes to its upcoming high-end Project Cambria headset which has a color AR passthrough feature. In the few demos it has provided so…
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Spaces XR Platform for AR Developers
Qualcomm has launched Snapdragon Spaces, an XR developer platform for both app and game developers building head-worn AR apps. The platform software is now freely available for download by developers.…
Meta Demonstrates ‘The World Beyond’ Mixed Reality Experience
Meta has launched a new demo, The World Beyond, that demonstrates the mixed reality capabilities of the Quest 2 headset. The World Beyond demo was launched on App Lab…
Researcher’s Avatar “Virtually Raped” in Horizon Worlds
Avatar sexual abuse in the metaverse is once again on the front-page news. A few months ago, a woman reported being ‘groped’ while in the social VR environment Horizon Worlds…
RealityOS Appears in a Trademark Filing
Apple’s realityOS is widely rumored to be the company’s XR operating system for its upcoming augmented reality and virtual reality headset. The OS was first reported in 2017 by Bloomberg…
Ming Chi Kuo: PSVR 2 Enter Mass Production in Second Half of 2022, Release Possibly in Spring 2023
Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has published a series of tweets detailing where the PSVR 2 parts are coming from and claiming that the headset will enter into mass production…