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Almost 10,000 Facebook Employees Working on AR and VR
Over the past few years, Facebook spelled out an aggressive strategy for developing its consumer hardware to lessen its dependence on Apple and Google which currently build the two dominant…
VR Pain Therapy Startup Gets Millions in Investments
The startup AppliedVR has been working on non-drug pain management using virtual reality for the past six years. Thanks to a fresh infusion of millions of dollars in investments, the…
Latest SteamVR Dashboard Update Adds Controller Docking and Window Focus
SteamVR has unveiled its latest beta update which brings improvements in how users use their PC desktop in virtual reality via the SteamVR dashboard. Users can now opt to display…
Rec Room is Now Valued at More than a Billion Dollars
Rec Room saw a rise in the number of users during the pandemic to become a billion-dollar Unicorn. The free social VR gaming platform Rec Room has grown tremendously during…
HTC Vive Pro Facial Tracker Available for Sale in the US This Month
HTC’s Vive Facial Tracker goes on sale in the US from March 24 and is priced at $ This is a face-tracking accessory that is compatible with the Vive Pro,…
How Facebook Envisions the Future of Augmented Reality
Facebook’s vision of the future of human-computer interaction (HCI) is slowly taking shape. In a series of long blog posts, Facebook unpacks what it describes as a “10-year vision of…
Apple Patent Filing Probably Shows its Rumored ‘Thimble’ Controller
Patently Apple spotted a new Apple patent filing that probably reveals the ‘thimble’ input device for Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset. Bloomberg, The Information, and Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo have…
Oculus Quest App Lab Gets Lots of New Releases
Since its release a few weeks back, the Oculus Quest App Lab has had a dry run with very few apps being added to the new Oculus app and games…
Pico Closes $37.4 Million Series B+ Funding Round and Announces Pico Neo 3
Pico Interactive’s standalone virtual reality (VR) headsets Pico Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye were announced in May 2020 and less than a year later, the company has just announced…
‘Beat Saber’ Update Brings ‘Pro Mode’, Multiplayer Badges, and Four More Modifiers
Beat Saber dropped its latest update on March 9th on all the supported platforms. The new update brings four new modifiers, various UI tweaks, and multiplayer badges. This is the…