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Facebook Buys Onward Developer Downpour Interactive
Downpour Interactive joins Oculus The developer of the multiplayer VR first-person shooter (FPS), Onward, has been acquired by Facebook. This is the latest in Facebook VR studio buying spree over…
Zoom Rolls Out Immersive View Among Other Features
Zoom is launching a video background feature known as Immersive View that simulates the office environment in a Zoom meeting and makes Zoom video calls appear like an office meeting.…
Snap Acquires 3D Mapping Developer Pixel8Earth
In March this year, Snap acquired the fitting technology startup Fit Analytics for $124 million. In the same quarter, Snap also made another acquisition that can it confirmed this week.…
Campfire Raises $8 Million for Mixed Reality Headset System for Product Design and Collaboration
California-based startup Campfire came out of stealth this week and announced that it had raised $8 million in venture capital for an integrated hardware and software platform that aims to…
UK-Based Proximie Raises $38 Million for AR Surgery
UK-based Proximie has raised $38 million in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by F-Prime Capital with the participation of Eight Roads, Questa Capital, Maverick Ventures, Global…
Holoride Closes $12 Million in Series A Funding
Audi spinoff Holoride has raised $12 million in Series A investing round that gave the company a $36 million valuation. Holoride is currently building an immersive XR in-vehicle media platform.…
Indie Game Store itch.io has Joined Epic Games Store
Epic Games, developer of Fortnite, is adding a new indie storefront to its store which adds an extra 3,400 VR titles. It has now become a store within a store.…
Lone Echo II Finally Coming to Oculus Rift This Summer
Lone Echo is one of the most popular Oculus exclusive titles. Its highly anticipated follow-up, Lone Echo II, is now set to launch on the Oculus Rift Store this summer.…
3D Objects Marketplace Leo AR Raises $3 Million Seed Round
Apple’s launching of ARKit opened floodgates for entrepreneurs, developers, and creators to come up with lots of new and cool immersive apps. One of these is the startup Leo AR…
Resident Evil 4 Coming to Quest 2
Capcom revealed last week that’s horror classic Resident Evil 4 (2005) is coming to Oculus Quest 2. The VR remaster of the title has been published in partnership with Oculus…