‘Spatial’ Social XR Platform Ends Metaverse Ambitions with Enterprise Pivot

‘Spatial’ Social XR Platform Ends Metaverse Ambitions with Enterprise Pivot

Spatial, the parent company to Animal Company studio Wooster Games, announced it’s closing down its own Spatial Creator platform, ending free and pro subscription tiers and discontinuing 3D world hosting next month—effectively ending the platform’s metaverse ambitions. Spatial, which released its app at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020, confirmed that Enterprise

Acer Re-enters XR with New AR & Smart Glasses

Acer Re-enters XR with New AR & Smart Glasses

Acer unveiled two new XR glasses, marking nearly a seven-year absence from the XR space. The last we saw the ‘Acer’ brand emblazoned on an XR headset was its final Windows PC VR headset released in 2019, the OJO 500, which was mostly targeted at businesses. Since then, the company has been conspicuously absent from

‘Subnautica 2’ Devs: Don’t Hold Your Breath for Official VR Support

‘Subnautica 2’ Devs: Don’t Hold Your Breath for Official VR Support

Believe it or not, the original Subnautica (2018) actually included basic PC VR support well before its 1.0 launch. With its long-awaited sequel coming out this week though, you probably shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for official VR support. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is releasing Subnautica 2 in early access on May 14th, which, as we’ve heard for years now, won’t

Meta’s New AI-Powered VR Toolkit Lets Anyone Build WebXR Experiences Without Coding

Meta’s New AI-Powered VR Toolkit Lets Anyone Build WebXR Experiences Without Coding

Meta announced a major update to its open-source Immersive Web SDK (IWSDK) framework, which lets developers build VR experiences on the web using WebXR—now including an “agentic workflow” powered by AI coding assistants which aims to reduce Originally launched at Meta Connect last year, IWSDK aimed to simplify VR development tasks like physics, hand-tracking, movement

TCL Shows Off New High PPI OLED and Micro-LED Displays for XR

TCL Shows Off New High PPI OLED and Micro-LED Displays for XR

TCL has revealed its latest OLED and micro-LED displays aimed at AR and VR headsets. The company claims to have achieved new benchmarks for pixel density. Shown off at the SID Display Week event, TCL’s new 2.24-inch display is claimed to be the “highest pixel density real RGB G-OLED display,” at 1,700 PPI (pixels per-inch)

The 5 Best Free Games on HTC Vive

Steam is chocked full of free games that support HTC Vive, but it may be difficult with all that choice to know exactly which games to start out with, especially if all that holiday shopping blew your wallet to smithereens. Also, don’t forget that as an HTC Vive owner, you can pop into Oculus exclusives