NEO is a humanoid robot from Palo Alto-based robotics startup 1X that could one day autonomously help out around your home. For now though, it’s using human operators wearing Quest 3 headsets to pick up the slack and teach Neo’s neural network the ropes in the process. The News The 66 pound, sweater-wearing robot doesn’t
Despite running Road to VR for 14 years, I’ve rarely had the opportunity to talk behind-the-scenes about the publication and my philosophy for covering this fascinating industry. Luckily I recently sat down with industry fellow Tony Vitillo to do just that. Through his blog The Ghost Howls , Vitillo has been sharing news and observations from inside
Magic Leap announced this week at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia its latest AR hardware plans along with a renewed partnership with Google. The News Google and Magic Leap announced in May 2024 a “strategic technology partnership” to secure key technology needed to make compact AR glasses. We’ve heard little about
Meta is rolling out Horizon OS v81, the latest major update for Quest. The update focuses on Home personalization, the new Windows 11 remote desktop, and reducing friction tl entering Meta’s Horizon Worlds social VR platform. The News The new Immersive Home experience is getting a customization bump, now allowing Quest users to pin windowed apps and
Meta kicked off its latest Quest games sale, this time bringing up to 50% off some pretty spook-tacular titles to get your blood pumping this Halloween season. The News There are a ton of games currently discounted for Meta’s big ‘Fall Frights Sale’, which ends on November 2nd at 11:59 pm PT (local time here).
Meta announced it’s shipping out Project Aria Gen 2 to third-party researchers next year, which the company hopes will accelerate development of machine perception and AI technologies needed for future AR glasses and personal AI assistants. The News Meta debuted Project Aria Gen 1 back in 2020, the company’s sensor-packed research glasses which it used
Samsung’s Galaxy XR is finally here, and with it, a perfect middle-ground of price and features to simultaneously turn up the competitive pressure on both Meta and Apple. Over many years I had been patiently waiting for Apple to launch its own headset in order to finally give Meta some real competition. Even though the
A group of Sweden-based researchers proposed a novel e-ink display solution that could make way for super compact, retina-level VR headsets and AR glasses in the future. The News Traditional emissive displays are shrinking, but they face physical limits; smaller pixels tend to emit less uniformly and provide less intense light, which is especially noticeable
VR’s biggest social VR platform, VRChat, has finally come out of beta on iOS and Android. The News VRChat has officially launched its app on both Android and iOS following a lengthy testing period. The app’s alpha launch on Android was released in August 2023, but only admitted VRChat Plus subscribers. Then, In August 2025
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio, released a new mixed reality title exclusively for Android XR which expands the Job Simulator universe. The News Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind VR games Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), released both games on Android XR’s first officially supported headset, Samsung Galaxy XR. Alongside it comes a free mixed reality