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Sightful, the hardware startup working to carve out a new ‘headless AR laptop’ niche, has cancelled plans for its $1,900 Spacetop G1. Unveiled back in May, Spacetop G1 was set to be the company’s first commercially available product following the early access release of its first Spacetop, which delivered a somewhat bulgy laptop form factor
Here’s a deal that should be on your radar if you’re in the market for a PC VR headset. For the next two days Amazon Prime members can get Vive Pro 2 at its steepest discount yet. Vive Pro 2 ‘full kit’ is currently available on Amazon for $800 (a 33% discount off its usual
Samsung and Google announced in early 2023 that, along with Qualcomm, they’d be releasing an “XR platform” based on Android, which could also see the release of a high-end mixed reality headset. While we still haven’t heard exactly what that XR partnership will entail, a new report from The Information maintains Samsung and Google are also
Smartmelon Games and Fast Travel Games announced its multiplayer VR rhythm title, Band Space, is set to launch on Quest and PC VR this month, bringing some very Rock Band-inspired gameplay to VR. Come October 24th, Smartmelon is launching Band Space with both single and multiplayer support for up to four players, letting you jam
Leading up to its November 7th release, Vertigo Games detailed more about its upcoming standalone VR prequel to the Metro series, Metro Awakening, including some familiar survival mechanics at the heart of gameplay such as the gas mask, flashlight, and some pretty intense first-person combat. In past Metro games, the gas mask was crucial for
Meta’s biggest reveal at last week’s Connect conference was definitely the Orion prototype AR glasses, which the company says it’s been working on for nearly five years. It’s a big deal not only because of how compact it is, but because Meta says it wants to eventually turn the prototype into a consumer product. You
Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new sort of VR film hybrid for Quest, mashing up a movie’s worth of real-time rendered narrative with sprinkles of first-person gameplay, billing itself an ‘interactive anime’. On paper, it sounds really cool, offering you essentially two ways to step into your favorite anime universe and experience it
Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief, has publicly apologized to Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus who was ousted from the company in 2017 for political reasons. To this day, Meta (ex-Facebook) never publicly confirmed why Luckey was fired, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg even going on record in a U.S. congressional hearing in 2018
Meta has aggressively expanded its VR game portfolio with the acquisition of nine VR studios since 2019. We take a look what’s come of these deals over the last five years. Acquisition by Meta usually means a few things. Sometimes it means studios get a ton of new resources and the sort of stability that
Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. Now, with the launch of Windows 11 2024 Update yesterday, those VR headsets have essentially been bricked. Initially kicked off in 2017, Microsoft was well positioned to make Windows a home to a fleet of PC VR headsets, which