Little Witch Academia VR Releasing on SteamVR & PSVR July 15th

Little Witch Academia VR Releasing on SteamVR & PSVR July 15th

Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing (2020), the Oculus Quest racing game based on the popular anime series, is finally leaving Quest exclusivity next month, with a SteamVR, Rift and PSVR release headed for July 15th. Initially released on Quest back in October 2020, Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing offers up 10 tracks dotted across

DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization

DigiLens is Building Modular AR Glasses to Accelerate Consumerization

DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced the Design v1, a modular reference headset which the company hopes will accelerate the development and consumerization of truly glasses-sized AR headsets. Road to VR got an exclusive hands-on demo of the Design v1 and the company’s latest waveguides. DigiLens is one of several companies building waveguide optics

Campfire Raises $8M for MR Headset for Product Design & Collaboration

Campfire Raises $8M for MR Headset for Product Design & Collaboration

Campfire, a San Mateo, California based startup, emerged from stealth today announcing that it has raised $8 million in venture capital to launch an integrated hardware and software platform aimed at making remote product design and collaboration easy. The platform includes an MR headset (capable of both AR and VR), a tracking device, an accessory

Snapchat Readying an AR Version of Its Spectacles Glasses

Snapchat Readying an AR Version of Its Spectacles Glasses

Hot on the tail of Niantic teasing a pair of AR glasses earlier this week, a new report from The Information says the company is readying a pair of its Spectacles glasses with proper AR functionality. Snapchat has been selling its Spectacles camera-glasses since 2016. Now on its third generation, the Spectacles glasses capture video from a

‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Teases a See-through Headset

‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Teases a See-through Headset

Niantic, the studio behind the popular Pokémon GO, today teased some kind of see-through headset. Following a prototype demonstration of Pokémon GO running on HoloLens 2 earlier this month, Niantic CEO John Hanke today showed a teasing glimpse of a see-through headset the company is apparently working on. Exciting to see the progress we’re making to enable

Qualcomm Announces AR Headset ‘Smart Viewer’ Reference Design

Qualcomm Announces AR Headset ‘Smart Viewer’ Reference Design

Qualcomm, maker of chips and technologies for mobile devices, today announced a reference design for a tethered AR headset which is tethered to a phone or PC but also contains its own chips to handle some onboard processing. The company calls the split-processing approach an AR ‘smart viewer’ headset. Qualcomm, which makes the chips in

Canon Showcases Its Next Enterprise AR/VR Headset ‘MREAL S1’ in New Video – Road to VR

Canon Showcases Its Next Enterprise AR/VR Headset ‘MREAL S1’ in New Video – Road to VR

Canon previously announced its next AR/VR headset MREAL S1 back in October. Now, the Japan-based company has shown off the enterprise-focused device in a new video. Update (January 27th, 2023): Canon Japan released the first promo video for their upcoming AR/VR headset, which uses a passthrough camera for room-scale augmented reality interactions. The headset is set to release