Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell announced he’s joining former CEO Brendan Iribe and hardware architect Ryan Brown at Sesame, the smart glasses startup that exited stealth earlier this year. Mitchell announced in a LinkedIn post that he’s joining Sesame as Chief Product Officer, noting his mission is to “help bring computers to life.” “Getting the band
Today at Xiaomi’s ‘Human x Car x Home’ event, the Chinese tech giant revealed its answer to Meta and EssilorLuxottica’s series of smart glasses: Xiaomi AI Glasses. Reports from late last year alleged Xiaomi was partnering with China-based ODM Goertek to produce a new generation of AI-assisted smart glasses, which was rumored to “fully benchmark” against
Rob Yescombe, co-creator of immersive VR mystery game The Invisible Hours (2017), recently regained the rights to the game, which he says could led to a remaster across modern VR headsets, as well as TV and film. As confirmed by Hollywood Reporter , Yescombe is currently looking for partners for a potential film or TV adaptation of
Better Than Life has released a new paid DLC environment for its multiplayer kayaking game Kayak VR: Mirage (2022), this time taking inspiration from Yucatán, Mexico for some lush cenotes and mysterious caves. The game’s new Yucatán DLC is now available across PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets, priced at $8 as an optional paid DLC.
Bandai Namco announced that a new entry into the hit puzzle-platformer franchise Little Nightmares is coming to VR. Called Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes, the game is currently in development by Iconik Studio, known for its work on both Quest title Hunting VR (2024) and King Pong (2021) for PC VR headsets. Details are still thin, so there’s no word
Meta and Microsoft unveiled the Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a limited edition bundle that launches today, packing in everything you need for both XR and Xbox cloud gaming. Make no bones about it: this isn’t Xbox’s long-awaited answer to PlayStation VR—i.e. it’s not a headset that you can hook up to your Xbox to play
Ahead of Google’s planned rollout of Android XR-equipped smart glasses, the company is reportedly making a $100 million investment in hardware partner Gentle Monster, the South Korean fashion eyewear brand. According to a Korean Economic Daily report, Google is slated to sign a deal worth around 145.0 billion Korean won (~$100 million) in Gentle Monster.
VR treadmill company Virtuix launched a crowd-based investment campaign late last year to further scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion device. Now, the campaign’s second phase (Series B-2) has come to an end, garnering the company over $3 million. The company’s Series B-2 round has come to a close, which offered Series B Preferred
Meta kicked off its big ‘Mega Summer Sale‘ on Quest this past weekend, bringing deep savings to VR games, apps, and DLC packs until June 29th. There are currently hundreds of games on sale, ranging from some of the latest VR games, to old favorites that never go out of style. We rounded up a
Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms. The partnership could be mutually beneficial as Snap’s platforms will get city-scale positioning capabilities while Niantic could see a massive influx of user-generated data to