Apple quietly acquired 3D avatar company TrueMeeting in January, which could help bolster the company's digital Personas on Vision Pro. French language outlet MacGeneration first spotted the news via a European Commission filing, which includes a non-confidential summary of mergers and...

Not ready to plonk down your first $100 on Quest games? Thankfully there's an impressive number of free games, experiences, apps, and social VR platforms to keep you playing before you're paying. Looking to make your Quest 3S gaming experience...

Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design. Today we're looking at the game Synapse and exploring the concept of embodiment and what makes it important to VR games. Editor’s Note: Synapse was released two years ago this...

Meta announced in January it was working on a home theater environment for Horizon OS, which would let Quest users view content on a massive screen in a proper theater setting. Now, a leaked prototype of the environment shows that...

Between 2019 and 2022, Meta went on a veritable shopping spree of experienced studios to help push its VR game portfolio, culminating in nine VR studios acquired to date. Here we take a look what's happened over the past...

Resolute Games launched a crowdfunding campaign late last month to kickstart a VRMMO called Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist. Now the campaign has officially crossed the $100,000 mark, and it's not showing any signs of stopping. Launched on June 24th, the Eldramoor...

Meta recently unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN, the company's latest smart glasses created in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica. Now, data miner and serial leaker 'Luna' has obtained images of what appears to be Meta's next pair of smart glasses, this time...

Independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple's XR and smart glasses roadmap will feature multiple XR devices, including a spec-bumped Vision Pro slated to release later this year. At the far end of the spectrum, Kuo also says...

As with any instrument, learning the piano can be intimidating when you first start out. But indie developer Plai Technologies is developing an interesting approach to gamifying piano lessons with its upcoming mixed reality app, PianoCafe. Coming to Quest 2 and above on...

Cyan, the indie studio behind VR-supported revivals of classic puzzle adventures MYST (1993) and RIVEN (1997), announced a second tranche of layoffs following a round in March that reduced the company by half. Cyan announced the news in a Bluesky post,...