Virtual & Augmented Reality news

Are holograms the future of board games?AR tabletop gaming platform Tilt Five this week announced a new partnership with Asmodee Digital, a subsidiary of legendary French board game publisher Asmodee Group, to develop a series of holographic tabletop games brought to life using AR (augmented reality) technology.
In the official announcement Tilt Five confirmed they’re working to reimagine select titles for the AR tabletop format. Founded in 1995, Asmodee is behind classic titles such as Se

Looking for an additional challenge?We’ve seen our fair share of VR fitness accessories make their way to the Meta Quest 2 since its launch back in 2020, but nothing quite like KIWI design’s VR dumbbell attachments. Whereas most VR fitness accessories are designed to provide a comfortable in-headset experience as you sweat, the VR Weight Dumbbell for Meta Quest 2 is here to make things more difficult.
Available now via Amazon, KIWI’s VR dumbbells use a combination of custom-mad

Chinese startup Rokid has been through a few stages of transformation over its eight years of existence, and it’s recently raised some new funding to stay afloat. The Temasek-backed company started out as a smart speaker maker when the vertical was all the rage in China in mid-2015s, but it has in recent years put more focus on augmented reality.
This week, Rokid said it has secured a $160 million Series C round, lifting its total capital raised to $378 million. Between its last financial

Chinese startup Rokid has been through a few stages of transformation over its eight years of existence, and it’s recently raised some new funding to stay afloat. The Temasek-backed company started as a smart speaker maker when the vertical was all the rage in China in mid-2015, but it has in recent years put more focus on augmented reality.
This week, Rokid said it has landed a $110 million Series C round. Between its last financial injection of $100 million in 2018 and this recent round,

Ramen VR, the creators behind crowd-funded VR MMORPG Zenith: The Last City, announced it’s closed a Series B round of $35 million, something the studio says will allow it to significantly expand in size as it aims to develop Zenith into a metaverse platform that goes far beyond its current scope.
The studio’s latest financing round was led by Anthos Capital and Dune Ventures. Additional investments come from Makers Fund and personal investments from Andreessen Horowitz part

FOV Ventures is a newly formed venture capital firm which plans to invest in early-stage metaverse startups. The firm says it has raised an initial $18.1 million as part of its first fund.Founding partners David Haynes and Petri Rajahalme announced this month FOV Ventures, a Finland-based early-stage VC firm through which the duo plans to focus on Europe-based metaverse startups.
The firm says it has raised $18.1 million (€16.5 million) so far and plans to cap its first fund at $27.5 m

Earlier this month Meta acknowledged a Quest account issue that which led to some users being logged out of their headsets and others missing their library of apps entirely. A “majority” of affected accounts have been fixed, according to Meta, but for some the issues have lingered for nearly two weeks.Update (March 22, 2022): Following Quest account issues which were purportedly fixed for a “majority” of users within a few days, some are still awaiting a fix from Meta to