Virtual & Augmented Reality news

Meta is kicking off its Quest Store Summer Sale today, bringing around 30-40% off some of VR’s most talked-about titles.The sale, which starts today and ends on June 26th at 11:59PM PT (local time here), includes five game bundles and 60+ individual games and experiences.
You can look forward to nabbing titles such as Pistol Whip, Demeo, Zenith: The Last City, Ultrawings 2, Walkabout Mini Golf, POPULATION: ONE, Myst, Resident Evil 4 and many more worth your hard-ea

Known for kickstarting its original Kat Walk VR treadmill in 2015, Kat VR returned to the crowdfunding platform last month to launch the second generation of its ‘Kat Walk C’ VR treadmill, which again promises to appeal to at-home consumers. Having reached its initial funding goal in the first five minutes of launch, Kat VR went on to rack up over $2 million in crowdfunding before close of the campaign.Update (June 20th, 2022) KatVR recently ended its latest VR treadmill K

Turn your home into the ultimate stargazing lounge.
Available now on the Meta Quest, Skygaze (Demo) is a prototype VR experience that turns your headset into a mixed reality stargazing lounge. You can explore the solar system and search for constellations, learn more about our system’s planets, or catch a show at the virtual planetarium, all from the comfort of your living room.Skygaze Demo is now on AppLab! Feedback and ideas are welcome. Download link in the comments. fromOculusQuest
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Meta wants to make it clear it’s not giving up on high-end VR experiences yet. So, in a rare move, the company is spilling the beans on several VR headset prototypes at once. The goal, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is to eventually

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Meta says its ultimate goal with its VR hardware is to make a comfortable, compact headset with visual finality that’s ‘indistinguishable from reality’. Today the company revealed its latest VR headset prototypes which it says represent steps toward that goal.Meta has made it no secret that it’s dumping tens of billions of dollars in its XR efforts, much of which is going to long-term R&D through its Reality Labs Research division. Apparently in an effort to shine a b

Rec Room, the social VR platform, just pushed out an update that lets its Plus members create custom shirts for the first time, allowing you to draw mostly anything with the stroke of a virtual pen and apply the graphic to a t-shirt. The studio says users will also be able to sell those shirts on the marketplace at some point in the future.In comparison to VRChat, Rec Room offers a decidedly more limited way of customizing avatars since it relies on in-platform tools. Although Rec Room

AR smart glasses with displays now widely available in UK but must be connected to a smartphone to workThe first widely available augmented reality glasses have hit the UK high street, putting TV shows, movies and games on a big virtual screen just in front of your eyes. But while the Nreal Air are the first of their type on the shelves, they are limited in what consumers can do with them.Many firms have tried to be the first to make AR glasses the next generation of technology, not least Google