Virtual & Augmented Reality news

The Utility Room is a megalithic VR experience coming soon to PC VR headsets.
The Utility Room is an upcoming VR experience that makes incredible use of scale to immerse you in a mind-bending journey that will take you across space to the edge of the Universe. There you’ll traverse a mysterious alien world inhabited by enormous stone-faced beings with little to no regard for your personal safety.
“This VR Journey takes you to the ‘behind the scenes’ of the Universe,&rdquo

The Middle East has long been thought of as an oil region, but the United Arab Emirates aims to change this with an intense focus on growing the country’s technology and startup scene.
For the first half of 2022, the Middle East region brought in $1.73 billion in investments across 354 deals, up from more than $1.2 billion in the first half of 2021 — a 64% year over year growth. The UAE took in 46% of the total venture capital received in the Middle East and Africa in 2021, according

The full release is scheduled for Holiday 2022, but you may be able to play early if you move quickly.
Among Us, the popular social deduction game that took gamers by storm back in 2020, is coming to VR headsets later this year, and based on what we know so far this could be the best iteration of the game yet.
The immersive remake promises new tasks built from the ground up for VR as well as multiple locomotion options and additional social features such as proximity voice chat.do you own a VR h

Rec Room today announced the launch of a new game coming to the popular social VR platform that lets you suit up for a PvP western-style shootout with your squad.Called ‘The Showdown’, the mini-game releases today in early access, and will see a wider global launch across PC VR, Quest, iOS, Android, PlayStation, and Xbox on August 18th, with more platforms coming soon.
Showdown transports Rec Room players to the western-inspired ghost town Sarsaparilla Springs, offering up

Virtual reality tech helps separate conjoined twins in Brazil  FierceBiotechConjoined twins with fused brains separated; surgeons practiced for months in virtual reality  UpworthyVirtual reality helps doctors separate three-year-old conjoined twins with fused brains  Screen ShotVR in the ER: Doctors separate conjoined twins using virtual reality  Esquire Middle EastVirtual Reality Helped Surgeons Train For A Miraculous Separation Of Conjoined Twins &n

IRL Studios announced that Gym Class, its popular VR basketball game on Meta Quest App Lab, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Y Combinator.Other participants include Founders Inc., Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, Zaza Pachulia, and a number of other angel investors.
Named in Road to VR’s top 20 free games on Quest, Gym Class lets you shoot hoops and dunk on friends like you probably can’t on

Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company valued at $8.5 billion as of late, has sued two former employees over alleged trade secret infringement.
The lawsuit is arriving months after Frank (Zhenhao) Pan and Youhan Sun, two former technical leaders at Pony’s autonomous trucking business in the U.S., resigned to start a competitor called Qingtian Truck.
China’s autonomous driving upstarts are under growing pressure to commercialize as they reach later stages of fundraising. They a