Following Single-player Successes, Polyarc Announces First PvP Game ‘Glassbreakers – Champions of Moss’

Following a tease earlier this year, Polyarc Games has announced its first PvP game, Glassbreakers – Champions of Moss, based on its acclaimed single player adventure games Moss (2019) and Moss: Book II…

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Seasoned VR Devs Raise $1.6 Million for New Studio Focused on Virtual Pet Experience

Windup Minds is a newly announced XR studio which has raised a $1.6 million seed investment for immersive experiences focused on virtual pets and companions. Windup Minds was founded earlier…

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11 Tools for Painting, Modeling, Designing & Animating in VR

Though gaming is likely VR’s most visible use-case so far, it’s capable of so much more. Creatives are using VR for a wide range of artistic endeavors including painting, drawing,…

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Collaborative Spatial Design App ‘ShapesXR’ Raises $8.6M, Expanding to Apple Vision Pro & Other Headsets

ShapesXR is a collaborative spatial design app built to make it easy to prototype spatial interfaces, interactions, and environments. The company announced today it has raised an $8.6 million seed…

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‘Digital Lens’ Plugin for Eye-tracking Headsets Improves Visual Clarity & Pupil Swim

Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets. Almalense…

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Spy Puzzler ‘I Expect You To Die 3’ Release Dates Revealed for Quest & SteamVR, New Trailer Here

Schell Games announced that I Expect You to Die 3: Cog in the Machine is coming soon on Quest, with its PC VR launch coming in September. On Quest, IEYTD 3 is set…

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Team Behind XR Productivity App ‘Immersed’ Announce Visor, a PC VR Headset for Work

The team behind XR productivity and co-working platform Immersed announced it’s creating its own PC VR headset designed for work. Following the lead set by Bigscreen with its recently unveiled PC…

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‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Video Teases ‘endless dungeon’ Mode with Asynchronous Social Gameplay

Meta’s Sanzaru Games released a new look at Asgard’s Wrath 2 in a developer diary video that, in addition to showing off more of the upcoming action RPG, teases an opportunity…

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Meta’s Annual XR Conference Will Have an “In-person Presence” for the First Time Since 2019

Meta announced that Connect, its annual XR developer conference, will have an “in-person presence” this year, marking the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019. Connect is…

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Apple Joins Pixar, NVIDIA, & More to “accelerate next generation of AR experiences” with 3D File Protocol

Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and development of…

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