Pico Reportedly Cancels Quest Competitor to Instead Take on Apple Vision Pro

According to a report from The Information, ByteDance subsidiary Pico Interactive is pulling the release of its next consumer-focused standalone headset in effort to no longer compete directly with Meta…

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Quest 2 Stock Appears to be Draining as Holiday Sale Drives Purchases

Although Quest 3 is Meta’s hot new headset release, an attractive holiday deal looks like it’ll make Quest 2 the company’s best selling headset this year. Looking at the stock…

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Creator of Indie Breaktout ‘Braid’ Building Roomscale VR Game With ‘no concessions for stationary play’

Jonathan Blow, the creator of one of indie gaming’s fomative successes, Braid, has begun hiring a team to develop his first VR game. Before Fez (2012), before Limbo (2010), and…

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Valve Launches ‘Steam Link’ on Quest for a Direct Connection to SteamVR

Valve today released its first-ever application on one of Meta’s VR platforms. Steam Link allows users to quickly and easily connect their Quest headset wirelessly to SteamVR to play PC…

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Varjo XR-4 Will Get a SteamVR Tracking Variant and Sell Direct to Prosumers

Varjo just announced its latest headset, the XR-4, and while the company is primarily continuing to target high-end enterprise use-cases, this is the first headset in their ‘XR’ series that…

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HTC Launches Inside-out ‘Vive Ultimate Tracker’ for $200

First revealed at GDC 2023 earlier this year, HTC has now launched its long-awaited inside-out tracking accessory, which is now dubbed the Vive Ultimate Tracker. Unlike previous Vive Trackers, Vive…

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Varjo Reveals XR-4 Headset, Claiming Mixed Realty Visuals “indistinguishable from natural sight”

Varjo has announced its latest high-end enterprise headset, the XR-4. The company is going all out on the headset’s mixed reality capabilities, saying that the view of the outside world…

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Samsung Files XR ‘Glasses’ Trademark in the UK

Samsung has secured a trademark with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office for ‘Samsung Glasses’, which could mean we’re finally seeing some movement from the South Korean tech giant to release an…

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