Road to VR

MARCH 5, 2024

We have to fit hologram displays, projectors, batteries, radios, custom silicon chips, cameras, speakers, sensors to map the world around you and more into glasses that are about 5mm thick. Find out more about the difference between AR and smartglasses in our handy primer.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

YouTube now tells The Verge that a Vision Pro app is "on our roadmap". The company didn't get back to The Verge when asked about whether this will include 360-degree video support. While iPad apps are available on the App Store on Vision Pro by default , YouTube specifically opted out from making its available.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

A report by The Verge maintains Google is also now gearing up to produce an AR headset that could directly compete with similar offerings from the likes of Apple and Meta. And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google.

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VRScout

AUGUST 23, 2021

Brought to us by developer Moon Mode, Spacefolk City is an upcoming VR city-building game for Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, and SteamVR headsets that will have you constructing complex urban environments in order to save the inhabitants of a solar system on the verge of destruction. As your city grows, so to will the Spacefolk population.

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VRScout

MARCH 17, 2021

While speaking with The Verge in regards to the ongoing speculation, an official Microsoft representative squashed any hope of VR functionality coming to the Xbox platform in the near future, stating, “The copy in this error message is inaccurate due to a localization bug,” and that “VR for console is not a focus for us at this time.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’ve been tipped about the fact that the Korean store of HTC may have accidentally leaked the name of the new Vive headset that will be revealed at CES… and maybe also its price. Anyway, we had no info about the price or the name of the headset… until now. It features RGB passthrough and a depth sensor.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t been shy about addressing the elephant in the room: with Apple Vision Pro, the Cupertino tech giant is officially entering a market that, up until now, Meta has basically owned. Photo by Road to VR But it’s also about ethos. ” He calls that “the good news.”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Roughly three months later and the much-talked-about platform already boasts an impressive catalog of user-created worlds and games. Here you can learn more about how to set up your avatar and begin exploring new worlds. A company spokesperson confirmed that Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues have a combined user base of over 300,000.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

In the meantime, you can read (or in most cases watch) the reviews from these news outlets: CNBC The Wall Street Journal The Verge CNET Toms Guide Or you can watch the reviews of these YouTubers: iJustine Brian Tong Don't have time to trawl through all of those reviews? This is the future of personal computing.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2021

Unfortunately, there are only about 150 individuals in Nepal who still identify as Kusunda. “We met Gyani Maiya about ten years ago and were immediately struck by her presence and the wealth of the story of the Kusunda people and language,” said the project’s co-creator Felix Gaedtke.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2022

Recent reports maintain we may be seeing a mixed reality headset from Apple sometime soon, however it appears the Cupertino tech giant has filed a global trademark for realityOS, its alleged XR operating system, which could suggest we’ll learn more about that and its XR device(s) as early as next week.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2017

The first VR headset for Window’s recently announced Holographic platform is almost here, and according to a report by The Verge , it’s going to cost between $300 and $400 when it goes on sale later this year. Lenovo told The Verge the price of the new VR headset isn’t fixed just yet, but should be “closer to $300.”.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

Referred to as N-ko Mei Kurono, this “sheep-human lifeform” will serve as the companies official “anime ambassador,” working to help spread the word about Netflix Anime content while, simultaneously, interacting with the rapidly-expanding Vtuber community. What’s a Vtuber you ask? Image Credit: Netflix Anime.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

This week we had a few of them… let me try to list the most relevant ones: Palmer Luckey confirmed he actually tried an early version of the Apple headset, so he was not just trolling when he commented about the headset being “so good”. It’s been a strange week. On the technological side, it has been exciting. Be sure not to miss it!

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GizModo VR

MAY 24, 2021

Very soon, those plans are potentially about to become even bigger because Amazon is on the verge of acquiring one of the biggest… Read more. Amazon Studios has already given noted yacht owner Jeff Bezos a big way into the Hollywood media space, between its Prime Video streaming offerings and its big plans for movies and TV.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Meta's CEO indicated that the finger tracking neural wristband the company has been developing will ship as a product "in the next few years". Appearing on the Morning Brew Daily talk show on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg said "we're actually kind of close to having something here that we're going to have in a product in the next few years".

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Replying to a question about when face-tracking would come to consumer-priced headsets, Boz noted, “it’s gonna be a little while… it’s gonna be years. Last year Meta discontinued its Portal video-calling smart speakers, and reportedly cancelled two unreleased smartwatch projects, according to The Verge.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s that time of the week when you can read the best news about AR and VR! Facebook talks about privacy, Quest login, and more. Both expressed one common concept: “Facebook login is going to stay on Quest and we have to trust Facebook about privacy”. So let’s dig immediately into them…. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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Mashable VR

APRIL 6, 2022

The news was first reported by The Verge. "By By launching a TikTok account, we're building off that work with the goal of reaching the large and growing user base of this platform, including young people who disproportionately use TikTok," a Building Back Together spokesperson told The Verge. "By

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GizModo VR

MAY 24, 2021

We appear to be verging on a crisis point with the first kind of trash, but rarely ever think about the… Read more. We live in a world of refuse—not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but also the texts, emails, and torrented movies looked at once and left to languish in the cloud.

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MAY 20, 2022

A new report from The Verge claims that Meta’s Reality Labs division comprises of over 17,000 people. The Verge reports this will affect non-Reality Labs divisions such as those that deal with Facebook Dating, Messenger Kids and more. That was up from 2017, when around 5% of company employees were working on VR/AR.

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GizModo VR

JULY 9, 2020

Quibi, the video streaming service that no one asked for, has apparently only covered about 8% of early users into paying subscribers, according to a report from mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower via the Verge. That means of the supposed 910,000 people who downloaded Quibi in the app’s early days, only about 72,000… Read more.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2021

During a Steam Deck hands-on event, Valve was asked about the possibility of seeing Steam Deck’s custom AMD processor in a standalone VR headset. While Valve says it can run AAA PC games “really well,” they’re talking about running them at 1,280 × 800 (1MP) and no higher than 60Hz.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Meta’s VP of VR Mark Rabkin gave the statistic to staff during an internal roadmap presentation, The Verge’s Alex Heath reports. Meta has reportedly sold almost 20 million Quest headsets so far. In March 2021 now-CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed Quest 2 “outsold not just its predecessor, but all of its predecessors combined”.

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Anand Tech

MAY 1, 2023

"Going forward, we are focusing on our Windows PC accessories portfolio under the Surface brand," Dan Laycock, senior communications manager at Microsoft, told The Verge. "We " The statement contradicts information published by Nikkei about Microsoft's alleged plans to scale back production of Surface-branded gadgets. "We

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Mashable VR

JUNE 17, 2022

The letter, first reported and seen by The Verge , criticized the CEO's Twitter presence and the recent allegations of sexual harassment made against him, which Musk has denied. SpaceX employees have denounced Elon Musk's behavior in an open letter sent within an internal company chat system. I am sorry for this distraction," she wrote.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Speaking to The Verge in a recent interview, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was questioned about Fortnite on Meta Quest headsets. Responding to a comment about VR games built from the ground up, Sweeney explains the team “embraced the idea and took it to what we felt was the limit at the time.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

My feed on social media is full of posts about the Apple Vision Pro, which has just been released a few days ago. So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies.

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APRIL 17, 2023

The interview was published in Korean on the This Is Game site last December, but has been shared recently in light of translated transcripts that indicate the outlet asked Coomer about a new Valve headset. The year before, Valve CEO Gabe Newell also made reference to " big investments in new headsets " in a talk at a school.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

” As reported by The Verge , Lytro’s supposed acquisition by Google was intended primarily for the purposes of hiring a “large fraction” of the light-field company’s employees. Photo by Road to VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who may be struggling to grasp the full magnitude of the incredibly dangerous situation, The Weather Channel has employed the use of immersive mixed reality technology to better demonstrate just how nasty things are about to get for coastal southerners. Image Credit: The Weather Channel / USA Today.

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Ryan Schultz

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Horizon Workrooms get savaged in a highly critical review video by The Verge, a sign of the growing antipathy toward’s Meta virtual reality hardware and software strategy. Alex Heath, The Verge (transcribed audio excerpt from the video below). This is worth negative ten billion dollars. ThrillSeeker.

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MARCH 3, 2023

Meta’s CTO had some interesting words to say about the market lifespan of Quest 2. ” Earlier this week The Verge reported that Meta’s VP of VR Mark Rabkin told staff in an internal presentation that Quest 3 – launching later this year – will cost “a bit more” than Quest 2 currently does.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2023

Monica Chin from The Verge has reported instances of losing the cursor among the screens, then struggling to locate it – a problem no doubt amplified by the limited FOV. Amidst the sea of booths, one exhibit captured sustained attention—the Spacetop laptop by Sightful. Push the screen too far back and the text becomes difficult to read.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Although initial WebVR integration has been a part of beta versions of Chrome for about two years now on Android , the company has finally brought its WebVR functionality to the browser’s stable branch, at least for PC VR users running Windows 10. Type in ‘ chrome://flags ‘ into the URL bar and toggle VR hardware support.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

I’m incredibly happy about having been hosted by Sebastian Ang (MRTV), one of my favorite VR content creators, in his weekly podcast on Youtube! We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The Verge reports that , during a livestream reveal of the new trailer, author Ernest Cline confirmed work on a sequel to the Ready Player One book: [Cline] was asked if it was true that he was writing a sequel. Ready Player One , the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, is getting turned into a movie by none other than Steven Spielberg. It’s true.

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