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Smart Glasses Startup Even Realities Secures Unicorn Status with $150 M Funding Round
7+ hour, 45+ min ago (237+ words) Even Realities, the China-based smart glasses company, has officially secured unicorn status with its most recent Pre-B financing round, bringing the company $150 million and a $1 billion valuation. The round, which was led by Meituan and Tencent, is said to be…...
Veteran VR Shooter 'Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades' Finally Leaves Early Access
8+ hour, 27+ min ago (386+ words) VR shooting simulator Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3 VR) launched its 1. 0 release over the weekend, exiting early access after more than a decade on Steam. Veteran VR studio Rust Ltd has finally brought H3 VR out of early access on July…...
'Memo Mind One' Display Smart Glasses Blast Past $500 K Crowdfunding Mark
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (413+ words) Memo Mind, a new AI hardware brand from projector manufacturer XGIMI, launched a crowdfunding campaign for its first smart glasses last week, the Memo Mind One, which include dual displays, microphones, and open ear speakers'but no built-in camera. First shown…...
Official Discord App Finally Comes to Quest After Years of Waiting
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (295+ words) After years of interminable waiting, Discord has officially released an app for Quest, which is now available for free on the Horizon Store. While Quest fans have been begging for an official Discord app for years now, Meta CTO Andrew…...
Quest's Most Popular Game 'Gorilla Tag' is Going Mobile in 'Monke Mayhem' Next Year
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (319+ words) Another Axiom announced Gorilla Tag, Quest's most popular game, is coming to mobile devices in a standalone game, titled Gorilla Tag: Monke Mayhem. The free-to-play sandbox game is slated to land on i OS and Android devices sometime next year,…...
Quest Peak Summer Sale Brings Big Savings to Top VR Titles
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (199+ words) Founded in 2011, Road to VR is the world's leading independent news publication dedicated to the consumer virtual reality industry. We explore the bleeding edge of virtual reality, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. We're charting the course between today's immersive technology…...
Apple Vision Pro & Smart Glasses Exec Reportedly Leaves for Open AI Hardware Team
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (303+ words) Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses is reportedly leaving the company to join Open AI. According to a Bloomberg report, longtime Apple hardware exec Paul Meade is leaving Apple for Open AI's hardware team, which…...
VR RPG 'Township Tale' is Shutting Down in July Following Second Game Cancellation
1+ week, 3+ day ago (533+ words) Alta announced it's sunsetting multiplayer RPG A Township Tale (2021)next month, making for a second bit of bad news this year since the studio pulled the plug on its follow-up game, Reave. Alta co-founder and CTO Joel van de Vorstenbosch…...
Studio Behind Top-selling VR Extraction Shooter 'Ghosts of Tabor' Announces Layoffs
1+ week, 3+ day ago (493+ words) Combat Waffle Studios, developer behind VR extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor (2024), announced the studio is laying off a number of staff in effort to "align the company with the current state of the VR industry." Initially released in early access…...
'Synth Riders' Gets Surprise Linkin Park DLC Drop, Its Biggest Music Pack to Date
1+ week, 4+ day ago (213+ words) Kluge Interactive today announced the launch of the Linkin Park Music Pack for Synth Riders, making it the VR rhythm game's biggest paid DLC music pack to date. The Linkin Park Music pack includes 13 of the band's most iconic tracks…...