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Zuckerberg Reveals Meta Quest Pro (Project Cambria) Release Date on The Joe Rogan Experiece

Meta first announced its next hardware release, codenamed Project Cambria, at the 2021 Connect conference. Since then, it has been revealed that its focus will be on work use cases instead of gaming. Now, we finally know when the headset will arrive.On The Joe Rogan Experience, Mark ...

Roblox Is Getting Its First Line of Hearing Aids from Soundly

With the start of every school year, kids often feel anxious about anything that makes them feel different. This is especially true for the 34 million children globally with hearing loss, who have a higher risk of bullying than their peers.While we’ve made some strides in the hearing ...

Top 3 VR Headsets to Be Released in 2023

The year 2023 has the potential to bring virtual reality to the masses because it will see the release of multiple highly anticipated headsets. Let's take a closer look at three of them. 1. Meta Quest 3It's important not to confuse the Meta Quest 3 headset with the Project Cambria ...

The Chorus Are Logitech’s New Off-Ear Headphones for Quest 2

Source: LogitechIf there's one aspect of the Valve’s Index headset that has received almost universal praise, it has to be its off-ear headphones, which can deliver great sound quality without any discomfort at all beacuse they float right next to they ears instead of sitting on them. Now, ...

Surplex Full-Body Tracking Shoes Are Coming Soon to Kickstarter

Source: SurplexFull-body tracking makes virtual reality experiences like VRChat or Blade and Sorcery extra fun, but it costs a lot of money to get started with it—not to mention how complicated it is to strap multiple sensors onto your legs and waist.According to Surplex Founder Axl Chan, ...

Resolution Games Announces Opening Day for Ultimechs

Source: Resolution GamesResolution Games, the studio behind games like Demeo, Blaston, Bait!, Acron: Attack of the Squirrels!, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale, have announced the launch date for their latest VR game, Ultimechs. The game will launch on September 15 on major VR platforms as a free ...

Top 10 Challenges VR Headsets Need to Overcome

VR headsets have come a long way since the days of the Nintendo Virtual Boy, but they still have a long way to go in terms of visual fidelity, comfort, and performance.At Siggraph 2022, an annual conference on computer graphics (CG) organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH, Douglas Lanman, Meta’s ...

Rescue Saw VR Is a Virtual Reality Chainsaw Simulator

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that approximately 36,000 people are injured by chainsaws annually in the United States alone. One reason why the number is so huge is that many people don't know how to operate the powerful cutting tool correctly due to a lack of ...

You Can Play Among Us in VR—If You’re Lucky

Among Us, the 2018 hit multiplayer game in which players assume the roles of crewmates who have to work together to complete a variety of tasks before one or more Impostors can kill everyone aboard, is getting a VR port.To make the VR version happen, original Among Us developer InnerSloth ...

Red Matter 2 Is Taking VR Immersion to the Next Level

Red Matter 2, the highly anticipated narrative-driven puzzle adventure VR game from developer Vertical Robot, is coming to the Meta Quest 2 headset on August 18.Red Matter 2 continues the story from right after where Red Matter ended, though you don’t need to play the first game to ...

Darkening Is the First VR Movie Supported by the Czech Film Fund

Source: DarkeningThe Czech Film Fund was founded in 2013 to provide support for filmmaking in the Czech Republic, and Darkening by Ondřej Moravec is the first VR movie to be supported by it.The immersive movie is 25 minutes long, and it deals with depression and the ways to cope with it. ...

Xiaomi Introduces Google Glass-Style Consumer Smart Glasses

Back in 2014, Google started selling a revolutionary new product, its Google Glass smart glasses. Equipped with a 5 MP camera and a head-up display, the product promised to literary make useful information available at a glance.Unfortunately for Google and all those who were excited by the ...