Rendever, the company behind Tilt Brush-based multiplayer Quest app MultiBrush (2022), has secured nearly $4.5 million in grant funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the company says it will use to bring its elder-focused VR experiences to the home care market.

The studio says in an announcement the latest funding includes $3.8 million for the Thrive At Home Program and an additional grant to build a caregiver support network in VR.

“These funds will pave the way […]

Sharp announced it’s launching a crowdfunding campaign for a slim and light PC VR headset in Japan, called Xrostella VR1.

The News

Sharp first showed off a PC VR headset prototype at CES 2023, which was supposedly meant to ship sometime in 2024. It’s been nearly three years since we last heard about the headset, however during a recent Metaverse Expo in Japan, Sharp unveiled a newer version of the device, as demoed by Gizmodo Japan.

Now, Sharp says it’s slated to […]

Meta is reportedly restructuring its Reality Labs and Metaverse organizations as it doubles down on the integration of artificial intelligence across its products, according to a Business Insider report.

The News

In a memo obtained by Business Insider, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced that longtime Metaverse head Vishal Shah will transition to lead AI Products within Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new division focused on developing and integrating “personal superintelligence” into Meta’s platforms.

Shah, who led Reality Labs over the past four years, will now oversee […]

Originally released on PSVR 2 and PC VR earlier this year, Arken Age (2025) is now available on Quest 3, bringing some of the most immersive and engaging single-player action we’ve experienced in 2025.

Back in August, developer VitruviusVR announced the single-player, combat-focused adventure was coming to Quest 3 and Quest 3S sometime in November. But it got a release date bump, which means it’s actually now available on the standalone platform.

Arken Age is one of those highly-polished games that understands VR design from the get-go, seemingly drawing […]

Thief’s first ground-up VR game finally has a release date, bringing its immersive stealth-action to all major VR headsets on December 4th.

Developed by Maze Theory and published by Vertigo Games, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow arms you with a bow, a black jack, and some requisite sticky fingers, as you sneak past (or wallop) hulking guards on your way to treasures within.

In the stealthy boots of ‘Magpie’, a cunning thief orphaned by Baron Northcrest and shaped by the streets, you steal and evade the City’s forces […]

NEO is a humanoid robot from Palo Alto-based robotics startup 1X that could one day autonomously help out around your home. For now though, it’s using human operators wearing Quest 3 headsets to pick up the slack and teach Neo’s neural network the ropes in the process.

The News

The 66 pound, sweater-wearing robot doesn’t seem very capable on its own, at least for now. As Joanna Stern from The Wall Street Journal puts it in a recent interview (seen below), Neo’s neural […]

Despite running Road to VR for 14 years, I’ve rarely had the opportunity to talk behind-the-scenes about the publication and my philosophy for covering this fascinating industry. Luckily I recently sat down with industry fellow Tony Vitillo to do just that.

Through his blog The Ghost Howls, Vitillo has been sharing news and observations from inside the industry as a developer and enthusiast. He’s also the creator of one of the most important VR apps ever made.

After crossing paths at industry events over many years, […]

Magic Leap announced this week at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia its latest AR hardware plans along with a renewed partnership with Google.

The News

Google and Magic Leap announced in May 2024 a “strategic technology partnership” to secure key technology needed to make compact AR glasses. We’ve heard little about the partnership since, however now Magic Leap has provided an update.

The Plantation, Florida-based AR unicorn today announced it’s extending the partnership through a three-year agreement with Google that […]

Meta is rolling out Horizon OS v81, the latest major update for Quest. The update focuses on Home personalization, the new Windows 11 remote desktop, and reducing friction tl entering Meta’s Horizon Worlds social VR platform.

The News

The new Immersive Home experience is getting a customization bump, now allowing Quest users to pin windowed apps and choose from new scenic environments.

The v81 update also includes a redesigned Passthrough Home, which lets you do the same in mixed reality, like anchor apps […]

Meta announced it’s shipping out Project Aria Gen 2 to third-party researchers next year, which the company hopes will accelerate development of machine perception and AI technologies needed for future AR glasses and personal AI assistants.

The News

Meta debuted Project Aria Gen 1 back in 2020, the company’s sensor-packed research glasses which it used internally to train various AR-focused perception systems, in addition to releasing it in 2024 to third-party researchers across 300 labs in 27 countries.

Then, in […]

Meta kicked off its latest Quest games sale, this time bringing up to 50% off some pretty spook-tacular titles to get your blood pumping this Halloween season.

The News

There are a ton of games currently discounted for Meta’s big ‘Fall Frights Sale’, which ends on November 2nd at 11:59 pm PT (local time here).

Still, you’ll find some not so scary bangers on the mega list we haven’t highlighted below, like Skydance’s Behemoth, GORN 2, The Climb 2, and UNDERDOGS—all of […]

Samsung’s Galaxy XR is finally here, and with it, a perfect middle-ground of price and features to simultaneously turn up the competitive pressure on both Meta and Apple.

Over many years I had been patiently waiting for Apple to launch its own headset in order to finally give Meta some real competition. Even though the Quest and Vision Pro headsets are so far apart in price, there’s already plenty of examples of Meta adding or improving features on its […]

A group of Sweden-based researchers proposed a novel e-ink display solution that could make way for super compact, retina-level VR headsets and AR glasses in the future.

The News

Traditional emissive displays are shrinking, but they face physical limits; smaller pixels tend to emit less uniformly and provide less intense light, which is especially noticeable in near-eye applications like virtual and augmented reality headsets.

In a recent research paper published in Nature, a team of researchers presents what a “retinal e-ink display” which […]

VR’s biggest social VR platform, VRChat, has finally come out of beta on iOS and Android.

The News

VRChat has officially launched its app on both Android and iOS following a lengthy testing period.

The app’s alpha launch on Android was released in August 2023, but only admitted VRChat Plus subscribers. Then, In August 2025, the studio launched an open beta on Android. Similarly, a closed beta for iOS was announced in May 2024, which was available to a limited number of invited users.

Now, the studio has pushed […]

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio, released a new mixed reality title exclusively for Android XR which expands the Job Simulator universe.

The News

Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind VR games Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), released both games on Android XR’s first officially supported headset, Samsung Galaxy XR.

Alongside it comes a free mixed reality experience, called Inside[JOB], which the studio says in a blogpost offers up the “same blend of chaos, humor, and hands-on interaction that helped define modern VR, as well […]

Sesame, an AI and smart glasses startup founded by former Oculus execs, raised $250 million in Series B funding, which the company hopes will accelerate its voice-based AI.

The News

As first reported by Tech Crunch, lead investors in Sesame’s Series B include Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital, bringing the company’s overall funding to $307.6 million, according to Crunchbase data.

Exiting stealth earlier this year, Sesame was founded by Oculus co-founder and former CEO Brendan Iribe, former Oculus hardware architect Ryan Brown, and Ankit […]