Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2025

Valve’s Index headset was a market leader among PC VR headsets for years, but is it still worth buying in 2025 now that it’s nearly six years old? The post Is Valve Index Worth Buying in 2025? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation. Our No-nonsense Recommendation appeared first on Road to VR.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Immersive classroom solutions provider Avantis Education is showcasing its recently debuted K-12 school-ready VR service, Eduverse+, at the 2025 Future of Education Technology Conference this week, including a selection of new content to enhance classroom experiences with AI tools and more.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth released an internal memo to employees, stating 2025 is going to be “the most critical year” for the company’s XR efforts yet, Business Insider reports. Here’s Bosworth’s full memo: 2025: The Year of Greatness Next year is going to be the most critical year in my 8 years at Reality Labs.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Scaling XR in 2025 2025 and leading into 2030 may be a paradigm-shifting period for XR as devices become more lightweight, alognside new technologies such as AI and RT3D streaming helping to fuel the potential of AR/VR/MR solutions for businesses is growing. Below, you will find a summary of some of their responses.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The post ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ Quest Launch Delayed to 2025, PSVR 2 & PC VR on Track for December Release appeared first on Road to VR. Stay tuned to our social channels for the latest updates on the game – we’re confident it will be worth the wait, no matter where you play.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2025

How does the sub-sector fare as we enter 2025? In all the excitement around mixed reality and AI smart glasses, we often forget about XR's most scalable format today: Mobile AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Will this divergence and diversification keep its momentum into 2025? 2024 saw AR form factors that deviated from traditional approaches – everything from lite AR glasses to non-display AI smartglasses. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Granted, it’s a seven-month wait until Connect 2025 kicks off, so it’s possible we could hear about those headsets sooner rather than later. As the race to release an all-day pair of AR glasses heats up, we’re of course hoping to hear more at Connect 2025. That said, it’s a long leadup to Connect 2025.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As we roll into 2025, its time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for… Continue reading → Where Does Headworn AR Sit in 2025? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

We predict visual search's fate in 2025. Visual search such as Google Lens continues to fall short of its potential. Could recent moves from Apple, Meta, and Google change that? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We break it down in the first of five big predictions for 2025. Where do AR and AI converge? Generative AI will assist AR creation workflows while conversational AI provides natural-language interfaces. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Meta says it will be streaming immersive WNBA games at some point too, although more details will be available ahead of the 2025 season, which is expected to resume in May 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2024

And let me add my wishes for a wonderful 2025, in which all your dreams may come true. Just a regular Christmas in Italy This is also the time during which I think about how my career has been in 2024, and how I can improve it in 2025. Enjoy the vacation days and have a fantastic 2025! Best wishes from your favorite Ghost!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Headset museum at AWE 2024 That’s why I’m proud to announce that Road to VR is joining AWE USA 2025 as the event’s Premiere Media Partner. If we could only attend a single conference in 2025, AWE USA would be our choice. Super Early Bird All Access passes are available now for a limited time—there won’t be a better deal!

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. This trend is expected to continue in 2025, but there should be a rebound in 2026. This trend is expected to continue in 2025, but there should be a rebound in 2026. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2. This is super beneficial for everyone.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

AWE USA 2025 is set to include speakers from some of the biggest names in the XR industry, including Oculus & Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, along with Jason Rubinone of the only remaining early Oculus executiveswho is presently Meta’s Vice President of Metaverse Experiences.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Meta Connect 2025 will take place on September 17 and 18. Connect 2025, then, will see Meta "share the latest and greatest in Meta Horizon updates, peel back the curtain on tomorrows tech, and give XR devs the tools they need to help build for the next computing platform today. What's Expected At Meta Connect 2025?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Early next year, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2025, Sony will showcase its long-awaited and much-hyped XR headset. Gary Shapiro, the CEO of CTA , added: The honorees selected this year represent the range of innovation we will see at CES 2025, with products touching all areas of technology including the entire AI ecosystem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 10, 2025

This week, at CES 2025, NVIDIA took centre stage to showcase its latest innovations in emerging technology. The firm also introduced the new “Omniverse Spatial Streaming to Apple Vision Pro” at CES 2025, which supports developers in creating applications for immersive streaming of large-scale industrial digital twins.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Now, leaker and data miner ‘Gabe Follower’ maintains Deckard is coming by the end of 2025, priced at $1,200. Gabe Follower, who also runs a YouTube channel , reports in an X post that “[s]everal people have confirmed that Valve is aiming to release new standalone, wireless VR headset (codename Deckard) by the end of 2025.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2025

The company says it’s keeping current prices until January 16th, 2025. Thereafter, new pricing will be announced and become effective on January 16th, 2025, the company says. For now, it’s unclear what those new prices will be.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2024, Meta made its commitment clear by highlighting its related success via its EssilorLuxottica partnership , and on the other hand, Samsung spent the year teasing audiences with an XR device to rival Meta’s and others, while the device is still yet to hit the market, Samsung appears ready to debut the product in 2025.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Aces of Thunder, a VR aerial combat sim, has been delayed until 2025. While it previously targeted a Q4 2024 release window on Steam and PlayStation VR2, that's no longer the case and the studio confirmed it's been "slightly postponed" to 2025. 0:00 / 0:25 1× Aces of Thunder targets a 2025 launch on PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2025

How does the sub-sector fare as we enter 2025? In all the excitement around mixed reality and AI smart glasses, we often forget about XR's most scalable format today: Mobile AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2025

This is the first newsletter of 2025, so happy new year to you all! I wish you all the best! Its a very special day for me because Im taking soon the plane to go to CES! Im very excited because its the first time Im going there and Im sure it will be amazing!

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VR Bites

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The remake is set to launch in 2025, with wishlisting now open for VR enthusiasts eager to delve into the eerie atmosphere of this new adventure. Nevrosa Rescape is currently available for wishlisting, with more details expected as its 2025 launch approaches.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2025

Studio co-founder Brandon Laatsch outlined a number of goals for 2025 in a recent X post, stating that not only is the studio working on patches for its Marrow Enginephysics framework, which was developed by the studio for the Unity engine , but also the release of Boneworks for Quest 3 and Quest 3S. Godspeed, SLZ!

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Even though it's just a working prototype, Meta Orion showed the world that it's possible to build AR glasses that are both UX-rich and relatively stylish. Will this inspire others (ahem, Apple) to move in the same direction? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2025

” Bigscreen Beyond 2 | Image courtesy Bigscreen At the time of this writing, Beyond 2 and Beyond 2e are now quoted to ship in June 2025, already blowing past the first shipment batches, which were planned for April and May respectively. But why the hype for Beyond 2?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Priced at $1,900 and purportedly shipping in May 2025, Pimax’s Dream Air headset aims to take on an emerging segment of compact high-end PC VR headsets like Bigscreen Beyond and the Shiftall MaganeX Superlight. Pimax is already taking pre-orders for the Dream Air, with a price of $1,900 and an expected release date of May 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

More info Other relevant news (Image by Apple) A new report talks about a cheaper Vision Pro in 2025 Last week, Mark Gurman stated that Apple is having difficulties in reducing the cost of the Vision Pro, so it’s hard to see a cheaper model being released soon. It’s good to see that these “analysts” all agree on what is going to happen.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a leaked memo, Meta's CTO told staff that 2025 will determine whether its hardware & metaverse division is "the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure". Here's Bosworth's leaked memo in full: 2025: The Year of Greatness Next year is going to be the most critical year in my 8 years at Reality Labs. 2025 is the year.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

What is known however is that its XYN Motion Studio PC companion software is coming out in March 2025, which supports connection with 12 ‘mocopi’ sensors for more seamless motion capture workflow. XYN’s price and release date are still uncertain, which is a baffling move as far as product announcements go.

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JANUARY 1, 2025

2025 is finally upon us, but not before 2024's final hectic push for VR gaming. January's launch is Steam exclusive, and a PlayStation VR2 version will follow in Q2 2025. promises 100 cars and 15 circuits when it launches in fall 2025. From Pirates VR to Arken Age, January has plenty of choice for new VR games.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. From 2025, Google Maps runs with full immersion and hand tracking in a standalone headset from Samsung. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Meta wasn't first to market with mixed reality but it added the element of affordability, thus making it table stakes in VR. What will this do for mixed reality as it offers a bigger platform for developers? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

We recognized the breakthrough work of Maestro with hand tracking and Figmin XR with mixed reality, and also highlighted some early work like Airspace Defender and Laser Dance that we're hoping to see continue to develop in 2025. Now on Friday, we've prepared UploadVR's picks for Best of VR 2024.

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