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The future of virtual and immersive in 2023 - and beyond!Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie Recognised for Paving the Way for Modern VR Advancements with ‘Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement’ AwardQ&A: Leland Hedges, Pico's head of consumer products, EMEA SideQuest Gets $12M investment from Google Ventures
The future of virtual and immersive in 2023 - and beyond! THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT

The future of virtual and immersive in 2023 - and beyond!

Hongseok KIM, CEO of Stoic Entertainment explains the company’s vision of the immersive future, the metaverse and more.

Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie Recognised for Paving the Way for Modern VR Advancements with ‘Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement’ Award AWARDS LATEST

Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie Recognised for Paving the Way for Modern VR Advancements with ‘Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement’ Award

The Sixth International VR Awards celebrates pioneers and outstanding contributions toward the future of virtual reality

Q&A: Leland Hedges, Pico's head of consumer products, EMEA INTERVIEW

Q&A: Leland Hedges, Pico's head of consumer products, EMEA

'We want to disrupt the current status quo and provide a bold new choice for consumers'

SideQuest Gets $12M investment from Google Ventures INVESTMENT

SideQuest Gets $12M investment from Google Ventures

Virtual Reality alternative marketplace gets a boost from the Cardboard makers group

Pico 4 next gen VR headset hits stores October 18th

Pico 4 next gen VR headset hits stores October 18th

Finalists announced for the sixth International VR Awards

Finalists announced for the sixth International VR Awards

Take-Two Trying To Take Down GTA, Red Dead And Mafia VR Mods

Take-Two Trying To Take Down GTA, Red Dead And Mafia VR Mods

Rock legend Slash partners with Soundscape VR for free virtual reality concert

Rock legend Slash partners with Soundscape VR for free virtual reality concert

Niantic lays off 8% of workforce, cancels four projects

Niantic lays off 8% of workforce, cancels four projects

Niantic partners with NBA for AR basketball game

Niantic partners with NBA for AR basketball game

Apple’s VR/AR headset rumoured for January release

Apple’s VR/AR headset rumoured for January release

Rec Room turns six with 75 million users, millions of player creations

Rec Room turns six with 75 million users, millions of player creations

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Defining Realities: VR, AR And MR explainedVR’s Potential To Change The Human RaceEntries open for The Big Indie Awards at G-STARPocket Gamer and G-STAR launch international promotional partnership and bring the Big Indie Awards to Korea
Defining Realities: VR, AR And MR explained DIFFERENT STROKES

Defining Realities: VR, AR And MR explained

As confusion over acronyms reigns, we ask if it’s OK that the term VR seems to be interchangeable with AR and MR.

VR’s Potential To Change The Human Race PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING

VR’s Potential To Change The Human Race

Hear the inner workings of some of the VR industry’s finest minds as they contemplate the medium’s potential to trigger the next phase of human evolution.

Entries open for The Big Indie Awards at G-STAR DEVELOPER AWARDS

Entries open for The Big Indie Awards at G-STAR

Gala ceremony in South Korea the grand finale to another fantastic year of international Big Indie Pitches: VR and AR included!

Pocket Gamer and G-STAR launch international promotional partnership and bring the Big Indie Awards to Korea INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

Pocket Gamer and G-STAR launch international promotional partnership and bring the Big Indie Awards to Korea

UK publisher Steel Media Ltd extends partnership with South Korea’s leading game expo G-STAR, including the Big Indie Game Awards in Busan in 2018

ARCore for China

ARCore for China

CES: TPCAST To Provide Wireless WMR Support

CES: TPCAST To Provide Wireless WMR Support

CES: Oculus Partners Xiaomi

CES: Oculus Partners Xiaomi

Resident Evil 7 Best VR/AR At The Game Awards

Resident Evil 7 Best VR/AR At The Game Awards

HTC Vive Focus Headset Gets China Release Date

HTC Vive Focus Headset Gets China Release Date

HTC Trials Vive Cloud Service

HTC Trials Vive Cloud Service

Work, Meet Play: Connecting The Global Games Industry

Work, Meet Play: Connecting The Global Games Industry

Star Wars AR Hardware And Games Coming Soon

Star Wars AR Hardware And Games Coming Soon

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Interviews & opinion

The future of virtual and immersive in 2023 - and beyond! THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT Dec 8th, 2022

The future of virtual and immersive in 2023 - and beyond!

Q&A: Leland Hedges, Pico's head of consumer products, EMEA INTERVIEW Nov 16th, 2022

Q&A: Leland Hedges, Pico's head of consumer products, EMEA

How Resident Evil 4 VR succeeded where others have failed INTERVIEW Apr 20th, 2022

How Resident Evil 4 VR succeeded where others have failed

Meta's Jason Rubin on VR as a maturing medium INTERVIEW Apr 20th, 2022

Meta's Jason Rubin on VR as a maturing medium

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Features

What Meta Connect 2022 Said About The State Of Meta CONNECT 2022 Oct 17th, 2022

What Meta Connect 2022 Said About The State Of Meta

Every VR game and release date revealed during today's Meta Connect CONNECT 2022 Oct 11th, 2022

Every VR game and release date revealed during today's Meta Connect

Pico Neo3 Link review - is it the one? REVIEW Jul 15th, 2022

Pico Neo3 Link review - is it the one?

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Data & Research

Meta reveals over $1.5BN Quest store sales and the VR games making $millions CONNECT 2022 Oct 11th, 2022

Meta reveals over $1.5BN Quest store sales and the VR games making $millions

Meta’s dominance in the VR market will be challenged in the coming years DATA Jul 8th, 2022

Meta’s dominance in the VR market will be challenged in the coming years

Extended Reality market to reach $67,870 million by 2028 ANALYSIS Jun 13th, 2022

Extended Reality market to reach $67,870 million by 2028

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Regulars

Six of the best: November 22nd Regulars

Six of the best: November 22nd

Focal Point: Who made the biggest splash in the October deluge of VR announcements? Focal Point

Focal Point: Who made the biggest splash in the October deluge of VR announcements?

XR Web Roundup: November 5th XR Web Roundup

XR Web Roundup: November 5th

VR by the numbers - HMD specs comparison Data & Research

VR by the numbers - HMD specs comparison

Profiles

Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR EVENT

Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR

XR Games' Bobby Thandi on the social impact of VR during social distancing XR FTW!

XR Games' Bobby Thandi on the social impact of VR during social distancing

Company Profile: Jobs in XR PROFILE

Company Profile: Jobs in XR

Speaker Profile: Tracy Spaight, Wargaming.net XR CONNECTS LONDON

Speaker Profile: Tracy Spaight, Wargaming.net

Job News

Facebook plans to recruit 10,000 highly skilled workers in the EU to build the metaverse INVESTMENT

Facebook plans to recruit 10,000 highly skilled workers in the EU to build the metaverse

Facebook announces Andrew Bosworth as CTO from 2022 ONE OF US!

Facebook announces Andrew Bosworth as CTO from 2022

XR Association names Stephanie Montgomery as VP, research and best practices READ ALL ABOUT IT!

XR Association names Stephanie Montgomery as VP, research and best practices

Former Arm executive joins Porotech to develop next gen microdisplays SMART PIXELS

Former Arm executive joins Porotech to develop next gen microdisplays

Deals

SideQuest Gets $12M investment from Google Ventures INVESTMENT

SideQuest Gets $12M investment from Google Ventures

XR Games raises $7 million in funding round INVESTMENT

XR Games raises $7 million in funding round

Kaleidoco raises $7M in seed funding for its metaverse and AR tech INVESTMENT

Kaleidoco raises $7M in seed funding for its metaverse and AR tech

Ambitious 'European Champion of Mixed Reality' raises $4M Series A funding INVESTMENT

Ambitious 'European Champion of Mixed Reality' raises $4M Series A funding

Events News

Take your business to the next level at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto! The jam-packed conference schedule is now LIVE! Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto 2022 Jun 14th, 2022

Take your business to the next level at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto! The jam-packed conference schedule is now LIVE!

Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum live event returns The Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF) 2021 Oct 28th, 2021

Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum live event returns

Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8 (Online) Sep 23rd, 2021

Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR

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