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Mogura to hold webinar in English introducing unique trends in the Japanese metaverse industryResident Evil 4 is the fastest-selling app in the history of QuestNiantic Partners With Fold To Create AR Bitcoin Metaverse ExperienceNiantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse
Mogura to hold webinar in English introducing unique trends in the Japanese metaverse industry KONNICHIWA

Mogura to hold webinar in English introducing unique trends in the Japanese metaverse industry

Japan’s largest VR/AR news organisation invites industry leaders to discuss the rising metaverse trend in the country

Resident Evil 4 is the fastest-selling app in the history of Quest RESIDENT. EVIL.

Resident Evil 4 is the fastest-selling app in the history of Quest

Based on gross sales in the first week of the horror classic's VR remake

Niantic Partners With Fold To Create AR Bitcoin Metaverse Experience COINING IT

Niantic Partners With Fold To Create AR Bitcoin Metaverse Experience

Gameplay involves finding and protecting your Bitcoin from other players

Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse GO!

Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse

Pokemon GO developer now valued at $9 billion

Best AR/VR nominees announced for next month's Game Awards 2021

Best AR/VR nominees announced for next month's Game Awards 2021

Pokémon GO forays into the metaverse with in-game Ed Sheeran concert

Pokémon GO forays into the metaverse with in-game Ed Sheeran concert

HTC Vive Cyber Week deals give savings up to £250

HTC Vive Cyber Week deals give savings up to £250

How it felt to watch all the winners at the VR Awards by AIXR live in VR

How it felt to watch all the winners at the VR Awards by AIXR live in VR

Nreal launches international pre-orders for its Light Glasses

Nreal launches international pre-orders for its Light Glasses

Tom Furness wins Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award

Tom Furness wins Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award

Octi launches social AR platform that rewards user content with NFTs

Octi launches social AR platform that rewards user content with NFTs

Snap adds Sony Music to its library; creates new AR Music Lenses

Snap adds Sony Music to its library; creates new AR Music Lenses

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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
1 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

VR 3.0 at 12K is a thing, according to Pimax's Reality Series announcement HARDWARE Oct 25th, 2021

VR 3.0 at 12K is a thing, according to Pimax's Reality Series announcement

Magic Leap 2 AR headset revealed in interview with CEO Peggy Johnson HARDWARE Oct 25th, 2021

Magic Leap 2 AR headset revealed in interview with CEO Peggy Johnson

Interview: Varjo on why now is the right time for consumer human eye resolution VR EXCLUSIVE! Oct 21st, 2021

Interview: Varjo on why now is the right time for consumer human eye resolution VR

Resident Evil 4 VR content changes: woke pandering or responsible publishing? OPINION Oct 12th, 2021

Resident Evil 4 VR content changes: woke pandering or responsible publishing?

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Features

How it felt to watch all the winners at the VR Awards by AIXR live in VR WINNERS! Nov 18th, 2021

How it felt to watch all the winners at the VR Awards by AIXR live in VR

Focal Point: Why the metaverse is everywhere and nowhere in 2021 OPINION Oct 7th, 2021

Focal Point: Why the metaverse is everywhere and nowhere in 2021

VR and AR combined standalone headset hits Kickstarter this month DUAL DUTY Sep 20th, 2021

VR and AR combined standalone headset hits Kickstarter this month

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Data & Research

Pikmin Bloom generated $473,000 from two million downloads A SLOW BLOOM Nov 15th, 2021

Pikmin Bloom generated $473,000 from two million downloads

Oculus Quest 2 grows its VR headset market lead to 35.02% MARKET DATA Nov 3rd, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 grows its VR headset market lead to 35.02%

Augmented reality opportunities to explode in coming years PREDICTION Aug 17th, 2021

Augmented reality opportunities to explode in coming years

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Regulars

Six of the best: November 22nd Regulars Nov 22nd, 2021

Six of the best: November 22nd

Focal Point: Who made the biggest splash in the October deluge of VR announcements? Focal Point Nov 12th, 2021

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

XR Web Roundup: November 5th XR Web Roundup Nov 5th, 2021

XR Web Roundup: November 5th

VR by the numbers - HMD specs comparison Data & Research Aug 9th, 2021

VR by the numbers - HMD specs comparison

Profiles

Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR EVENT Sep 23rd, 2021

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! Aug 2nd, 2021

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

Company Profile: Jobs in XR PROFILE Jan 19th, 2018

Company Profile: Jobs in XR

Speaker Profile: Tracy Spaight, Wargaming.net XR CONNECTS LONDON Jan 18th, 2018

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 Oct 18th, 2021

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! Sep 23rd, 2021

Facebook announces Andrew Bosworth as CTO from 2022

XR Association names Stephanie Montgomery as VP, research and best practices READ ALL ABOUT IT! Sep 21st, 2021

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

Former Arm executive joins Porotech to develop next gen microdisplays SMART PIXELS Sep 6th, 2021

Former Arm executive joins Porotech to develop next gen microdisplays

Deals

Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse GO! Nov 24th, 2021

Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse

Virtual Reality startup HIKKY raises $57 million in Series A funding Nov 15th, 2021

Virtual Reality startup HIKKY raises $57 million in Series A funding

Qualcomm reveals a new XR developer platform, acquires HINS SAS and Clay AIR AUGMENTED REALITY Nov 9th, 2021

Qualcomm reveals a new XR developer platform, acquires HINS SAS and Clay AIR

Meta acquires Supernatural VR fitness game studio, Within FIT FOR PURPOSE? Nov 5th, 2021

Meta acquires Supernatural VR fitness game studio, Within

Events News

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

Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum live event returns

Get tickets to the top Asia conference G-STAR 2021 now G-STAR 2021 Oct 5th, 2021

Get tickets to the top Asia conference G-STAR 2021 now

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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