Start your week with a Monday morning briefing of the most read articles from the global VR, AR and MR industry on TheVirtualReport.biz in the last week:

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

Our panel of industry experts compare the offerings from Facebook/Meta, HTC Vive, Varjo, Pimax, Lynx and Microsoft

2) Tom Furness wins Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award

Immersive pioneer and founder of Virtual World Society to holoport into The VR Awards

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

Investment will go towards developing the open metaverse and international business expansion

4) Pikmin Bloom generated $473,000 from two million downloads

The seedling is growing

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

Results: 14 categories, game of the year and a very special live holoport recipient

6) Application SpaceWarp offers VR developers up to 70 per cent additional compute on Quest 1 and 2

Meta reaffirms its commitment to OpenXR for virtual reality

 

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Six of the rest

These all-time, all-star stories are some of the most popular articles from our archives:

1. Focal Point: reports of PC VR's death have been grossly exaggerated
2. State of play: virtual reality in 2021
3. VR by the numbers - HMD specs comparison
4. PlayStation VR 2 is Next Gen VR, first specs released
5. XR headset shipments nearly triple annually in Q1 2021, Quest 2 has sold 4.6m units
6. Defining Realities: VR, AR And MR explained