Ben Lang

1 week ago | roadtovr.com | Ben Lang

Varjo, creator of high-end enterprise MR headsets, dipped its toes into the consumer VR market with the release of the Aero headset back in 2021. But now the company says its focus is narrowing on training sims and deeper integrations focused on enterprise customer needs, making a followup to the Aero headset is unlikely. In an interview with Road to VR, Varjo chief product officer Patrick Wyatt talked about the company’s latest focus on deeper integrations of its headsets for specific use-cases.

2 weeks ago | roadtovr.com | Ben Lang

Last month at the annual Game Developers Conference, Meta offered an update to the state of the Quest marketplace. Included in that update was mention that content on the Quest store has earned “over $2 billion.” If that figure sounds familiar, that’s because… it’s the same figure the company shared more than a year ago. Since the launch of the Quest platform in 2019, overall revenue earned by developers showed promising growth through the Quest 2 era.

3 weeks ago | roadtovr.com | Ben Lang

Apple announced today that the latest update to Vision Pro, visionOS 2.4 is now available to the public. VisionOS 2.4 finally adds Apple Intelligence features to the headset, while adding an iPhone companion app to make using and sharing the headset easier, along with a new Spatial Gallery to curate spatial content for watching on the headset. While the first Apple Intelligence features reached iPhones, iPads, and Macs back in October, 2024, Vision Pro was curiously left out.

1 month ago | thevccorner.com | Rubén Domínguez Ibar |Ruben Dominguez Ibar |Ben Lang

💡What if you didn’t need a massive team to build a billion-dollar company? For decades, founders believed bigger teams = bigger success. More engineers. More sales reps. More overhead. But AI is rewriting the rules—and fast. The new wave of startups is breaking all the old rules:✅ Scaling with under 10 employees✅ Closing huge funding rounds with lean teams✅ Automating what used to require entire departmentsBig companies should be worried.

1 month ago | roadtovr.com | Ben Lang

Five years after Half-Life: Alyx reshaped expectations for VR gaming, Valve remains a quiet yet critical force in the industry. Despite little fanfare, the company has continued to shape the VR landscape through steady updates to SteamVR, integration with standalone headsets like Quest, and whispers of new hardware and games. Now, as the fifth anniversary of Alyx passes, the question looms larger than ever: is Valve still all-in on VR, or is it slowly retreating from the frontier it helped define?