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XR Gaming is Shaping the Military, Could Consumers Also Benefit?

It is a long-held fact that many modern technologies that we take for granted today started life in the military. From microwave ovens to the internet, the military complex spends a vast amount of money developing next-generation tech, only for us, everyday folk, to use it to heat soup. Even with all those lucrative governmental contracts filling corporations’ pockets, sometimes, civilian companies make breakthroughs that have military capabilities. Now two XR gaming veterans could reshape the future of warfare.

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Xbox VR Headset: Everything You Need to Know

While Microsoft have seemingly been putting the breaks on many of their early efforts in VR, with the cancellation of HoloLens and a forthcoming Windows 11 update culling Windows MR functionality, the Xbox brand is set to take another step closer. Xbox Game Pass is already available for Meta Quest, and back in 2024 Meta officially announced an ‘Xbox branded’ Meta Quest headset is in the works. But where is it, and how will it differ from a Meta Quest 3? In this article we’ll dive deeper into what we know about the Xbox VR headset, and what we should be expecting.

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