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Ben Lang

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Ben Lang

@benz145

Reporting on XR for a decade+, co-founder of leading independent VR news pub @RtoVR. Journalist & analyst, not evangelist.

Philadelphia

Joined April 2008

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Ben Lang
@benz145
Sep 24, 2024
In addition to running @RtoVR, I also host the Inside XR Design video series with deep dives exploring key concepts that make great immersive content. See all the episodes here: geni.us/ixrd or read on for a summary of each to see if there's one you want to dive into.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Nov 25, 2020
Wow this is a great illusion I’ve never seen.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Nov 12, 2025
Interesting little detail about the new Steam Controller... it has hidden IR LEDs so it can appear in VR when using it with Frame to play flat games. Cool to see Valve thinking about their products as an ecosystem more than individual devices.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
May 15, 2024
Apple is adding a new feature to iOS that is designed to counteract motion sickness while looking at a screen in a moving vehicle. I'm very curious if they're thinking of the implications of this for VR experiences on Vision Pro.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Jun 28, 2024
There's a lot of cool tech in Vision Pro, but if you know anything about sewing, you'll know why the headstrap and cover are insane. As far as I can tell, this isn't multiple pieces of fabric cut out and sewn together... it's one continuous structure. They're getting different
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Apr 27, 2024
Internet service providers: "Oh you're a GAMER? Yeah you're gonna want our 1,000 Mb/s plan."
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Dec 22, 2024
Very cool (and almost *frustrating*) optical illusion. If you pause this video at any time, the shapes disappear. They exist *only* temporally, not visually. This is from Branta Games on YouTube (full video linked below)
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Nov 12, 2025
The Steam Frame 'core module' is tiny, weighing in at just 190 grams. The core module architecture means this thing is going to get modded until the end of time. Sharing photos of a prototype with a translucent shell that's unfortunately not going to be commercially available 🥲.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Nov 12, 2025
There are two non-standard user-accessible ports on Frame. The top one carries power, audio, and USB data. The bottom one (hidden under the nose bridge) is a PCIe gen 4 interface which Valve says can support dual 2.5Gbps video feeds, which seems intended mostly for third-party
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Apr 25, 2021
Physical objects of our AR future be like (credit to u/Dion42o)
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Jan 10, 2023
The thing VR needs the most right now is better games and software, not better hardware. VR will continue to plateau until that happens.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Feb 14, 2024
If I was Meta PR, this would be my pitch for Zuck’s video: 1. We‘re happy to have Apple join us in building the future of computing with XR. In 2014 people thought we were crazy when we bought Oculus. And now the world’s leading technology companies like Apple are following our
Matt - BMFVR
@bmfshow
Feb 13, 2024
The Zuck firing shots 🔫
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Ben Lang
@benz145
May 13, 2024
Show me a picture of an old gadget you used to love.
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Ben Lang
@benz145
Jun 6, 2023
Just got hands-on with Apple Vision Pro. Detailed write-up coming tonight, but overall impressions are very positive all around. Pretty much best-in-class in everything (except gaming 😂). But that’s not too surprising give the price tag. People outside the XR sphere are going to
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