Editor's PickMeta Quest 3 (512GB)
$599The full-featured standalone Quest and the best all-around VR headset you can buy without a PC.
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The latest in VR and AR hardware, from headset launches and spec breakdowns to controllers, displays and the accessories that ship around them. We track every major device, from Meta's Quest line and PlayStation VR2 to Valve's Steam Frame, Apple Vision Pro and Samsung's Galaxy XR, along with the prototypes and FCC filings that surface before the launch events do.
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- 1Meta Quest 3Best standalone
- 2PlayStation VR2Best value
- 3Bigscreen Beyond 2Lightest PC VR
- 4Apple Vision ProPremium spatial
- 5Meta Quest 3SEntry level
- 6Samsung Galaxy XRAndroid XR flagship
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Best VR ValuePlayStation VR2
$399OLED, eye tracking, and adaptive-trigger controllers. Unbeatable value if you already own a PS5.
PremiumBigscreen Beyond 2
$1,019107 grams of custom-fit, razor-sharp PC VR. The enthusiast's headset.
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VR.org OriginalsoftwareBy Nina Castillo
Meta VR Glasses Owners Without Controllers Will See Hand-Tracked Apps First
Meta's developer blog says the Store puts hand-tracked titles first for VR Glasses owners without controllers. The v207 SDKs and IWSDK 1.0 are out now, and a $1M competition requires hands-only play.
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VR.org OriginalhardwareBy Alex Reeves
The Steam Frame's Battery Is Glued In, and iFixit Will Not Be Selling One Yet
iFixit's Steam Frame teardown finds replaceable foams, a modular nose bridge and magnetically mounted lens stacks, then a glued 20.9 Wh battery it will not stock and a fan buried behind the optics.
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VR.org OriginalenterpriseBy Sam Whitfield
Meta Promises 100 Live Immersive Sports Events a Year, Where Apple Stopped at Ten
Meta says Meta VR Glasses will carry more than 100 live immersive sports events a year with MLB, NBC Sports, TNT Sports and UFC, plus ESPN college football on Quest this fall. Apple aired ten live immersive games, six Lakers and four Friday Night Baseball, then cut its immersive video team.
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VR.org OriginalarBy Jordan Kuo
Three Tiers of Meta Glasses, and a Wearables Toolkit That Still Cannot Publish to the Public
Connect split Meta's glasses into no camera (Ray-Ban Meta Audio, $349), camera (Gen 3, $449) and display (Ray-Ban Display, now in five more countries). The Wearables Device Access Toolkit supports none of the new pairs yet, and publishing is still closed with 2026 almost over.
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VR.org OriginalhardwareBy Alex Reeves
Phoenix Arrives as Meta VR Glasses: $1,299.99, Spring 2027, and a 300-Gram Puck
Meta's Project Phoenix is now Meta VR Glasses: $1,299.99, on sale spring 2027, about 100 grams on the face with a roughly 300-gram compute puck in the pocket. Controllers are sold separately, and the price lands $300 above the under-$1,000 target the Wall Street Journal reported in 2025.
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VR.org OriginalenterpriseBy Sam Whitfield
Asked Whether Vision Pro Was a Flop, John Ternus Pointed to the Operating Room
Three weeks into the job, Apple's new CEO told Canal+'s Clique that Vision Pro is "the early days of a long journey" and named surgeons as its growth case. He did not mention the successor Apple reportedly cut, the August layoffs, or glasses.
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VR.org OriginalgamingBy Alex Reeves
Into the Radius 2 Slips to October 8 on PS VR2, Stopped at Certification
CM Immersive pushed the PS VR2 port back two weeks, from this Thursday to October 8, after Sony's final certification stage flagged issues. Two-player co-op still lands later, and the headset itself is out of stock in the US.
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VR.org OriginalhardwareBy Alex Reeves
Valve's First Steam Frame Update Makes the Headset Charge Faster While It Sleeps
SteamOS 0.3.0 is the Steam Frame's first public update since the September 14 launch. Twelve lines, led by substantially faster charging while the headset sleeps, a fix for the garbled microphone bug, and a Playable tier rule that no longer demands 1440p.
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Valve's PC-first headset against Meta's $599 standalone.
Upcoming VR Headsets 2026
What has just launched and what is still on the horizon.
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