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Gunman Contracts began as a free Half-Life: Alyx mod that a third of a million people installed. Its solo German developer just confirmed the paid standalone launches in Early Access the same day Valve ships the Steam Frame, a date Valve has still not announced.

Impact Reality, the company behind Flat2VR Studios and Impact Inked, has opened a StartEngine reservation page to extend a round its campaign material puts at $5 million. The terms are not disclosed, and the timing says something about where VR capital is coming from now.

US application 2026/0236218, published August 13, describes a recording cue that a secure microphone verifies actually played. The stated problem is not the bystander. It is that a wearer cannot see their own capture LED.

Business Insider found dozens of pickup artist and prank videos filmed on Meta glasses still live on Instagram, four weeks after Adam Mosseri said they would come down. Meta cites thousands of removals and will not say how the policy is enforced.