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The next big Galaxy Unpacked launch event is upon us, and as expected, Samsung delivered big news for Android users - and Android-curious users.Samsung's big event kicked off on July 22 at 9 a.m. ET...

Samsung today teased a new slate of smart glasses designs, which includes two new frames from eyewear partners Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The News When Samsung and Google finally unveiled their...

Samsung's upcoming smart glasses will last nine hours per charge, but they come with a case for more juice.

At Samsung Galaxy Unpacked on Wednesday, Samsung provided a closer look at its upcoming Galaxy Glasses, which will compete with the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Samsung is working with Korean eyewear...

Welcome to Samsung Unpacked 2026. We have a whole new lineup of Samsung tech including fresh phones, updated Samsung Galaxy Watches, and even Samsung smart glasses with design help from Gentle...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Jorjin and MultiSet AI have partnered to develop wide-area spatial computing applications for ultra-lightweight AR glasses using VPS and spatial mapping....

With a camera on every pair, Google’s and Samsung’s AI glasses face the same privacy problems as Meta’s. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its...

Sony's decision to stop producing PlayStation discs in 2028 has been a lightning rod for discussion across the globe, and Disgaea series creator Sohei Niikawa has weighed in, saying that the company...

Samsung says the new Android XR smart glasses it’s developing with Google will have a 9-hour battery life on a single charge.

It’s a big day for Samsung — and for fans of the company’s devices — with the brand unveiling three new foldable phones, two new smartwatches, and its first pair of smart glasses.And it’s not just...

Update, July 22, 10:50 AM EST: Now that Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 has wrapped, here's everything announced at the event. For all the details, check out our Galaxy Unpacked Live Blog.Samsung is set...

Samsung held its highly anticipated Galaxy Unpacked event in London on Wednesday morning.The showcase featured three new foldable phones and two new smartwatches, plus more. Spider-Man even made an...

The section of Apple Park Visitor Center that's housed its VR exhibition for almost a decade has been temporarily closed for an unspecified refurbishment.This appears to be the section that has...

At Galaxy Unpacked, Google announced a handful of Gemini updates for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Fold 8, and Flip 8.

'Intelligent Eyewear' is the fresh term Samsung is using to perhaps give its new wearable technology a fresh start in a market that's showing signs of smart glasses fatigue. With a focus on style and...

There is an "update in progress" at the Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino, California, according to a new notice posted on Apple's website. The building remains open to the public while the work...

ComiXR takes webtoons beyond the screen by placing characters and dialogue around a room, using eye tracking, spatial audio, and haptic feedback to turn reading into an immersive XR experience.

Meta announced it’s partnering with Microsoft to bring a “starter edition” of its cloud-based XBOX Game Pass to Horizon+, Meta’s own VR game subscription service. In the coming weeks, Meta also says...

By fusing AI, computer vision, and real-time digital overlays, can AR glasses help people navigate surroundings, communicate, and complete everyday tasks with greater independence? The goal is to...

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models have entered mass production and are now in a production ramp-up phase, according to China Securities News. In a new report citing supply chain sources (via MyDrivers),...

I don't think I've encountered anyone, in the wild, who actually uses Steam's Remote Play game streaming feature since the days of the hardware Steam Link (and what tremendous days they were). In...

Samsung's second big phone launch of the year is now over — and as expected, at the July edition of Unpacked 2026 saw the launches of several new Fold and Flip phones, plus the full reveal of...

Samsung revealed its Android XR glasses at Galaxy Unpacked with a name, a nine-hour battery, and two fashion partners. No price, no ship date, no developer guidance, and nobody was allowed to wear them.

EssilorLuxottica acquired Lynx's IP, code and most of its team out of liquidation, and the still-unreleased R2 headset has no announced future. The tracking stack was always the valuable part.

Meta bundled a starter tier of cloud Xbox Game Pass into Horizon+, adding 50-plus flatscreen games at no extra cost. The ten hours per month limit makes the strategy pretty clear.

At AWE, one of my most important experiences for me was going hands-on with the prototype Android XR smartglasses by Google, the ones you have probably seen during the keynote at Google I/O. Let me...

There's not many active Meta Quest users out there these days, but the Facebook firm isn't going quietly into the night it seems. The so-called "Metaverse" might've amounted to a gigantic dud, but...

Xbox Game Pass is teaming up with another subscription service this week, albeit one that appeals to a niche section of gamers. Facebook parent group Meta and Xbox have announced that a starter...

In XR News What’s the story? Hololight has updated its Stream, Hub, and Space tools with new capabilities for stable XR streaming, headset-free access, collaboration, and design review. Why it ......

We at Road to VR have been asking ourselves: how do we offer the most value to our readers? That question led to an experiment over the last few months that changed the way we structured each...

Pokémon Go is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The game, which famously uses GPS and augmented reality to let you discover, catch, and battle virtual monsters in real-world...

South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster is set to launch its first pair of smart glasses this fall, and it’s hoping to make waves with a rash of new physical retail locations across North America...

After a few years of declines – mostly due to the hangover from circa-2021 "metaverse mania," XR venture funding grew 117 percent last year. What's behind the rebound? We examine the latest data from...

Recently debuting a trailer at last month’s VR Games Showcase, we tried the stylistic Alpha Test of Daumier: Lila & Ghost. If the gameplay and narrative are any indication, this co-op puzzle...

Action-combat flight sim G-Rebels has launched in Early Access today on Steam with VR support. If you're a gamer of a certain age (meaning old, like me) you may remember G-Police, a PlayStation game...

A Township Tale's servers shut down for good on July 20 after eight years. It was one of four VR projects that hit the wall in the same week, and the common thread is platform funding, not bad games.

The Roboquest VR Quest port missed its May 21 date and lands July 23 instead. Why the delay was the right call, and why framerate is the only number that matters on standalone.

What’s the story? LOOOK.AI and shu uemura have unveiled the AI Mirror, a smart mirror built into real glass, at shu uemura’s shu:ARTstage flagship store in Omotesando Hills, Tokyo. Why ... continue...

Yesterday, the Football World Cup ended, and now I feel like I don’t know anymore how to spend my evenings. Compliments to Spain, by the way… I hope that in four years we will be able to play against...

Apple is moving on with its developer beta program, with new fourth builds of iOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and iPadOS 27 now undergoing testing.An earlier iOS 27 beta screenThe...

Smart-glasses development is genuinely fragmented today, including platforms from Meta, Snap, and others. This raises barriers for developers, which in turn could diminish smart glasses demand and...

AR unicorn Magic Leap is again pivoting its core business, this time to serve as a waveguide supplier to other companies making AR glasses, something that we’ve learned comes amid a mass lay off...

At SIGGRAPH this week, a Tuesday morning session on the jump from 3D to 4D Gaussian splatting points at how VR content stops being modeled by hand and starts being captured from the real world. Here is why the technique, not the next headset, decides what VR looks like in three years.

At SIGGRAPH this week, Khronos is presenting OpenXR's evolution from a portability layer into a full spatial computing platform, with Google, Meta, Unity, ByteDance, and Varjo all on board. The Spatial Entity Framework is the part developers should be watching.

Meta sold more than seven million pairs of smart glasses last year, and the cultural mood around them has never been worse. When Lorde tells a Ray-Ban sponsored festival crowd not to buy the glasses, that is a problem no recording LED can fix.

Valve just shipped the biggest SteamVR interface overhaul in years: a rebuilt dashboard, Steam Deck style Quick Access controls, and in-headset battery and brightness settings. Read the feature list twice and it stops looking like a PC VR update at all.

Valve has dropped a sizeable update to SteamVR, paving the way for what appears to be imminent launch of its long-awaited standalone VR headset, Steam Frame. Valve’s latest update brings a good slate...

A major SteamVR update, warehouses full of hardware, and Valve on record that the memory crisis is still getting worse. Everything converged this week, and I keep landing on the same conclusion: the Steam Frame is exactly the headset this moment needs, and the one device that can pull VR hardware out of its 2026 funk.

Discovery: Rogue Planet, a new sci-fi narrative FPS comes to PC VR & Quest 3 headsets on August 6. The game listing dropped on the Meta Horizon store a couple of weeks ago with an August 2026 release...

Following up on a previous report, Xerxes 'Jarvis' Sangco's involvement with Tactical Assault VR is ending after news of his 2020 arrest and subsequent criminal conviction came to light.Earlier this...

OpenAI's hardware plans look like a smart speaker, while EssilorLuxottica buys Lynx and Lenovo backpedals from XR. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds, through the lens of Charlie...

A Florida XR firm just won a $5.1 million Marine Corps contract to build a VR gunnery trainer whose opposing force is driven by agentic AI. It is a small deal with a large lesson about where XR spending is actually being validated in 2026.

Incuvo Games announced today that it will be porting Creepy Jar's StarRupture, an open-world exploration game with base building and combat, to Meta Quest 3. Incuvo dropped the news in a post on...

The Battlefield-like 32-player VR FPS Forefront just got a major update. Here's everything you need to know.Forefront has just launched a major update which adds a new map, new weapon, and new...

Hellsplit: Arena, the 2019 VR hack and slash arena combat game, appears to be nearing the end of active development, but not before developer Deep Type Games delivers a sandbox mode for both Steam...

Every year, the geospatial world gathers at the Esri User Conference to talk about the same promise: better maps, visualization, and ways to see the built and natural world in 3D. What are the latest...

Today I have the huge pleasure of publishing the interview I had with Jeff Basladynski, who you may probably know as “Bazitron” from Reddit. Baz has become a sort of legend in our community because...

Lynx, the France-based XR hardware startup, has been acquired by global eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica. In a public email to backers, Lynx founder and CEO Stan Larroque confirmed the...

Meta's CTO says to stay tuned for Connect on September 23 because there will be more to share about its next headsets. Here is what the roadmap actually allows him to show, and why the most interesting device is not the one Quest fans are waiting for.

Pimax expects to clear its entire Dream Air and Dream Air SE backlog next month, while Valve still cannot name a price for Steam Frame and Meta has pushed Quest 4 to 2027. The reason the tethered underdog is shipping through the memory crunch is more instructive than the headset itself.

Viking-themed VR rhythm game Ragnarock added two new licensed tracks for free in its latest update, the first new music added to the game since July 2025.Ragnarock's previous music update was the...

What’s the story? XREAL’s a01+ AR glasses are now available in the US for $299, combining Micro-OLED displays, 120Hz visuals, and support for everyday devices. Why it matters The glasses ... continue...

As part of Sony's larger Summer Games Sale, 200 titles for PlayStation VR and VR2 are discounted starting today. Starting today and continuing until August 12, PlayStation's Summer Game Sale is...

Brussels adopted a delegated act exempting smart glasses from user-removable battery requirements, clearing a path for Meta, Google, Samsung and Apple to sell in Europe unchanged. The privacy report landing this summer is the bigger threat.

Amelia's Escape is a narrative escape room where the puzzles unravel a time-travel scientist's story. It launches July 23 on Quest and Steam for $15.99.

GOLF+ is running an official VR Open with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, timed to the real Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, with a grand prize trip to the 155th Open at St Andrews. One of VR's quiet success stories just got the ultimate stamp of legitimacy.

Valve has quietly launched a Great on Frame storefront section collecting games certified for its upcoming Steam Frame headset. The page is nearly empty, but its very existence is the strongest launch signal yet.

Lenovo has laid off its US XR business unit and is redirecting its ThinkReality enterprise work toward AI-enabled consumer wearables under Motorola. Read on its own, it is another layoff. Read in context, it is the clearest map yet of where the industry's money is actually going.

Apple has published a detailed technical specification for building third-party motion controllers for Vision Pro, down to the exact wavelength of the tracking LEDs. For a headset that launched insisting hands and eyes were enough, that is a meaningful reversal.

The man who wrote Doom, invented modern 3D game engines, and later ran Oculus is offering a million dollars of his own money to get official VR ports of the id classics onto the Quest store. The only thing standing in the way is Microsoft.