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Apple today raised prices on many of its products, including all Macs and iPads, as well as the Apple TV, HomePod, HomePod mini, and Vision Pro. We shared a list of the price increases, which range...

Massive A-Pack.Synth Riders really has no interest in letting up on the gas when it comes to releases, it seems. Barely a month after the release of the Crypt of the NecroDancer pack on PSVR2 last...

It’s day three of Prime Day, folks. We’re nearly 75 percent of the way through Amazon’s four-day sales event, and unsurprisingly, many deals are still sticking around. There have been all kinds of...

Apple isn't immune to RAMageddon, either.Reuters reported something on Thursday that many in the tech world had been expecting for weeks: Apple is raising prices on many of its devices. So far,...

One of the running jokes with Razer is that the gaming company will put RGB lighting in any and all of its products eventually. For the last couple of years, its line of gaming chairs was seemingly...

While the Apple TV, HomePod, and HomePod mini have not been updated in several years, all three products received price increases worldwide today. Here is a summary of the price changes for these...

Kluge Interactive today announced the launch of the Linkin Park Music Pack for Synth Riders, making it the VR rhythm game’s biggest paid DLC music pack to date. The Linkin Park Music pack includes 13...

Apple is hiking the price of essentially all of its devices, which includes the already very pricy Vision Pro standalone mixed reality headset. The News As reported by 9to5Mac, a host of Apple...

Apple today raised the price of the Vision Pro to $3,699, up from $3,499, as part of a sweeping round of price increases across its lineup. The change came after Apple's online store was briefly...

Macs, iPads, HomePods, and Apple TVs all cost way more now. Even the already expensive Vision Pro, too.

Apple today announced price hikes across a wide array of its biggest products, including iPads, Macs, HomePod, and Vision Pro. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a...

The best Prime Day tech deals: Day three Best overall Bose QuietComfort Noise-Cancelling Headphones $179 at Amazon (save $180) Get Deal Best earbuds deal Apple AirPods Pro 3 $179 at Amazon (save $70)...

Apple has raised prices across multiple categoriesThe MacBook Neo notably got a sizable hikeThe move comes in response to the RAM crisisWhile everyone is busy scooping up Amazon Prime Day deals on...

Apple left iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, and AirTag prices unchanged even as it raised prices across much of its hardware lineup, leaving some of its most popular products untouched.AirPods...

Apple today dramatically increased device prices across multiple product lines. After temporarily taking it down earlier today, Apple's online store is back up with a series of product price...

Originally launched on Meta Quest in November 2025 and now arriving on Steam, STARVAULT is a free-to-play online shooter that bills itself as VR's first true first-person MOBA. Sometimes a game...

Customer expectations have shifted considerably as they're conditioned to expect a buyer journey that feels personal and worth their time. So brands across industries are building for that reality....

It is a singularly bad time to purchase computer parts or release a computer product. The RAM crisis has made memory and storage costs astronomical, and the most recent indignity it's inflicted...

SAVE OVER $70: As of June 25, the Lego Technic Yamaha MT-10 SP (42159) has hit a new all-time low price of $167.99 onPrime Day. This is $72 off its full price of $239.99. Opens in a new window...

SAVE OVER $800: As of June 25, the Sunseeker S4 robot lawn mower is down to its lowest-ever price of $984 for Prime Day. This is $815.99 off its list price of $1,799.99. Opens in a new window Credit:...

SAVE $100: As of June 25, the DJI Flip (RC-N3) Bundle is down to $399 at Amazon. That's 20% off over Prime Day. Opens in a new window Credit: DJI DJI Flip (RC-N3) Bundle $399 at Amazon $499 Save $100...

SAVE $99: As of June 25, the Apple iPad mini A17 Pro is on sale for $499.99 at Amazon. That's 17% off and $99 in savings. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple iPad mini (A17 Pro) $499.99 at...

SAVE $100: As of June 25, the Bluetti Elite 30 V2 Portable Power Station is down to $199 at Amazon. That's a 33% discount during Prime Day. Opens in a new window Credit: Bluetti Bluetti Elite 30 V2...

While Black Friday still remains top dog when it comes to online shopping holidays, Amazon Prime Day follows close behind. Despite it being Amazon's official shopping celebration for Prime members,...

What’s the story? Unseen Reality has unveiled URXR One, 93-gram spatial computing glasses with Micro-OLED displays, 6DoF tracking and hand-gesture recognition. Why it matters The 93-gram design gives...

Meta now sells a $60 stainless steel Charging Stand compatible with most of its smart glasses, providing 50% charge in 20 minutes or full charge in 1 hour.All Meta smart glasses come with a charging...

Meta teamed up with Kylie Jenner for new 'Starfire' smart glasses. 0:00 /0:30 1× Meta Starfire glasses, "designed in collaboration with Kylie Jenner". Meta says Starfire was "designed in...

Meta launched a range of cheaper smart glasses featuring the same technology as Ray-Ban Meta but without the branding, and with a compact folding case.That's not to say that Meta is making these...

Meta says it's offering free smart glasses to every legally blind US veteran, with more than 130,000 eligible.The company says it will also "provide hands-on training with every single pair", in...

Maestro rolled out a humorous new trailer detailing new updates coming to the symphony conducting rhythm game, including new DLC for Attack On Titan and another, unnamed and censored, property.The...

The high speed hoverbike racing game unveiled a free update, scheduled multiplayer meetups, and a first wave of paid DLC.As part of the latest VR Games Showcase, publisher Impact Inked and developer...

Back in March, Apple Vision Pro customers were gifted a new experience called Debut at the BBC Proms, a 35-minute Apple Immersive Video concert featuring Lukas Sternath performing Grieg at Royal...

You've got a friend in Trombone Champ Unflattened's next musical DLC, Disney Movie Magic Volume 1, coming this summer.As part of the latest VR Games Showcase, developer Flat2VR Studios and publisher...

A new gameplay trailer for Lovecraftian survival action game The Lightkeepers confirmed a September 10 release date for Meta Quest 3.The new trailer premiered at the latest VR Games Showcase this...

The Autobots and Decepticons wage war on Meta's headsets on September 3.As part of yesterday's VR Games Showcase, publisher Squido Studio announced that META4 Interactive and Illogika's VR rail...

Amazon Prime Day is among us, which also means you can save a couple bucks on a brand new Meta Quest 3S. Its only been a few months since Meta raised the price of Quest 3 and Quest 3S, essentially...

When Valve first announced the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame last year, it was the dinky living room PC that I latched onto. I've wanted to hook my PC up to a TV and treat it like...

Valve has a new cube coming out, and boy is it pricey. The Steam Machine finally broke cover last Monday, revealing that its absolute cheapest model would still set you back $1,049—for which you can...

Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad, and the whole gang are back with Star Fox for the Nintendo Switch 2, and it’s a worthwhile ride. Star Fox’s reintroduction into the public eye...

When most people think of digital twins, they picture high-tech dashboards used by massive metropolitan governments. Rory Linehan thinks that assumption is exactly the problem. He discusses on the...

There’s no shortage of hype surrounding Summer Game Fest, and its orbit of smaller indie game showcases, as well as the wildly successful Xbox Games Showcase. This year’s events were chock full of...

Credit: Meta TL;DR Meta has launched a $59 standalone Charging Stand alongside its expanded smart glasses lineup. The dock features a premium stainless steel body, silicone base, and comes in Natural...

What’s the story? Prehension has released its gesture recognition SDK for XR developers, using temporal classification to identify hand movements such as swipes, waves and pushes. Why it matters The...

What’s the story? Meta has launched Meta Glasses, a new AI eyewear line developed with EssilorLuxottica, featuring three frame styles and prices starting at $299. Why it matters The new ... continue...

Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational...

Unity's latest Android XR update expands Application SpaceWarp support to include standard UI and text. It is a small line in a changelog that points at one of the most important performance tricks in mobile VR. Here is how SpaceWarp actually works, and why it matters.

Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime from Collabora, now sits under Android XR, NVIDIA CloudXR, Pico, and Snapdragon Spaces. Here is why the industry quietly standardized on it.

Inwigo is a free-to-play cooperative extraction horror game available on Meta Quest. It released today as part of the VR Games Showcase after conducting multiple open playtests. Here's the release...

The latest VR Games Showcase delivered over an hour of trailers, game announcements, release date reveals, shadow releases, major updates, and DLC drops. There were tactical shooters and co-op...

The sixth iteration of the VR Games Showcase just wrapped up, delivering massive new game announcements including the reveal of Breachers: Outbreak and DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew as well as new looks at...

Salmi Games (Sweet Surrender) announced its new title Drifters: Blackout Crew, a VR co-op extraction shooter, at today's VR Games Showcase. It is coming to Meta Quest and SteamVR.Here's the...

DreamVR, the VR veteran studio behind a host of location-based VR games, has unveiled its upcoming acrobatic roguelite action game, The Rifted Skies, which is slated to land on Quest and SteamVR...

Wizherd is a free-to-play co-op dungeon crawler on Meta Quest where you sling elemental spells with your own hands. The magic system is clever, the co-op is chaotic fun, and the price is right, even if the rough edges are real.

The Summer 2026 VR Games Showcase aired today, and the reveal that stuck with me is Breachers: Outbreak, a four-player co-op zombie extraction shooter from the studio behind Breachers and Forefront. Here is why the pivot is smarter than it looks.

In March we argued Android XR could be the most important platform launch since Android itself. We are now halfway through 2026. The hardware has shipped, the developer tools are real, and one big promise is still missing. Here is how the thesis is holding up.

Samsung opened Galaxy XR preorders in the UK at £1,699 ahead of a July 8 ship date. The headline number is the price, but the £665 Explorer Pack bundle is where Android XR's actual strategy shows up.

The orchestra-conducting rhythm game Maestro arrived on PSVR2 on June 20 with a John Williams Star Wars track and a lightsaber baton. It is a delight. It is also only the third PSVR2 game to support hand tracking, which says a lot about a feature Sony shipped and the industry mostly ignored.

The Quest 4 is still unannounced, and the rumor mill has only gotten louder. Here is our continually updated tracker on the release window, the design and weight direction, the new OLED display reporting, and where the price is heading, with every claim labeled confirmed, reported, or rumor.

VR platforming was one of the genres that made early headsets feel like magic, and then it went quiet. Hyperstacks, a neon action-platformer with a built-in level editor, has its demo live at Steam Next Fest, and it is the one I am loading up first.

Augmented World Expo dominated the week. Snap opened preorders for $2,195 AR glasses, Qualcomm reminded everyone it powers the whole category, an open-source metaverse browser engine arrived, and a startup showed the smartest battery idea of the show. Here is everything that mattered.

Snap and Google owned the AWE USA 2026 keynotes, but the Auggie Award enterprise winners, from steel fabrication to surgical guidance, map where extended reality is actually delivering measurable ROI.

While Snap unveiled $2,195 AR glasses with a four hour battery, a startup called Raven Resonance previewed Raven Prism: a sub 70 gram, eye controlled Linux computer in eyewear form with hot swappable batteries. It is the most quietly interesting hardware at AWE.

Valve still says summer 2026, but the evidence is getting loud. The Steam Frame controller FCC embargo lifted June 18, tens of tons of headsets cleared into US warehouses, and a leaked June 23 price reveal lines up with the timeline. Here is what is real and what still hangs on the DRAM crisis.

At AWE this week, RP1 and the Metaverse Standards Forum introduced Sneeze, the first browser engine built for spatial computing, released as open source under Apache 2.0. After a year of walled-garden metaverses collapsing, this is the opposite bet: an open foundation anyone can build on.

The WebXR Device API has reached Candidate Recommendation and is now a proposed Interop 2026 focus area, with Safari joining Chrome, Quest Browser, and Samsung Internet. Here is why a stabilizing spec plus a public cross-browser scoreboard finally makes the immersive web safe to build on.

At AWE this morning, Evan Spiegel unveiled the consumer version of Snap Specs and opened preorders. Fully standalone true AR glasses, a 51 degree field of view, 132 grams, dual Snapdragon chips, shipping this fall for $2,195. After years of buildup, Snap's AR bet is finally something you can buy.

The June 2026 Steam Next Fest is the biggest one ever, and buried in nearly 5,000 free demos is a stack of VR experiences. Here is why this week matters more to VR players than anyone else.

Augmented World Expo opens in Long Beach today under the theme 'Spatial AI.' The coverage will obsess over field of view, but the platform race is really being decided by the silicon and on-device AI inside the glasses.

Snap acquired spatial AR company Illumix to accelerate its Specs glasses, and the headline asset is not flashy. It is mapping technology. For AR glasses that have to understand the real world, that unglamorous capability is exactly what separates a demo from a product.

VR's summer showcase season kicked off with more than 30 announcements across Quest, PSVR2, and PC VR. I watched all of it. Here are the standouts, the trends, and what this lineup says about where VR gaming is headed into the back half of 2026.