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Pundits continue to hold up clear signs of restraint as failures while asking Apple to behave like Meta, OpenAI, Google, or anyone else but themselves, especially when discussing Apple Vision...

Apple is, once again, forecast to bring out Apple Glass by the end of 2027, while it also works on a brand new headset that takes after the new Meta VR Glasses.Apple wants thin and light smart...

After the release of Vision Pro, everyone wanted to know how long it would be before the company could release a lighter version that isn’t so bulky on your face. For the longest time, we had been...

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm happy to be done traveling for a bit, and also you can read all...

The Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026 will award new "hands-first" Quest and VR Glasses apps, as well as adapted or significantly updated experiences, a total of $1 million across 20 prizes of...

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is exploring about four concepts for a headset codenamed N224, including a Meta-style compute puck. The project is on "life support" and unlikely before late 2028, and it sits uneasily with Kuo's June report that every successor was removed.

Just Hoops dropped its 2.0 update this week in conjunction with Meta Connect, focusing on hand tracking and more accessible ways to enjoy the top-ranked basketball experience.Per developer Realcast,...

GOLF+ continues to add to its ever-growing lineup of real-world golf courses with Medinah Country Club No. 3, the site of this year's Presidents Cup. Medinah Country Club No. 3 is the latest...

Shil takes you on a twisted journey into the subconscious with an interesting two-tone art style.The environmental-puzzle psychological horror game drops on Quest on October 8 with a Steam launch...

The latest update for co-op dungeon crawler Dungeons of Eternity adds a new extraction-style game mode alongside new enemies, loot, and weapons. Developer Othergate also overhauled the game's...

Fast Travel Games is holding an open playtest for its upcoming co-op VR heist shooter Payday: Aces High on October 19. Anyone who joins will get an exclusive Kitty Mask as a reward for...

Supernatural, the VR fitness app that Meta purchased and later put into maintenance mode, has been relaunched as a new independent company called Supernatural Health.Meta announced at Connect that...

Meta is launching a new slate of original immersive programming with Open Season, a documentary series following NBA player Draymond Green through therapy sessions during the 2025-26 season. Open...

Gizmodo says Meta's 100-gram VR Glasses make headsets obsolete. Four years of Quest hardware took 56 grams off my face, so I get the appeal, but a 70-degree view, a movie-length battery and no controllers in the box leave my Quest 3 a job.

Connect week: Meta VR Glasses at $1,299.99 with no controllers in the box and a Store that sorts hand-tracked apps first, a hearing unlock cleared by the FDA in July, iFixit inside the Steam Frame, a CPSC recall for overheating glasses, and Supernatural's October return with streaks intact.

Available for free with the LEGO PS1 set next month.I was a big believer in Astro Bot back when he was effectively a tech demo in PS4 game The Playroom VR.Don’t believe me? I made a video and wrote...

Today I’m going to tell you about the most incredible thing that happened to me during Meta Connect: I interviewed Boz, the CTO of Meta. It was surprising. It was incredible. And it was overly...

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Hollywood's tech takeover is all but sealed; Meta blitzes AI and XR; and Qualcomm parades its 'personal AI' vision. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the lens of Charlie...

Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, called Holograms, its take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas.It's now been more than seven years since Meta (then Facebook) first showed...

FDA cleared Meta's hearing aid software as K254044 on July 13, ten weeks before Connect priced it at $149.99. The filing covers an iPhone app, and the feature reaches Meta Glasses before any Ray-Ban pair.

Unseen Reality's URXR One closed its Kickstarter at $1,288,712 against a $50,000 goal, with glasses due to ship in mid-October and nothing shipped yet. Retail moved from a planned $899 to $999, and the Power Hub phones need is slated for November or December.

Apple today updated its TestFlight app for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS to version 4.4.0, adding support for features introduced in the latest software updates and products. TestFlight for iPhone...

We’re building personal AI agents for everyone and a whole family of devices that let you connect with them from anywhere. Bringing Muse to AI Glasses We launched Muse, a first-of-a-kind personal AI...

There will be new Tetris Effect, Beat Saber, and Ace Attorney games coming to the platform as well.

At Meta’s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated to award a prize pool of $1 million to spark the community to get cracking...

Credit: Shiun Okada / Android Authority TL;DR INMO is recalling around 1,600 Air 3 smart glasses in the US because the left temple can overheat during extended use. The company has received ten...

Meta’s annual XR and AI focused Connect conference is in full gear this week. The biggest news dropped during the opening keynote, while day two will feature the Developer State of the Union keynote....

I’m not saying that the reveal of Beat Saber’s "biggest update ever" was timed to coincide with a swell of VR interest induced by the new Steam Frame. But I am going to infer it, without evidence,...

For years, Meta has had one of the best entry-level virtual reality headsets with the Quest 3 and its slightly lower-specced successor, the Quest 3S. The VR hardware packs a punch, but if you're...

I just got home from the keynote of Meta Connect. It’s been a busy day; I am devastated; but before going to sleep, I still feel the urge to tell you what my impressions are from today. I’m pretty...

A driving principle in Qualcomm's endeavors to prime the agentic age is what it calls personal AI. This supports a world in which users' many devices – phones, watches, glasses – ingest contextual...

Meta VR Glasses are a new spatial computing device that weighs a sixth of the Apple Vision Pro with a third of the cost, half of the specs, and none of the immersion.Meta's new glasses have Alan Dye...

Alongside its new audio-only and Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta today also unveiled new “VR Glasses” which take the experience of a Quest into a far slimmer form factor with an external processing puck....

Meta today introduced its new Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) smart glasses with a slimmer design and longer battery life alongside a new audio-only lineup, and a new $250 entry-level release. more…

In XR News What’s the story? Meta announced a set of updates for its AI glasses at Meta Connect 2026, from work to bring Muse, its personal AI agent, to ... continue reading Source

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Meta has announced its new Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram VR device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite processor, with a separate compute ......

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.

Flux swaps Beat Saber's sabers for hand tracking in spring 2027 with 35 songs, a rebuilt campaign and the game's first rewards system. What losing the saber's rumble actually costs a rhythm game.

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.

Several new games are coming to Meta VR Glasses as early as spring 2027, alongside major updates to existing games. The big announcement at Meta Connect 2026 is the spring 2027 release of Meta VR...

Beat Saber will get a huge update to go with the newly announced Meta VR Glasses next spring, headlined by Flux, a brand new game mode. The update will also add full hand tracking support, a...

A hand-controlled, room-aware mixed reality version of Tetris Effect is coming to Meta's new VR device, Quest 3 and 3S.Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities is a new hand-controlled and room-aware mixed...

A new VR release in Capcom's visual novel adventure series brings courtroom drama to Meta VR Glasses and Quest in 2027. Announced today alongside the new Meta VR Glasses, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney:...

A VR version of Two Point Hospital is coming to Meta VR Glasses, Quest 3, and 3S.Announced today alongside Meta VR Glasses, Two Point Hospital Mixed Reality Edition is a VR reimagining of the comedic...

Dragon Grove, a relaxed, mixed reality 3D puzzle game, comes to Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3 in Spring 2027. The new game from veteran developer Schell Games (Among Us 3D, I Expect You To Die) will...

Cozy hand-tracked mixed reality farming simulator Story of Seasons: Your Wonderful Life was announced at Meta Connect today for Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3.Here's the trailer: 0:00 /1:14 1× Cozy...

Announced today at Meta Connect, Cardmada is a hand-tracked, free-to-play tactical card battler set in a Wonderland-inspired world coming to Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3. Said to be 'designed from the...

Dice Throne Digital is a free-to-play adaptation of the popular fantasy-themed tabletop strategy game coming to Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3 with crossplay support across XR devices, mobile, and PC. It...

Meta VR Glasses were just officially announced. Priced at $1300, they have 2.4K micro-OLED displays, weigh 100 grams, and are powered by a tethered puck with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite...

Meta has finally unveiled its next-gen mixed reality headset, Meta VR Glasses. While they could technically fit somewhere in its Quest lineup, Meta seems to be making a concerted effort to bridge the...

Meta today unveiled its long-awaited next-gen mixed reality headset: Meta VR Glasses. Previously known under the codename ‘Project Phoenix’, Meta VR Glasses was announced today, but isn’t launching...

Meta Ray-Ban Display has been a US-only device since launch last year, but now the company announced at Connect 2026 that it’s coming to international markets starting today. Meta Ray-Ban Display is...

Today at Meta’s annual Connect developer conference the company unveiled its next-gen mixed reality headset: Meta VR Glasses. Coming alongside it early next year is an update to everyone’s favorite...

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 launches on November 12 for Quest 3 with pre-orders now open at a ten percent discount. The PC VR version will follow in the second half of 2027.Developer Anton...

I briefly went hands-on with Snap's Specs at the "launch" event in Los Angeles. Here's what I thought.If you're unfamiliar: Snap Specs are standalone true AR glasses, meaning they have physically...

High on Life has been a big hit since it first launched in 2022, thanks to its bizarre sense of humor, motor-mouthed guns, and polished gameplay. But can it succeed as a virtual reality port? That's...

Today at Connect 2026, we shared updates to Meta Ray-Ban Display, including new features, online ordering, and an expansion into five new markets. Navigate Hands-Free Heads-up navigation is a feature...

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.

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.

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.

Twilight's End launched today at $9.99, only the host needs to own it, and Battlemarked landed on Xbox the same morning. Every screenshot on its Steam page shows the flat version, and both platforms it has added since launch have no headset.

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.

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.

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.

Mixed Reality Link 26.9105.9070.0 gives Windows three new capture devices from a Quest 3 or 3S: the headset microphone, a passthrough camera, and a Meta avatar camera that Horizon OS already offered its own Android apps. It lands as support for the last Windows Mixed Reality headsets runs out in November.

Meta's Connect 2026 keynote is Wednesday. A line-by-line check of the last three keynotes: five products with a price and a date all shipped on schedule, Augments is three years late, and the Ray-Ban Display expansion Meta promised four countries never happened.

Within hours of Valve's reservation emails, eBay sellers were asking $1,750 for a 256GB Steam Frame reservation and $2,000 or more for the 1TB. Valve's program terms say the right to buy cannot be transferred, and European buyers have a second scam to watch for once units ship.

Asgard's Wrath 2 came free with the Quest 3 in 2023 and Batman: Arkham Shadow with the Quest 3S in 2024. Meta has since closed Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel, Camouflaj no longer makes VR games, and the Connect 2026 agenda does not list a single Quest game.

Flat2VR Spark's port of Strange Scaffold's revenge shooter reached Steam on September 17 at $22.99. The no-reload gunplay made the jump to VR. The tree climbing and the story interludes did not, and without its rank gates the campaign runs under an hour.