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Amazon’s latest Prime Day sale is still a little way off, but the retailer’s gaming laptop deals are already dropping hard across various brands to save you more cash on top-tier models. Ahead of the...

Illinois is pumping the brakes on where you're allowed to wear AI on your face.

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Xreal Aura is now open for reservations, bringing Android XR, Gemini, and spatial computing to tethered smart glasses expected to launch in Fall 2026.

Samsung Display's AWE USA showcase puts RGB OLEDoS at the center of its XR ambitions, with ultra-bright panels for MR headsets, prototype smart glasses, and longer-term spatial display concepts.

XREAL AURA, the company’s next flagship AR glasses built in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm, is coming this fall at a price the company says will “not exceed $1,500, excluding applicable...

Qualcomm has launched the next phase of XR processing from the AWE stage. Known as Reality Elite, the new branding and capabilities were unveiled by VP and GM of XR, Ziad Asghar, and it will get its...

NuCurrent’s Fast Frames demo points to cleaner smart glasses charging, using NFC wireless power to remove exposed contacts while keeping AI eyewear sealed, quick to top up, and easier to scale across...

Qualcomm announced at Augmented World Expo (AWE) Snapdragon Reality Elite, a new processor which aims to slim down XR headsets and glasses of the near future. Focusing on on-device AI, improved...

After a limited launch in the US, the Samsung Galaxy XR is now officially coming to the UK, with pre-orders opening today.

Today was the big day: Snap finally announced on the stage of AWE the Specs glasses, the first consumer-oriented AR glasses. I guess you’ve already read the news somewhere else, but let me give you...

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Display is unveiling a prototype XR display designed for smart glasses. The company says the tiny RGB OLEDoS (OLED on Silicon) panel delivers...

Visual Intelligence is getting a big upgrade in iOS 27. It's now easier to find than it was before, and there are new ‌Visual Intelligence‌ capabilities. Apple also expanded it to the iPad...

NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.

Snap is finally releasing its Spectacles glasses for consumers, called SPECS. They are cool (and expensive), but they may still not be suitable for daily use.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite platform brings faster AI processing, sharper visuals, longer battery life, and improved tracking to the next generation of XR headsets and smart glasses.

Credit: Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR A new report claims that Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods will launch in late 2027. Sources say the original plan was to launch in 2026, but the company’s...

XREAL Aura, the company’s first pair of Android XR glasses, are officially set to launch this Fall, but we don’t have a price just yet. All we know is that, according to XREAL, Aura will cost under...

Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel - who, at 36, is still young for a tech leader even by Silicon Valley wunderkind standards - unveiled Snap's new Specs AR Glasses at the Augmented World Expo in...

Snap Inc. wants its Specs to be the future of everyday computing, but between the eye-watering price and lackluster demos, we don't see it happening.Snap Inc's new SpecsOn Tuesday, Snapchat unveiled...

You can now preorder Xreal Aura, launching this fall, and the company confirmed it has Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite in its Android XR puck. Yet despite opening preorders, Xreal won't...

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has just announced the long-anticipated release of its Specs AR smart glasses which will cost $2,195.

Snap today unveiled Specs, a pair of augmented reality glasses that it describes as a wearable computer built into a pair of see-through glasses. Specs are made from Swiss TR90 polymer that Snap...

What’s the story? Qualcomm has unveiled Snapdragon Reality Elite at Augmented World Expo, a new XR platform built to power spatial computing with on-device AI across headsets and glasses. Why ......

Credit: XREAL TL;DR XREAL has finally revealed details about its Aura smart glasses with Android XR. The XREAL Aura runs on Snapdragon’s new Reality Elite platform. The glasses are expected to come...

TL;DR Unveiled at AWE 2026, the Snapdragon Reality Elite is Qualcomm’s new top-tier VR and mixed-reality chipset, building on the previous generation Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2 found in devices like...

At Augmented World Expo 2026, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite as its flagship chip for XR form factors. This includes the latest Android XR devices, like XREAL’s Project Aura.

Following a first look at Google I/O last month, XREAL has today confirmed that its Android XR glasses, Aura, will be launching this Fall with reservations open today, and a list of confirmed apps...

Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall.The chipset's naming is a departure...

TL;DR Snap has launched new AR glasses called Specs. They feature two Snapdragon processors, and a large number of Lenses are already available for the glasses. The Specs are priced at $2,195 and are...

After much anticipation in the AR world, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company's consumer-focused AR glasses. With the streamlined "Specs" moniker, the device will be the center of Snap's AR...

Snap today unveiled its first pair of standalone AR glasses intended for consumers, which the company says will pack in a variety of features, including AI assistance, entertainment, and productivity...

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel announced the launch of the company's new Specs AR glasses on Tuesday during a keynote speech at the AWE (Augmented World Expo) virtual reality expo. Unlike most other augmented...

Snap just officially revealed and opened preorders for Specs, fully standalone true AR glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France for $2195.At last year's AWE expo, the company behind...

XR productivity measurement is the difference between a program that scales and a pilot that quietly disappears. Most enterprise XR initiatives produce plenty of data. The wrong data. Session...

SteelSeries' original Arctis Nova 7X Wireless was one of my favourite gaming headsets when it launched a few years ago, so I was certainly very excited to see what had changed with this flashy...

Forthcoming Steam Frame aside, It's been a while since we had anything actually shake up the VR space with any kind of scale. But if "insider reports" that the usually reliable VR leaker...

At a time when VR is showing signs of vulnerability and instability globally, the Japanese industry has fared somewhat better than most. It may still be smaller, but caution in producing the...

Multiple reports this year claimed that Apple, and particularly its incoming CEO John Ternus, has canceled the Vision headset line altogether. But that just isn't true.It can be difficult to keep up...

Raven Resonance is showing off its upcoming smart glasses, Raven Prism, which aim to stay with users all day long thanks to a unique hot-swappable battery system. The San Francisco-based startup is...

What’s the story? Raven Resonance is publicly previewing Raven Prism, which it describes as the world’s first Ambient Computer, at Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2026 in Long Beach this week. ......

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.

Out now as part of Steam Next Fest, the demo of Bramblefort features gruesome survival horror elements with intricate soulslike level design. It’s an encouraging glimpse into the full...

I've spent the weekend playing PlayStation VR2's CleanSheet Soccer 2, a game that's equal parts arcade game, training sim, and fitness app. It's also a whole lot of fun.CleanSheet Soccer 2 approaches...

Iron Guard Salvation, the successor to 2021's Iron Guard, has only sold one-fifth the sales of the original game.This, along with strong feedback from the PlayStation community, prompted developer...

Apple's beta testing routine for the current-gen operating systems continues, with the second developer builds of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, visionOS 26.6, and macOS Tahoe 26.6...

Steam Next Fest is back with a fresh crop of new PC VR demos to play. The event starts today and runs through June 22.As always, this week-long festival features a mix of demos for upcoming games and...

When I was in San Francisco, I managed to do a quick visit to REK, the startup that wants to use robots for mainstream entertainment. It was one of the coolest moments of this trip to the US, so keep...

Mighty Eyes announced it will longer be developing its previously announced sequel to VR action-adventure Wander: The Fragments of Fate (2025), citing a “volatile” VR gaming market. The studio...

AI on the Lot brings Hollywood together with AI – two forces with mixed feelings for each other. What was the outcome, and how does it prime the pump for XR's Super Bowl: AWE? Emily Olman reports...

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.

Meta pulls Horizon Worlds out of VR on June 15, but social VR isn't going anywhere. The communities are already migrating to VRChat, Resonite, and a wave of open, self-hostable worlds Meta could never shut down.

On June 15, creators lose the ability to build, publish, or update Horizon Worlds content in VR. Meta's flagship social platform survives only as a phone app. After a public reversal in April, this is how the VR chapter actually ends.

More than a year after public testing began, Meta has finished rolling out Navigator, the biggest overhaul of Quest's system interface since the Oculus Go era. Here is what changed, and what still has not.

Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now powers Meta AI on Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, replacing Llama 4. The benchmark numbers explain why Meta spent billions on new AI talent.

Apple just shipped open-source spatial plugins for Unity, Unreal, and Godot on GitHub, with CompositorServices support for custom engines on top. For a company famous for walled gardens, officially backing a community-built engine is a genuine surprise.

Apple's visionOS 27 developer sessions reveal the real story: a requestImmersive API that drops website visitors into 3D environments, OpenXR streaming from any PC built into the OS, and a Mac framework that needs zero visionOS code.

XOCUS is launching Omega Pilot Evolution on Quest, PSVR2, and Pico this month, a futuristic anti-gravity racer with combat, weapons, and unmistakable Wipeout DNA. VR has needed a great arcade racer for years. This might finally be it.

The UploadVR Showcase returns June 12, kicking off VR's summer showcase season. After a rough month of gutted roadmaps and missing launch games, here is one player's wishlist.

Meta and Best Buy are opening dedicated 900-square-foot demo spaces in more than 50 stores. The layout reveals exactly where Meta's priorities have shifted: glasses first, headsets second.

visionOS 27 arrived at WWDC with the new Siri, spatial panoramas, curved windows, and faster Wi-Fi. It is a genuinely good update. It also lands one week after Apple erased every Vision Pro successor from its roadmap, which makes it the strangest release Apple shipped today.

Vivo's Vision headset runs an Android based OS, but it pointedly is not Android XR. As Google's spatial platform hits its launch year, that one decision says a lot about how hard the 'Android of XR' will be to pull off.

X-Plane Streaming Link and iRacing Connect are now live on the visionOS App Store, streaming both sims from your PC with foveated rendering at up to 120FPS. The standout feature: passthrough blends your physical yoke, wheel, and pedals directly into the virtual cockpit.

Three weeks ago I wrote that Valve does not launch hardware without software to justify it. The evidence says I was wrong. Valve has flatly denied having any VR content in development, and the silence has held for seven months. Time to think honestly about what a Steam Frame launch without an Alyx moment actually looks like.

Apple's incoming CEO erased every Vision headset from the roadmap, two Quest 3 units are heading to the ISS, Meta cut Supernatural loose, Acer came back to XR, and the most important rhythm game ever made turned eight. One of the busiest weeks of the year, recapped.

Ming-Chi Kuo reports that incoming Apple CEO John Ternus signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the Vision product roadmap. Every Vision Pro successor is gone. What remains is a display-free AI glasses product in 2027 and waveguide AR glasses that have slipped to 2029.

A six-year collaboration between Meta and the European Space Agency is sending two Quest 3 headsets to the ISS, where astronauts will use them to rehearse spacewalks before stepping out the hatch. Consumer VR hardware just earned its way into the most demanding training environment there is.