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While I've largely enjoyed any time I've dipped a toe into virtual reality, I definitely do not own a VR headset. As cool as the tech is, that hardware remains an expensive niche within the...

Hello Games has released its biggest update yet to VR-supported space sim No Man’s Sky (2016), completely overhauling space itself. At the game’s 2016 launch, space was admittedly barebones, offering...

A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and estimates how far away they are by reading the Bluetooth signals the glasses...

In XR News What’s the story? Lumus has signed a manufacturing agreement with Chinese precision-optics manufacturer Crystal-Optech, which will produce its geometric waveguides for AR eyewear. Why it...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In August, Black Myth Wukong, NBA 2K27 and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 topped the charts in Asia, while...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? FORVIA HELLA has invested in Finnish startup Distance Technologies and partnered with it to develop a mirrorless 3D augmented reality head-up display for...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Avantis Education has launched EduverseSTEM, a virtual and augmented reality STEM suite for students aged 11 to 18 carrying over 500 experiences under ......

Last week, RayNeo launched its iO Smart Glasses, a pair of camera-free smart glasses meant to increase productivity and help users in their daily life. I immediately wrote a “first impression”...

Squingle Arcade, the quickplay version of the award-winning fluid-maze puzzler Squingle, is available now on SteamVR. The game launched earlier this year on Quest. Arcade takes the original game's...

Co-op survival tower defense The Lightkeepers, out this week on Quest 3, wraps multiple mechanics into a tight gameplay loop that plays much better than the quality of its individual elements would...

Apple confirmed Wednesday that Siri AI will remain in beta when the OS 27 versions reach the public on September 14, with the long-delayed assistant subject to use caps and fees, plus language and...

As Apple prepares iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 for launch, it has rolled out the first release candidates for testing.An earlier iOS 27 beta screenThe first round...

Today Apple unveiled its latest hardware products during the “Surprise and shine” event, where we also learned the release date for visionOS 27, the new software update for Vision Pro. more…

TL;DR Samsung is reportedly developing its first display-equipped AI glasses, even before its first smart glasses have launched. The glasses could show notifications, navigation, messages, and system...

Today's Cosmos update for No Man's Sky adds support for eye-tracked dynamic foveated rendering on SteamVR, providing a performance boost for the game ahead of the release of Valve's eye-tracking...

Cozy voxel-cube-coloring game Color-A-Cube is running a four-week collaboration with Walkabout Mini Golf, bringing four of Walkabout's courses in as 3D voxel coloring projects.Over the course of four...

Fantasy roguelike In Death: Unchained's long-running current season will end on September 29 with Fall Season 2026 starting on the same day. It should be noted that Superbright is only responsible...

You can go hands-on with Vaelorys, an upcoming spell-based combat game on Quest, for free in a playtest running through September 21.In our ongoing effort to pass along any playtests we are notified...

The Cosmos update for No Man's Sky teased in Hello Games' Tenth Year Anniversary video is here and it completely changes the outer space component of the game.Despite being termed a "space game" by...

TikTok parent ByteDance is reportedly preparing an AI model that could let you create real-time spatial videos similar to Google Genie. According to a Bloomberg report, ByteDance is readying an AI...

Fovii's launch this week on the App Store gives a huge signal boost for fans of the Apple Vision Pro and Vision OS, debuting a new home for immersive filmmakers on Apple. Emily Olman dives into the...

Hello Games shipped No Man's Sky Cosmos, update 7.0, on September 9. The rendering section adds foveated rendering on PC VR, the bug fix section still has time for a PSVR Move controller binding, and the spacewalk rework raises a comfort question nobody can answer yet.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, an immersive theatre experience built for VRChat, won an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program at this year's Emmy Awards ceremony.The project, headed by a small...

The creators of Human: Fall Flat have announced their next game, Tiny Flock, is coming this month. No Brakes Games, best known as the creators of Human: Fall Flat, have revealed that Tiny Flock is...

The Meta Virtual Display feature of Quest headsets has continued to receive improvements, including input forwarding, and the Mac version now offers the same core functionality previously exclusive...

The Fovii app is now available for Apple Vision Pro. It was founded by John Racine, who was NextVR’s VR Systems Specialist before the company’s acquisition by Apple in 2020.Racine later supported...

Lak Vijayaraghavan is an XR systems engineer whose career spans Magic Leap to TikTok Effect House. What are his biggest learnings and insights from that journey so far, and where does he see spatial...

Pico’s upcoming Apple Vision Pro competitor, Space Pro, was initially meant to debut earlier this month, although the ByteDance subsidiary cancelled the event and postponed its reveal and release...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? SimX has launched two nursing curricula that use its “Autonomous Simulation” approach, in which students complete VR scenarios independently, without...

FunFitLand is expanding beyond the headset with a new smartphone companion app for iOS and Android, bringing live heart rate data from compatible wearables directly into its VR workouts on Meta Quest...

A hand-tracked mixed reality investigation game reaches PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on September 9, nineteen months after its Quest launch and two seasons after the promised spring window. Nobody has explained how the mixed reality survives the trip.

Two FCC grants landed under Pico's grantee code on September 1. The head-mounted half is authorized for one radio band, 2402 to 2480 MHz. The tethered unit carries 5 GHz, 6 GHz and Bluetooth. The puck is not just a battery pack.

When spatial apps are intentionally designed to support curiosity and discovery, they feel more like engaging experiences than educational lessons.The Museas and Astronoma apps for Apple Vision Pro...

Entering the iconic Pyramids of Giza and uncovering new truths about how they were built is an experience most simply can’t try for themselves. They’re not Egyptologists for one, but it’s also...

This has been the week when the Unity Cube has come back into the spotlight it deserves. I updated it to the latest Meta SDK, and now it can go up to 240 Hz on Quest 3! It is the first (or one of the...

Samsung is shutting down two long-available augmented reality (AR) apps on Galaxy phones, with “Quick Measure” and “AR Doodle” both going away later this year. more…

Hello! This week our stories are focused on security and storms, both figuratively and literally! This week on the Brief we discuss the red herring from the OpenAI… Continue reading → Innovation...

Meta announced Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere: An Immersive Experience on September 3, filmed at Billy Bob's Texas and shot for 3D VR 180. The announcement quantifies nothing, which leaves commissioning behavior as the only readable signal in a category both platform holders are treating differently.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a live theatre production performed inside VRChat for six people at a time, took Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the Creative Arts Emmys.

SteamDB shows two of the Steam Frame's seven backend packages changed on September 3 after sitting untouched since May 5, and Brad Lynch says a reservation system for two SKUs went live alongside them. The Steam Machine's packages moved six days before its lottery opened.

Sony's August 2026 PS VR2 download chart puts Job Simulator, Pavlov and Moss VR back in the top ten, all three dated February 22, 2023. Bootstrap Island reached number three in nineteen days on sale, and nothing from 2025 charted at all.

A new Pico device, highly likely to be the upcoming Space Pro, has received FCC certification.The FCC is the US regulatory agency with responsibility over wireless frequency use. Its approval is...

Realities.io shipped a five year birthday update for Puzzling Places on September 3. The feature list is filed under three platform headings instead of by feature, the three biggest additions are Quest only, and the passthrough slider is listed for a Valve headset that has not shipped yet.

Cozy 3D puzzle game Puzzling Places is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a new weekly free puzzle initiative, a guest pass for multiplayer gameplay, and improvements in its usage of mixed...

Sci-fi VR team extraction shooter Drifters: Blackout Crew is holding an open playtest through Sunday morning. Blackout Crew is the latest title from Salmi Games (Sweet Surrender). You and up to three...

In Inside XR Design we examine specific examples of great VR design. Today we’re looking at the clever design of Red Matter 2’s ‘grabber tools’ and the many ways that they contribute to immersion....

Nvidia puts itself at the middle of the model marketplace, while OpenAI's political investments pay off, and another VR winter is upon us. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms, through...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In August, EA Sports Madden NFL 27 and MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls led the PS5 charts in the US....

Today, RayNeo has just launched RayNeo iO Smart Glasses, its new model of camera-free smart glasses. I had the opportunity to go hands-on with them, and in this article, I’ll share my first...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Optima has partnered with Arthur, a provider of an AI-powered spatial platform, to integrate AI more deeply into its immersive VR lessons for ... continue...

Stryker announced on September 1 that the first hip arthroscopy using SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro was completed at Duke Health. The more consequential document is FDA's De Novo record DEN250040, which created product code SIT and regulation 888.1150, a new Class II classification whose listed submission type is already 510(k).

TDK's AIsight unit closed its OQmented purchase in May and announced it on August 18, taking the patents and the engineers but not the product support, warranties or customer obligations. The technology has now had three corporate owners and two insolvencies in under a year.

The solo-developed Loony Laps is an arcade toy racer coming to Quest 3 and Quest 3S in Q1 2027. Created by solo developer Paulo Cunha, Loony Laps is an upcoming toy car racing game that brings the...

A recent update for the mixed reality factory management game Loop One: Done has the game's VR mode officially exiting beta.Loop One: Done's VR update has left beta on Quest. The factory management...

Finding Frida is a 41-minute VR documentary at Venice Immersive using photorealistic 3D scans and animated artwork to explore the life of forgotten Norwegian textile artist Frida Hansen.A miniature...

Knights of Fiona brings nearly every element of a typical JRPG to VR while exposing the challenges the genre presents when translated to virtual reality.I have been playing JRPGs my entire life,...

Discovery: Rogue Planet, out now for Quest 3, feels like it was ripped straight from the narrative FPS games of the late '90s & early aughts, with all the good and bad that comes with that.Halo....

Which VR headsets are showing the most traction among consumers? The latest consumer survey from ARtillery Intelligence and Thrive Analytics tackles this question and we break it down in the latest...

Valve has pushed an update to the Steam Link PC VR streaming app on Quest that finally includes the ability to play games via wired connection. As first spotted by data miner and serial leaker ‘Luna’...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? TDK Corporation has acquired assets from OQmented, a Germany-based developer of MEMS-based laser beam scanning and display technologies, folding them into...

HTC published US store listings for the Vive Eagle on September 3 at $499. Three configurations are buyable, seven say Coming Soon, and the 90 language translation in the marketing is the paid tier, not the two years of VIVE AI Plus that ships in the box.

Valve's Steam Link public beta on Quest can now stream over a USB-C cable, riding on NCM support Meta added in Horizon OS 2.5. It still wants your Wi-Fi on, and a one-star open-source repo documents why.

Beyond 2 now starts at $959 and Beyond 2e at $1,159, down $60 each. The headset price did not move. The standard configuration swapped a $120 cushion built from a 3D face scan for a $60 universal one.

The Half-Life: Alyx mod turned commercial shooter was going to launch the day Valve shipped the Steam Frame. Its Steam page now reads September 10, and the developer says the timing is his own.

FIBA's August 26 release hands L1VE a three-year exclusive on immersive live rights across the 3x3 World Tour, Women's Series and World Cup. It names the competitions and the capture technology, and no fee, no headset and no ticket price.

Bad Inmate, a physics-driven prison escape comedy from HyperVR Games in Riga, hits Quest and PlayStation VR2 together on October 15. Same-day releases on both headsets are rarer than they should be for a studio this size.

Meta's developer documentation now lists Quest 3 as accepting any integer refresh rate from 72 Hz through 207 Hz, with 240 Hz sitting behind developer mode and display scaling. The same page tells developers not to make an extended rate a requirement.

Hip Hop Mixtape 2 arrived on Steam on August 27 with eight tracks at $10.96 bundled, or $15.92 bought singly. Sixteen days after Beat Saber fell to $19.99, the first pack since the cut prices in at 55 percent of the game.

Kinetic Games did not tune Phasmophobia's VR character rig in v0.19.0.0, it replaced the whole thing and matched the model to your own arm length. Five of the ten VR fixes that shipped with it are about doors.

Zero Latency puts Jumanji into more than 150 venues in December while Schell Games runs its first layoffs and Pico cancels its own event. The out-of-home side of VR is growing, and a closure this month shows how fragile that growth still is.