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In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Sandbox VR will open its 100th location, and its first in New York City, on October 23 at 777 7th Avenue in Times ... continue reading Source

Valve stopped making the Index this week. Mine has been on my desk since the 2020 Alyx rush and still works. Valve is now building a Steam Frame strap with BMR drivers to match the Index's speakers, and the Frame's optional hand straps copy the Index design.

Sandbox VR calls its first New York venue its 100th, and the headline act is Deadwood Origins, from a zombie series whose first three games sold 2.66 million of the company's 6 million-plus tickets. The release says it opens October 23. Sandbox VR's own site now says October 30.

Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people’s conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (“Hey, Meta”), in a bug that Meta says...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? XREAL launches XREAL 1 Pro+, an updated version of its One Pro augmented reality glasses with a display reaching up to 1,200 nits, ... continue reading...

I expected something a bit different when I first booted up Convrgence for the first time; for a game selling itself as an extraction shooter, with vibes bringing to mind S.T.A.L.K.E.R., I expected a...

This year's free annual spooky update for Synth Riders brings Apashe's Lord & Master, a dark, cinematic track built for the Halloween season. In addition to the new song, the spooky update also...

Supernatural announced it will soon be launching with new features in Early Access on the Quest store, as the newly independent team of 15 people continue to build out the full experience. According...

Spymaster, the latest project from A Fisherman's Tale developer Innerspace, leaves Early Access after five months with the full release adding four new missions to conclude the story campaign. We...

Payne's Valley, the first public course designed by world-famous golfer Tiger Woods, is the latest addition to the GOLF+ catalog. The recently added Immersive Putting mode will also be spun off to...

TL;DR Google is working on a new “Hey Gemini” hotword for Android XR glasses. It could also let Gemini automatically turn on the camera to answer questions about the wearer’s surroundings. Google...

Xreal launches 1 Pro+ with brighter displays, while XR bids to accelerate world models, and once-high-flying Character.ai shuts down. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds through the...

Valve put the last Index headsets on sale at $399.20 without the parts that make one work, gave Steam Frame reservations a by December or 2027 answer, published the Frame's port pinout and left a 3,552 by 3,840 panel in its kernel code. Meta called its glasses recording bug resolved, Supernatural changed its answer on Favorites, and Ultimechs goes offline Tuesday.

Meta says the Ray-Ban Meta bug that saved conversations without a wake word is resolved and points owners to their voice logs. Its own AI Glasses Voice Privacy Notice lets UK, Irish and German owners switch voice storage off. The US version stores recordings by default, unintended ones included.

Third time's a charm?The third version of Arizona Sunshine, which will be completely stripped of any VR support, will be one of the PS5 titles that kicks off 2027, now dated for 21st January...

The third Steam Next Fest of 2026 kicks off on October 19 with multiple PC VR demos already popping up on Steam. Read on for a list of the ones that stood out to us.We will have a full list of every...

From the director of The House of the Devil, X, Pearl, MaXXXine, Apple Immersive’s first horror film, Remnants, is available in the Apple TV app starting at 6pm PT today.The approximately 24-minute...

Beat Saber gets into the spooky spirit with its latest shock drop, the theme from Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Beat Games has announced the latest shock drop for Beat Saber. Ghostbusters by Ray...

Free-to-play co-op JRPG Knights of Fiona drops Version 1.1 on October 20 with a story-concluding Chapter 6 and multiple updates based on player feedback.The new chapter will be available to all...

Cooperative wave shooter Stuffed: Two Foot Hero confirms a November 3 release date on Quest and PC VR. A new demo is available now on Steam ahead of next week's Next Fest.Stuffed: Two Foot Hero,...

As privacy complaints continue to dominate the conversation around Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the company is now fixing an issue that was letting the glasses record on their own without the user...

Sandisk, a longstanding memory and storage manufacturer known for USB flash drives, portable SSDs, and memory cards, including microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, has announced new...

Valve’s Steam Frame is barely out the door, but now data mining has reportedly surfaced that an OLED version may already in the works. The News As reported by Steam Frame Hub, Valve may be working on...

In XR News October 15, 2026 – UDEXREAL, a Hong Kong-based developer of stretchable sensor technology and the company behind the UDCAP range of hand tracking gloves for robotics, simulation and ......

TL;DR XREAL has launched the XREAL 1 Pro Plus, its latest flagship AR glasses. They feature a brighter display, AI HDR support, and 60fps 2D-to-3D conversion. The XREAL 1 Pro Plus is costs $599 and...

Co-operative story-driven VR puzzle game Daumier: Lila & Ghost is out now on Quest, and those who buy the game during the first month will get an additional game key to share with a friend. Daumier:...

XREAL just announced a refresh to the best AR glasses on the market. The newly announced XREAL 1 Pro+ is brighter than last year's model and features enhancements to improve image quality.XREAL...

Ahead of its Android XR-based Aura launching later this year, XREAL is giving its flagship One Pro a “Plus” upgrade without raising the price. more…

XREAL today announced XREAL 1 Pro+, a hardware refresh of its One Pro flagship AR glasses. Launching today at $599, Xreal 1 Pro+ includes a modest set of improvements over the original One Pro, which...

There’s a hot take in the XR world that AI is the force multiplier it has been waiting for. And that's valid. But it’s also incomplete. The inverse is true, as AI needs XR. This could be most evident...

If you were hoping for better audio and battery life from Valve’s recently released Steam Frame, the company has confirmed it’s creating a headstrap to solve just that. Valve confirmed with PC Gamer...

In XR News What’s the story? Kopin Corporation has secured a USD $18.6 million sole-source US government award to develop two more MicroLED displays for ground soldier equipment and pilot ......

Titanfall 2 VR, a mod that brings the game’s campaign to VR headsets is no less impressive than the flatscreen version, but feels fundamentally different.The original flatscreen version of Titanfall...

The Magic Castle is an exclusive private club and home to the Academy of Magical Arts. It sits on a hill overlooking old Hollywood and hosts members and invited guests as they present and enjoy some...

Valve's kernel source describes a 3,552 by 3,840 per-eye panel codenamed Plano. The one mode switched on sends 1,776 by 1,920 and lets the panel scale it up, fewer pixels than the LCD Steam Frame on sale now. Full resolution needs an overclocked display link, and 120Hz is marked as not working.

Remnants, written and directed by Ti West, arrives Friday in the Apple TV app on Vision Pro, at 27 minutes and rated PG-13. It is Apple's first horror film in Apple Immersive Video, and it lands eight weeks after Bloomberg reported that Apple was shrinking the team that makes those films.

BattleGroupVR2 in Early Access is already an enticing tactical simulation in space that improves on its predecessor on nearly every level.Strategy games are almost perfect for VR - positioning a...

The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand is a spooky and mystical shooter that gives players their very own magic wand and a list of tricky spells to conjure - though you should expect plenty of grinding and...

At Meta Connect, before Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote, I randomly stumbled on Amy Hedrick, the CEO of Cleanbox. She quickly showed me their new product, the Cleanbox Nano made to sanitize smartglasses. I...

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Global-sub-ENG-Sensing-Art-video-2.mp4 Today, Meta, Pinacoteca di Brera and EssilorLuxottica are proud to launch “Sensing Art – Discovering...

This month, descend into the criminal underworld of early 20th-century Sicily in Mafia: The Old Country, brave a deadly frontier filled with awe-inspiring machines in Horizon Forbidden West, or take...

The launch of Meta VR Glasses next year will mark the first time any of the company’s standalone headsets has featured expandable storage. Now, Meta and Sandisk have partnered to offer official ‘Made...

A reliable source says that Nothing is building out its own AI smart glasses that feature ChatGPT integration, a camera, and two very different models. more…

Though SunnyD is a well-known beverage brand, it’s keen to sustain its household-name positioning. So it turned to AR to engage its teenage target audience and stay relevant. What were the...

Index, Valve’s PC VR headset released in 2019, is officially on its way out. And to see it along, Valve has dropped the price of everything Index-related. The News Valve Index is no longer being...

Valve's Index page is now headed “Valve Index Sunset.” The headset is $399.20, down from $499, and the only other items left are a left controller and a tether. No base stations, no right controller, no full kit.

SideQuest 1.4.0 added x86_64 and aarch64 Flatpak builds and dropped the USB cable from Quest setup. It shipped on October 6, a week before this week's coverage, and 1.4.1 followed six hours later to patch the wireless path.

Samsung’s first Android XR glasses are right around the corner and, ahead of launch, another leak reveals every style you’ll be able to buy. more…

Andrew Eiche also claims layoffs are becoming commonplace within the VR industry because some companies refuse to meet audiences with what they want.

For AR glasses geared to industrial work, weight matters more than the price, because it determines whether the device is worn for a single task or all day. How do these and other factors map Snap...

Terrible Posture Games announced a major update for their roguelite shooter Mothergunship: Forge, the first major update in three years.Called the "Thank You, Recruit! Update," it drops on October...

SideQuest has been the number one unofficial store for Quest games ever since its founding in 2019. Now, it just got a lot easier to download and get playing. Downloading SideQuest used to mean going...

Andrew Eiche told Game Developer that studios cutting staff ignored data pointing at social games like Gorilla Tag. The single-player closures fit that. Rec Room, A Township Tale and Ultimechs do not, and Owlchemy's own players asked for controllers and a solo mode.

Hello! A quick note from my cab to the airport as I head back from Paris to New York. I’ll spare you a write-up this… Continue reading → Innovation Brief: OpenAI’s Always-On Agents This post appeared...

Regulatory filings in Japan may have inadvertently leaked Pico’s next flagship headset in full—inside and out. As first spotted by UploadVR, images of Pico’s Vison Pro competitor ‘Space Pro’ have...

Getting a Steam Frame for the holidays could be a bit dicey, as Valve says the order queue has now stretched into 2027. Valve says in a news update that customers hoping to get their hands on Steam...

Valve just released a new update for Steam Frame that improves battery lifetime, steaming quality, connectivity issues, and more. Steam Frame launched last month, bringing with it the ability for...

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In XR News What’s the story? Avalon Holographics has announced it has received a CAD $11.7 million commitment from Lockheed Martin Canada for its holographic displays, including a new CAD ......

Valve's October 9 update gives Steam Frame reservation holders one of two windows, by December or in 2027, with 72 hours to buy once the email lands. The waitlist gets no date at all, and it only moves when a region's reservation queue is finished.

Valve released the Steam Frame's CAD files and the electrical document for its front expansion port on October 9. The pinout shows the PCIe lane is shared with the left camera's pins, the port can draw 6 watts, and anything unapproved plugged into it voids the warranty.

Google tagged XR Blocks v0.22.0 on October 10, its first release in more than six weeks. THREE.WebGPURenderer now runs in the desktop simulator, the notes state plainly that the spatial UI does not, and the on-device AI samples ship without a single performance number.

Micron's Form 10-K for the year ended September 3, filed October 9, adds smart glasses to the consumer products list in its Automotive and Embedded unit and says AR glasses are driving new demand for low-power memory. The same paragraph in the fiscal 2025 filing did not mention glasses.

Crimson Eye runs to November 1, and it is the first one since Kinetic replaced Phasmophobia's VR character rig. The three VR bugs still open in August were fixed 16 days later, Double XP starts October 15, and your friends do not need headsets to join.

Texas against Oklahoma streamed live in 180 degrees on Quest on October 10, with the replay up for seven days. Meta's post names the app and the playoff games still to come, and says nothing about price, countries or the next fixture.

Resolution Games is retiring Ultimechs online multiplayer on October 20 and delisting both the game and its Spectator client the same day. The game had a VR Master League season and balance patches tuned on league match data, and its Steam page had been silent since October 2023.

AVP Play downloads the Quest games your Meta account owns, translates them with a fork of the Klepton toolchain, signs them with your own Apple developer certificate and installs them on a Vision Pro. Thirteen games have tested recipes, up from seven at Thursday's launch, about 17,000 are listed, and a paid Apple Developer membership is not optional.

XREAL priced AURA at $1,279, Pimax put $1,399 on Crystal Pro without agreeing with itself on a ship date, a reseller listed Pico Space Pro at $2,899, the Steam Frame got its first survey line, Sony Group's VR patents turned up at Meta, and Walkabout Mini Golf added a do-over button.

Phasmophobia's Crimson Eye runs to November 1, VRChat's Spookality winners go on show October 16, a VR horror game jam closes October 22 and Steam Scream V opens October 26. Ten dates between now and November 2, each checked at its source.

Schneider Electric signed an agreement on October 4 to buy PTC for $205 a share. The announcement describes the business as CAD, PLM, ALM and SLM, and PTC's latest 10-Q reports two product groups. Vuforia, which PTC still sells in four products, appears in none of them.