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Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the size" of the team that...

Apple is cutting jobs across multiple teams, according to a new Bloomberg report. All told, the company has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and software engineering.

Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro organisation and 100 from Siri and software teams, largely shutting the headset’s gaming unit. The company says it is realigning...

In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg. Apple is...

A day after we broke the news of about 60 layoffs across the Apple Vision project, there are reportedly more in the Siri team too.Siri AI gets to live in this orb on Wes' deskCiting people familiar...

Sol Protocol, a procedurally generated space-based co-op roguelike, has announced a September 17 Early Access release date on Quest 3 & Quest 3S. Developer Singular Perception (Epyka) also opened...

Apple's first foray into computerized headsets has not gone particularly well. The latest evidence of that comes courtesy of AppleInsider, which reported this week that Apple has cut at least 60...

As public perception continues to sour, and private businesses ban smart glasses from their events and premises, it feels like the writing might be on the wall for Meta’s Ray-Bans. At least as we...

TL;DR A new leak has extensively detailed Valve’s upcoming gaming-oriented Steam Frame VR headset. Among the leaked Valve assets are videos showing the device unboxing, the Ergonomic Accessories Kit,...

Recently uncovered information paints a slightly different picture of how AirPods with cameras will work.

A source has exclusively revealed to us that Apple has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development, which aligns with incoming CEO John Ternus reportedly putting the category "on...

Pubs, restaurants, theatres, private clubs, and courtrooms — these are the venues where Meta’s nicknamed "pervert glasses" have already been banned across the UK. But could a wider blockade be soon...

Apple "has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development," reports AppleInsider, citing its own source. Apple is said to have laid off at least 60 employees from its Apple Vision Group....

Can you tell when someone nearby is wearing Meta AI glasses? As millions of people buy into the smart glasses fad each year, the odds are increasing that you could be secretly recorded while simply...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? RayNeo is expanding its consumer augmented reality glasses lineup with the launch of its new iO Smart Glasses for ambient AI productivity and ... continue...

TL;DR RayNeo’s new iO Smart Glasses put a tiny MicroLED display and AI assistant into regular-looking 33g frames, letting you glance at information without reaching for your phone. The glasses can...

TL;DR RayNeo has announced the RayNeo GT and GT Max AR glasses featuring dual 1080p, 120Hz micro-OLED displays, dual-chip architecture, and Bang & Olufsen quad speakers. The RayNeo GT will cost you...

RayNeo's latest AR smart glasses are going for very different audiences: The very discrete, and the very nerdy.

Anthropic quarterly revenue overtakes OpenAI for the first time, platforms crack down on AI slop, and Snap says AR glasses won't go mainstream until 2030. We have these and other items from AI and XR...

Months after Meta ended new development and laid off its team, Supernatural is being rebuilt as an independent company. Head of Fitness Leanne Pedante tells UploadVR about the unlikely path back.When...

NHS Supply Chain tender 2026/S 000-076079 splits a £210 million medical simulation framework into five lots, with £40 million named for immersive technology. The lot values are not ring-fenced, and the immersive lot is scored on a criterion the manikin lots do not use at all.

Rollme's AuraView and ProView put a Sony 12MP sensor on your face for $99.99, and the company's own store pages list a price, a color, and no specifications at all. Every glasses rule written this year names Meta, and none of them reach a brand nobody has heard of.

Eight Steam Frame setup videos fell out of the Steam client, Gunman Contracts set its paid launch for the day the Frame ships, ICE banned Meta glasses by name, and the NHS put £40 million of immersive training out to tender.

AppleInsider reports that Apple “has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development,” with at least 60 employees reportedly affected. Here are the details.

Puzzles of the World on Meta Quest is a well-made cozy experience that needs more content to compete with other cozy options and keep players coming back.Puzzles of the World is a miniature building...

Resolution Games has announced that Twilight's End, Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons Battlemarked's next story campaign, will release on September 22 as a paid DLC.Twilight's End will cost $9.99 on...

We went hands-on with Fast Travel Games' Payday: Aces High at a recent media session. Read on for our thoughts.James Tocchio and I played the first heist job with Erik and Kris from Fast Travel....

Our Jacob got his hands on a Steam Frame back in November of last year, and came away raving about the wireless VR headset's capabilities. Since then, we've reported on numerous signals that the...

It looks as though Valve is actually gearing up to release Steam Frame, as user setup videos have leaked showing off unboxing and first-time user experience with Valve’s first standalone VR headset....

XREAL Aura, the company’s first pair of Android XR-based glasses, are set to officially get a price point soon as the first sales figures have come in, and it’s pretty popular so far.

XREAL today announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, has now surpassed 10,000 global reservations. Xreal says the reservation milestone for the...

Surgical robotics face a gauntlet of regulatory and procedural requirements before they launch. One of those hurdles – surgeon training – is being accelerated through AR and 3D simulation. How's it...

Project Swan is now Pico Space Pro, debuting in Beijing on September 2. The claimed sheet reads 4,000 PPI micro-OLED, dual-chip compute at 12ms perception latency, and 270 grams. Nobody outside Pico has seen the hardware yet.

Virtuix named AVRT as weapons-tracking supplier for the Marine Corps Infantry Fireteam Virtual Trainer, due at Quantico in Q4. No contract value was disclosed, which is the most informative detail in the August 5 release.

The Long Survival, a co-op survival horde shooter claiming to have the biggest hordes in VR, arrives on PlayStation VR2 on August 27. Developer Friendly Fire Studios announced the date after an...

Pico’s Vision Pro competitor is set to debut at a special event in Beijing early next month, which is now officially named Pico Space Pro. As first reported by Chinese outlet Nweon, Pico Space Pro is...

Global XR consumer spending is projected to grow to U.S. $28.8 billion in 2030, according to ARtillery Intelligence. This is rapid growth, propelled by the popularity, momentum, and escalating...

I realized I never told you about a very interesting startup I met in May at the VR/AR Expo China in Shanghai: it is called Immersix and is bringing a slew of innovations to the eye-tracking field....

In XR News What’s the story? NHS Supply Chain has published a tender notice for its planned Medical Simulation and Technologies Framework, inviting suppliers to tender for one or several ... continue...

Dataminers pulled eight finished Steam Frame setup videos out of the latest ARM Steam client, including Valve's own unboxing and an unannounced Ergonomic Accessories Kit. Onboarding footage is the last thing a company finishes before it ships.

A memo from acting director David Venturella classifies Meta smart glasses as body-worn cameras and bars every ICE employee from wearing them at work, citing the risk of capturing and transmitting sensitive information. DHS is reportedly building its own biometric glasses instead.

CM Games confirmed the Quest 3 version of Into the Radius 2 leaves Early Access on August 27 with the full voice acted campaign. The telling detail: the friendly NPCs from the Steam release got their dialogue cut back after players said the silence was the point.

Blendkit opened its 67,000-asset free library to Godot with a GPLv2 plugin. Here is how it installs, what the one-click transfer actually does, and why Godot's .blend import is still the thing that will bite you.

In a developer's post released around last week's VR Games Showcase, developer Character Bank confirmed Knights of Fiona will launch free-to-play with the game's story and "additional features"...

The Light Brigade has received its final content update. Update 5.0, which also updates the game's name to The Light Brigade: The Definitive Edition, is available now for Meta Quest and Steam, with...

Ancient Dungeon VR's upcoming update, detailed in a new developer blog, introduces a new floor, enemies, relics, and augments to the roguelite dungeon crawler.Ancient Dungeon has been in Early Access...

Dystopian survival shooter Into the Radius 2 goes to a full release for Meta Quest 3/3S on August 27 after an Early Access launch in May.The game started in Quest Early Access in May 2025. Like...

Publisher Impact Inked teased Unlock The Vault, a new publishing initiative to help bring new titles to PlayStation VR2, starting with Soul Assembly's Drop Dead: The Cabin.Unlock The Vault was...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Virtuix has selected AVRT to supply weapons tracking and training content for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Infantry Fireteam Virtual Trainer system. Why it ......

All On Board expands its catalog of virtual tabletop party games with Virus!, a free new game coming on August 20 on SteamVR and Meta Quest.Developer The Game Kitchen made the announcement during...

We spoke to Scott Albright, the founder of Ghosts of Tabor developer Combat Waffle Studios, about Tomahawk, his team's anti-cheat solution for VR gaming.Scott joined us for this week's UploadVR...

CM Games announced its VR survival shooter Into the Radius 2 is officially leaving early access on Quest 3 and Quest 3S next week, bringing along with it a host of new (to Quest) content. First...

Most of our enterprise VR case studies focus on immersive training outcomes. But equally important is the technology's application to design collaboration. How did AEC powerhouse CanonDesign boost...

Gunman Contracts began as a free Half-Life: Alyx mod that a third of a million people installed. Its solo German developer just confirmed the paid standalone launches in Early Access the same day Valve ships the Steam Frame, a date Valve has still not announced.

Impact Reality, the company behind Flat2VR Studios and Impact Inked, has opened a StartEngine reservation page to extend a round its campaign material puts at $5 million. The terms are not disclosed, and the timing says something about where VR capital is coming from now.

FitXR has added knee strikes to its Combat and Flow studios on Quest.The new movement comes in two forms: Flow uses a standalone knee strike, while Combat includes both the standalone version and a...

Finding PC VR mods has always meant wading through a patchwork of Discord threads, news articles and GitHub repositories. Thanks to a new PCVR Central database though, you can now find it all in one...

Aiming for action, not reaction. Leaning into the relevance of physical places. And measuring the right things. These are best practices in AR marketing. We break it down, with lessons from real...

This has been a very special week for me because my blog turned 10 years old. It’s a huge achievement, and I’m super proud of it and super thankful for all the people who helped me reach this result....

US application 2026/0236218, published August 13, describes a recording cue that a secure microphone verifies actually played. The stated problem is not the bystander. It is that a wearer cannot see their own capture LED.

Business Insider found dozens of pickup artist and prank videos filmed on Meta glasses still live on Instagram, four weeks after Adam Mosseri said they would come down. Meta cites thousands of removals and will not say how the policy is enforced.

A new database catalogs 898 VR mods across 874 flat PC games, sorted by engine framework and graded from Excellent down to Experimental. Here is how to check it against your own Steam library.

BrushHammer: Miniature Painter, a cozy mixed reality painting app, comes to Meta Quest on August 26. The release date was confirmed in a new video during this week's VR Games Showcase: 0:00 /1:00 1×...

Post-apocalyptic survival extraction FPS CONVRGENCE is set to leave SteamVR Early Access on September 17.The Monkey-With-a-Bomb-developed shooter dropped a release date trailer in this week's VR...

Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, enough for every blind and visually impaired adult the charity supports, with funded in-person training. The camera-free tier that has taken over the privacy argument cannot do any of this.

Job Simulator's flatscreen sequel has taken $14,723 from 211 backers. A pair of display glasses that launched a week earlier has taken $793,716 from 1,002. Both campaigns are live on the same site right now.

DPVR has priced its P1 Max enterprise headset at $549 and will open sample orders in November. Auganix has also corrected its 2025 story, which reported the same headset as already available for global enterprise customers.

WinlatorXR runs Windows games on a standalone headset with no PC, and its compatibility list now marks Half-Life 2 as working on Quest 3. A Half-Life: Alyx guide went up Thursday night. The head tracking arrives over UDP, and the mode list matters more than the headline.

The August VR Games Showcase ran 29 games, and Flat2VR Studios closed it by announcing official VR versions of System Shock and High on Life. The studio started as a modding community. Plus every dated release from the show.

SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta shipped on August 7 with one line about preliminary support for the Steam Frame Wireless Adapter. The dongle plugs into the host machine, which is the detail that makes a Linux driver interesting.