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Conversation focus is being limited to three hours a month for some Meta glasses usersFor a longer 15 hours a month limit you'll need to pay for Meta One PremiumThe feature is handled on device, so...

Modder Alex Le Tux has released the first public build of Perfect Dark VR, a fanmade port for Quest headsets and PC VR.Back in February we reported on a preview video showcasing a fan-made port of...

Meta will charge glasses users $20/month for a new Meta One Premium subscription, and one of the first features to get locked down is “Conversation Focus.”

Apple’s longtime Vision Pro hardware chief, who was promoted last year to lead the company’s broader headsets and smart glasses hardware group, has left to join OpenAI.First reported by Bloomberg's...

After years of interminable waiting, Discord has officially released an app for Quest, which is now available for free on the Horizon Store. While Quest fans have been begging for an official Discord...

Most XR investment strategy decisions are made in the wrong room. A Chief Innovation Officer walks out of a vendor demo, presents a compelling pilot concept to the board, and secures budget on the...

Sony today announced it’s starting the clock on the production of physical discs, as the company is set to adopt a full digital marketplace at the start of 2028. All new games releasing on...

'Rate limits' on AI features will surely be popular with the masses.

Another Axiom announced Gorilla Tag, Quest’s most popular game, is coming to mobile devices in a standalone game, titled Gorilla Tag: Monke Mayhem. The free-to-play sandbox game is slated to land on...

Manufacturing environments need to train new hires to effectively operate equipment... but those environments can be inherently dangerous. Coca-Cola got around this issue with VR training. What were...

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses and the latest cheaper non-designer option are sold on the basis of the built-in AI features, but the company has just announced a “ridiculous” limit on the free usage you can...

TL;DR Meta has capped its Conversation Focus feature on smart glasses to three hours of usage per month. You can pay for a $19.99/month Meta One subscription to get 15 hours of usage per month....

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink announced the company has successfully performed its first transdural brain implant surgery, which promises to increase scalability while...

A leaked Galaxy Glasses Manager app suggests Samsung’s smart glasses could tie deeply into Galaxy phones, Watches, Rings, Gemini, and Android XR.

Meta's Conversation Focus feature for smart glasses is now only free for three hours a month.

Meta has capped free use of Conversation Focus, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses feature that amplifies a speaker's voice in loud settings, to three hours a month. Unlocking more requires users to subscribe...

After years of clunky workarounds, Discord released an official native app for Meta Quest today, free on the Horizon Store. The headline feature is not voice or video. It is the ability to pin a Discord call in your playspace while you play anything else.

A-Frame 1.8.0 caught up to Three.js r184, retired the Oculus branding, dropped the last of WebVR, and quietly fixed a bug that was blocking WebXR Layers requests. It is a boring changelog, and that is exactly why it matters.

The app's arrival follows an announcement at last year's Meta Connect conference.

Credit: Adam Birney / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak has provided a first look at the Galaxy Glasses manager app. The app will be the central hub for everything related to the smart glasses....

Starting today, a mobile version of the popular game show Family Feud is available on Apple Arcade, and four more games are coming this week. Apple says the game provides an "authentic, true-to-show...

Apple today updated its Creator Studio apps, adding new AI features to Pixelmator Pro, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and more. Apple is integrating Pixelmator Pro with Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Numbers,...

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Glasses are not coming out in the immediate future, but new leaks shed a bit of new light on the first Android XR glasses.

Season 14 is now live in Diablo 4, and we have some major changes. For starters, we have a brand-new storyline that continues beyond the previous season. Blizzard has also entirely changed how...

Arm chips are making increasing inroads into the realm of PC gaming. Valve is already all over the chip architecture, and is planning to launch an Arm-specific version of SteamOS alongside its...

Cave Crave (2025) developer 3R Games is bringing Thailand’s Tham Luang cave system to VR, the very same that gained global recognition in 2018 after a local junior football team became trapped inside...

Meta has announced the next version of its AI system for non-invasively decoding brain activity into text. Called Brain2Qwerty v2, the company hopes its latest method will help people with...

After Evan Spiegel unveiled Specs last week, questions were sparked. Fortunately, we got the chance to ask those questions in an AWE panel discussion. Moderated by AR Insider Editor Mike Boland, it...

It’s the last day of June, and I’m writing this newsletter across airports during my trip to Berlin to be a mentor at the XRCC hackathon. It’s a pretty busy period of the year… Top news of the week...

The first half of 2026 is officially in the books, and it was a genuinely strong six months to own a headset. From a PCVR survival masterpiece to two puzzle legends reborn on PSVR2, here are the VR games that earned my time, and yours.

Virtuix just launched Omni One for Quest, the first VR treadmill ever to earn Meta's official 'Made for Meta' certification. At $2,595 it is not the device that fixes VR locomotion at scale, but it is the moment a critical door for VR peripherals finally opened.

XREAL opened reservations for AURA, its Android XR display glasses, with a retail price capped at no more than $1,500 and a Fall 2026 launch. That is roughly $700 below Snap's Specs, and it makes AURA the most affordable serious entry into display AR yet. The catch is in the architecture.

Looking for a list of all the new VR games and DLCs coming to Quest, Steam, PlayStation VR2, and other platforms in July? We've got you covered.June might have been lighter on new VR releases after a...

Meta Horizon Store's "Peak Summer Sale" is on, offering major savings on hundreds of Quest, games, apps, and DLC.Not to be outdone by the Steam Summer Sale, Meta's Horizon Store for Quest headsets...

What were the biggest takeaways from XR's Super bowl, AWE? Following our coverage of the major What were the biggest takeaways from XR's Super Bowl, AWE? Guest author Mat Pawuczuk breaks down his...

It’s heat wave season again, which means Meta is throwing out some pretty sweet deals on some of the best Quest games out there. From now until July 5th, you’ll be able to grab some of our favorite...

Apple’s top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI. According to a Bloomberg report, longtime Apple hardware exec Paul Meade is leaving...

Resolution Games quietly turned its tabletop dungeon crawler into the first XR title that runs across all six major headset platforms, and the Xreal Aura addition makes Android XR a first-class citizen in the lobby.

Valve's price reveal and Meta's Quest 4 delay got the headlines, but the most consequential VR hardware news of the month was a chip. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite is 60 percent faster on graphics, runs 12 degrees cooler, and runs AI models on-device, and nearly every headset and glasses maker builds on top of it.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact....

Horror is the one genre virtual reality does better than any medium ever invented, and 2026 is proving it. From the summer showcase reveals to the games that players literally cannot finish, here is why VR turns fear into something your body cannot argue with.

Color-A-Cube is a cozy VR and MR color-by-number game built around voxel models and simple, satisfying interactions. It's the sort of game that encourages you to slow down rather than chase a high...

SpatialGen Zeus is a new 3U rack-mounted system built for live immersive video workflows, including Apple Immersive Video. The company says Zeus can ingest, encode, package, and distribute demanding...

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has hired Paul Meade, who had been in charge of Apple Vision Pro and Apple’s smart glasses initiative. Here are the details.

The best time of the year is here! Steam's Summer Sale is offering massive discounts on hundreds of VR titles right now. Steam's annual Summer Sale has kicked off and will run until July 9 at 1pm ET,...

Urgh. Have you seen memory prices lately? If you somehow haven’t, make sure to look through your fingers, as they are truly terrifying. DDR5 RAM sticks are ungodly expensive, older DDR4's not much...

Alta announced it’s sunsetting multiplayer RPG A Township Tale (2021) next month, making for a second bit of bad news this year since the studio pulled the plug on its follow-up game, Reave. Alta...

Combat Waffle Studios, developer behind VR extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor (2024), announced the studio is laying off a number of staff in effort to “align the company with the current state of...

AWE wraps while Sony, Adobe and Google make big investments or acquisitions to buttress their AI arsenals. We have these and other items from AI & XR realms, through the lens of Charlie FInk. This...

Apple raised the Vision Pro to $3,699 on June 25 even though it has no consumer successor coming and only about 5 percent of the XR market. A price hike on a product nobody buys is an enterprise signal, not a consumer one.

After last week's AWE frenzy, this week settled into substance: a strong VR Games Showcase, confirmed Steam Machine pricing that hints at the Steam Frame's launch, a clever performance update, and a mid-year reckoning for Android XR. Here is what mattered.

XREAL continues to pioneer the smart glasses form factor, and with power from Asus display hardware, the ROG R1 is born. The XREAL ROG R1 glasses make a solid companion for mobile gaming and, to an...

Ghosts of Tabor's developer announced a staff reduction, multiplayer games Quantaar and A Township Tale announced shutdowns, and sci-fi FPS Memoreum is out of full-time development after poor...

Beat Saber's latest shock drop, an ongoing series of solo tracks of popular songs mapped by developer Beat Games, is Yungblud's Grammy nominated alternative rock hit single, "Zombie." This drop...

Strong Bad and company take to the links in Walkabout Mini Golf's latest add-on. More than the typical Walkabout DLC course, the Homestar Runner Distraction Pack features multiple activities,...

Iconic rock band Linkin Park joins the Synth Riders Music Pack collection today with thirteen officially licensed tracks, including recent hit The Emptiness Machine.This is the third consecutive...

The team behind Ghosts of Tabor 'remains confident' in the future of VR.

Apple increased the price of many of its products, including the Vision Pro headset, which now starts at $3700.The Apple Vision Pro (M5) price increases are as follows:256GB: $3499 –> $3699 (a $200...

Originally launched on Meta Quest in November 2025 and now arriving on Steam, Starvault is an online shooter that bills itself as VR's first true first-person MOBA. Sometimes a game catches you...

Customer expectations have shifted considerably as they're conditioned to expect a buyer journey that feels personal and worth their time. So brands across industries are building for that reality....

Valve confirmed the Steam Machine starts at $1,049 and ships June 30, with the pre-order lottery closing today. The number nobody loves tells us almost everything about what Steam Frame will cost.

Unity's latest Android XR update expands Application SpaceWarp support to include standard UI and text. It is a small line in a changelog that points at one of the most important performance tricks in mobile VR. Here is how SpaceWarp actually works, and why it matters.

Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime from Collabora, now sits under Android XR, NVIDIA CloudXR, Pico, and Snapdragon Spaces. Here is why the industry quietly standardized on it.

Wizherd is a free-to-play co-op dungeon crawler on Meta Quest where you sling elemental spells with your own hands. The magic system is clever, the co-op is chaotic fun, and the price is right, even if the rough edges are real.

The Summer 2026 VR Games Showcase aired today, and the reveal that stuck with me is Breachers: Outbreak, a four-player co-op zombie extraction shooter from the studio behind Breachers and Forefront. Here is why the pivot is smarter than it looks.

In March we argued Android XR could be the most important platform launch since Android itself. We are now halfway through 2026. The hardware has shipped, the developer tools are real, and one big promise is still missing. Here is how the thesis is holding up.

Samsung opened Galaxy XR preorders in the UK at £1,699 ahead of a July 8 ship date. The headline number is the price, but the £665 Explorer Pack bundle is where Android XR's actual strategy shows up.

The orchestra-conducting rhythm game Maestro arrived on PSVR2 on June 20 with a John Williams Star Wars track and a lightsaber baton. It is a delight. It is also only the third PSVR2 game to support hand tracking, which says a lot about a feature Sony shipped and the industry mostly ignored.

The Quest 4 is still unannounced, and the rumor mill has only gotten louder. Here is our continually updated tracker on the release window, the design and weight direction, the new OLED display reporting, and where the price is heading, with every claim labeled confirmed, reported, or rumor.

VR platforming was one of the genres that made early headsets feel like magic, and then it went quiet. Hyperstacks, a neon action-platformer with a built-in level editor, has its demo live at Steam Next Fest, and it is the one I am loading up first.