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The Frankfort fire department is warning owners of the ‘VR Goggles’ after footage shows debris flying and dogs in a panic

WWDC 2026 has come to a close, and it brought a number of announcements with the headliner being the new Siri AI functionality available both in a standalone app and integrated throughout most of...

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.

The UploadVR Showcase - Summer 2026 has come and gone, and with that came a killer lineup of VR games that brought a little bit of something for everyone. A huge thank you goes out to all who...

Dark Trip receives a major update today, adding the long-awaited 15th room to the game.The psychedelic horror escape room game Dark Trip got a major update today during the UploadVR Showcase. The...

Rustmourne, a sci-fi horror shooter inspired by Dead Space and Half-Life: Alyx, was revealed at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase.The new game reveal trailer, seen here, closed out the showcase: 0:00...

Bomb the Hill, a cinematic VR downhill skateboarding game inspired by the outlaw spirit of 1970s freeride culture, is coming to SteamVR this summer.During today's UploadVR Showcase, Pokodzima Games...

Hyperlane Highway is a roguelite shooter that utilizes a unique 'head-leaning' locomotion system designed to mitigate VR motion sickness. The high speed FPS hits Early Access on SteamVR & Meta Quest...

Cozy low poly truck driving simulator Poly Truck's new gameplay trailer at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase confirmed a Q4 2026 release window. Watch the trailer here: 0:00 /1:02 1× Poly Truck is a...

Jetpack Clankers joins a crowded field of free-to-play social apps on Meta Quest when it debuts on June 16, forgoing the popular arm-based movement system popularized by Gorilla Tag for jets to move...

Apple shows up late to the AI party, while the curtain rises on AWE USA and the cinematic AI hits keep coming. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the lens of Charlie Fink....

The Obsessive Shadow Chapter 2, the successor to the 2025 survival horror game, follows a new character being stalked by a shadowy creature. The sequel was announced at today's UploadVR Summer...

Project NEOS is a futuristic survival thriller trapping players on a space station entirely controlled by a killer artificial intelligence. The announcement trailer premiered at today's UploadVR...

Voxel coloring game Color-A-Cube leaves Early Access and officially launches version 1.0 next week on Quest and PICO. As announced during today's UploadVR Showcase, the full release of cozy VR...

Mixed reality hand tracking platformer Disembodied is coming to Quest 3/3S in October. After a lengthy development cycle, Disembodied is coming to Quest this year, on October 15. Disembodied is a...

Theremin, a mixed reality musical app named after the instrument of the same name, will add an update on July 1 to record a single performance and play alongside it to create more robust music. Most...

The mixed reality miniature figure painting app BrushHammer is coming to Quest this August. BrushHammer is a mixed-reality game that lets you build, collect, paint, and display miniature figures....

Pedal Rebel VR is a cyberpunk street racing game that you can play on a real exercise bike and turn your whole body into the controller. A new trailer at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase confirmed an...

Cozy wooden miniature building puzzler Puzzles of the World announced its full release on July 23 on Meta Quest at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase. Watch the trailer here: 0:00 /1:08 1× It...

Narrative investigation game Detective VR is coming to PlayStation VR2 and PC VR on September 9. Announced during today's UploadVR Showcase, Detective VR is coming to PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on...

Lanesplit, an urban motorcycle street racing game, announced VR support will be added on Steam on June 23.The announcement was made during today's UploadVR Summer Showcase. Watch the trailer here:...

Salmon Man is a rage baiting physics-based platformer in same vein as viral hits Jump King and Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy. A multiplayer update this July will let players bring their friends...

The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand adds a wrinkle to the standard arcade shooting formula this September. Instead of guns, the early 20th century fantasy shooter uses gesture-based spells to defeat...

Sol Protocol, a co-op roguelike with procedurally generated stellar systems, hits Meta Quest in Early Access in September following multiple open alpha playtests.A new trailer was revealed at today's...

C.A.B.A. is a terrifying first-person horror experience coming to PlayStation VR2, Quest, and SteamVR.C.A.B.A. (Center of Anomalies of Buenos Aires), is a short first-person survival horror...

Bootstrap Island's first major update since launch offers a friendlier on-ramp for those new to the survival genre.Maru VR has revealed the release of Major Update 1.1.0 for Bootstrap Island, the...

A new trailer has provided a closer look at Guardians Planetfall, an upcoming squad-based VR shooter that's been described as "VR's answer to Helldivers 2."First revealed during December 2025's...

Just in time for America's 250th anniversary, Disney Imagineers tapped Apple Vision Pro to help give one of their most iconic flight rides a patriotic makeover.A Disney audio engineer wears the Apple...

The gadget often criticized for seeing too much is about to help thousands of blind veterans see the world a little differently.

Siri AI is a major upgrade and big highlight of iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and more. But only newer Apple devices will support the overhauled Siri. Here’s the full list of Siri...

“When I lost my eyesight in Desert Storm from a bunker explosion, I also lost my independence. The moment I put on my Ray-Ban Meta glasses, I got my independence back.” — Don Overton, a blind veteran...

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery...

The team behind the Wanderer games announced the cancellation of Wanderer 2 & the end of ongoing support for Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, the remake of the original Wanderer. Developer Mighty...

I like numbers. Data feels sure. What could be better than measurable progress, a way of quantifying the world to stop arguments before they start? But as we all know, people find plenty of reason...

With the Steam Frame set to launch at some point in the summer, according to Valve, we don't have that long until we're expected to see the VR headset on sale. If its recent shipping manifest is...

According to recent import records, Valve seems to be gearing up for the imminent launch of Steam Frame. As spotted by XR analyst Brad Lynch, Valve has imported a large number “virtual reality...

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Valve confirmed that Steam Frame is shipping "this summer", and import logs show pallets of the headset arriving at the company's US warehouses.When revealing Steam Frame back in November, Valve said...

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.

Meta rolled out the ability to develop visual apps for Meta Ray-Ban Display, controlled by Meta Neural Band, and developers are already building interesting things.Developers have been able to extend...

A public filing shows VRChat reporting a data breach affecting over 2 million users to Maine's Attorney General. But the filing is fake, and the apparent employee who made it does not exist.The...

CleanSheet Soccer 2, a goalkeeping simulator built specifically for PlayStation VR2, is out now. This new title reimagines the Meta Quest exclusive subscription-based CleanSheet Soccer Pro as a fully...

Because Apple tossed out a slide that has no context outside the keynote, the internet has convinced itself that Siri AI is only coming to hardware released since 2024. That's untrue.The new Siri AI...

VidCon 2026 kicks off in less than two weeks in Anaheim on Thursday, June 25, with three days of panels, events, creator meetups, and festivities.While some sessions are open to all VidCon attendees,...

Tal Bar-Or, Founder and CEO of AI hearing eyewear startup Altina, says big tech is building smart glasses the wrong way – and mainstream adoption will remain out of reach until the industry puts...

Now that the Trump Mobile T1 phone is available for purchase, we finally have a chance to see what's it really made of. And, as suspected, it's not a very original device. The folks at iFixit have...

In spite of the AI-heavy WWDC, Apple Vision Pro still got plenty of attention with visionOS 27. Here's what Apple got right and where it still needs work.Apple Vision Pro gets another great update...

Samsung’s Galaxy XR has been making a strong case for enterprise adoption since Android Enterprise support landed earlier this year. But the company’s latest real-world deployment makes a different...

According to video discovered in Pico’s public SDK, it appears the company’s next flagship headset has just been leaked. Trusted data miner and serial leaker Luna was sent what appears to be a number...

What’s the story? Distance and Supacat have signed a three-year framework agreement to integrate Distance’s AR HUD and computational optics stack across Supacat HMT vehicles. Why it matters By...

Qualcomm seems to be teasing its next-gen Snapdragon XR chipset targeted at standalone headsets, something the company says we’ll learn more about “soon.” It’s uncertain whether Qualcomm is getting...

Two years after its splashy Apple Intelligence unveiling, and lots of handwringing since, Apple has made good on its AI promise. At WWDC, it painted a more tangible picture of AI's integration across...

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.

Meta is spinning out Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, three years after its $400 million acquisition of Within. The original founders and coaches return, the current app shuts down December 3, and the subscription doubles to $20 a month.

At Computex 2026 Acer unveiled the AR Vision GR0 display glasses and Gemini-powered GI0 AI Glasses, its first XR hardware since 2019. Aggressive pricing meets a 60Hz spec sheet, and another PC giant joins the smart glasses race.

Meta released open-source agentic tools for native Quest development, anchored by the Horizon Debug Bridge: an MCP server with 40+ tools that lets AI coding assistants search docs, debug on real headsets, and analyze performance traces. The native toolchain just caught up to the AI era.