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In XR News What’s the story? Meta has awarded nearly USD $2 million in AI Glasses Impact Grants to 30 organizations across the United States supporting accessibility, education, and workforce ......

Walkabout Dungeon Golfer, initially presented as a fake April Fools Day game earlier this year, was formally announced in today's special Mighty Coconut Presents video.We also got the course trailer...

No Man's Sky, one of gaming's greatest comeback stories, celebrated its ten year anniversary with a new video covering its major updates over the years with an ending teasing its next one.Earlier...

The fifth round of developer betas is here for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 as testing for the milestone releases rolls on.An earlier iOS 27 beta screenApple has...

Apple today provided developers with the fifth beta of an upcoming visionOS 27 update for testing purposes, with the beta coming two weeks after Apple released the fourth beta. visionOS 27 can be...

Are you ready for a new episode of this roundup of the best XR news of the week? Of course you are… otherwise, you wouldn’t be here! Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Speculations and updates...

Apple and Major League Baseball have announced the first games of their new season, and in the US and certain other countries, many will be streamed in Immersive Video to Apple Vision Pro users.Major...

Friday Night Baseball is coming to Apple Immersive starting on August 28. Right off the bat, the live stream will be widely available to Apple Vision Pro users with an Apple TV subscription both in...

Apple and MLB today released the September schedule for Apple TV's weekly Friday Night Baseball doubleheader. The games are included with an Apple TV subscription at no additional cost, and there is...

I feel surprisingly emotional today. Ten years ago, on 9th August 2016, PlayStation Travellers across the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky. The first words from their...

Starting on Friday, August 28th, Apple will begin streaming Friday Night Baseball in immersive video on Apple Vision Pro. The stream will feature commentary from various analysts and reporters, and...

Apple is making another foray into live Apple Immersive content for Apple Vision Pro. The company has announced that it will stream four upcoming Friday Night Baseball games in Apple Immersive video...

Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced they’re bringing a handful of live baseball games to Vision Pro, with livestreamed games starting on August 28th. When Apple initially announced the...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In July, Call of Duty: Black Ops II dominated the charts for PS5 and PS4 in the US and EU. While I...

D.E.C.A.Y. is a new survival shooter set in a dystopian post-nuclear war America. It releases on SteamVR in Early Access on August 21.D.E.C.A.Y., short for the Department of Environmental Control And...

Viture Pro 2 launched this week, joining a robust line of video display glasses from Viture. The device weighs 63 grams and costs $299 – making it a significant evolution from its predecessor. This...

In XR News What’s the story? Roblox experience Music Festival Tycoon, which lets players build and grow their own music festivals, has added CORTIS as its first featured artist ahead ... continue...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Zappar has announced a major update to its Spaces indoor navigation platform, adding accessibility features, richer landmark content, rebuilt route...

In Mixed Reality and Robotics News What’s the story? The U.S. Air Force has added $2.9 million to Palladyne AI’s STRATFI contract, lifting the total value to over $10.6 million. ... continue reading...

Wetherspoons, Soho House, ATG theatres, and Comic-Con UK are all moving to ban Meta's camera glasses from their venues. The first institutional wall for AR is here, and it is aimed at the camera, not the display.

Four Friday Night Baseball games will stream live in Apple Immersive Video on Vision Pro, starting August 28 with the Red Sox at the Yankees. The feed is 8K and 180-degree, it reaches nine markets, and four games is a pilot rather than a season.

BetterVR adds stereo rendering, physics-based roomscale, and motion controls to Breath of the Wild through the Cemu emulator. Crementif opened the repo in 2021 and has shipped 21 releases since December, and the changelogs are the clearest public record of what moving a flat game into VR actually costs.

A free GitHub mod puts you in the driver's seat of Mario Kart 64 with full head tracking and four view modes. It had been public since June with fifteen stars. One thirty-second clip changed that, and the pattern says more about VR's discovery problem than it does about Mario.

Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at the game Electronauts and what it can teach us about smart VR interface design. Editor’s Note:...

China-based projector manufacturer XGIMI launched a crowdfunding campaign in June for its first smart glasses, MemoMind One, which is banking on consumer interest in display-clad smart glasses that...

Valve quietly changed the requirements for games aiming to run natively on Steam Frame, the company’s long-awaited standalone headset. The News Valve first announced at Game Developers Conference...

Snap's earnings beat provides a jolt while Meta weathers a societal backlash against AI glasses and cinematic AI continues to gear up. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds through the...

In XR News What’s the story? A USAF contract under which Enduvo delivers interactive courseware for aircraft maintenance, pilot training, egress and fuels has been extended through to 2028. Why ......

I've heard that if you close your eyes and keep them shut, it's impossible to stay awake for more than seven minutes. I'm not sure if that's true, but I know it took less time than that for Dream...

XR Replay, the latest app from the developer of the popular Quest Games Optimizer, auto-records the last few minutes of gameplay so you can save it at any time.Imagine you are playing a Quest game...

Virtual Desktop's latest beta release for Quest adds USB support for wired PC streaming, a long-requested feature.Virtual Desktop has been a popular choice for PC VR gamers on standalone headsets for...

Valve added a Steam Frame compatibility record to The Lab on July 9, then cut it from category 3 to Unsupported on July 29 and moved it onto an ARM64 Proton runtime on August 5. Its own VR demo is failing a bar a free Half-Life 2 mod just cleared.

Valve quietly cut the Steam Frame Verified bar to 72 fps and a free Half-Life 2 mod cleared it, Viture dropped display glasses to $299, Snap set September 16, and a peer-reviewed study clocked Vision Pro surgeons 19 percent faster.

Researchers at UC San Diego published the first controlled comparison of Apple Vision Pro against a standard endoscopy monitor, across 32 tear duct surgeries in the journal AJO International. The headset group averaged 34.4 minutes against 42.7, with identical outcomes, and all five surgeons preferred the headset.

The developers of the Half-Life 2: VR Mod have announced that the mod is now Steam Frame Verified. Source VR Mod Team, the developers behind the Half-Life 2: VR Mod, have confirmed that the latest...

VR Games Showcase is turning two years old soon, and this time around VR’s biggest gaming showcase is promising another slate of VR game reveals and updates from this year’s most anticipated titles....

VITURE today launched its latest AR glasses, VITURE Pro 2, which the company calls its thinnest, lightest and most comfortable yet. Alongside it, Viture also unveiled a new, more pocketable USB-C...

Not ready to plonk down your first $100 on Quest games? Thankfully there’s an impressive number of free games, experiences, apps, and social VR platforms to keep you playing before you’re paying....

Apple has a knack for aligning devices and killer apps. It made the Apple Watch a health tracker, among other things. Could it carry this same torch with Apple smart glasses, with a focus on fitness?...

Even Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged that Vision Pro is a niche product. I’ve argued in the past that it’s an essential step along the way to a more affordable and consumer-friendly Apple Glasses...

At AWE, I was able to get in touch with the team building the Raven Prism, which are upcoming smart glasses with a strong focus on privacy and openness. Let me tell you more about this very...

Source VR Mod Team announced on August 4 that Half-Life 2: VR Mod is Steam Frame Verified, and eye-tracked foveated rendering is what finally got it over the bar. Valve still is not making a Steam Frame game. It is starting to look like it might not have to.

Viture's new display glasses land at $299 with Sony micro-OLED panels at 120Hz, 1,600 nits, and a 63-gram frame. That is $160 under the Pro they replace, and it drops the floor of the glasses market far below the $699 and $2,195 products sharing the same word.

G-Rebels from Reakktor Studios has arrived on Steam in Early Access, bringing a futuristic flight sim heavily inspired by the classic 1997 title G-Police into VR. Launching a technically ambitious...

Unseen Reality’s crowdfunding campaign for URXR One surpassed $500,000 within 24 hours of launch yesterday, showing clear demand for the company’s first slim and light mixed reality glasses. URXR One...

What do Meta's Q2 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some financial reverse engineering. This post appeared...

Beyond Frames Entertainment is the main publisher behind many of Combat Waffle Studios’ VR titles, including Ghosts of Tabor (2024), Silent North (2025), and GRIM (2025). Now the VR games publisher...

Pine Studio opened a public VR preview for Escape Simulator 2 through Steam's open_beta branch, with every official room playable and a free full VR update planned before the end of 2026.

Valve's partner documentation now sets the standalone VR bar at 72 fps at 1728x1728 per eye, down from the 90 FPS announced at GDC 2026. There was no changelog and no announcement, and a reader, Simplex, caught it before we did.

Cybercore Protocol is a mixed reality action game that blends elements of tower defense, wave shooters, and melee combat games into something not wholly unique, yet undeniably fun.I've spent the past...

Combat Waffle Studios' Ghosts of Tabor, Grim, and Silent North will soon have a new publisher as original publisher Beyond Frames is selling the publishing rights to a new company for $1 million.We...

System Critical 3 does not shy away from its old-school arcade inspirations, but it ends up being what is assuredly one of the worst VR games in recent years.Video games are inherently art. So what...

While Apple’s first-gen smart glasses aren’t expected to include fitness tracking, although a recent report suggests the company ultimately hopes to put fitness at the center of its next big product...

38 percent of U.S. adults have tried mobile AR, and 83 percent of those do so at least monthly. These results flow from ARtillery Intelligence's latest original survey research with Thrive Analytics....

In XR News What’s the story? NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a library for building spatially aware multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and ... continue reading Source

Gloop Lair arrives August 13 as the 41st Walkabout Mini Golf course since 2020, in a year where I have written seven VR shutdown stories. The tell is not the release cadence, it is the day Mighty Coconut raised its base price and handed six paid courses to existing owners for free.

Mighty Coconut returns to Walkabout Mini Golf's ongoing Evil Lairs series with Gloop Lair, its next DLC course, due out August 13.Gloop Lair is the fourth of six planned add-on courses for Walkabout...

It’s hot here in Italy… It’s so hot that I miss my time in November in Finland when I was freezing! This week in XR has been kinda lukewarm, with no huge news happening, but this newsletter is still...

The August update for Meta's Horizon+ subscription for Quest headsets brings 2 great monthly games and five new catalog titles.The August titles arrive shortly after the service expanded to include...

You can now get an early look at Escape Simulator 2's VR mode in a recently unveiled VR open beta. In a Steam blog update, Pine Studio has revealed an open public VR preview for their best-selling...

Specs' launch date is finally known: September 16th. While the June unveiling previewed the device, we couldn't try it on and see/feel the UX. And with this type of product, UX is everything. So this...

Samsung Galaxy XR enterprise adoption has moved beyond the launch-day question of whether Android could compete with Apple Vision Pro. Ten months after Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm introduced the...

Snap will hold a full launch event for Specs on September 16 in Los Angeles, with Evan Spiegel giving the first in-depth look at the $2,195 AR glasses and attendees going hands-on. It is the first firm date on a fall calendar where every other AR product has only committed to a season.

Lepton and FEX went public on Steam on August 2, which puts the Steam Frame's entire compatibility stack in the open before the headset has a release date. Valve's answer to an empty store is emulation rather than port funding, and the 10 to 20 percent tax it charges collides directly with a 90 FPS certification bar.

Unseen Reality's spatial display glasses weigh 93 grams and run a full 6DoF SLAM stack off four onboard cameras. The weight works because there is no processor and no battery in the frames. Early bird pricing starts at $699, and shipping is promised for mid-October.

The DuckDuckGo Paso Robles is a $35 pair of sunglasses with the smart-glasses spec list printed on the temple and struck through. It fixes nothing, but it points at a real gap: every tool built so far tells you what someone else is wearing, and none lets you signal that your own glasses are just glasses.

Zero Racers and D-Hopper were both completed in 1996 and cancelled when the Virtual Boy collapsed. They arrive on Nintendo Classics on August 4. Nintendo is shipping VR games that never came out, while the VR platforms that did come out keep disappearing, and the reason comes down to architecture.

Meta posted a $4.62 billion Reality Labs loss, Qualcomm told headset makers chip prices rise September 1, Magic Leap exited hardware, and Valve cleared the FCC. A week where the layer under the apps changed hands.

Meta's Q2 2026 report shows a $4.62 billion Reality Labs operating loss on $431 million in revenue, wider than last quarter even after the January cuts and the pivot to glasses. Cumulative losses since 2020 now sit near $88 billion.

The FCC granted Valve equipment authorization for FCC ID 2AES4-1015 on July 29, a device the paperwork calls simply "VR Headset." That is legal permission to sell, not another leak. VR.org has called this launch imminent twice already, so here is what separates the third time from the first two.