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Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for cheaper somewhere else just a few days or weeks later....

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,...

In some ways smart glasses are more legitimate than ever, but in others they feel like one big work in progress.

Apple announced a sweeping set of new subscription tools for App Store developers at WWDC 2026, including cross-developer subscription bundles, group and enterprise purchasing options, retention...

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...

Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote broke from a longstanding format tradition, abandoning the platform-by-platform structure that has defined the annual developer conference for years in favor of a...

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...

Welcome to the future, where there's always a camera lens within arm's reach. I'll park my wider-ranging rant about surveillance culture for the time being and attempt to just focus on the news story...

If you installed the macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta and have signed up to the Siri AI waitlist but are still waiting to be accepted, there's a Terminal command workaround that enables the new...

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...

wo 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...

Meta Connect 2026 takes place September 23 and 24. Here's a rundown of what it might bring.Connect is Meta's annual XR conference, its primary event since the last F8 in 2021. Originally called...

OmniGroup’s legendary outlining tool just got even more useful and accessible to users around the world, with expanded localization support across Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro. Here are...

Meta said daily usage of its smart glasses tripled year-over-year, and that they remain "one of the fastest growing categories of consumer electronics ever".The claims were made by Mark Zuckerberg...

Google-powered smart glasses with Gemini, from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, are launching this fall to take on Ray-Ban Meta.Gentle Monster and Warby Parker are rising competitors to...

Developer Rhino Rock Studios brings side-shooter action to VR with Outblast, a retro sci-fi title that puts you in the role of a pilot charged with stopping a rogue intelligence.Outblast can be...

If you’re a regular reader of Road to VR you’ll notice the site just got a huge facelift. I’m excited to introduce this new version of Road to VR, the first major revision to our humble publication...

During its WWDC 2026 keynote on Monday, Apple briefly showed a slide with hundreds of new features and enhancements coming across iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27....

The smarter, more capable version of Siri is finally here, available in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate. The updates are limited to developers right now, but there's a lot to look forward to...

iOS 27 may run on devices as far back as the iPhone 11, but Apple's most advanced AI features are reserved for a much shorter list of hardware, the company revealed.Apple's Craig Federighi, Senior...

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In my latest trip to China, I tried a lot of smart glasses. Often, people ask me which one was the best, which is a question that is very hard to answer, because every glass has its pros and cons. So...

For many gamers, nothing beats a good story, and VR is an especially powerful medium for storytelling. VR places you not just beside the characters, but inside the world they inhabit, making a strong...

VR is often theorized as a good sales tool for consumers to visualize everything from couches to cars. But one Austin developer is actually doing it, and he pre-sold $500M in real estate. Emily Olman...

Amplium is a dedicated destination for immersive video on the Apple Vision Pro, alongside Apple TV, with a curated mix ranging from short immersive documentaries to music experiences.Individual...

Though the Steam Controller broke Valve's storefront, and the Steam Machine otherwise stealing the show, I'm most looking forward to Valve's VR headset, the Steam Frame. Until its release date is...

Apple is making a major push around child safety and parental controls with iOS 27, including a completely redesigned Screen Time experience, new limits for websites, expanded communication controls,...

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.

Missing out on this week’s WWDC fun in California? Apple Vision Pro users can virtually join tonight’s The Talk Show livestream with the Theater app.

I visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art last year with my daughter as part of a trip to New York City to celebrate her birthday. Like many visitors, I spent time exploring the museum's vast...

Into the Dead: Crimson Heights is a new horror game that, on Quest 3 headsets, constructs its VR levels based on the scanned walls and furniture of your physical room.Put simply, that means the main...

Apple is opening up what is possible on Apple Vision Pro by implementing physical object tracking and expanded spatial accessory support. Here's what that means for users when visionOS 27...

Apple spent a major portion of its WWDC 2026 keynote this week talking about new AI features that are part of an enhanced version of Siri. While most of the features will be accessible across...

The immersive VR title comes just a few weeks after the TV series' final episode aired. The Boys: Trigger Warning is out today on PlayStation VR2. The made-for-VR game is adapted from the successful...

We’re nearly halfway through the year, but there are still plenty of VR games to look forward to before year’s end. While some may be tolling the death knells of VR (once again), the rest of us will...

XR adoption challenges enterprise teams face are often misdiagnosed as ‘technical maturity’. In early consideration, many digital workplace leaders assume adoption will improve once the headset is...

How is VR resonating with consumers? How often are they using it? How satisfied are they? And how much are they willing to pay for it? A recent ARtillery Intelligence report features original...

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What’s the story? L’Atitude 52°N has opened sales of its Berlin smart glasses today, priced at USD $449, featuring AI imaging, live translation, and offline group communication. Why it matters ......

Despite not getting much airtime during today’s WWDC keynote, visionOS 27 is bringing several new features to Apple Vision Pro, including a new Environment from the Icelandic highlands. Here are the...

With the introduction of visionOS 27, Apple is opening the door for third parties to make their own high performance tracked controllers and accessories for Vision Pro. The News VisionOS 27,...

Meta's Muse Spark now powers Meta AI on most of its smart glasses, a significant upgrade over Llama 4 that narrows the gap to leading AI systems.Announced in April, Muse Spark is the first AI model...

Meta and Unity say they extended their "multi‑year platform support and enterprise agreement" for VR.Announced in April, Unity said the extension "deepens the companies’ long‑standing collaboration...

The new Horizon OS 'Navigator' system UI finally rolled out to all Quest headsets, more than a year after Meta began publicly testing it.Since the release of Oculus Go in 2018, Meta's standalone VR...

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.

Apple's Spatial Reframing tool in Photos for iOS 27 is an interesting use of Apple Intelligence, but don't push it too far just yet.iOS 27 Photos gains Spatial ReframingWWDC 2025 included a neat...

Today, Apple unveiled the new Siri AI, with a dedicated app and powerful capabilities. Among Siri’s new features is a more customizable voice, but you’ll need one of Apple’s newest iPhone, iPad, Mac,...

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.

Rec Room went dark on June 1 and Spatial is sunsetting its creator tiers next month. The platforms that keep dying share one trait, and the open, self-hostable alternatives that keep surviving share another.

Beat Saber just hit its eighth anniversary with three free new tracks, including an original in-house song. Eight years and nearly 10 million copies later, it is still the game I hand a headset to first. Here is why it works, from someone who makes music for a living.

The Boys: Trigger Warning lands on PSVR2 on June 9 as a PS5 Pro Enhanced build with community-requested improvements. After playing the Quest version, I think the PlayStation one is the one to wait for.

Augmented World Expo returns to Long Beach June 15 to 18 under the theme 'I, Spatial: Humans Empowered by Spatial AI.' Here is what the must-attend XR conference is signaling about where the industry is headed in the back half of 2026.

Korpi Games brought its realistic hunting simulator to PSVR2 and Meta Quest on May 27 at $24.99, with 64 square kilometer open worlds, six-player co-op, and platform-specific features that lean hard on each headset's hardware.