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Viture Pro 2 deliver a fantastic mix of affordability, visual brilliance, comfort, and productivity perks. If you want to finally experience smart glasses, this one is a lovely pick.

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts in Asia. In July, EA SPORTS FC 26 and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced topped Asia PS5...

Weeks away from a probable launch, Apple has outed its sixth developer betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27.An earlier iOS 27 beta screenThe Apple Developer...

A newly public Meta patent describes how its smart glasses could identify people using AI facial recognition and use that information when creating media.

A VR game developer has teased that the Steam Frame is landing soonThe Steam Machine launched at a much higher-than-expected priceA Half-Life game has been teased for the Steam Frame, but would that...

Apple today released iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, visionOS 26.6.1, and macOS 26.6.2, with all of the updates containing security fixes. Apple also released iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10 with security...

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...

Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of an upcoming visionOS 27 update for testing purposes. The beta comes a week after Apple released the fifth beta. visionOS 27 can be installed by...

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...

BattleGroupVR2, a space-based real time strategy game, comes to Meta Quest in Early Access on August 28.SpaceOwl Games' sequel was featured in this week's VR Games Showcase with a new gameplay video:...

Green Hell VR's latest update adds a splash of color to your camps on Meta Quest and PlayStation VR2.The free update is available for both platforms. Developer Incuvo featured the update at this...

XReal Games is bringing cinematic first person shooter Zero Caliber 2 to PlayStation VR2 this October.The first Zero Caliber came to PS VR2 in December 2025 and XReal confirmed on social media the...

Stealth thriller Out of Sight VR comes to PlayStation VR2 this holiday season with a Meta Quest port to follow in early 2027.These release windows were announced at this week's VR Games Showcase...

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.

Exactly today, my blog turns 10 years old. It is a huge achievement. Or better, it is a HUUUUUUUGE achievement! This morning I started thinking about this since I woke up. And a lot of emotions...

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.

Even Realities CEO, Will Wang, joins Overtime to talk about his history with Apple, why Silicon Valley is no longer the place for hardware innovations, insights into the Apple supply chain and China,...

High on Life is coming to a new platform, as the irreverent first-person shooter with talking alien guns is getting a VR port. Announced during the VR Games Showcase, this new version of High on Life...

Announced during the VR Games Showcase, Flat2VR Studios revealed it’s collaborating with Squanch Games to again work its flatscreen-to-VR magic on the comedic sci-fi shooter, High on Life (2022). The...

Gunman Contracts Stand Alone, the action-movie inspired shooter, will launch in Early Access on the same day as Steam Frame.The VR Games Showcase gave us a closer look at Gunman Contracts Stand...

XREAL Games has provided a new look at their upcoming new tactical shooter COVR, which is coming to PC VR and Meta Quest in 2026.During the August 2026 VR Games Showcase, independent studio XREAL...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? ThirdEye has expanded its MIDAS platform into Response and Industrial product lines for hands-free AR use across emergency and hazardous work environments....

ChatGPT and Gemini make their momentum official with a billion monthly users, while Vision Pro adds pro ball, and Zuckerberg manifests. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms, through...

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.

Looking for all of the new game reveals and announcements from today's VR Games Showcase? Read on for a full recap. The showcase, hosted by Jamie Feltham, featured over twenty-five games with new...

Total Chaos VR is coming soon to SteamVR, and will be free for those who already own Total Chaos on Steam. Leading today's VR Games Showcase, developer Trigger Happy Interactive and publisher Apogee...

Flat2VR Studios announced an official VR port of acclaimed sci-fi shooter System Shock for Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2, and SteamVR.The shocking reveal was the final announcement at today's VR Games...

Flat2VR Studios and Squanch Games have announced a port of High On Life is coming to PC VR, PSVR2, and Meta Quest in 2027.A surprise trailer during today's VR Games Showcase revealed that Flat2VR...

Fast Travel Games is holding playtests next week for its highly anticipated co-op heist shooter Payday: Aces High on SteamVR and Quest 3.The announcement came at today's VR Games Showcase with a new...

Knights of Fiona brings co-op JRPG-like adventure to SteamVR and Meta Quest on September 3. The release date was confirmed at today's VR Games Showcase alongside a new trailer showcasing...

Spirit Ritual is a terrifying ghost story that blends full motion video with mixed-reality gameplay. Spirit Ritual is a supernatural horror game, played in either mixed reality or virtual reality, in...

Triangle Factory and Triangle Labs have announced Grablings, a social hide and seek game coming to Meta Quest this summer.As part of today's VR Games Showcase, Triangle Factory and Triangle Labs have...

Omega Pilot Evolution, a high-speed VR futuristic racing game, blasts onto PlayStation VR2 today.As part of today's VR Showcase, developer XOCUS (makers of EXOcars) has announced that their...

Trombone Champ Unflattened launches Disney Movie Magic Volume 1 DLC on August 20th.As part of the latest VR Games Showcase, developer Flat2VR Studios and publisher Impact Inked have revealed that...

No Brakes Games, the maker of Human Fall Flat, has announced Tiny Flock, a made-for-VR physics-based puzzle game coming to Steam and Meta Quest. In Tiny Flock, you'll shepherd a group of adorable...

The VR Games Showcase’s second anniversary event just wrapped up, delivering massive new game announcements. Missed the show? Fear not – we’ve wrapped up every announcement for you right here,...

Benjamin and Chance talk about all the changes in iOS 27 beta 5, as Apple reportedly takes a fresh look at fitness wearables, details about the glassy iPhone 20, Friday Night Baseball on Vision Pro...

Go behind the scenes of Walkabout Mini Golf's new 90s pop culture-inspired course, Gloop Lair with our video tour hosted by Mighty Coconut's Shane Rhodes. The new course is available now on Meta...

Discovery: Rogue Planet, a narrative sci-fi first person shooter originally scheduled to release on August 6, is available now for Quest 3. Developer Immersmind Studio has stated plans for a PC VR...

After successful Early Access and 1.0 releases on SteamVR, survival adventure Bootstrap Island makes the jump to PlayStation VR2 today.Bootstrap Island follows the lone survivor of a shipwreck in a...

In what addresses only a lesser problem of privacy when filming with Apple Glasses, a new patent details ways the wearer can be alerted that they are recording, or if bad actors try to interfere.It...

An update for Laser Dance released today which brings six new levels to the game and introduces a new green laser that mimics your every move.Laser Dance, the Early Access mixed-reality laser...

Breachers gives players a new map and more custom game settings in its latest update, available now. Until recently, the custom game settings were quite limited. The Custom Game Settings update lets...

Waving Bear Studio has announced Stuffed: Two Foot Hero, a new VR wave shooter coming to SteamVR and Meta Quest this fall.Stuffed: Two Foot Hero is a sequel to Waving Bear Studio's Stuffed, which...

GOLF+ adds to its ever-growing catalog of real-world courses with Bellerive, the site of this year's BMW Championship.The Bellerive course first opened in 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri with course...

FarBridge, the Austin-based studio behind Quest strategy Homeworld: Vast Reaches (2024), has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support the development of a flatsceen entry in the Job Simulator...

One of the startups I absolutely wanted to visit at AWE was Oxford Optical Labs (OOL) because it is developing special lenses that can change their focus on demand. This company got me intrigued...

The spatial spectrum continues to diverge and diversify, meaning different architectures are required across that continuum. How does this principle map to various processing architectures and...

In VR Gaming News What’s the story? Glydr has launched Controller Translation in beta, letting its foot-pedal controller combine with a gamepad so games recognize both as one unified virtual ......

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.

Meta released Threads as a native Quest app on August 11, free on the Horizon Store. Hand tracking works, the moderation tools shipped with it, and you can write a post without touching a keyboard.

Beat Saber's list price fell from $29.99 to $19.99 on Quest, SteamVR, and PSVR2, the first permanent cut in the game's life. The 270 paid add-ons on Steam held at $1.99 a track. Here is what the split says about VR pricing.

Mighty Coconut announced Walkabout Dungeon Golfer on August 10, a roguelike that began as an April Fools joke and now has a summer 2027 target. The same stream revealed the studio is also becoming a third-party publisher.

A.P. Moller - Maersk announced on August 7 that it has agreed to sell Maersk Training and Maersk H2S Safety Services to private equity carve-out specialist OpenGate Capital. Terms were not disclosed, and the release does not mention virtual reality once.

XGIMI's first smart glasses have taken over $1 million on Kickstarter at $399 and 47 grams, with no camera anywhere on the frame. The camera-free tier has fallen from $599 to $299 in five weeks, and the always-on microphone is the sensor nobody is regulating.

Meta named 30 recipients for its AI Glasses Impact Grants. Twenty-five nonprofits share $875,000 while five app developers building on the Wearables Device Access Toolkit take $200,000 each.

Hello Games marks ten years of No Man's Sky with record player counts and a teaser for its next free update, Cosmos. Evan looks back at the launch that burned him and the seven years of VR support that won him back.

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.