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Apple's Vision Pro engineering chief is leaving for OpenAI, hinting that the company's AI hardware ambitions may extend well beyond ChatGPT.

SAVE $100: The Bose Ultra Open earbuds are on sale at Amazon after Prime Day for $199, down from the normal price of $299. Matching the record low price, that works out to a 33% discount. Bose Ultra...

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget.

Prime Day tech deals still live: Best overall Bose QuietComfort Noise-Cancelling Headphones $179 at Amazon (save $180) Get Deal Best earbuds deal Apple AirPods 4 $99 at Amazon (save $30) Get Deal...

Friday marks the final official day of the Amazon Prime Day sales, and your last chance to score some of the biggest and best savings on PC hardware, components, peripherals, and more. With PC prices...

SAVE UP TO $83.96: The Fitbit Charge 6 (red band) is on sale for a record-low price at Amazon of $75.99 the day after Prime Day, down from the standard price of $159.95 for a 52% discount. The black...

The Apple community was rocked this week as the company instituted massive price hikes on a broad array of products, with many products seeing increases of 10–20 percent and a few as high as 50...

It's been another packed week of technology news, and TechRadar has been covering all of the stories that matter: the Prime Day deals, the Apple price hikes, new devices from Oura and Sonos, and...

Apple's Vision Pro chief is reportedly leaving for OpenAI to start a hardware division.

SAVE $60: As of June 26, the DJI Neo 4K Drone is on sale for $139 at Amazon. That's a 30% discount and the best-ever price on this popular camera drone. Opens in a new window Credit: DJI DJI Neo $139...

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...

In what is a continuation of a sordid saga, one that involves OpenAI and its proverbial halls rapidly filling up to the brim with talent poached from Apple outright, the head of Apple's Vision...

Apple has lost yet another upper-level executive to OpenAI, this time Paul Meade from its Vision Products Group.ChatGPT LogoLongtime Apple executive Paul Meade, known for his work on the Apple Vision...

We all know this week as the annual Amazon Prime Day event. We've seen excellent deals on some of our favorite products like Jackery portable power stations, Amazon Echo devices, and Apple Watches...

Paul Meade, who oversees development on the Vision Pro and Apple's upcoming smart glasses, is leaving Apple for OpenAI, reports Bloomberg. Meade took over leadership of Apple's Vision Products Group...

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.

If you signed up for a spot in the Steam Machine reservation queue, you might want to take a quick look at your email, because the notices for those who made it into the first wave—and those who did...

The memory chip shortage has caused the prices of consumer electronics to shoot up, meaning everything, from cheap phones to VR headsets, is more expensive now. But if you’re on the market for a Meta...

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,...

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss potential price rises for the iPhone 18 lineup following Apple's wave of hikes yesterday, as well as plans for the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and...

Micron's chief business officer has hinted, without calling it out by name, that Apple's tough supplier negotiations contributed to the conditions behind the global memory shortage. In remarks given...

Onsemi and Synaptics late on Thursday announced that they had entered into an agreement under which the former will acquire the latter in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $7 billion....

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...

ALVR is one of the tools to stream VR games from a Windows PC to their Apple Vision Pro over Wi-Fi. Here's how to get the tool working, and what to expect.Author's Apple Vision Pro and an Xbox...

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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...

One of the running jokes with Razer is that the gaming company will put RGB lighting in any and all of its products eventually. For the last couple of years, its line of gaming chairs was seemingly...

Kluge Interactive today announced the launch of the Linkin Park Music Pack for Synth Riders, making it the VR rhythm game’s biggest paid DLC music pack to date. The Linkin Park Music pack includes 13...

Apple is hiking the price of essentially all of its devices, which includes the already very pricy Vision Pro standalone mixed reality headset. The News As reported by 9to5Mac, a host of Apple...

Apple left iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, and AirTag prices unchanged even as it raised prices across much of its hardware lineup, leaving some of its most popular products untouched.AirPods...

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....

What’s the story? Unseen Reality has unveiled URXR One, 93-gram spatial computing glasses with Micro-OLED displays, 6DoF tracking and hand-gesture recognition. Why it matters The 93-gram design gives...

Meta now sells a $60 stainless steel Charging Stand compatible with most of its smart glasses, providing 50% charge in 20 minutes or full charge in 1 hour.All Meta smart glasses come with a charging...

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.

Meta teamed up with Kylie Jenner for new 'Starfire' smart glasses. 0:00 /0:30 1× Meta Starfire glasses, "designed in collaboration with Kylie Jenner". Meta says Starfire was "designed in...

Meta launched a range of cheaper smart glasses featuring the same technology as Ray-Ban Meta but without the branding, and with a compact folding case.That's not to say that Meta is making these...

Meta says it's offering free smart glasses to every legally blind US veteran, with more than 130,000 eligible.The company says it will also "provide hands-on training with every single pair", in...

Maestro rolled out a humorous new trailer detailing new updates coming to the symphony conducting rhythm game, including new DLC for Attack On Titan and another, unnamed and censored, property.The...

The high speed hoverbike racing game unveiled a free update, scheduled multiplayer meetups, and a first wave of paid DLC.As part of the latest VR Games Showcase, publisher Impact Inked and developer...

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.

Augmented World Expo dominated the week. Snap opened preorders for $2,195 AR glasses, Qualcomm reminded everyone it powers the whole category, an open-source metaverse browser engine arrived, and a startup showed the smartest battery idea of the show. Here is everything that mattered.

Snap and Google owned the AWE USA 2026 keynotes, but the Auggie Award enterprise winners, from steel fabrication to surgical guidance, map where extended reality is actually delivering measurable ROI.

While Snap unveiled $2,195 AR glasses with a four hour battery, a startup called Raven Resonance previewed Raven Prism: a sub 70 gram, eye controlled Linux computer in eyewear form with hot swappable batteries. It is the most quietly interesting hardware at AWE.

Valve still says summer 2026, but the evidence is getting loud. The Steam Frame controller FCC embargo lifted June 18, tens of tons of headsets cleared into US warehouses, and a leaked June 23 price reveal lines up with the timeline. Here is what is real and what still hangs on the DRAM crisis.

At AWE this week, RP1 and the Metaverse Standards Forum introduced Sneeze, the first browser engine built for spatial computing, released as open source under Apache 2.0. After a year of walled-garden metaverses collapsing, this is the opposite bet: an open foundation anyone can build on.

The WebXR Device API has reached Candidate Recommendation and is now a proposed Interop 2026 focus area, with Safari joining Chrome, Quest Browser, and Samsung Internet. Here is why a stabilizing spec plus a public cross-browser scoreboard finally makes the immersive web safe to build on.

At AWE this morning, Evan Spiegel unveiled the consumer version of Snap Specs and opened preorders. Fully standalone true AR glasses, a 51 degree field of view, 132 grams, dual Snapdragon chips, shipping this fall for $2,195. After years of buildup, Snap's AR bet is finally something you can buy.