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The upgraded AMVR BS1 head strap includes better ergonomics, a built-in fan, magnetic rechargeable batteries, and a new breathable mesh top support for ultimate comfort. more…

XREAL Aura already works with all your favorite Android apps thanks to Android XR, and that includes over 150 experiences that tap into the power of the XR glasses. more…

TL;DR XREAL has unveiled the Aura, lightweight Android XR glasses developed with Google and Qualcomm, featuring Gemini integration. The glasses support Android apps, virtual workspaces, USB-C laptop...

At long last, Xreal's Aura XR glasses are available for purchase—and with an introductory discount price, too.

The new wearable is the first of its kind to run on the Android XR platform.

The first Android XR-powered smart glasses are almost here, and early adopters actually get a rare discount on the cutting-edge XREAL Aura hardware. more…

XREAL announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, is launching today, starting at $1,100 for a limited time. While the glasses have been available...

Fallout: Factions is a physical 1v1 tabletop game that launched in 2024, and now it’s getting an XR version next month. Fallout: Factions is a turn-based skirmish warfare game set in the Fallout...

Extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor & co-op JRPG Knights of Fiona have new Halloween themed content available now.Adding to the growing list of VR games with spooky season updates, both games have...

No Man's Sky gets into the Halloween spirit with the new Forsaken update introducing a new type of trade merchant and missions to send players into the eeriest locations in the game for new...

Sega Amusements has revealed more details and a new video showcasing House of the Dead: Reawakened, a new VR game coming soon to arcades.Sega Amusements has unveiled a new video, screenshots,...

Comparing the genuine Meta Lab experience to the Meta Lab @ Best Buy experience left me with very different conclusions than I expected to have going in. Let me explain.As a fan of VR, I've often...

What do Meta's Q3 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...

Super Mario 64 (1996) was a seminal platformer that, for many, was also the first true 3D game they ever played. Now, with the help of AI vibecoding and a decompiled version of the game, you might be...

The strategy behind Samsung and Google’s Android XR smart glasses launch is concerning. Not only are we still waiting for the first pairs to arrive, but they’re going to come while the entire...

In Terry's Terraforming, what begins as a simple, low-stakes job simulator in which you terraform planets for refugee aliens soon morphs into something deeper. Before game's end, you're not just...

A Steam forum post on October 18 asked why the Steam Frame cannot read an external disc drive. A Valve developer replied the next afternoon, and under nine minutes later a commit in the Frame's kernel source turned on CONFIG_CDROM, BLK_DEV_SR and CHR_DEV_SG.

ByteDance's PICO has been publishing an Apache-2.0 plugin marketplace for AI coding agents since June, and since September it reaches ten assistant hosts. A separate Unity package gives agents ten MCP tools inside the Unity editor.

It is rare to see a recent release crack the top ten list on any VR platform, so Enver's latest game Fishy beating out the likes of juggernaut Animal Company in recent weeks stands out. With Fishy's...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Mojo Vision receives USD $24.4 million in additional government funding to develop monolithic full-color microdisplays for near-eye augmented reality...

Voxel Playground launches on Steam today, following a major update to the original Quest release earlier this month. The physics-driven sandbox Voxel Playground is now available on Steam for the...

Spooky season is upon us, which means only one thing: time to play some of the most horrifying games VR has to offer. We’ve got something for you no matter what headset you own, be it Quest 3, PSVR...

Diapers are a product category that's reached commodity status. So, growing and protecting market share is all about brand building and promotions. In that light, Huggies launched an interactive AR...

Playing a show while wearing the Frame from r/SteamFrameIf you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be a bassist in a band, one Redditor has shared a video recording from their Steam Frame, and...

Half-Life: Alyx appeared to be all done and dusted, with no major updates or patches since 2022. Then along came the Steam Frame and we've a whole new port of the game for its Snapdragon processor....

Even with the importance of physical media ownership in the current era of digital product ephemera, it's often unlikely your PC will actually be able to play the CDs, DVDs or Blu-Rays you have...

I had the exclusive opportunity to review the KAT Walk C3 Ultra treadmill before its official announcement, and in this article, I’m going to share my impressions of it. It doesn’t happen every day...

Valve's October 26 patch brings the foveated rendering it built for the standalone Steam Frame to the PC version of Half-Life: Alyx. It works in fixed mode on any headset, and the setup guide, written by OpenXR Toolkit co-creator Matthieu Bucchianeri, covers eye tracking on 13 headset families including PS VR2, Quest Pro and Vision Pro.

Apple has updated its security releases page with details of the vulnerabilities addressed in today’s updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and Safari. Here are the details. more…

Grab a cup of hot cocoa and a sweater, because Even Realities’ new styles and glasses accessories are warming up for the fall. more…

watchOS 27.2 is rolling out now for Apple Watch users alongside visionOS 27.2 and more. Here’s what’s new. more…

Even Realities today announced that a new software version will be rolling out to the G2 smart glasses, complete with a personal knowledge base that, thankfully, only remembers what you tell it. more…

For Asus ROG's 20th birthday, the company released a slew of computer parts (enough for a supremely expensive build). But it's not overlooking its more recent entry into gaming handhelds, with the...

According to Meta’s recent quarterly earnings report, Quest headset sales are declining, however AI glasses are growing fast enough to partially offset a slump in Reality Labs revenue. And moving...

Physical AI can see more clearly, reason more accurately, and process complex environments. But there's a constraint that lives deeper than processing: all that capability is only useful if the...

Rustmourne's Steam Next Fest demo was a terrific taste of the upcoming sci-fi horror shooter. I've played several of these Dead Space-like VR adventures in the past like Memoreum and By Grit Alone,...

The newly released OpenXR Spatial Container extensions standardize system-managed spaces in which applications can display volumetric 3D content, similar to how traditional systems place 2D content...

Maybe it has not been a memorable week for VR, but it definitely has been for me: for the first time in my life, I’ve been able to see a guest post of mine on Road To VR, one of the best online...

On Meta's October 21 earnings call, Zuckerberg said new VR devices will ship only when Meta has a major breakthrough, as lower Quest sales pulled Reality Labs revenue down 6 percent to $443 million. For developers, Quest 3 and 3S become an open-ended target, and Meta VR Glasses are the one new profile to plan for.

The VR IS DEAD Halloween Jam closed on October 22 with 17 free games on itch.io, and nine of them put the player on the clock under the theme Graveyard Shift. Five name Godot, two ship ARM builds, one runs in the browser, and rating runs until October 29.

XREAL Games dated the PS VR2 port of Zero Caliber 2 Remastered for November 5, with native 90fps, headset haptics, adaptive triggers and bHaptics support at launch. A VR Games Showcase teaser had pointed at October, and Sony's own store page still lists the release date as to be determined.

Walker Industries moved the $650 Andromeda from 1600x1600 to 2160x2160 panels and from a 45Wh to an 85Wh cell at the same price, upgrading existing backers automatically. The campaign stood just under 24 percent of the way to its $150,000 goal on October 24, with delivery estimated for May 2027.

VRChat's Open Beta client and Avatars SDK 3.10.6-beta.1 put face tracking inside the Avatar Descriptor, with Unified Expressions keys, Auto-Fill blendshape mapping and up to 16 meshes. Synced face data no longer spends your custom parameter budget, and VRCFaceTracking's latest beta feeds it over OSC.

The Steam Next Fest demo for action-roguelite The Rifted Skies ticks all the right boxes while leaving a few questions only the full game can answer.Developer DreamVR, whose previous VR projects were...

Carnage-fueled racer FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR has gone to its 1.0 full release, adding multiple new features and a price increase to $29.99.Version 1.0 adds multiple new features and content,...

Fading Light, a VR action shooter survival game for one to four players, is coming to Quest next month. Joy Way, who previously developed Red Flowers (later, Catana: Red Flowers), Stride and Stride:...

I already love to use all of Meta’s AI glasses when I leave the house, and now I’ve got a new reason to love the camera that comes on (almost) every pair. more…

Guest Article By Antony ‘SkarredGhost’ Vitillo Antony ‘SkarredGhost’ Vitillo is an AR/VR entrepreneur, developer, and blogger. Most people know him for his blog The Ghost Howls, which he uses to...

VRChat now offers native SDK-level Face Tracking support for avatars in the Open Beta client and Avatars SDK beta.VRChat has technically supported Eye and Face Tracking for years over OSC (Open Sound...

Robert Downey Jr. is Specs' Chief Customer Experience Officer, while Anthropic drops Claude Duet and AI CapEx raises more questions. We have these and other items from XR and AI world through the...

Ramen VR will switch Zenith off on December 18 with no offline version, while the relaunched Supernatural doubled Meta's price and opened a manual history transfer that closes December 3. Owlchemy priced a glasses game at $1.99, Victoria wrote smart glasses into its school phone rules, Snap put Robert Downey Jr. on the SPECS org chart, and the PAYDAY: Aces High playtest runs through Monday.

Snap's October 20 newsroom post names Robert Downey Jr. honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer of SPECS, with an original episode debuting during Game 1 of the World Series on October 23. The $2,195 glasses still carry the same fall shipping window Snap gave when preorders opened at AWE in June.

It’s been a while since the first time I read about the Vector Gear, the fully open mid-range headset built by Walker Industries. This project got a lot of praise from the community and has recently...

We checked out the PC VR demo for RAID VR as part of this week's Steam Next Fest and found a promising gameplay loop that plays it a little too safe.Imagine if the charming Border Bots met an...

Halfway through the second chapter of Daumier: Lila & Ghost, I stopped, looked around, and said "What the hell are we doing?" I was playing as Lila and my UploadVR colleague, Mike, was playing as...

Sunstone of Time is a colorful, history-inspired trek through ancient Aztec civilization where you will need to solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets to return to the present and save the world....

Two years after the end of active development, the servers for VR MMORPG Zenith: Nexus will close on December 18. New sales of paid DLC Zenith: The Last City and in-game currency Zennies have already...

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio behind smash hit VR games Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, today revealed Hyper Visor, a new arcade blaster arriving as a launch title for XREAL AURA....

Owlchemy Labs' new game Hyper Visor will be a launch title for HTC's XREAL Aura headset.

Liminal VR, the app known for its short immersive experiences designed to influence its users’ emotional states, is introducing a new series called Fear Arena.As someone who has tried a VR horror...

Ramen VR switches off Zenith's servers at 10:00 AM Pacific on December 18, with no offline version and no community hosting. Sales of The Last City and Zennies ended October 21, though Steam was still selling the $9.99 DLC a day later.

Owlchemy Labs revealed Hyper Visor on October 22, an eight-level, hands-only arcade blaster for XREAL AURA at $1.99 on Google Play, where Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator sell for $19.99. It is not listed yet, and AURA still has no ship date.

Ministerial Order No. 1515, signed October 18, makes students at every Victorian school switch smart glasses off and store them from January 28, 2027, and a separate policy bars adults from wearing them at government schools. Its definition covers any spectacles that can process digital information, camera or not.

A modder called rockonthehill showed an early build of a free PC VR mod for Gears of War: E-Day on October 18, with full-body IK, manual reloads and a lever-started Lancer chainsaw across the whole campaign. There is no download yet, the Xbox app version is untested, and the Steam build runs Easy Anti-Cheat.

Meta's VR Layout SDK, out since Connect on September 24, lets Jetpack Compose and React Native apps open spatial windows beside their main one and fall back cleanly on phones. Its Gaze SDK sibling is early access only: Meta says Horizon Store submissions that bundle it will be rejected until a stable release.

Supernatural's independent version opened in Early Access on October 21 at $20 a month or $200 a year, on Quest 2, 3, 3S and Pro in the US and Canada. Imported points and start dates show up right away; streaks, favorites, badges and workout history follow over the coming weeks, and transfers close December 3.

Fast Travel Games dated PAYDAY: Aces High for November 5 on Meta Quest, SteamVR and Steam Frame at $24.99. Its final playtest runs through October 26: on Steam it is the free Next Fest demo, and on Quest 3 and 3S it is an open playtest build.

XR_EXT_spatial_container and its self-rendering companion give OpenXR a bounded window mode the system positions for you. Khronos announced them on October 19, but both landed in the 1.1.63 spec on September 1.

Virtuix's October 13 release made it an official Meta reseller and repeated a 3X orders figure it first published in September. Orders are not revenue: its last 10-Q put quarterly Omni One sales at $522,391, and the first full quarter of the Quest version reports by November 16.

XREAL's 1 Pro+ raises peak brightness from 700 nits to 1,200 and keeps the X1 chip, the 57 degree field of view and the 1080p panels at the same $599. The company's own release calls it a wearable display, and everything platform-shaped in the lineup still sits one rung up in AURA.