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The Meta Quest 3S features inside-out tracking for standalone functionality almost anywhere. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Until the end of Amazon’s October sale later tonight, you can grab the...

It's the opening game of the 2026 NFL season for the New York Football Giants, a cornerstone franchise of the NFL.Their home field, MetLife Stadium, is lit up blue for the night game. The drum line...

End of an era.Sony seems to be done with its virtual reality ambitions, as it sells hundreds of patents related to the technology to rival Meta.First spotted by ZDNet Korea, via Road to VR, the...

Omega Pilot Evolution offers thrills, but falls short in two key areas.There are more than a few racing games available in VR, but few have the speed of Omega Pilot Evolution, mainly because it’s...

Coltrane is a new five-episode VR series produced by New Canvas, Jacaranda Productions, and Pico, continuing the detective noir story begun with 2016's VR Noir.The creatives behind 2016's VR...

Datamining and findings across Horizon OS 2.9 PTC (Public Test Channel) suggest that Meta is working on a virtual cinema environment for Quest headsets and the upcoming VR Glasses.Over the past year,...

The Norwegian government announced it’s aiming to introduce a temporary ban on smart glasses in a number of public locations, citing privacy as the main concern. While the government says the...

In 2025, Google unveiled an ambitious project called Android XR. The XR stands for "extended reality," and it's an Android-based platform (developed jointly by Google and Samsung) for smart eyewear....

XREAL’s first pair of Android XR glasses, XREAL Aura, finally have a price tag – $1,279. more…

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR XREAL has announced pricing and availability details for its Aura Android XR glasses. These XR glasses start at $1,279 for a 12GB/256GB variant and...

Building on his work with connected 3D environments and art, author Gordon Fuller explores the seven truths that he's learned to define what he calls the Spatial Commons. Can this be a framework for...

Xreal's Aura smartglasses are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chip.

Meta has acquired a number of Sony patents, including some related to XR headsets, suggesting Sony is significantly pulling back from its XR ambitions. The News As first reported by ZDNet Korea, a...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? ENGO launches engo Titanium, 28.9-gram augmented reality smart glasses for road runners and cyclists, with adjustable 3D-printed titanium temples. Why it...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Pimax unveils Crystal Pro, a wireless PC VR headset priced at USD $1,399, with quantum-dot LCD (QLED) panels at 2880 x 2880 pixels ... continue reading Source

AstroQuest runs the shadPS4 emulator on a Quest 3 and fakes the PlayStation VR hardware around it. The repository lists 30 frames a second on the headset and 60 through a PC, and it sets one hard requirement: your own dump of the game from your own PS4.

XREAL priced AURA at $1,279 for 12GB and 256GB, and $1,499 for 16GB and 512GB, with purchases open to paid reservation holders and shipping promised before the holidays. The glasses weigh 95 grams and carry their own X1S coprocessor, and the base model lands $20.99 under Meta VR Glasses, which do not go on sale until spring 2027.

USPTO records show Sony Group Corporation, not Sony Interactive Entertainment, assigned every patent recorded to Meta so far. The 419-patent schedule runs to 2041, the paperwork was signed in April, and two entries are indexed against another company's water repellent and a mass spectrometer method.

This month Road to VR celebrates its 15th year of bringing you the most important news across the XR landscape. To mark the occasion we’ve put together an interactive timeline of major industry...

CircuitLord's turnkey solution to one of VR modding's many friction points feels like a bigger step forward than yet another example of a great VR mod for an already great game.Getting the immediate...

Fresh Tracks VR brings the warmly received 2025 original combination of Beat Saber-like timing-based gameplay and roguelike RPG mechanics to VR headsets. The addition of sword-slashing motion...

Here we go friends, it’s that time again! Every summer and winter UploadVR partners with a wide range of developers from the industry to show off their exclusive new games, updates and special...

Pimax announced its next major VR headset, Crystal Pro, which not only boasts high-fidelity PC VR streaming, but also some native standalone gameplay too. Much like Steam Frame, Crystal Pro’s major...

Of all the games I thought I'd see converted to virtual reality, the Diablo games weren't among them, for some reason. But one industrious modder has set about changing that, converting probably the...

Working with Strivr, United Rentals placed trainees in VR-rendered construction sites to simulate typical sales scenarios. What were the results and, more importantly, executional lessons &...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Cellid, a developer of displays for augmented reality (AR) glasses, partners with Japanese eyewear retailer Megane Top to develop and sell AR glasses ......

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, the industrial engineering software company behind the Vuforia augmented reality products, in an all-cash deal...

Valve's September survey first went up with no Steam Frame row and 'Other Headsets' at 1.93 percent. The table has since been revised: the Frame has its own line at 0.41 percent of VR headsets on Steam, 18th of 28, and 'Other' is 1.49. Quest 3 is back in first at 26.90.

D2R VR is a free, MIT-licensed mod that runs Diablo II: Resurrected in a PC VR headset with four views: the classic camera in stereo, third person, a diorama on your floor, and first person. Its own README calls first person a preview. It is offline only, needs D2RLoader, and runs through a $15 app with a free tier.

The Horizon OS 2.9 (v209) system software update recently started rolling out in the PTC (Public Test Channel). What Is the Public Test Channel (PTC)? The Public Test Channel (PTC) is Meta Quest's...

Meta’s most recent updates for its Ray-Ban smart glasses deliver upgrades to audio playback as well as new turn-by-turn walking navigation. more…

Most immersive marketing, such as AR lenses and other playable brand experiences, achieves the wrong goal. For brands that already have reach that we can't bring them, it's all about a deeper...

Meta announced its VR Glasses at Connect last month, which is looking to appeal more to productivity and casual content by virtue of its high pixel density micro-OLED displays. They do however serve...

I’m back in Italy, but I’m still thinking about the beautiful days I had at Meta Connect. And talking about Connect, I want to thank the many people who are still writing me some kind words related...

AI vibecoding has caused a veritable explosion in the VR modding scene. The latest to benefit: PSVR exclusive and critically acclaimed platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018). The News VR modder...

In XR News What’s the story? Vuzix announces Shrike, a configurable waveguide display platform for defense, security and first responder applications, with initial units shipping to customers for...

Norway will propose a temporary ban on using AI glasses in parks, schools, gyms and clinics, with three candidate definitions of the device still open. In the Netherlands, Wehkamp and Hans Anders stopped selling Meta's glasses after the regulator had logged six signals and one complaint.

Quest's Horizon+ subscription now offers free add-ons for games, plus Swarm 2 and Waltz of the Wizard are this month's monthly titles.In addition to the usual release of two monthly games, new games...

Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is a mini motorway management game coming to Quest 3 this month. Infinity Games has shared that their traffic management game Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is coming...

The free Titanfall 2 VR mod installs from one 350 KB program. You need your own copy of the game, the EA app and a PC VR runtime. The installer keeps the mod in a separate TF2VR profile with its own saves, checks every download against a hash, and covers the campaign only.

Sega's teaser says nothing, and the product page the specs came from now shows one line. What Attractions Magazine reported from it: a gothic manor facade with an 85-inch front door, two 43-inch windows, haptic recoil guns and two VR headsets, debuting at IAAPA in Orlando. Every screen on it faces the people who have not paid yet.

It is spooky season and while VR gamers have plenty of options for horror games already, we have spotlighted ten more promising games that lovers of suspense and jump-scares should have on their...

The silliest bird photography game in VR is coming to Steam next week. Birdseed VR, a comical birdwatching and photography game, is coming to SteamVR on October 8. The SteamVR release will include...

Meta’s new docuseries, Open Season on Draymond Green, premiered September 29 on the TV app on Meta Quest. The series follows four-time NBA Champion Draymond Green through six therapy sessions with...

Legendary movement shooter Titanfall 2 is now available in VR thanks to mod maker CircuitLord who has created a full VR conversion mod that adds head tracking, weapon aiming, mech weapon controls,...

EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS is the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Find out why I’m excited to play when it arrives next year. I went hands-on with an...

AI gets a rebrand and toothless safety pledge, ChatGPT's agentic play gets a cuddly makeover, and the struggle intensifies for VR studios. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds through...

Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) reached India on October 1 at 44,300 rupees, against 29,900 for the first pair in May 2025 and 39,900 for Gen 2 last December. In dollars the climb is 31 percent, not 48. Muse and the camera-free Audio pair are both listed as coming later, neither with a date.

Samsung's Android XR glasses cleared the FCC ahead of a November launch, California's recording-light bill was vetoed, Felix & Paul's bankruptcy file shows a $350,000 sale, Mighty Coconut cut ten more jobs, Titanfall 2 got a free VR mod, and a Steam Frame update added up to 12 percent battery.

Deloitte's reports on Felix & Paul Studios list US$34.5 million of liabilities, a sale process that reached 76 parties without one binding offer, and a court-approved $350,000 sale of Space Explorers and a lunar camera system to a company formed by former executives. AREA15 is selling Interstellar Arc tickets again.

It has been a week since the launch of the Meta VR Glasses, but the community is keeping debating about them. In particular, people are commenting about them being a good thing or a bad thing for our...

Visit Teahupo’o, Tahiti and get into some of the heaviest waves in the world, from perspectives that few will ever be able to experience, through The World of Red Bull: Big Wave Surfing episode -...

Samsung has apparently confirmed a November 2026 launch for its first Android XR smart glasses. more…

Ranveer Singh becomes the first Brand Ambassador for Ray-Ban and Ray-Ban Meta in India. Ranveer has had a long-standing relationship with Meta with multiple collaborations over the years and the...

Sega has released a teaser video revealing a new, large-scale VR arcade attraction in its long-running The House of the Dead series.Sega Amusements has unveiled a new immersive VR game in the The...

We go hands-on with Snap Specs, including a device review and analysis of its differentiators and market opportunity. Following our full written review, this latest hands-on take records our video...

Samsung’s long-awaited smart glasses have cleared FCC testing, suggesting their release is right around the corner. The News Two distinct SM-O200P and SM-O200J have appeared in FCC filings, which is...

Valve rates Phasmophobia Unsupported on Steam Frame, on a build that no longer ships. Seven more of our ten scariest VR games have no rating at all. What is certified for a PC-less Frame this October: Little Nightmares VR, Ravenholm in Half-Life 2: VR Mod, Deadly Delivery, and the Jeff chapter in the box.

Newsom vetoed SB 1130 on September 30, ending the first state attempt to require a recording indicator on smart glasses by law. The clause that mattered to hardware makers was a January 1, 2028 deadline for an indicator prominent enough to alert a reasonable person nearby.

A Samsung official told The Korea Herald the Android XR glasses launch in November. The FCC grants issued September 27 cover eleven frame models under two FCC IDs, Wi-Fi 6E with a very low power 6 GHz mode, and a left temple engraved Made in Vietnam.

Wondering what VR games are releasing in October that you can look forward to? Read our full roundup here.We're into the fall now, typically the busiest time of the year for gaming. September was...

A new teaser trailer has been released which gives a first look at gameplay from the upcoming VR/MR game Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections.Following the game's latest preview event in San Francisco,...

Lak Vijayaraghavan is an XR systems engineer whose career spans Magic Leap to TikTok Effect House. What are his biggest learnings and insights from that journey so far, and where does he see spatial...

Mighty Coconut, indie studio behind hit VR game Walkabout Mini Golf (2020), announced another round of layoffs affecting ~35% of staff. “This is an incredibly hard message to write, but I want to...

Meta says Muse is coming to its AI glasses to help buy products the wearer sees, paid with single-use Stripe Link cards. Zuckerberg plans to profit from a small fee on transactions, Shopify says merchants pay none yet, and Muse's terms leave the losses with the user.

Two hobby projects repackage the Steam Frame's SteamOS for Snapdragon handhelds like the AYN Odin 2 and KONKR Pocket FIT, Google Play included. The services they had to switch off show which parts of the image belong to the headset.

Mighty Coconut will lose 10 more people over the coming months, its second round of cuts this year. Lucas Martell blames the shrinking flow of new players, and Walkabout Mini Golf's own Steam review history shows the slide.

Snap and XREAL can publish apps to glasses almost nobody has yet. Meta's toolkit hit 1.0 on September 24 with Ray-Ban Display on shelves and publishing still closed. Google's audio glasses have an emulator, no store and no date.

Meta's Hologram avatars get dates: Early Access on Ray-Ban Display this fall, full body with Meta VR Glasses in spring 2027. The glasses have no camera on your face, so a server-side model generates your expression from your voice.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is exploring about four concepts for a headset codenamed N224, including a Meta-style compute puck. The project is on "life support" and unlikely before late 2028, and it sits uneasily with Kuo's June report that every successor was removed.