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Hi! I'm Rick Lane, and you might remember me from such columns as Reality Bytes, RPS' erstwhile monthly goggle at the world of virtual reality. I've spent the last couple of years trapped between the...

Breakout VR rhythm game Beat Saber has been priced at $30 ever since its 2019 launch, and has never once gone on sale since. In a surprising move, Meta has quietly slashed the price of Beat Saber to...

XR device unit sales are projected to reach 49.5 million in 2030. This factors in a projected inflection in 2027 as smart glasses blitz the market from Apple, Samsung, and others. How will this all...

VW's new e-bike lineup borrows clever safety ideas from modern cars, but this unusual accessory may completely change how riders see the road around them.

Rogbid’s $69.99 VisionW smart glasses combine interchangeable designs, ChatGPT and Grok support, open-ear audio, and UV protection with an eyebrow-raising 39-day battery claim.

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? OpenGate Capital has agreed to acquire Maersk Training and its Maersk H2S Safety Services subsidiary from A.P. Moller – Maersk, with closing expected ......

Meta's smart glasses have been banned from courts in England and Wales, where officials fear their cameras could be used to secretly record proceedings.

Are you interested in helping to shape future VR games? Read on for our list of titles currently conducting testing, and instructions for how you can join in.UploadVR often learns about limited-time...

Following last week's news of Beyond Frames selling the rights to Ghosts of Tabor, Grim, and Silent North, Combat Waffle Studios announced Neem Interactive as its new publisher, with an eye on a...

Inspired by real-life martial artists, TaoLu is a fun spin on the fitness genre that gives players a virtual practice dummy on which to unleash their moves.Plenty of old martial arts movie fans have...

Beat Saber's price has been reduced from $29.99 to $19.99.UPDATE: Beat Saber is now discounted from $29.99 to $19.99 everywhere the game is sold. At the original time of publication of this article,...

I've spent a large part of my morning reading the words of Mark Zuckerberg. 6,434 of them, to be precise, if we're including the "Mark" signoff at the bottom. The Meta CEO (and everyone's favourite...

Another week, another hint that the Steam Frame might be close to launch, though this time the hint comes not from leaks and rumours but directly from Valve. According to recent official update...

Job Simulator has long been one of the best reasons to own a VR headset, and it might be bringing the glory days of working behind a counter--or cubicle hell--to a flat screen near you. Homeworld:...

Crementif released the ‘BetterVR’ mod for Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) last December, bringing full 6DOF support and motion controls to the game on PC VR headsets. Now,...

Continuing our AR marketing case studies, McDonald’s has not one but three campaigns to spotlight. In this installment, we look at its Snapchat Lens that promoted a new menu item by letting users...

In XR News What’s the story? Meta has awarded nearly USD $2 million in AI Glasses Impact Grants to 30 organizations across the United States supporting accessibility, education, and workforce ......

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.

Walkabout Dungeon Golfer, initially presented as a fake April Fools Day game earlier this year, was formally announced in today's special Mighty Coconut Presents video.We also got the course trailer...

No Man's Sky, one of gaming's greatest comeback stories, celebrated its ten year anniversary with a new video covering its major updates over the years with an ending teasing its next one.Earlier...

The fifth round of developer betas is here for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 as testing for the milestone releases rolls on.An earlier iOS 27 beta screenApple has...

Are you ready for a new episode of this roundup of the best XR news of the week? Of course you are… otherwise, you wouldn’t be here! Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Speculations and updates...

Apple and Major League Baseball have announced the first games of their new season, and in the US and certain other countries, many will be streamed in Immersive Video to Apple Vision Pro users.Major...

Friday Night Baseball is coming to Apple Immersive starting on August 28. Right off the bat, the live stream will be widely available to Apple Vision Pro users with an Apple TV subscription both in...

I feel surprisingly emotional today. Ten years ago, on 9th August 2016, PlayStation Travellers across the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky. The first words from their...

Apple is making another foray into live Apple Immersive content for Apple Vision Pro. The company has announced that it will stream four upcoming Friday Night Baseball games in Apple Immersive video...

Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced they’re bringing a handful of live baseball games to Vision Pro, with livestreamed games starting on August 28th. When Apple initially announced the...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In July, Call of Duty: Black Ops II dominated the charts for PS5 and PS4 in the US and EU. While I...

D.E.C.A.Y. is a new survival shooter set in a dystopian post-nuclear war America. It releases on SteamVR in Early Access on August 21.D.E.C.A.Y., short for the Department of Environmental Control And...

Viture Pro 2 launched this week, joining a robust line of video display glasses from Viture. The device weighs 63 grams and costs $299 – making it a significant evolution from its predecessor. This...

In XR News What’s the story? Roblox experience Music Festival Tycoon, which lets players build and grow their own music festivals, has added CORTIS as its first featured artist ahead ... continue...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Zappar has announced a major update to its Spaces indoor navigation platform, adding accessibility features, richer landmark content, rebuilt route...

In Mixed Reality and Robotics News What’s the story? The U.S. Air Force has added $2.9 million to Palladyne AI’s STRATFI contract, lifting the total value to over $10.6 million. ... continue reading...

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.

Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at the game Electronauts and what it can teach us about smart VR interface design. Editor’s Note:...

China-based projector manufacturer XGIMI launched a crowdfunding campaign in June for its first smart glasses, MemoMind One, which is banking on consumer interest in display-clad smart glasses that...

Valve quietly changed the requirements for games aiming to run natively on Steam Frame, the company’s long-awaited standalone headset. The News Valve first announced at Game Developers Conference...

Snap's earnings beat provides a jolt while Meta weathers a societal backlash against AI glasses and cinematic AI continues to gear up. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds through the...

In XR News What’s the story? A USAF contract under which Enduvo delivers interactive courseware for aircraft maintenance, pilot training, egress and fuels has been extended through to 2028. Why ......

I've heard that if you close your eyes and keep them shut, it's impossible to stay awake for more than seven minutes. I'm not sure if that's true, but I know it took less time than that for Dream...

XR Replay, the latest app from the developer of the popular Quest Games Optimizer, auto-records the last few minutes of gameplay so you can save it at any time.Imagine you are playing a Quest game...

Virtual Desktop's latest beta release for Quest adds USB support for wired PC streaming, a long-requested feature.Virtual Desktop has been a popular choice for PC VR gamers on standalone headsets for...

Valve added a Steam Frame compatibility record to The Lab on July 9, then cut it from category 3 to Unsupported on July 29 and moved it onto an ARM64 Proton runtime on August 5. Its own VR demo is failing a bar a free Half-Life 2 mod just cleared.

Valve quietly cut the Steam Frame Verified bar to 72 fps and a free Half-Life 2 mod cleared it, Viture dropped display glasses to $299, Snap set September 16, and a peer-reviewed study clocked Vision Pro surgeons 19 percent faster.

Researchers at UC San Diego published the first controlled comparison of Apple Vision Pro against a standard endoscopy monitor, across 32 tear duct surgeries in the journal AJO International. The headset group averaged 34.4 minutes against 42.7, with identical outcomes, and all five surgeons preferred the headset.

The developers of the Half-Life 2: VR Mod have announced that the mod is now Steam Frame Verified. Source VR Mod Team, the developers behind the Half-Life 2: VR Mod, have confirmed that the latest...

VR Games Showcase is turning two years old soon, and this time around VR’s biggest gaming showcase is promising another slate of VR game reveals and updates from this year’s most anticipated titles....

VITURE today launched its latest AR glasses, VITURE Pro 2, which the company calls its thinnest, lightest and most comfortable yet. Alongside it, Viture also unveiled a new, more pocketable USB-C...

Not ready to plonk down your first $100 on Quest games? Thankfully there’s an impressive number of free games, experiences, apps, and social VR platforms to keep you playing before you’re paying....

Apple has a knack for aligning devices and killer apps. It made the Apple Watch a health tracker, among other things. Could it carry this same torch with Apple smart glasses, with a focus on fitness?...

At AWE, I was able to get in touch with the team building the Raven Prism, which are upcoming smart glasses with a strong focus on privacy and openness. Let me tell you more about this very...

Source VR Mod Team announced on August 4 that Half-Life 2: VR Mod is Steam Frame Verified, and eye-tracked foveated rendering is what finally got it over the bar. Valve still is not making a Steam Frame game. It is starting to look like it might not have to.

Viture's new display glasses land at $299 with Sony micro-OLED panels at 120Hz, 1,600 nits, and a 63-gram frame. That is $160 under the Pro they replace, and it drops the floor of the glasses market far below the $699 and $2,195 products sharing the same word.

G-Rebels from Reakktor Studios has arrived on Steam in Early Access, bringing a futuristic flight sim heavily inspired by the classic 1997 title G-Police into VR. Launching a technically ambitious...

Unseen Reality’s crowdfunding campaign for URXR One surpassed $500,000 within 24 hours of launch yesterday, showing clear demand for the company’s first slim and light mixed reality glasses. URXR One...

What do Meta's Q2 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...

Pine Studio opened a public VR preview for Escape Simulator 2 through Steam's open_beta branch, with every official room playable and a free full VR update planned before the end of 2026.

Valve's partner documentation now sets the standalone VR bar at 72 fps at 1728x1728 per eye, down from the 90 FPS announced at GDC 2026. There was no changelog and no announcement, and a reader, Simplex, caught it before we did.

Cybercore Protocol is a mixed reality action game that blends elements of tower defense, wave shooters, and melee combat games into something not wholly unique, yet undeniably fun.I've spent the past...

Gloop Lair arrives August 13 as the 41st Walkabout Mini Golf course since 2020, in a year where I have written seven VR shutdown stories. The tell is not the release cadence, it is the day Mighty Coconut raised its base price and handed six paid courses to existing owners for free.

Snap will hold a full launch event for Specs on September 16 in Los Angeles, with Evan Spiegel giving the first in-depth look at the $2,195 AR glasses and attendees going hands-on. It is the first firm date on a fall calendar where every other AR product has only committed to a season.

Lepton and FEX went public on Steam on August 2, which puts the Steam Frame's entire compatibility stack in the open before the headset has a release date. Valve's answer to an empty store is emulation rather than port funding, and the 10 to 20 percent tax it charges collides directly with a 90 FPS certification bar.

Unseen Reality's spatial display glasses weigh 93 grams and run a full 6DoF SLAM stack off four onboard cameras. The weight works because there is no processor and no battery in the frames. Early bird pricing starts at $699, and shipping is promised for mid-October.

The DuckDuckGo Paso Robles is a $35 pair of sunglasses with the smart-glasses spec list printed on the temple and struck through. It fixes nothing, but it points at a real gap: every tool built so far tells you what someone else is wearing, and none lets you signal that your own glasses are just glasses.

Zero Racers and D-Hopper were both completed in 1996 and cancelled when the Virtual Boy collapsed. They arrive on Nintendo Classics on August 4. Nintendo is shipping VR games that never came out, while the VR platforms that did come out keep disappearing, and the reason comes down to architecture.