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The way Apple combines work and personal iCloud accounts left some employees able to access confidential documents after departing the company, reports The Information. The site spoke to more than...

TL;DR: Now through Aug. 9, Best Buy is bundling free Best Buy e-gift cards with select Apple Gift Cards. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple Gift Card Shop Now If you regularly spend money in...

The August update for Meta's Horizon+ subscription for Quest headsets brings 2 great monthly games and five new catalog titles.The August titles arrive shortly after the service expanded to include...

You can now get an early look at Escape Simulator 2's VR mode in a recently unveiled VR open beta. In a Steam blog update, Pine Studio has revealed an open public VR preview for their best-selling...

Rumor has it that Apple has been hard at work on AirPods with built-in cameras for a while now. But, apparently, they might come out even sooner than expected.This information comes courtesy of Mark...

Recent efforts to bolster the effectiveness of Meta's capture LED might be falling short.

Apple wants its future glasses and headsets to double as health and fitness devices, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said the ambition...

Apple's first camera-equipped AirPods could launch as soon as next month, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple has reportedly spent years working on camera-equipped AirPods under the code name...

Valve's wireless VR headset, the Steam Frame, doesn't yet have a nailed down release date beyond the vague window of 'later this year'. I've got a hunch it'll drop soon though—and not because I put...

Valve’s ‘Great on Frame’ page highlights games specifically optimized for Steam Frame, and it’s now grown to over 50 titles. ‘Great on Frame’ initially kicked off last month with a half-dozen titles...

Specs' launch date is finally known: September 16th. While the June unveiling previewed the device, we couldn't try it on and see/feel the UX. And with this type of product, UX is everything. So this...

Samsung Galaxy XR enterprise adoption has moved beyond the launch-day question of whether Android could compete with Apple Vision Pro. Ten months after Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm introduced the...

SAVE $322: As of Aug. 3, the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra (256GB) is down to $977 at Amazon. That's a 25% discount off its $1,299.99 list price. Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung Samsung...

TL;DR: Get the iPhone 17 for free from T-Mobile when you trade in your eligible phone on an Experience More or Experience Beyond plan. Alternatively, the Apple iPhone 17 Pro is free when you switch...

Last week PC Gamer's Andy Edser highlighted an article tracing a seeming massive drop in Steam Deck sales. I'm not entirely convinced by the maths involved—which was conducted by Boiling Steam—but...

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.

According to the latest Power On newsletter from Mark Gurman, Apple is working towards turning its upcoming non-AR smart glasses into another platform for health and fitness – though these features...

Apple Vision Pro is way too unwieldy for yoga and cardio, but fitness tracking could be implemented in a future version of Apple smart glasses if a job listing is anything to go by.Apple Vision Pro...

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.

We're a little more than a month away from the September iPhone debut season, but there's still lots to talk about in the Apple universe, led this week by the launch of the new Apple Upgrade program...

TL;DR: Get the iPhone 17 for free when you switch to T-Mobile and bring your number on an Experience More or Experience Beyond plan. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple T-Mobile: Apple iPhone 17 for...

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.

Apple CEO Tim Cook participated in his final Apple earnings call yesterday, with incoming CEO John Ternus set to take over on September 1. With Cook's tenure coming to an end, we thought we'd take a...

Vibes around Meta’s AI glasses are off lately. So much so that one of the top three paid iPhone apps today is dedicated to detecting when someone nearby may be using smart glasses.

Three decades ago, Nintendo discontinued its Virtual Boy console after it failed to catch on. But now, two of the unreleased Virtual Boy titles are set to make their debut on Nintendo Switch Online....

Unseen Reality announced its upcoming display-replacing XR glasses, URXR One, is set to launch a Kickstarter on August 4th. URXR are essentially made for users specifically looking for a display...

Apple’s cautious entrance into the smart glasses field means that we have a reasonably good idea what to expect, and have been able to preview some of the capabilities through existing devices....

Snap announced it’s hosting an event dedicated to Specs, the company’s next-gen AR glasses, on September 16th in Los Angeles, California. At the event, Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is said to...

Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled its fiscal performance for the past year, and most segments were up, save for Windows and Xbox. Microsoft's consumer-oriented segments saw material declines, albeit...

Earnings season is upon us, meaning big tech winners and losers, while Meta's smart glasses backlash amps up. We have these and other items from AI & XR realms through the lens of Charlie Fink. This...

PlayStation VR2 is currently on sale for $300 direct from Sony in the United States, down from its regular $400 price.The sale is scheduled to run through August 10, a week and a half from now.PS VR2...

VR spelunking adventure Cave Crave adds Tham Luang DLC today on Meta Quest. The Thailand cave became infamous in 2018 when a youth football team was trapped in it by rising flood water.The new...

Meta posted a $4.62 billion Reality Labs loss, Qualcomm told headset makers chip prices rise September 1, Magic Leap exited hardware, and Valve cleared the FCC. A week where the layer under the apps changed hands.

Meta's Q2 2026 report shows a $4.62 billion Reality Labs operating loss on $431 million in revenue, wider than last quarter even after the January cuts and the pivot to glasses. Cumulative losses since 2020 now sit near $88 billion.

Shane Harris of SideQuest has officially acquired the rights to the name of the defunct social platform AltspaceVR, with plans to relaunch it this fall.The previously Microsoft-owned application was...

Benjamin and Chance break down all the details about Apple’s newly-launched Upgrade Program, while Chance gets frustrated with some of the edge-cases of Siri AI. The Apple smart glasses are now...

One of the most incredible experiences I had at AWE was trying out Canon’s mixed-reality headsets. One was incredibly small, and the other one incredibly expensive ($20K!!!). Let me tell you...

While announcing its first-ever loss in its mobile division, Samsung this week teased its Android XR glasses while also confirming the upcoming launches of Galaxy Tab S12 and Galaxy S26 FE later this...

Using a headset costing hundreds of dollars to replace dirt-cheap cardboard 3D glasses sounds ridiculous, but that absurdity makes Retro3D fun.It uses the color passthrough cameras on Quest 3 and...

CleanSheet Soccer 2, which released on PlayStation VR2 in June, is coming to Quest headsets this September. Incisiv, the developers of CleanSheet Soccer 2, have announced that their goaltending...

Looking for a list of all the new VR games and DLCs coming to Quest, Steam, PlayStation VR2, and other platforms in August? We've got you covered.As summer starts to wind down and fall approaches,...

The launch of Steam Frame has grown tantalizing close following the publication of documents from the FCC showing the headset has cleared required regulatory certification. We still don’t have an...

Meta Horizon Link and Air Link allows you to use your Quest headset to play PC VR games, opening up a world of high quality content that you simply won’t find on the Quest Store. Here’s a breakdown...

The team behind SideQuest, Quest’s alternative app library, announced it’s bringing Microsoft’s social VR platform AltspaceVR (2015) back from the dead. The News Initially released in 2015 and then...

While everyone aims for the most tech-charged XR device and the sector's iPhone moment, should the near-term target be a BlackBerry moment? This baby-steps approach – seen from the likes of Even...

In XR News What’s the story? Caterpillar has recently acquired Skycatch to add near-real-time spatial data capture, processing and AI analysis capabilities to its mining technology portfolio. Why it...

The FCC granted Valve equipment authorization for FCC ID 2AES4-1015 on July 29, a device the paperwork calls simply "VR Headset." That is legal permission to sell, not another leak. VR.org has called this launch imminent twice already, so here is what separates the third time from the first two.

SideQuest has acquired the rights to the Altspace name and is rebuilding the platform for a fall 2026 launch, robot avatars included. In the same year Rec Room went dark and Meta walked Horizon Worlds out of its own headset, that should sound insane. I think it might be the smartest move anyone in social VR has made in two years.

Deadly Delivery, Stellar Cafe, and Growrilla join the growing list of standalone VR experiences for the upcoming Steam Frame headset.With Steam Frame's imminent release, expect to see loads of VR...

A lead developer of Blade & Sorcery has confirmed the PC VR version of the game will not run natively on the Steam Frame due to performance limitations.Blade & Sorcery developer Wully has confirmed...

Pavlov Shack is coming soon to Steam Frame standalone, in addition to the full version being playable via PC VR streaming.The Steam store listing specifies in the description that the game "supports...

Social VR platform Somnium Space is rolling out its biggest update yet, which aims to bring major improvements across the entire platform ahead of its planned release on Steam Frame and Apple Vision...

What's the spatial computing revenue outlook? And how does that break down by subsegments from VR to AI glasses? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment highlights original market-sizing data from...

A user setup video has reportedly surfaced of Meta’s long-rumored thin and light VR headset, suggesting we may see its official unveiling at Connect in September. The News The images below reveal a...

Setup graphics for Meta's unreleased ultralight headset surfaced in Quest firmware this week, and the number that matters is one we already had: under 110 grams. Measured against every device VR.org has logged this year, that target asks for a Bigscreen Beyond with a camera array added and no custom-molded fit to help carry it.

Somnium Space's v3.1.6 update adds private world instances and server-side scripting, and preps the social VR platform's first Steam release since its 2021 crypto delisting.

Besides being the world’s biggest smartphone chipmaker, Qualcomm is also the number one supplier of processors for nearly all standalone VR headsets on the market today. According to a Bloomberg...

Walmart's operational scale means that training employees on new equipment and processes is an expensive endeavor. How did VR help the company streamline training through bits rather than atoms? This...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? PICO has undergone a leadership change, with founder Zhou Hongwei stepping down and Li Xiaokai assuming responsibility for the ByteDance-owned XR business....

Pico founder Zhou Hongwei stepped down on July 24 and ByteDance replaced him with Li Xiaokai, an optoelectronics doctorate who has run the company's displays, chips, and perception stack since 2021. Months before Project Swan ships, that is a continuity signal rather than a retreat.

Triangle Factory is closing Hyper Dash's servers on November 1 but shipped a final update that keeps the game launchable offline. The reason they cannot hand it to the community is the detail every VR developer should be reading twice.

Immersed told preorder customers it is locking in shipping timelines for Visor, with the real update coming next month. The concrete part is a price increase landing July 31 on a headset no independent reviewer has tested in three years.

ENGO Eyewear closed a €5.1 million round led by Ventech, Odyssée Venture and Bpifrance for its 38-gram sports glasses with a micro-OLED heads-up display. The camera-free branch of smart eyewear keeps finding buyers in categories where the frame was already being worn.

AntiZuck scans Bluetooth advertisements for signatures matching Meta, Snap, Amazon, and RayNeo smart glasses, all on device. The detection window is narrower than it sounds, and the vendors could close it with a firmware update whenever they choose.

Bloomberg reports Qualcomm notified customers that Snapdragon prices rise by double digits for orders shipping after September 1. Standalone XR runs almost entirely on Qualcomm silicon, so there is no second supplier to switch to.

Bloomberg reports Apple will unveil its N50 smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027 and ship them in late 2027, with privacy as the differentiator. Apple has prototyped cameras that cannot record and glasses with no camera at all, and that choice decides what the product is.

A mixed reality tower defense game launched on Quest today for $9.99, and it treats your scanned room as the level layout rather than as set dressing. That is the one thing MR can do that authored levels cannot fake.

A WARN notice cuts 193 roles at Magic Leap's Florida headquarters, covering most of the product organization. The company is repositioning as a waveguide supplier, which its 2024 Google deal already implied.