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Apple today updated its official list of digital camera RAW formats supported across its platforms, adding support for 11 models from several manufacturers. Here are the details. more…

Earlier this summer, Apple closed a portion of the Apple Park Visitor Center as it worked to “improve our store.” That space has now reopened, and the big change is that Apple has removed the...

Following renovations, the Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino, California no longer features a 3D augmented reality model of the Apple Park campus. The area that housed the 3D model, which was...

There’s been a near-constant stream of backlash against Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in recent months, but that hasn’t stopped people from buying them, as a new report reveals that shipments have...

Apple's first smart glasses could arrive in a rapidly expanding market, with worldwide AI glasses shipments increasing 263% year-over-year during the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint...

The Twilight's End DLC wraps up the story of Demeo X Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked with a grand finale of a third campaign that any battle-hardened Demeo player will enjoy.In our initial review of...

Apple has added an additional layer of authentication to Face ID on iPhone 18 Pro using image data and a secure exclave, potentially speeding up the process.Apple hid a portion of the Face ID system...

Credit: Vonder TL;DR Vonder has announced the launch of its debut collection of smart glasses. These smart glasses come in six frame shapes, three colors, and no camera or display. Pre-orders start...

Resolution Games, in collaboration with Hasbros’ Wizards of the Coast, today launched its next adventure campaign for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (2025). Called ‘Campaign III: Twilight’s...

Erstwhile specializing in entertainment-centric video display glasses, Viture is expanding into intelligent eyewear. Known as VONDER, its new line of AI glasses prioritizes subtle and ambient AI...

In XR News What’s the story? Niantic Spatial has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Singapore Land Authority to evaluate the technical feasibility of building Singapore’s “first Visual...

Meta Connect is coming soon, and as it is tradition for my blog, I’ll try to predict what is going to be announced this year! I love playing this guessing game, and it’s even more fun if you comment...

Twilight's End launched today at $9.99, only the host needs to own it, and Battlemarked landed on Xbox the same morning. Every screenshot on its Steam page shows the flat version, and both platforms it has added since launch have no headset.

Three weeks into the job, Apple's new CEO told Canal+'s Clique that Vision Pro is "the early days of a long journey" and named surgeons as its growth case. He did not mention the successor Apple reportedly cut, the August layoffs, or glasses.

CM Immersive pushed the PS VR2 port back two weeks, from this Thursday to October 8, after Sony's final certification stage flagged issues. Two-player co-op still lands later, and the headset itself is out of stock in the US.

Credit: Chase Bernath / Android Authority TL;DR Global AI glasses shipments jumped 263% year over year in H1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research. Display-less models accounted for 96% of...

After a delay from the planned April release, deep sea story-based puzzle game Echoes of Mora VR released today on Steam, with an optional flatscreen mode.One very important note: developer Selkies...

Newly minted Apple CEO John Ternus has praised the Apple Vision Pro, calling it an amazing device that is finding more users, but also that it's in its very earliest days.Apple CEO John Ternus -...

Counterpoint Research says global AI glasses shipments surged 263% during the first half of 2026, with Meta comfortably leading the display-less segment amid growing privacy concerns. Here are the...

The cost of PC components has shifted rapidly in recent years thanks to the RAMpocalypse, inflation, and more. So how much does a VR Ready gaming PC actually cost in 2026? Table of Contents:...

Apple is now on the second round of its developer betas for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and macOS 27.2.iOS 27 on an iPhoneThe second post-milestone release...

Using your virtual reality headset as a monitor for your Windows 11 PC just got a lot better.Remember when mixed reality and virtual reality were the biggest buzzwords in tech? Before the advent of...

In a lengthy new interview with Clique TV, Apple CEO John Ternus answered a range of questions covering what excites him about the future, how technology is used in his family, the offer to become...

Remember when, a couple of weeks ago, the singer of American band Breaking Benjamin was filmed promoting a Fallout 4 first person he'd made via a mid-gig speech about modding community drama? Well,...

Apple’s new CEO John Ternus recently sat down for a lengthy, in-depth interview with French outlet Clique TV, and in it he gave the best defense yet for Apple Vision Pro. more…

Having launched though the same system of reservations and waitlists as the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is still navigating that inscrutable void betixt "on sale" and "actually out." Nevertheless,...

Follow along with the Gizmodo crew as we cover everything Meta announces at its annual developer conference. We're once again expecting new smart glasses, upgrades to its AI models, and more.

Are you considering where to publish immersive video experiences for Apple Vision Pro audiences?Apple TV, Amplium, Fovii, Primary: News in Depth and Theatre apps are just a selection of apps...

Spend enough time in a VR headset and you'll encounter some familiar complaints: heat, weight distribution, glasses, controller comfort and keeping track of your surroundings. Start exercising in one...

It’s been a HUGE week for XR! The Steam Frame has been officially launched, and also the Snap Specs have been fully unveiled. And we are not stopping here, because this coming week we’re going to...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Rokid has launched AIUI Studio globally, a browser-based agentic AI platform for building spatial AI applications that run on its Rokid AI Glasses, ......

We were fortunate enough to be among the few invited to demo Specs. The short version: Specs could mark the dawn of a long-unfulfilled AR promise, or what Evan Spiegel is calling 'intuitive...

In Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Proteus Labs’ mixed reality science lab has been selected for Avantis Education’s ClassVR Xcelerate headset and EduverseSTEM platform,...

Snap's CEO demoed the soon-to-launch Specs standalone true AR glasses live on stage, including an official Harry Potter experience from HBO.Revealed back in June, when the company opened preorders,...

Snap announced that its Specs AR glasses, still set to launch this fall, have a cross-platform AI agent and an optional cellular charging case for on-the-go connectivity.Snap Opens Preorders For...

Meta will launch smart glasses without a camera at Connect, The Information reports, as the backlash to the form factor grows.All of Meta's smart glasses feature a white LED at the end of one temple...

SteamOS 0.3.0 is the Steam Frame's first public update since the September 14 launch. Twelve lines, led by substantially faster charging while the headset sleeps, a fix for the garbled microphone bug, and a Playable tier rule that no longer demands 1440p.

Mixed Reality Link 26.9105.9070.0 gives Windows three new capture devices from a Quest 3 or 3S: the headset microphone, a passthrough camera, and a Meta avatar camera that Horizon OS already offered its own Android apps. It lands as support for the last Windows Mixed Reality headsets runs out in November.

Smart glasses are such a logical, futuristic step in mobile tech, and it’s one we’re on the cusp of being able to embrace. Yet, there’s a huge hurdle to overcome. For as useful and enjoyable as it...

Meta's Connect 2026 keynote is Wednesday. A line-by-line check of the last three keynotes: five products with a price and a date all shipped on schedule, Augments is three years late, and the Ray-Ban Display expansion Meta promised four countries never happened.

Meta could demo its Project Phoenix headset at Connect 2026 alongside "a full-body, photorealistic hologram call experience" leveraging Codec Avatars, The Information reports.Multiple reputable...

Within hours of Valve's reservation emails, eBay sellers were asking $1,750 for a 256GB Steam Frame reservation and $2,000 or more for the 1TB. Valve's program terms say the right to buy cannot be transferred, and European buyers have a second scam to watch for once units ship.

Asgard's Wrath 2 came free with the Quest 3 in 2023 and Batman: Arkham Shadow with the Quest 3S in 2024. Meta has since closed Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel, Camouflaj no longer makes VR games, and the Connect 2026 agenda does not list a single Quest game.

Flat2VR Spark's port of Strange Scaffold's revenge shooter reached Steam on September 17 at $22.99. The no-reload gunplay made the jump to VR. The tree climbing and the story interludes did not, and without its rank gates the campaign runs under an hour.

The first smart glasses were Google Glass, launched way back in 2014. The product failed for a number of reasons, but the biggest of these was privacy concerns around video recording capabilities,...

Flow Chaser is a new spatial rhythm game for Apple Vision Pro that launched alongside the recently released visionOS 27. Developed around Apple's new on-device music intelligence, Flow Chaser...

After a five-month Early Access period, Innerspace's time-warping secret agent adventure Spymaster gets its full release on Steam and Quest on October 15. Spymaster is the latest project from...

Unseen Reality took to Kickstarter last month to fund its monitor-replacing mixed reality glasses, URXR One. Now concluded, the campaign has officially garnered over $1.2 million. URXR One aren’t...

Valve has just released its Lepton tool as an open-source resource for bringing Android-native games to Linux and, in turn, Steam. more…

Specs are showcased and met with strong reviews, Steam Frame finally releases, and AI gets pressure to both slow down and speed up. We have these and other events from AI and XR worlds through the...

Apple launched visionOS 27 for Vision Pro headsets this week.visionOS 27 is the fourth major operating system version for Apple Vision Pro headsets.Despite the relative lack of fanfare, visionOS 27...

Sony's US store lists PlayStation VR2 at $399 and "Currently Unavailable." Best Buy's only new units are Marketplace bundles from $855.20, Walmart shows pre-owned headsets, and Sony's UK store still sells it at £399.99. Sony has not said why.

Valve ran the Steam Frame draw and a community tracker has fewer than half of respondents reserved, eBay filled up with fake reservation screenshots, Snap gave Specs a Verizon bundle but no ship date, visionOS 27 shipped the same Monday as the Frame, and Connect is Wednesday.

Snap's September 16 enterprise post names Salesforce, AWS, NVIDIA, Trifork and Hololight, but no customer, no enterprise price and no device management vendor. The firmer commitment went to Verizon: a $2,395 cellular bundle with 36-month financing.

As Valve sends out emails to potential Steam Frame buyers and disappoints scores of potential buyers by putting them on a waiting list, outrageously marked-up Frame listings have been popping up on...

Gaussian splats are like dimensional photographs, capturing places you can explore from different positions and angles. They’re interesting on a screen, but VR makes them feel more like somewhere you...

Survival shooter Into the Radius 2's PlayStation VR2 release has been pushed back from September 24 to October 8, citing an issue with certification for Sony's platform. Here is the exact wording...

Large-scale PvP FPS Forefront adds fighter jets to its arsenal of combat vehicles alongside a new map in a free update. Developer Triangle Factory referred to the jets as an 'experimental vehicle'...

Singular Perception's upcoming co-op action roguelike is a lot to take in at first. But once you get your bearings, you are left with a promising foundation that the game's developers will surely...

You can play my most anticipated game of 2027 with the Dream Hackers VR demo released today. When the developers of Dream Hackers VR sent me a preview build of their upcoming game back in August, I...

A new goalkeeping soccer game has arrived on Quest today. Incisiv, the developers of CleanSheet Soccer 2, have released their goaltending arcade game on Meta Quest today. The game had previously been...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Snap has showcased its SPECS augmented reality glasses at an event in LA this week and announced SPECS Intelligence, an AI service that ... continue...

Zuckerberg and Bosworth are reportedly set to demo a hologram-like call on Project Phoenix at Connect. The Hologram Calling framework already landed in Horizon OS, which is the part that decides whether developers ever get to call it.

The Information reports Meta will unveil camera-free smart glasses codenamed Luna at Connect on September 23, with six microphones, a Meta AI button and slimmer arms. It is the first Meta hardware that concedes the privacy argument instead of defending the camera.

Valve priced the Steam Frame in six currencies on September 14. Stripped of VAT and converted at that day's ECB reference rates, the 256GB kit costs less before tax in Poland, the UK, Germany and Australia than its $1,059 US price, and the reservation terms say more about supply than any figure Valve released.

Valve priced the Steam Frame at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, with controllers, a wireless adapter and Half-Life: Alyx in the box. The charger is a $29 add-on, and color passthrough comes from a third-party camera.

Steam Frame signups close Thursday, September 17 at 10 AM Pacific. Who qualifies, how the shuffle and 72-hour purchase window work, and what to decide before checkout.

Valve spent more than a year porting Half-Life: Alyx to run standalone on the Steam Frame, Workshop mods included, and it comes free with the headset.

Valve's launch-day accessory list puts full color passthrough in a $149 Arcturus Vision Camera under a new Steam Frame Compatible mark, while its Steamworks engine guides say nothing about passthrough at all.

A 66-page class action filed September 4 in the Northern District of Illinois builds part of its facial recognition case on a Meta patent application published in May. The patent is real, and its own title cuts against the reading the plaintiffs give it.