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Ceddanne Rafaela is tagged out at home plate at Yankee Stadium on August 28th. | Getty Images This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for...

Apple has moved on to its eighth round of developer betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27, as the September special event gets ever closer.An earlier iOS 27 beta...

The physics-driven comedic prison-break sandbox game is coming to Meta Quest and PlayStation VR2 in October. HyperVR Games, the publisher and studio behind Shave & Stuff and Titans Clinic, has...

Meta just pushed an update to Quest 3 that’s effectively boosted the headset’s refresh rate up to 240Hz—or 207Hz at the headset’s full resolution. Whether you’ll actually be able to make good use of...

Both Apple pundits and most of the internet seem to agree that Vision Pro is the best way to watch baseball, following the immersive experience offered by Apple’s Friday Night Baseball. Notably,...

VITURE is back with another special edition – this time involving a variation on its Beast XR glasses. The new Phantom Beast carries a kung fu punk aesthetic through a collaboration with Phantom...

When new technology emerges, pornography soon follows. From VHS tapes to VR, the adult industry has long been an early adopter of innovative ways to watch and get off.But now, viewers are turning to...

It’s the last day of August. The last day of what is usually considered a vacation month, before we start the busy period of XR product launches in September and October! So enjoy this last...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? FIBA, the organization that steers 3×3 basketball, has announced an exclusive three-year deal with L1VE to bring the 3×3 World Tour, Women’s Series ......

FIBA's August 26 release hands L1VE a three-year exclusive on immersive live rights across the 3x3 World Tour, Women's Series and World Cup. It names the competitions and the capture technology, and no fee, no headset and no ticket price.

Bad Inmate, a physics-driven prison escape comedy from HyperVR Games in Riga, hits Quest and PlayStation VR2 together on October 15. Same-day releases on both headsets are rarer than they should be for a studio this size.

Meta's developer documentation now lists Quest 3 as accepting any integer refresh rate from 72 Hz through 207 Hz, with 240 Hz sitting behind developer mode and display scaling. The same page tells developers not to make an extended rate a requirement.

Kinetic Games has released Phasmophobia's second Quality of Life update, adding a raft of new Restricted maps, streamlined Evidence collection, VR fixes, and considerably more ways to die. Read more

Hip Hop Mixtape 2 arrived on Steam on August 27 with eight tracks at $10.96 bundled, or $15.92 bought singly. Sixteen days after Beat Saber fell to $19.99, the first pack since the cut prices in at 55 percent of the game.

Kinetic Games did not tune Phasmophobia's VR character rig in v0.19.0.0, it replaced the whole thing and matched the model to your own arm length. Five of the ten VR fixes that shipped with it are about doors.

Apple Vision Pro is one of Apple’s most interesting hardware releases yet. It’s technically very impressive, yet it seems almost certain that this form factor won’t last – and is instead just a...

As soon as next year, Apple will be debuting its first pair of AI-powered smart glasses. They’ll integrate Visual Intelligence and bring Siri to the real world. Here’s what we’re expecting. more…

Assets added in recent updates to the Meta Horizon mobile app suggest that Meta is preparing to spin off the now mobile game-focused Horizon Worlds into a separate app, codenamed Eclipse.Link to the...

Zero Latency puts Jumanji into more than 150 venues in December while Schell Games runs its first layoffs and Pico cancels its own event. The out-of-home side of VR is growing, and a closure this month shows how fragile that growth still is.

Rockstar's 26-minute Extended Look put a 2019-era Quest on a character as a gag. With no PC version announced, the VR mod route that gave GTA 5 a second life is closed for years.

Strings in the August 25 Meta Horizon build point to a separate app codenamed Eclipse, pre-release name Horizon Create. Check the store listings and the direction is already visible: category Adventure, no mention of a headset anywhere.

The investment and development community are constantly striving to find the next profitable sector in XR, turning to new business opportunities following a turbulent time in the consumer VR gaming...

I’ve always been a bit skeptical of smart glasses and mixed reality headsets. It’s not hard to find the utility of something like a Meta Quest in gaming, but Apple’s Vision Pro, for example, has...

Meta continues to crack down on malicious users disabling the privacy LED on its Ray-Ban smart glasses, this time focusing on the most obvious loophole out there. more…

Schell Games, the veteran VR studio behind spy-themed puzzle series I Expect You to Die and Among Us 3D, confirmed it has laid off around 10 percent of staff. As initially noted by Game Developer,...

Hip Hop Mixtape 2 is Beat Saber's latest DLC collection, featuring eight tracks from chart-topping artists and custom lightshows for each song's map. Mixtape 2 is available now for Meta Quest and PC...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? The 913th Airlift Group, a U.S. Air Force Reserve unit with no assigned aircraft, has built a virtual reality (VR) training center for ... continue reading...

Meta makes an $18 deal to settle and get itself out of hot water, while NVIDIA has a breakout quarter and the AI spending boom accelerates. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms from...

GTA 6 will surely be among the most asked for VR ports of the next decade, and that made a parody in the newly released gameplay showcase especially vicious. Developer Rockstar Games today finally...

Dorsey posted two words at a Bigscreen Beyond 2 link card on Friday morning and drew 176,000 views. In 2023 he compared VR's trajectory to the hovering recliners in WALL-E, and his objection then was never about specs.

Valve's Great on Frame list went from eight titles to 98, Pico pulled its September 2 launch event nine days out, Schell Games had the first layoffs in its history, and the GTA San Andreas VR port Meta announced in 2021 arrived from one modder instead.

Alex Himel says the glasses will now cut the camera if the capture LED is covered mid-recording, closing a loophole the July update left open. The check moved from a one-time gate to a running invariant, and that is a different engineering problem.

The 913th Airlift Group built a VR maintenance trainer in a converted storage room at Little Rock AFB and reports $18.5 million in mitigated costs. The release names no vendor, no headset and no methodology, which makes the delivery model the more useful finding.

TL;DR Meta’s smart glasses attempt to detect when their recording LED is blocked or tampered with, and will refuse to start filming. It turns out this check was only performed when recordings were...

I tested out Apple's updated polishing cloth. It still cleans fine, and there are still cheaper options.Cleaning the Apple Vision Pro with the new Apple Polishing ClothThe Apple Polishing Cloth first...

Vertigo Rush is the latest game from SumaLab, the indie developer behind the light-gun arcade cabinet-inspired Crisis Brigade/VRigade series, and is available now on both Quest and Steam in Early...

At AWE, I was able to go hands-on a couple of times with XREAL Aura, which are probably the first consumer-oriented Android XR AR glasses. I think it is definitely a very interesting device. Keep...

Apple has announced a new Apple Education Center in Hanoi, which aims to train employees in the growing number of Vietnamese manufacturing firms supplying the company.Vietnam is an increasingly...

There's a close resemblance between the XR funding picture and broader tech investing. That includes year-over-year fluctuations and trending. Though it happens on a much smaller scale, XR follows...

After forty years, the Dragon Quest series has grown from a handwritten idea from Yuji Horii at Chunsoft penciled onto publisher Enix company office paper into a global franchise, and one of gaming’s...

In XR News What’s the story? Goodbye Kansas Group plans to establish a local legal entity in Saudi Arabia as it expands its commercial presence in the region. Why it ... continue reading Source

Valve's certified list went from eight titles in mid July to 98 today, and the names now read like the VR canon. Part of that curve is developer work and part of it is a threshold Valve lowered in August.

August builds of the Meta AI app carry Hologram product tours, and Horizon OS now contains Hologram Calling sub-frameworks referencing Codec Avatars. Where the code sits matters more than how the avatars look.

Around 14 people were cut from the I Expect You To Die studio on August 21, counted from employee LinkedIn posts rather than any company statement. Jesse Schell spent 2024 explaining to GamesIndustry.biz why layoffs are a choice.

A Flat2VR community member going by GeT_RiCh has published version 0.1.0 alpha of a GTA San Andreas VR source kit for Quest 3. It ships no game assets, verifies Google's signing certificate, and needs your own Play Store copy of version 2.11.311.

Isle of Food recently launched on Quest after an Early Access period on Steam, and its ingredient collecting and cooking sim recipes combine for a delicious dish.The tactile nature of virtual...

I just came home from my family's annual vacation, a week in Florida's Walt Disney World Resort, where we ate Mickey-shaped pancakes, rode magical mountain roller coasters, watched fireworks at 1am,...

Schell Games, the studio best known for Among Us 3D and the I Expect You To Die series, confirmed its first layoffs in the company's twenty-plus-year history.Late last week, several Schell Games...

The new independent Supernatural now has a Coming Soon page on the Meta Horizon Store ahead of its planned launch this fall.Supernatural's new independent app can now be wishlisted, while Meta's...

'The Herbalist' is the latest limited-time Elusive Target mission for Hitman: World of Assassination. The free DLC starring hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg releases on August 27.The announcement was made at...

Google is reportedly testing a new ‘Listening area’ mode for Google Live Translate on Android XR, something that sounds like a headlining feature for the company’s upcoming fleet of smart glasses....

After the last installment of this series looked at consumer XR spending, we switch gears in this installment to dive into enterprise spending. When it comes to the art of immersive enterprise...

Meta has introduced Meta XR Operator, an experimental tool designed to let AI coding agents autonomously build, test, debug, and visually verify VR apps. The News Using AI agents, developers have...

CM Games announced its survival shooter Into the Radius 2 is finally coming to PSVR 2 next month. Into the Radius 2 is slated to arrive on PSVR 2 on September 24th, which is set to include the full...

W4 Games closed an $18 million Series B led by Tencent, taking the Godot enterprise vendor to $33 million raised, plus a multi-year deal to push the open-source engine across Asia. The engine's license does not change. Who is paying for its support does.

Meta XR Operator is an experimental OpenXR API layer in Core SDK v205 that runs an MCP server inside your Unity app, letting an agent set controller input and head pose. It cannot hear audio, track fingers, or judge motion.

Pico cancelled the September 2 launch event nine days out and pushed Space Pro to Q4 2026, citing a late software upgrade. Price, regions and the unconfirmed spec lines all go with it.

  In XR News What’s the story? W4 Games has closed an $18 million Series B funding round led by Tencent, bringing its total funding raised to date to $33 ... continue reading Source

Minutes after playing Payday: Aces High for the first time, we talked to Fast Travel Games' Chief Creative Officer Erik Odeldahl about the design philosophies behind the upcoming co-op heist shooter....

Real VR Fishing brings players to warm waters with its latest expansion, the US South DLC, out now on Quest and Steam.Devs United Games have announced that the latest DLC for Real VR Fishing will let...

Dystopian survival shooter Into the Radius 2 launches on PlayStation VR2 on September 24, but if you are looking to play with a friend, you have to wait for co-op support to be added later.Developer...

To embody its history in its promotional efforts for the U.S. Open, the USTA looked to AR. With a set of lenses across social AR platforms, it reached 8 million impressions. What are the lessons and...

Pico was set to debut its next flagship standalone XR headset early next month, however now the ByteDance subsidiary says it’s postponing the reveal and release date of its long-awaited Apple Vision...

QuestStack roots a Quest 1 on its final firmware and swaps in a vulnerable bootloader. A WebUSB version from darknight1050 does the same job from a Chromium tab. Meta stopped patching the headset on August 31, 2024.

An Android Authority teardown of Google Translate 10.32.66 found a "Listening area (Glasses only)" control with Front only and Surrounding area modes. The one Android XR device you can buy today is a headset, and it does not get them.

Fast Travel Games ran the first public playtest of PAYDAY: Aces High from August 20 to August 24 on Quest 3 and SteamVR. The Steam page now reads Q4 2026, and the trailer's own title card lists Steam Frame as a platform.

It has been widely reported by multiple reputable sources that Meta is working on a premium, ultralight, open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, intended to occupy a similar high-end...

I’m in Italy, but in a sunnier place than usual, enjoying a more relaxed environment and a lot of good food. Probably too much good food… but I can’t resist it ahahah. Anyway, I am still working, and...

A newly granted patent from Arm describes a head-mounted system that analyzes motion in the images headed to a display, then sends control signals to ultrasonic transducers intended to stimulate the...

A recent AR-guided abdominal exam at Cleveland Clinic revealed a liver lesion that was invisible to the naked eye. What does this detection and subsequent AR-guided treatment tell us about XR's role...