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Discovery: Rogue Planet, a narrative sci-fi first person shooter originally scheduled to release on August 6, is available now for Quest 3. Developer Immersmind Studio has stated plans for a PC VR...

After successful Early Access and 1.0 releases on SteamVR, survival adventure Bootstrap Island makes the jump to PlayStation VR2 today.Bootstrap Island follows the lone survivor of a shipwreck in a...

In what addresses only a lesser problem of privacy when filming with Apple Glasses, a new patent details ways the wearer can be alerted that they are recording, or if bad actors try to interfere.It...

An update for Laser Dance released today which brings six new levels to the game and introduces a new green laser that mimics your every move.Laser Dance, the Early Access mixed-reality laser...

Breachers gives players a new map and more custom game settings in its latest update, available now. Until recently, the custom game settings were quite limited. The Custom Game Settings update lets...

Waving Bear Studio has announced Stuffed: Two Foot Hero, a new VR wave shooter coming to SteamVR and Meta Quest this fall.Stuffed: Two Foot Hero is a sequel to Waving Bear Studio's Stuffed, which...

GOLF+ adds to its ever-growing catalog of real-world courses with Bellerive, the site of this year's BMW Championship.The Bellerive course first opened in 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri with course...

FarBridge, the Austin-based studio behind Quest strategy Homeworld: Vast Reaches (2024), has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support the development of a flatsceen entry in the Job Simulator...

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One of the startups I absolutely wanted to visit at AWE was Oxford Optical Labs (OOL) because it is developing special lenses that can change their focus on demand. This company got me intrigued...

The spatial spectrum continues to diverge and diversify, meaning different architectures are required across that continuum. How does this principle map to various processing architectures and...

Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to an Irish charity supporting people with sight loss.

Perhaps it's superficial, but I need my wearable tech to actually look nice. You won't catch me wearing Apple Vision Pro goggles at my wedding.I've worn an Apple Watch on and off for the past decade...

In VR Gaming News What’s the story? Glydr has launched Controller Translation in beta, letting its foot-pedal controller combine with a gamepad so games recognize both as one unified virtual ......

“What I really like about the glasses is the speed at which I get the information I need – instead of waiting for someone to read a letter or waiting for someone to tell me what I have in the fridge,...

  In Virtual Reality News August 12, 2026 — DPVR, a global developer and manufacturer of virtual reality (VR) hardware solutions, has this week announced pricing and availability details for ......

Beat Saber's list price fell from $29.99 to $19.99 on Quest, SteamVR, and PSVR2, the first permanent cut in the game's life. The 270 paid add-ons on Steam held at $1.99 a track. Here is what the split says about VR pricing.

Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.

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...

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 ......

Mighty Coconut announced Walkabout Dungeon Golfer on August 10, a roguelike that began as an April Fools joke and now has a summer 2027 target. The same stream revealed the studio is also becoming a third-party publisher.

A.P. Moller - Maersk announced on August 7 that it has agreed to sell Maersk Training and Maersk H2S Safety Services to private equity carve-out specialist OpenGate Capital. Terms were not disclosed, and the release does not mention virtual reality once.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.