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X-Plane Streaming Link and iRacing Connect are now live on the visionOS App Store, streaming both sims from your PC with foveated rendering at up to 120FPS. The standout feature: passthrough blends your physical yoke, wheel, and pedals directly into the virtual cockpit.

Three weeks ago I wrote that Valve does not launch hardware without software to justify it. The evidence says I was wrong. Valve has flatly denied having any VR content in development, and the silence has held for seven months. Time to think honestly about what a Steam Frame launch without an Alyx moment actually looks like.

Apple's incoming CEO erased every Vision headset from the roadmap, two Quest 3 units are heading to the ISS, Meta cut Supernatural loose, Acer came back to XR, and the most important rhythm game ever made turned eight. One of the busiest weeks of the year, recapped.

Ming-Chi Kuo reports that incoming Apple CEO John Ternus signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the Vision product roadmap. Every Vision Pro successor is gone. What remains is a display-free AI glasses product in 2027 and waveguide AR glasses that have slipped to 2029.

A six-year collaboration between Meta and the European Space Agency is sending two Quest 3 headsets to the ISS, where astronauts will use them to rehearse spacewalks before stepping out the hatch. Consumer VR hardware just earned its way into the most demanding training environment there is.

Meta is spinning out Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, three years after its $400 million acquisition of Within. The original founders and coaches return, the current app shuts down December 3, and the subscription doubles to $20 a month.

At Computex 2026 Acer unveiled the AR Vision GR0 display glasses and Gemini-powered GI0 AI Glasses, its first XR hardware since 2019. Aggressive pricing meets a 60Hz spec sheet, and another PC giant joins the smart glasses race.

Meta released open-source agentic tools for native Quest development, anchored by the Horizon Debug Bridge: an MCP server with 40+ tools that lets AI coding assistants search docs, debug on real headsets, and analyze performance traces. The native toolchain just caught up to the AI era.

Rec Room went dark on June 1 and Spatial is sunsetting its creator tiers next month. The platforms that keep dying share one trait, and the open, self-hostable alternatives that keep surviving share another.

Beat Saber just hit its eighth anniversary with three free new tracks, including an original in-house song. Eight years and nearly 10 million copies later, it is still the game I hand a headset to first. Here is why it works, from someone who makes music for a living.

The Boys: Trigger Warning lands on PSVR2 on June 9 as a PS5 Pro Enhanced build with community-requested improvements. After playing the Quest version, I think the PlayStation one is the one to wait for.

Augmented World Expo returns to Long Beach June 15 to 18 under the theme 'I, Spatial: Humans Empowered by Spatial AI.' Here is what the must-attend XR conference is signaling about where the industry is headed in the back half of 2026.

Korpi Games brought its realistic hunting simulator to PSVR2 and Meta Quest on May 27 at $24.99, with 64 square kilometer open worlds, six-player co-op, and platform-specific features that lean hard on each headset's hardware.

Three weeks ago I previewed a stacked May release calendar. The month is nearly done, so here is the honest accounting: what hit, what slipped, what surprised me, and what you should be playing this weekend.

Virtuix landed a U.S. Air Force AFWERX Phase I award for its Virtual Terrain Walk mission-rehearsal platform. After years selling VR treadmills to gamers, the company found the customer whose problem its hardware actually solves.

Bigscreen has shipped tens of thousands of Beyond 2 headsets, cleared its preorder backlog, and crossed 1% of Steam VR users, passing the HTC Vive Pro. For a boutique PCVR headset that costs over a thousand dollars, that is a remarkable result.

Meta locked in Connect 2026 for September 23 to 24 and teased a new pair of smart glasses in the same breath. The product it chose to dangle tells you exactly where Reality Labs is spending its attention this year.

Meta has reportedly signed Seeya Technology and BOE's BMOT division to supply OLED microdisplays for its next flagship Quest headset, ending a multi-year detour through LCD and pointing to a steeper price tier built to compete with Apple's Vision Pro and Samsung's incoming Galaxy XR.

Meta launched a developer preview for Ray-Ban Display with two SDK paths: a native mobile toolkit for iOS and Android, and a new Web Apps route using standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Developers can now push content directly into the in-lens display for the first time.

Godot just shipped v5.1 of its OpenXR Vendors plugin with trackables, dynamic resolution, unbounded reference space, and a Direct Preview workflow upgrade. Android XR development on the open-source engine just caught up to Quest.

Trebuchet's open-world VR flight adventure Compass drops May 28 on Quest 3 and SteamVR. You pilot a cargo ship through pastel skies, leave the cockpit to grapple across floating landscapes, and scout for an airborne caravan. I am very into this.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic is now on Steam VR after April's PSVR2 launch. It is the first FNAF built ground-up for a headset, and the design choices say a lot about where Steel Wool thinks the franchise belongs.

Google shipped Developer Preview 4 of the Android XR SDK with official Unreal Engine and Godot support, a new Engine Hub that bridges all three major game engines, and core libraries moving to beta. The platform just got serious for game developers.

Google opened applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program at I/O 2026. The deadline is June 30, dev kits ship this summer, and the first cohort is intentionally small. Here is what developers actually get and how the math works.

Wearable Devices and Meta-Bounds paired a neural wristband with lightweight AR glasses at AWE 2026. The pairing is small in scale but technically significant. Here is what it signals for the next round of AR input.

XREAL debuted Project Aura at Google I/O with a 70-degree field of view, hand tracking, and full Android XR integration. It ships before the end of 2026, and the hands-on impressions are strong.

Audio glasses confirmed for fall. iOS compatibility announced. Android Halo bridges phone and glasses. Google I/O proved that Android XR is not a concept anymore. It is a shipping platform.

ASUS ROG and XREAL launched the R1, the world's first 240Hz micro-OLED AR gaming glasses. At $849 with a 171-inch virtual screen and 3ms latency, they ship June 1.

Alex Heath reports that Snap Specs ship this fall at roughly $2,500. That puts true binocular AR glasses on the market before Google's $799 Android XR Warby Parker frames, before Meta's next-generation Hypernova, and at a price that says Snap is not pretending to compete with either of them.

Forty-eight hours after Google put an October ship date on Android XR glasses, Meta has now made its moves. Andrew Bosworth posted, the paused European retail rollout got un-paused, and a Bloomberg report says the next Ray-Ban Display is being pulled into Q1 2027. The price on the current Display did not move. That last sentence is the entire competitive read.

Apple announced Tuesday that visionOS will let users drive Tolt and LUCI power wheelchairs using Vision Pro's eye tracking, with Bluetooth and wired connection paths and a US launch. It is a quiet announcement on the surface and a very loud one on the second read. While the analyst class spent the week arguing about whether Apple has given up on the headset, Apple shipped the most concrete answer it has put together yet to the question of what Vision Pro is actually for.

Evan covered the consumer ship date yesterday. The story I care about happened at the 1pm developer keynote, where Android XR SDK 1.0 went general availability, the toolchain finally got consolidated, the gesture grammar broke from every other XR platform, and Google put $30 million on the table for studios willing to commit before October. Here is what a small team actually does with all of that.

I sat through the entire I/O keynote and the developer keynote after it, and the answer to the question Sam Whitfield asked yesterday is the one almost nobody expected. Google said the verb. Android XR glasses ship this fall, with a price, a partner order, and live demos that mostly worked. Meta still has the market, but it no longer has unlimited time.

Meta raised every Quest it sells on April 19 over the memory shortage. PSVR2 did not move, because it is not a standalone computer. One month later the value column reads strangely, and the day Myst and Riven land on the headset is a good time to re-run it. Here is the math, and the catch.

Google's I/O keynote tomorrow will preview Android XR glasses with Gemini built in. The problem is not the technology. It is that Meta is already shipping a comparable product by the million while Google is still demoing one.

A new report lays out how Meta is building the displays for Anduril's military AR glasses, the ones soldiers would use to call in drone strikes by looking at a target. The consumer roadmap and the battlefield roadmap just became the same roadmap.

An Android XR system update quietly degraded the $1,799 Galaxy XR for nearly three weeks before Google's patch landed. The more useful story is what the episode reveals about the platform every other headset maker is being asked to build on.

Valve's upcoming headset is not just another VR product launch. It is a bet that PC VR gaming can go mainstream without sacrificing what made it special. Here is why Steam Frame matters more than anything else in VR right now.

Samsung's latest Galaxy XR firmware update adds full Android Enterprise support, Knox security, and a five-year update commitment. The headset just crossed the threshold from consumer gadget to corporate IT asset.

Google revealed its full Android XR strategy, Valve's Steam Frame ran into supply chain problems, and two of the most beloved puzzle games in history arrived on PSVR2. Here is everything that happened this week.

Apple will reveal visionOS 27 at WWDC on June 8, and reports out this week say it will be a refinement release rather than a feature reveal. That sounds like a letdown, but it is exactly what the small but real Vision Pro enterprise base has been asking for.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman just confirmed Apple's next Vision Pro is at least two years away, with the planned N100 successor shelved. Here is what that timeline means for Meta, Valve, Samsung, and the rest of the headset market.

Cyan Worlds brings both iconic puzzle adventures to PlayStation VR2 on May 19 with PS5 Pro enhancements, ray tracing, and full flatscreen support. PSVR2 just got two of its strongest arguments.

Google I/O kicks off May 19 with hands-on XR glasses demos and two dedicated spatial computing sessions. Here is what developers building on Android XR need to pay attention to.

Valve's most anticipated VR headset is caught in an industry-wide memory shortage driven by AI demand. The Steam Frame is marked 'coming soon' on Steam, but the road to launch just got more complicated.

Resolution Games added the original Elektronika 60 Tetris to Retrocade on Apple Vision Pro, complete with a faithfully recreated Japanese arcade environment from the mid-1980s.

Galaxy XR headset updates, a two-tier smart glasses strategy, and fashion house partnerships. Here is what Google revealed about XR at today's Android Show.

The Android Show confirmed that Google is going all in on smart glasses. Apple is testing four frame designs. Meta already owns the market. As a VR gamer, I have thoughts on where this leaves us.

FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR hit SteamVR Early Access on May 7, and after a weekend of playing it I am here to report that arcade racing finally has the VR adaptation it deserves.

Creature's May 2026 showcase delivered a lineup that had Quest gamers saying their will to live is back. From an open-world flight adventure to a singing sock puppet, here is everything worth knowing.

Flat2VR Studios' acclaimed roguelite FPS lands on Meta Quest with same-day co-op support across all platforms. Here is what to expect from one of VR's fastest shooters.

Three weeks after Google promised a hotfix was top priority, update vI610UEU2AZD8 is rolling out to Galaxy XR headsets. The memory leak is patched. A few smaller bugs are not.

Google split its developer event into two acts this year: The Android Show on May 12 and I/O on May 19. Tomorrow's show at 10 AM PT is expected to feature Android XR glasses updates, Google's own Gemini-powered smart glasses, partner hardware from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and Android 17.

This week Samsung, Apple, and Google all made major smart glasses moves. IDC data confirmed glasses outsell VR headsets 3:1. As a VR gamer watching the industry pivot, I have thoughts about what the glasses era means for people who love putting on a headset and disappearing into another world.

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 was announced at the Creature Feature Showcase for Quest 3/3S and Steam. It is a full extraction shooter with procedurally generated environments and the best gun simulation in VR. This is not a port. Meta backed the development. I am losing it.

The week of May 2-8, 2026 delivered one of the most packed news cycles in recent VR and XR history. Samsung Galaxy Glasses leaked, Apple revealed four smart glasses designs, IDC data showed glasses outselling headsets 3:1, H3VR2 was announced for Quest and Steam, and both Google and Meta shipped major developer tools.

Apple just disbanded the Vision Pro team. Microsoft killed HoloLens. Meta shut down Horizon Workrooms. The vendors picking up enterprise XR contracts were built for this work all along.

Meta Interaction SDK v69 adds full Unreal Engine 5.4 support and compatibility with non-Meta headsets on Unity. Grab, Poke, Raycast, and hand tracking interactions now work across engines and devices. Meta is making its best VR interaction tools available to everyone.

Android XR SDK Developer Preview 3 is live with the first official tools for building AI glasses apps. Jetpack Compose Glimmer handles UI for transparent displays. Jetpack Projected lets phones push XR experiences to glasses. A new AI Glasses emulator in Android Studio means you can test without hardware.

Andrew Bosworth used a sit-down with Alex Heath this week to confirm two new Meta headsets are still on the roadmap, and to acknowledge that Valve's Steam Frame is going to influence what comes next.

May 2026 has a stacked lineup of VR releases across Quest, PSVR2, and PC VR. Spymaster brings time-bending espionage from the A Fisherman's Tale devs. Evil Inside VR rebuilds a horror classic for VR from the ground up. Roboquest VR finally adds co-op. Here is everything hitting headsets this month.

Meta Haptics Studio and the Haptics SDK are now both on GitHub under the MIT license, with native Wwise support shipping alongside it. Open source XR tooling just took another big step forward.

WebGPU is now shipping by default in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. Three.js made it production-ready with zero config. The 15-year WebGL era is over, and immersive web apps are the biggest beneficiary.

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data, Sprint Vector, Creed: Rise to Glory, and Alien: Rogue Incursion, has reportedly laid off the bulk of its development team. The Alien sequel is gone with them, and so is a chunk of VR's first generation.

IDC data confirms what the industry already suspected: global XR shipments grew 44.4% in 2025, but smart glasses drove nearly all of that growth. VR and MR headsets actually declined 14% in the first half. Meta Quest shipments fell 42.3% year-over-year. The market has spoken, and it wants glasses.

Bloomberg reports Apple is testing four distinct frame styles for AI smart glasses made from premium acetate, with a vertical oval camera system, hand gesture recognition, and deep Siri integration. No display. No AR overlays. An unveil at the iPhone 18 event in September looks likely, with sales starting in 2027.

Valve's $99 Steam Controller went on sale at 10 AM Pacific today and sold out before noon. No restock date, no Amazon listing, no retail partner to fall back on. Resellers are already listing units on eBay for double and triple the price.

The Steam Controller selling out in an hour is being read as a scarcity story. The more interesting reading is what it says about appetite for Valve hardware in 2026, and what that appetite means when the Steam Frame eventually opens preorders.

Samsung accidentally revealed its Android XR smart glasses through a Nearby Device Scanning app update. Two models are in development: Jinju, a display-less AI-first pair at $379-$499, and Haean, a premium micro-LED display variant for 2027. A July Galaxy Unpacked unveil looks likely.

Niantic Spatial is sunsetting Peridot, its flagship mobile AR pet game, after three years. The franchise lives on, but only on AR glasses. That tells you everything about where the platform is going.

Google is not building its own smart glasses this time. It is powering everyone else's. Gucci confirmed Android XR glasses for 2027. Warby Parker is targeting 2026 with $150 million in Google backing. Gentle Monster is in too. The strategy is clear: make AR glasses a fashion category, not a tech gadget.

I owned the first Steam Controller for four years before Valve quietly discontinued it. The 2026 version corrects every mistake the original made, without abandoning the one weird idea that made it interesting in the first place.

The new Steam Controller ships this Sunday. $99, Steam store exclusive, 35+ hour battery, TMR magnetic thumbsticks that eliminate stick drift, dual trackpads with haptics, 6-axis gyro, and Grip Sense. Reviews from early access units call it 'a massive improvement over the flawed original.'

Google I/O runs May 19-20 in Mountain View. Android XR is expected to dominate the keynote with new hardware partners, Gemini integration updates, and at least five devices launching this year. Here is everything to watch for.

On the same week Apple reportedly shelved Vision Pro development, a Long Island surgeon disclosed he has performed hundreds of cataract operations wearing one. The enterprise medical case for spatial computing is real, even if the consumer one isn't.

The first TMNT VR game launched today. I have been looking forward to this one for weeks. After a few hours with it, here is what works, what needs patching, and why I am still having a great time.

ByteDance's Pico just detailed its next flagship headset. Project Swan features 4000 PPI micro-OLED displays, a dual-chip architecture, 270 grams, and a visionOS-style spatial operating system. It launches later this year.

DRAM prices have surged over 200% since early 2025. Meta hiked Quest prices by up to $100. Sony cut PSVR2 production. HTC delayed the Vive XR Elite refresh. Valve cannot keep the Steam Deck OLED in stock. The common thread is AI data centers consuming the world's memory supply.

Reality Labs posted a $4 billion operating loss in Q1 2026 against $402 million in revenue, and Meta's CFO confirmed VR spending will decrease significantly as resources shift to smart glasses.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 just got free PSVR2 support with Sim Update 5. All 125 aircraft. Custom Sense controller interactions. Foveated rendering. This is the system seller PSVR2 needed.

Meta announced Horizon Worlds would leave Quest headsets by June 15. Users called it a betrayal. CTO Andrew Bosworth reversed the decision on Instagram Stories the next day. But the real story is what the numbers reveal about where Meta's metaverse actually lives.

Two weeks ago I said April might be the best month for VR games in years. The month is almost over. Here is what actually landed, what surprised me, and what you should be playing tonight.

Snap cut 16% of its workforce and killed 300 open roles. But Specs, the AR glasses subsidiary that has burned $3.5 billion, is actually adding headcount. Activist investor Irenic Capital wanted Snap to shut Specs down entirely. Spiegel said no.

One More Delve hit Quest 3 and SteamVR yesterday. It is a physics-based three-player dungeon crawler shipped by a single student developer, and after a few hours with it, I am genuinely stunned at what one person pulled off.

The first marketing renders of Samsung's display-less Galaxy Glasses surfaced today. They run Android XR, weigh 50 grams, start at $379, and Meta should be paying attention.

Valve revealed the technical requirements for the Steam Frame Verified badge at GDC 2026. Standalone VR games must hit 90 FPS. Meta and Pico accept 72Hz. For developers targeting a mobile chip, that gap is enormous.

Komodo Station, Valve's official Asian distributor, listed the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame on its store this week. No prices yet, but the signal is clear: Valve is getting ready to ship.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City drops April 30 on Quest, Steam VR, and Pico. Four-player co-op, signature weapons, first-person turtle combat. This is the VR game I have been waiting for since I was eight years old.

Mike Rockwell, the Apple executive who created Vision Pro and now leads the Siri overhaul, has reportedly considered leaving the company. The story behind the story is about what happens when a flagship bet underperforms and the person who championed it gets reassigned.

VITURE's Beast XR glasses pack a 174-inch display, switchable AR/VR modes, and Sony micro-OLED panels into an 88-gram frame for $549. They ship April 27 and work with everything from PS5 to Steam Deck.

Owlchemy Labs launched Sporelando, a new Dimension Pack for Dimensional Double Shift, today on Quest and Android XR. Sentient mushrooms, golf carts with a pulse, and the best $4.99 you'll spend in VR this week.

The April Android XR update shipped auto-spatialization and a memory leak. Galaxy XR owners are rebooting every 30 minutes, and Google just confirmed the hotfix is top priority.

Bigscreen Beyond 2 weighs 107 grams, pushes 2560x2560 per eye through micro-OLED panels, adds eye tracking, and costs $1019. In a market that has mostly given up on enthusiast PC VR, that spec sheet is a statement.

Godot 4.6 ships with OpenXR 1.1, frame synthesis, a universal APK for every OpenXR headset, and full Spatial Entities support. Meta has been funding the maintainers. Indie XR devs should be paying attention.

Forefront hits 1.0 on Quest, SteamVR, and Pico this Thursday with 32-player lobbies, cross-platform progression, and vehicles on land, sea, and air. I have been burned before, but this one actually looks like the thing.

Rokid's 49-gram AR glasses just took the global lead in display AI smart glasses sales, and a March software update put Gemini on the product before Google's own glasses have even shipped.

CM Games' Stalker-inspired VR survival shooter hits 1.0 on April 23 with a full story campaign, new weapons, night vision goggles, and 4-player co-op on the way. This is one of the best hardcore VR games most people have never heard of.

Bandai Namco and Iconik are bringing Little Nightmares to VR on April 24 with Altered Echoes. You play as Dark Six in first person across Quest, PSVR2, and SteamVR. This is the kind of franchise that was always meant for a headset.

Meta is raising Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices on April 19, and while the memory chip story is real, the timing leaves a lot of room for competitors. One gamer's take.

Google shipped the April Android XR update with five new features, but the one that matters for the ecosystem is auto-spatialization. Android's platform strategy for XR is finally coming into focus.

Apple's quietly released Business 2.0 app adds Vision Pro support and goes free, signaling a platform move that enterprise IT should track closely.

Meta launched two new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses designed from the ground up for prescription wearers. The Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics start at $499, ship to optical retailers, and come with AI nutrition tracking and neural handwriting input.

Meta's Immersive Web SDK now ships with AI-assisted tooling that lets agents write, test, and debug full VR experiences autonomously, while Google's Vibe Coding XR turns plain-English prompts into WebXR apps in under a minute. The barrier to building for VR has never been lower.

Maze Theory is bringing Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary to VR with an original story written by Weir himself. You play as Ryland Grace during an untold chapter of the Hail Mary mission, cooperating with Rocky in mixed reality.

Google's April Android XR update introduces auto-spatialization, converting any 2D app into a 3D spatial experience with one button press. Combined with Android Enterprise support and five years of guaranteed updates, this is Google's clearest signal yet that spatial computing is ready for mainstream adoption.

Niantic Spatial launched Scaniverse and VPS 2.0, a 3D mapping platform built on 30 billion images collected through Pokemon GO. The technology enables centimeter-accurate positioning anywhere GPS fails, targeting enterprise AR, robotics, and autonomous navigation.

Meta and Unity have extended their multi-year partnership to deepen VR development tools for Quest. With Unity powering over 60% of VR content, the deal reinforces the engine's dominance and gives developers stability at a time when the industry needs it.

Valve's standalone VR headset is still on track for 2026 despite component delays. GDC brought new details on verification standards, and the spec sheet keeps looking better the more we learn.

A Forrester study commissioned by Meta shows enterprise VR training delivers 219% ROI with payback in under six months. With 91% of enterprises now using or planning VR training, the question is no longer whether it works but how fast companies can deploy it.

Meta spent $400 million on Supernatural and then abandoned it. Beat Saber burns as many calories as tennis. VR fitness works, but not the way anyone predicted. A personal look at what stuck, what failed, and what the science actually says.

From a 32-player Battlefield-style shooter to a Stalker-inspired survival epic to Little Nightmares in VR, April 2026 is delivering one of the most stacked release months VR gaming has ever seen.

WebXR adoption surged 40% in 2026 as browser-based immersive experiences eliminate the friction of app store downloads. With Safari, Chrome, and Quest Browser all supporting the standard, the browser might be the most important XR platform nobody talks about.

Days after losing its AR lead and spinning up Specs Inc., Snap signed a multi-year deal with Qualcomm to power consumer Specs with Snapdragon XR. The pieces are finally coming together.

Valve's Steam Link wireless PC VR streaming software now supports Apple Vision Pro. Vision Pro owners can suddenly stream the entire SteamVR library from their gaming PC. That's a very big deal.

Meta is restructuring Reality Labs and hiring Apple designers to make the Quest 4 lighter than anything the company has shipped before. Meanwhile, the Phoenix mixed reality glasses are delayed to 2027.

90fps cloud streaming for VR headsets plus native GOG library integration. Nvidia just removed two of the biggest barriers to cloud-powered VR gaming.

Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion and one of the most prominent social VR platforms ever built, is shutting down in June. The dream of the social metaverse just lost one of its biggest believers.

A major Galaxy XR update rolling out today brings full Android Enterprise support, opening the headset to training, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail deployments at scale.

Scott Myers, Snap's top Spectacles exec, left over a dispute with CEO Evan Spiegel. Days later, Snap formed Specs Inc., a new subsidiary entirely dedicated to AR glasses. What's going on inside Snap's AR strategy?

Emerging research shows VR gaming could be a powerful therapeutic tool for children with dyspraxia, a coordination condition affecting 5-6% of kids worldwide.

CloudXR 6.0 bridges Nvidia's RTX rendering power to visionOS, solving one of mixed reality's biggest problems: the computational bottleneck. This could be what makes Vision Pro a serious professional tool.

A class action lawsuit alleges Meta sent private camera footage from Ray-Ban smart glasses to a subcontractor in Kenya for AI training. The privacy reckoning for camera-equipped wearables has arrived.

Zero Latency and CD Projekt Red are bringing Cyberpunk 2077 to free-roam, location-based VR venues worldwide. Walk through Night City with your friends, physically.

Weekly roundup: Moss studio Polyarc announces major layoffs, Black Mirror is getting a location-based VR experience, the VR Games Showcase delivered two dozen reveals, and more.

Polyarc, the studio that created one of VR's most beloved franchises, announced significant layoffs this week. They're not the only ones. The VR game development landscape is in trouble.

Netflix's dystopian anthology series is getting a location-based VR experience, launching in Montreal next month. If any IP belongs in VR, it's this one.

A $100 plastic headset that plays 30-year-old red and black games. Only Nintendo could make this work. And somehow, they did.

Payday in VR, The Boys in VR, a new open-world flying game, and a pile of release dates. The March 2026 VR Games Showcase was stacked. Here's what stood out.

Google Research unveiled Vibe Coding XR, a workflow that lets you describe a spatial computing experience in plain English and have Gemini build it for you in under 60 seconds. This could change everything about how XR apps get made.

After years of false starts, smart glasses are having a real moment. From Ray-Ban Meta to Samsung's Galaxy Glasses to Google's Android XR prototypes, 2026 is the year AR wearables go from awkward to everyday.

Google's spatial computing operating system is powering headsets and glasses from Samsung, XREAL, and more. If Android XR succeeds, it could do for spatial computing what Android did for smartphones.

Valve's first standalone VR headset is coming in 2026. Here's everything confirmed so far about Steam Frame, what it means for VR gaming, and why it could be the most important headset launch in years.

Horror in VR is a completely different experience than on a flat screen. These five games will genuinely make you uncomfortable, and that's why they're great.

Years after its release, Half-Life: Alyx remains the single most compelling argument for owning a VR headset. Here's why it still holds up and why nothing has come close.