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The VR gold rush has long settled down at this point, and it may seem like Meta's Quest headsets are now the only serious options. That's not true, however.

Terry's Terraforming, a VR narrative adventure game where you fix up planets across the galaxy, is coming to Quest 3 on October 22, with a Steam release coming later.Terry's Terraforming was...

Halloween lurks just 'round the corner, and there's no shortage of great VR horror games to make you shiver and scream in your headset. For this spooky season, we've conjured up a ghoulish list of...

It's easy to forget that Sony launched a fancy, expensive VR headset for PlayStation 5 just a few years ago. It's seemingly only going to get easier going forward.That's because Sony just sold 419...

It's not on the App Store, but a new project called AVP Play lists the whole Meta Quest VR catalog, shows a label on each game telling you if it will run or not, and gets it running for you locally,...

I’m pleased to announced that longtime Editor Scott Hayden is stepping up to become Road to VR’s new Executive Editor. After starting with Road to VR as a freelancer in 2014, becoming a contributor...

Meta is partnering with ESPN to offer select live, 180-degree immersive college football games all season long via Quest’s TV app. When Meta VR Glasses release next spring, Meta says there are also...

Xreal Aura gets closer to reality with a real price tag and ship date, while Sony exits XR and the cinematic AI library continues to swell. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds through...

It would be easy to look at screenshots and video of psychological horror puzzler Shil and dismiss it for being too basic, but its simplicity is its greatest strength. The all-encompassing, void-like...

XREAL priced AURA at $1,279, Pimax put $1,399 on Crystal Pro without agreeing with itself on a ship date, a reseller listed Pico Space Pro at $2,899, the Steam Frame got its first survey line, Sony Group's VR patents turned up at Meta, and Walkabout Mini Golf added a do-over button.

Phasmophobia's Crimson Eye runs to November 1, VRChat's Spookality winners go on show October 16, a VR horror game jam closes October 22 and Steam Scream V opens October 26. Ten dates between now and November 2, each checked at its source.

Resolution Games has announced that its Rocket League-like arena sports title Ultimechs will be delisted from all VR platforms on October 20. Multiplayer services will also be shut down, though the...

A new update for Real VR Fishing arrives next week, bringing spooky maps, haunted fish, mixed reality features, hand tracking, and more.The Halloween-themed update adds five maps, including three...

Kluge Interactive has added hand tracking support to Synth Riders for Quest 3 in anticipation of the Meta VR Glasses launch in spring 2027. This is not the first hand tracking implementation for the...

Known for its many variants of VR headset, Pimax is back with yet more new products. This time, it seems to be following Valve's recent example, with a wireless VR headset, foveated streaming,...

Mighty Coconut takes an interstellar journey with its new paid add-on course, Escape From Planet Xylodon in a new update that also brings mulligans and experimental hand tracking to Walkabout Mini...

VR fitness app FunFitLand has added knee strikes to its CombatFit workout series.FunFitLand's version of knee strikes includes a familiar "grab and smash" mechanic, where the user grabs an overhead...

As a developer, I’m closely watching the success of smart glasses with great interest because they represent a huge opportunity. But at the same time, I’ve serious doubts about how this opportunity...

ARtillery Intelligence released a new report that projects XR revenue to grow to $59.7 billion by 2030. How will it get there, and what's driving it? We examine the drivers & dynamics. This post...

Meta says VR Glasses are a different product for a different market. Quest isn’t dead, but it has been relegated, as the company has pulled back from games, shut down a number of studios, and is...

Today in Singapore, Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer at Meta, announced a donation of 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, Guide Dogs...

Schneider Electric signed an agreement on October 4 to buy PTC for $205 a share. The announcement describes the business as CAD, PLM, ALM and SLM, and PTC's latest 10-Q reports two product groups. Vuforia, which PTC still sells in four products, appears in none of them.

Escape from Planet Xylodon landed today at $4.99, and the base game update underneath it matters more than the course. Mulligans are now a per-room setting you trigger from your wrist, and experimental hand tracking has arrived on Quest in a game whose entire skill ceiling is a grip.

Pimax's press release says Crystal Pro's ship date comes later, its FAQ says spring 2027 and its store listing says 2027. Only the listing says the $1 reservation is non-refundable, and the headline streaming feature is a $599 add-on.

Horizon OS v2.9 reached the Public Test Channel the week of September 28. Windows launch spatially instead of into a fixed row, a Window Manager in Quick Settings lists everything you have open, and Desert Terrace and Space Station return through the Home Editor.

It's the opening game of the 2026 NFL season for the New York Football Giants, a cornerstone franchise of the NFL.Their home field, MetLife Stadium, is lit up blue for the night game. The drum line...

Omega Pilot Evolution offers thrills, but falls short in two key areas.There are more than a few racing games available in VR, but few have the speed of Omega Pilot Evolution, mainly because it’s...

Coltrane is a new five-episode VR series produced by New Canvas, Jacaranda Productions, and Pico, continuing the detective noir story begun with 2016's VR Noir.The creatives behind 2016's VR...

Datamining and findings across Horizon OS 2.9 PTC (Public Test Channel) suggest that Meta is working on a virtual cinema environment for Quest headsets and the upcoming VR Glasses.Over the past year,...

The Norwegian government announced it’s aiming to introduce a temporary ban on smart glasses in a number of public locations, citing privacy as the main concern. While the government says the...

XREAL’s first pair of Android XR glasses, XREAL Aura, finally have a price tag – $1,279. more…

Building on his work with connected 3D environments and art, author Gordon Fuller explores the seven truths that he's learned to define what he calls the Spatial Commons. Can this be a framework for...

Meta has acquired a number of Sony patents, including some related to XR headsets, suggesting Sony is significantly pulling back from its XR ambitions. The News As first reported by ZDNet Korea, a...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? ENGO launches engo Titanium, 28.9-gram augmented reality smart glasses for road runners and cyclists, with adjustable 3D-printed titanium temples. Why it...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Pimax unveils Crystal Pro, a wireless PC VR headset priced at USD $1,399, with quantum-dot LCD (QLED) panels at 2880 x 2880 pixels ... continue reading Source

Knoxlabs is taking backorders on a 16GB enterprise Space Pro at $2,899 and says the first week of February 2027. Pico has announced neither, and the listing gives three timelines that do not match.

AstroQuest runs the shadPS4 emulator on a Quest 3 and fakes the PlayStation VR hardware around it. The repository lists 30 frames a second on the headset and 60 through a PC, and it sets one hard requirement: your own dump of the game from your own PS4.

XREAL priced AURA at $1,279 for 12GB and 256GB, and $1,499 for 16GB and 512GB, with purchases open to paid reservation holders and shipping promised before the holidays. The glasses weigh 95 grams and carry their own X1S coprocessor, and the base model lands $20.99 under Meta VR Glasses, which do not go on sale until spring 2027.

USPTO records show Sony Group Corporation, not Sony Interactive Entertainment, assigned every patent recorded to Meta so far. The 419-patent schedule runs to 2041, the paperwork was signed in April, and two entries are indexed against another company's water repellent and a mass spectrometer method.

This month Road to VR celebrates its 15th year of bringing you the most important news across the XR landscape. To mark the occasion we’ve put together an interactive timeline of major industry...

CircuitLord's turnkey solution to one of VR modding's many friction points feels like a bigger step forward than yet another example of a great VR mod for an already great game.Getting the immediate...

Fresh Tracks VR brings the warmly received 2025 original combination of Beat Saber-like timing-based gameplay and roguelike RPG mechanics to VR headsets. The addition of sword-slashing motion...

Here we go friends, it’s that time again! Every summer and winter UploadVR partners with a wide range of developers from the industry to show off their exclusive new games, updates and special...

Pimax announced its next major VR headset, Crystal Pro, which not only boasts high-fidelity PC VR streaming, but also some native standalone gameplay too. Much like Steam Frame, Crystal Pro’s major...

Of all the games I thought I'd see converted to virtual reality, the Diablo games weren't among them, for some reason. But one industrious modder has set about changing that, converting probably the...

Working with Strivr, United Rentals placed trainees in VR-rendered construction sites to simulate typical sales scenarios. What were the results and, more importantly, executional lessons &...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Cellid, a developer of displays for augmented reality (AR) glasses, partners with Japanese eyewear retailer Megane Top to develop and sell AR glasses ......

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, the industrial engineering software company behind the Vuforia augmented reality products, in an all-cash deal...

Valve's September survey first went up with no Steam Frame row and 'Other Headsets' at 1.93 percent. The table has since been revised: the Frame has its own line at 0.41 percent of VR headsets on Steam, about 1 in 244, after 13 days of reservation-queue sales, and 'Other' is 1.49. Quest 3 is back in first at 26.90.

D2R VR is a free, MIT-licensed mod that runs Diablo II: Resurrected in a PC VR headset with four views: the classic camera in stereo, third person, a diorama on your floor, and first person. Its own README calls first person a preview. It is offline only, needs D2RLoader, and runs through a $15 app with a free tier.

The Horizon OS 2.9 (v209) system software update recently started rolling out in the PTC (Public Test Channel). What Is the Public Test Channel (PTC)? The Public Test Channel (PTC) is Meta Quest's...

Meta’s most recent updates for its Ray-Ban smart glasses deliver upgrades to audio playback as well as new turn-by-turn walking navigation. more…

Most immersive marketing, such as AR lenses and other playable brand experiences, achieves the wrong goal. For brands that already have reach that we can't bring them, it's all about a deeper...

Meta announced its VR Glasses at Connect last month, which is looking to appeal more to productivity and casual content by virtue of its high pixel density micro-OLED displays. They do however serve...

I’m back in Italy, but I’m still thinking about the beautiful days I had at Meta Connect. And talking about Connect, I want to thank the many people who are still writing me some kind words related...

AI vibecoding has caused a veritable explosion in the VR modding scene. The latest to benefit: PSVR exclusive and critically acclaimed platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018). The News VR modder...

In XR News What’s the story? Vuzix announces Shrike, a configurable waveguide display platform for defense, security and first responder applications, with initial units shipping to customers for...

Norway will propose a temporary ban on using AI glasses in parks, schools, gyms and clinics, with three candidate definitions of the device still open. In the Netherlands, Wehkamp and Hans Anders stopped selling Meta's glasses after the regulator had logged six signals and one complaint.

Quest's Horizon+ subscription now offers free add-ons for games, plus Swarm 2 and Waltz of the Wizard are this month's monthly titles.In addition to the usual release of two monthly games, new games...

Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is a mini motorway management game coming to Quest 3 this month. Infinity Games has shared that their traffic management game Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is coming...

The free Titanfall 2 VR mod installs from one 350 KB program. You need your own copy of the game, the EA app and a PC VR runtime. The installer keeps the mod in a separate TF2VR profile with its own saves, checks every download against a hash, and covers the campaign only.

Sega's teaser says nothing, and the product page the specs came from now shows one line. What Attractions Magazine reported from it: a gothic manor facade with an 85-inch front door, two 43-inch windows, haptic recoil guns and two VR headsets, debuting at IAAPA in Orlando. Every screen on it faces the people who have not paid yet.

It is spooky season and while VR gamers have plenty of options for horror games already, we have spotlighted ten more promising games that lovers of suspense and jump-scares should have on their...

The silliest bird photography game in VR is coming to Steam next week. Birdseed VR, a comical birdwatching and photography game, is coming to SteamVR on October 8. The SteamVR release will include...

Meta’s new docuseries, Open Season on Draymond Green, premiered September 29 on the TV app on Meta Quest. The series follows four-time NBA Champion Draymond Green through six therapy sessions with...

Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) reached India on October 1 at 44,300 rupees, against 29,900 for the first pair in May 2025 and 39,900 for Gen 2 last December. In dollars the climb is 31 percent, not 48. Muse and the camera-free Audio pair are both listed as coming later, neither with a date.

Samsung's Android XR glasses cleared the FCC ahead of a November launch, California's recording-light bill was vetoed, Felix & Paul's bankruptcy file shows a $350,000 sale, Mighty Coconut cut ten more jobs, Titanfall 2 got a free VR mod, and a Steam Frame update added up to 12 percent battery.

Deloitte's reports on Felix & Paul Studios list US$34.5 million of liabilities, a sale process that reached 76 parties without one binding offer, and a court-approved $350,000 sale of Space Explorers and a lunar camera system to a company formed by former executives. AREA15 is selling Interstellar Arc tickets again.

Valve rates Phasmophobia Unsupported on Steam Frame, on a build that no longer ships. Seven more of our ten scariest VR games have no rating at all. What is certified for a PC-less Frame this October: Little Nightmares VR, Ravenholm in Half-Life 2: VR Mod, Deadly Delivery, and the Jeff chapter in the box.

Newsom vetoed SB 1130 on September 30, ending the first state attempt to require a recording indicator on smart glasses by law. The clause that mattered to hardware makers was a January 1, 2028 deadline for an indicator prominent enough to alert a reasonable person nearby.