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A Reddit thread suggests Meta's smart glasses have been capturing conversations that don't contain the "Hey Meta" wake phrase.

BattleGroupVR2 in Early Access is already an enticing tactical simulation in space that improves on its predecessor on nearly every level.Strategy games are almost perfect for VR - positioning a...

The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand is a spooky and mystical shooter that gives players their very own magic wand and a list of tricky spells to conjure - though you should expect plenty of grinding and...

At Meta Connect, before Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote, I randomly stumbled on Amy Hedrick, the CEO of Cleanbox. She quickly showed me their new product, the Cleanbox Nano made to sanitize smartglasses. I...

Ray-Ban Meta users have noticed unwanted voice recordingsMeta says the issue is resolved but hasn't said what went wrongTurning off voice activation for the AI seems to fix the problemIf you're...

This month, descend into the criminal underworld of early 20th-century Sicily in Mafia: The Old Country, brave a deadly frontier filled with awe-inspiring machines in Horizon Forbidden West, or take...

Alibaba's Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses make lofty claims about battery life and have a camera sensor that crushes Meta on paper.

The launch of Meta VR Glasses next year will mark the first time any of the company’s standalone headsets has featured expandable storage. Now, Meta and Sandisk have partnered to offer official ‘Made...

A reliable source says that Nothing is building out its own AI smart glasses that feature ChatGPT integration, a camera, and two very different models. more…

AVAILABLE NOW: The brand-new camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses in the Clubmaster and Burbank styles are officially available to buy at Amazon. Opens in a new window Credit: Meta Meta Ray-Ban...

Though SunnyD is a well-known beverage brand, it’s keen to sustain its household-name positioning. So it turned to AR to engage its teenage target audience and stay relevant. What were the...

TL;DR A new leak says Nothing is preparing two pairs of smart glasses: A camera-free model and a more advanced, camera-equipped version. Both are expected to support audio, calls, voice assistants,...

Valve have officially discontinued the Valve Index VR kit, launching a 20%-off sale on its headset and controllers to get rid of any lingering stock. This was arguably an inevitable end, given the...

Index, Valve’s PC VR headset released in 2019, is officially on its way out. And to see it along, Valve has dropped the price of everything Index-related. The News Valve Index is no longer being...

With the recently launched Steam Frame superseding the Index VR headset, Valve has heavily discounted remaining stock of the latter. The Index VR headset launched in 2019 for $499, but now you can...

Valve's Index page is now headed “Valve Index Sunset.” The headset is $399.20, down from $499, and the only other items left are a left controller and a tether. No base stations, no right controller, no full kit.

SideQuest 1.4.0 added x86_64 and aarch64 Flatpak builds and dropped the USB cable from Quest setup. It shipped on October 6, a week before this week's coverage, and 1.4.1 followed six hours later to patch the wireless path.

Apple's now on the fourth round of developer betas for this generation, with new builds of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and macOS 27.2 out for testing.iOS 27 on an iPhoneThe...

Samsung’s first Android XR glasses are right around the corner and, ahead of launch, another leak reveals every style you’ll be able to buy. more…

TL;DR A Ray-Ban Meta owner claims three pairs of smart glasses captured conversations without the “Hey Meta” wake phrase. Several other owners report similar unexplained Meta AI activations, though...

Andrew Eiche also claims layoffs are becoming commonplace within the VR industry because some companies refuse to meet audiences with what they want.

For AR glasses geared to industrial work, weight matters more than the price, because it determines whether the device is worn for a single task or all day. How do these and other factors map Snap...

Terrible Posture Games announced a major update for their roguelite shooter Mothergunship: Forge, the first major update in three years.Called the "Thank You, Recruit! Update," it drops on October...

Credit: Samsung TL;DR Samsung’s upcoming smart glasses have leaked again, with dozens of color options. The leak also reveals key specifications, including RAM, storage, and details on the camera’s...

SideQuest has been the number one unofficial store for Quest games ever since its founding in 2019. Now, it just got a lot easier to download and get playing. Downloading SideQuest used to mean going...

Andrew Eiche told Game Developer that studios cutting staff ignored data pointing at social games like Gorilla Tag. The single-player closures fit that. Rec Room, A Township Tale and Ultimechs do not, and Owlchemy's own players asked for controllers and a solo mode.

Apple has announced that ‘Remnants,’ the first immersive horror film on Vision Pro, is coming this week. Here’s a teaser video. more…

Last week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time - Friday evening, after we all go home - to release the Steam Frame’s CAD files to the world. In short, this lets anyone with a...

Hello! A quick note from my cab to the airport as I head back from Paris to New York. I’ll spare you a write-up this… Continue reading → Innovation Brief: OpenAI’s Always-On Agents This post appeared...

Regulatory filings in Japan may have inadvertently leaked Pico’s next flagship headset in full—inside and out. As first spotted by UploadVR, images of Pico’s Vison Pro competitor ‘Space Pro’ have...

Getting a Steam Frame for the holidays could be a bit dicey, as Valve says the order queue has now stretched into 2027. Valve says in a news update that customers hoping to get their hands on Steam...

Valve just released a new update for Steam Frame that improves battery lifetime, steaming quality, connectivity issues, and more. Steam Frame launched last month, bringing with it the ability for...

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In XR News What’s the story? Avalon Holographics has announced it has received a CAD $11.7 million commitment from Lockheed Martin Canada for its holographic displays, including a new CAD ......

Valve's October 9 update gives Steam Frame reservation holders one of two windows, by December or in 2027, with 72 hours to buy once the email lands. The waitlist gets no date at all, and it only moves when a region's reservation queue is finished.

Valve released the Steam Frame's CAD files and the electrical document for its front expansion port on October 9. The pinout shows the PCIe lane is shared with the left camera's pins, the port can draw 6 watts, and anything unapproved plugged into it voids the warranty.

Google tagged XR Blocks v0.22.0 on October 10, its first release in more than six weeks. THREE.WebGPURenderer now runs in the desktop simulator, the notes state plainly that the spatial UI does not, and the on-device AI samples ship without a single performance number.

Micron's Form 10-K for the year ended September 3, filed October 9, adds smart glasses to the consumer products list in its Automotive and Embedded unit and says AR glasses are driving new demand for low-power memory. The same paragraph in the fiscal 2025 filing did not mention glasses.

Images of ByteDance's upcoming headset, Pico Space Pro, have surfaced in Japanese regulatory filings.Pico and TikTok owner ByteDance first mentioned the existence of its next headset during a...

Crimson Eye runs to November 1, and it is the first one since Kinetic replaced Phasmophobia's VR character rig. The three VR bugs still open in August were fixed 16 days later, Double XP starts October 15, and your friends do not need headsets to join.

Texas against Oklahoma streamed live in 180 degrees on Quest on October 10, with the replay up for seven days. Meta's post names the app and the playoff games still to come, and says nothing about price, countries or the next fixture.

Resolution Games is retiring Ultimechs online multiplayer on October 20 and delisting both the game and its Spectator client the same day. The game had a VR Master League season and balance patches tuned on league match data, and its Steam page had been silent since October 2023.

AVP Play downloads the Quest games your Meta account owns, translates them with a fork of the Klepton toolchain, signs them with your own Apple developer certificate and installs them on a Vision Pro. Thirteen games have tested recipes, up from seven at Thursday's launch, about 17,000 are listed, and a paid Apple Developer membership is not optional.

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...

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...

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...

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.