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Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that are expected to launch in late 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary iPhone and a next-generation foldable iPhone, reports Bloomberg. The AirPods will...

XR productivity measurement is the difference between a program that scales and a pilot that quietly disappears. Most enterprise XR initiatives produce plenty of data. The wrong data. Session...

SteelSeries' original Arctis Nova 7X Wireless was one of my favourite gaming headsets when it launched a few years ago, so I was certainly very excited to see what had changed with this flashy...

Forthcoming Steam Frame aside, It's been a while since we had anything actually shake up the VR space with any kind of scale. But if "insider reports" that the usually reliable VR leaker...

We're liveblogging the AWE XR 2026 event, focusing on Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's keynote and Qualcomm's immediately after. Come join us!

At a time when VR is showing signs of vulnerability and instability globally, the Japanese industry has fared somewhat better than most. It may still be smaller, but caution in producing the...

Multiple reports this year claimed that Apple, and particularly its incoming CEO John Ternus, has canceled the Vision headset line altogether. But that just isn't true.It can be difficult to keep up...

In iOS 27, Siri now appears as a glowing pill-shaped orb that expands directly from the Dynamic Island, but may give way to a circle on next-generation iPhones. Instead of the glowing light effect...

Raven Resonance is showing off its upcoming smart glasses, Raven Prism, which aim to stay with users all day long thanks to a unique hot-swappable battery system. The San Francisco-based startup is...

What’s the story? Raven Resonance is publicly previewing Raven Prism, which it describes as the world’s first Ambient Computer, at Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2026 in Long Beach this week. ......

The biggest change in iOS 27 is Apple's total overhaul of Siri, with ‌Siri‌ turning into ‌Siri‌ AI. Apple delivered on the features originally promised at WWDC 2024 and added new...

Out now as part of Steam Next Fest, the demo of Bramblefort features gruesome survival horror elements with intricate soulslike level design. It’s an encouraging glimpse into the full...

I've spent the weekend playing PlayStation VR2's CleanSheet Soccer 2, a game that's equal parts arcade game, training sim, and fitness app. It's also a whole lot of fun.CleanSheet Soccer 2 approaches...

Iron Guard Salvation, the successor to 2021's Iron Guard, has only sold one-fifth the sales of the original game.This, along with strong feedback from the PlayStation community, prompted developer...

Apple's beta testing routine for the current-gen operating systems continues, with the second developer builds of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, visionOS 26.6, and macOS Tahoe 26.6...

Apple today provided developers with the second betas of upcoming watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6 betas for testing purposes. The software comes three weeks after Apple seeded the first...

Steam Next Fest is back with a fresh crop of new PC VR demos to play. The event starts today and runs through June 22.As always, this week-long festival features a mix of demos for upcoming games and...

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The Steam Deck didn’t invent the handheld gaming form factor, or even debut it for PC hardware, but it’s certainly the iPhone equivalent for this particular moment. And the vast, vast majority of the...

When I was in San Francisco, I managed to do a quick visit to REK, the startup that wants to use robots for mainstream entertainment. It was one of the coolest moments of this trip to the US, so keep...

Updated on June 15, 2026: Added new units from the Universal Finale update and reranked older units according to the new exclusive relics. The best units in Universal Tower Defense X depend on five...

Mighty Eyes announced it will longer be developing its previously announced sequel to VR action-adventure Wander: The Fragments of Fate (2025), citing a “volatile” VR gaming market. The studio...

AI on the Lot brings Hollywood together with AI – two forces with mixed feelings for each other. What was the outcome, and how does it prime the pump for XR's Super Bowl: AWE? Emily Olman reports...

Snapchat parent Snap is nearing the long-awaited reveal of Specs, its next pair of AR glasses, as the company says we should keep our eyes peeled come June 16th. Specs Inc, the company’s new XR...

PiEEG XR is an upcoming Quest 3 accessory that aims to make your VR avatar expressive without adding cameras.The device replaces the Quest 3’s standard facial interface with a sensor-equipped frame...

The design of Pico's next headset leaked in videos from a public SDK, and it looks like a cross between Apple Vision Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR.After years of rumors, Pico and TikTok owner ByteDance...

I’m here in Long Beach, California, and I can’t wait for AWE to start tomorrow! It’s going to be a great event, with the Snap Specs announcement, the public demos of XREAL Aura glasses, and a lot...

Meta is opening its own section in 50 Best Buy stores across the US & Canada where it will demo its Quest headsets and smart glasses.Meta opened its own store in LA late last year, alongside...

There's a whole lot more coming in visionOS 27 than what Apple announced in its keynote and blog post.Announced by Apple at WWDC 2026 this week, visionOS 27 will be the fourth major operating system...

Augmented World Expo opens in Long Beach today under the theme 'Spatial AI.' The coverage will obsess over field of view, but the platform race is really being decided by the silicon and on-device AI inside the glasses.

Getting locked out sucks. Besides just being incredibly inconvenient, it can also prove dangerous and expensive. But luckily for all of us, we’re basically living in the future, and locks have gotten...

Snap acquired spatial AR company Illumix to accelerate its Specs glasses, and the headline asset is not flashy. It is mapping technology. For AR glasses that have to understand the real world, that unglamorous capability is exactly what separates a demo from a product.

VR's summer showcase season kicked off with more than 30 announcements across Quest, PSVR2, and PC VR. I watched all of it. Here are the standouts, the trends, and what this lineup says about where VR gaming is headed into the back half of 2026.

The UploadVR Showcase - Summer 2026 has come and gone, and with that came a killer lineup of VR games that brought a little bit of something for everyone. A huge thank you goes out to all who...

Dark Trip receives a major update today, adding the long-awaited 15th room to the game.The psychedelic horror escape room game Dark Trip got a major update today during the UploadVR Showcase. The...

Rustmourne, a sci-fi horror shooter inspired by Dead Space and Half-Life: Alyx, was revealed at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase.The new game reveal trailer, seen here, closed out the showcase: 0:00...

Bomb the Hill, a cinematic VR downhill skateboarding game inspired by the outlaw spirit of 1970s freeride culture, is coming to SteamVR this summer.During today's UploadVR Showcase, Pokodzima Games...

Hyperlane Highway is a roguelite shooter that utilizes a unique 'head-leaning' locomotion system designed to mitigate VR motion sickness. The high speed FPS hits Early Access on SteamVR & Meta Quest...

Cozy low poly truck driving simulator Poly Truck's new gameplay trailer at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase confirmed a Q4 2026 release window. Watch the trailer here: 0:00 /1:02 1× Poly Truck is a...

Jetpack Clankers joins a crowded field of free-to-play social apps on Meta Quest when it debuts on June 16, forgoing the popular arm-based movement system popularized by Gorilla Tag for jets to move...

Apple shows up late to the AI party, while the curtain rises on AWE USA and the cinematic AI hits keep coming. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the lens of Charlie Fink....

The Obsessive Shadow Chapter 2, the successor to the 2025 survival horror game, follows a new character being stalked by a shadowy creature. The sequel was announced at today's UploadVR Summer...

Project NEOS is a futuristic survival thriller trapping players on a space station entirely controlled by a killer artificial intelligence. The announcement trailer premiered at today's UploadVR...

Voxel coloring game Color-A-Cube leaves Early Access and officially launches version 1.0 next week on Quest and PICO. As announced during today's UploadVR Showcase, the full release of cozy VR...

Mixed reality hand tracking platformer Disembodied is coming to Quest 3/3S in October. After a lengthy development cycle, Disembodied is coming to Quest this year, on October 15. Disembodied is a...

Theremin, a mixed reality musical app named after the instrument of the same name, will add an update on July 1 to record a single performance and play alongside it to create more robust music. Most...

The mixed reality miniature figure painting app BrushHammer is coming to Quest this August. BrushHammer is a mixed-reality game that lets you build, collect, paint, and display miniature figures....

Pedal Rebel VR is a cyberpunk street racing game that you can play on a real exercise bike and turn your whole body into the controller. A new trailer at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase confirmed an...

Cozy wooden miniature building puzzler Puzzles of the World announced its full release on July 23 on Meta Quest at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase. Watch the trailer here: 0:00 /1:08 1× It...

Narrative investigation game Detective VR is coming to PlayStation VR2 and PC VR on September 9. Announced during today's UploadVR Showcase, Detective VR is coming to PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on...

Lanesplit, an urban motorcycle street racing game, announced VR support will be added on Steam on June 23.The announcement was made during today's UploadVR Summer Showcase. Watch the trailer here:...

Salmon Man is a rage baiting physics-based platformer in same vein as viral hits Jump King and Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy. A multiplayer update this July will let players bring their friends...

The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand adds a wrinkle to the standard arcade shooting formula this September. Instead of guns, the early 20th century fantasy shooter uses gesture-based spells to defeat...

Meta pulls Horizon Worlds out of VR on June 15, but social VR isn't going anywhere. The communities are already migrating to VRChat, Resonite, and a wave of open, self-hostable worlds Meta could never shut down.

On June 15, creators lose the ability to build, publish, or update Horizon Worlds content in VR. Meta's flagship social platform survives only as a phone app. After a public reversal in April, this is how the VR chapter actually ends.

More than a year after public testing began, Meta has finished rolling out Navigator, the biggest overhaul of Quest's system interface since the Oculus Go era. Here is what changed, and what still has not.

Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now powers Meta AI on Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, replacing Llama 4. The benchmark numbers explain why Meta spent billions on new AI talent.

Apple just shipped open-source spatial plugins for Unity, Unreal, and Godot on GitHub, with CompositorServices support for custom engines on top. For a company famous for walled gardens, officially backing a community-built engine is a genuine surprise.

Apple's visionOS 27 developer sessions reveal the real story: a requestImmersive API that drops website visitors into 3D environments, OpenXR streaming from any PC built into the OS, and a Mac framework that needs zero visionOS code.

XOCUS is launching Omega Pilot Evolution on Quest, PSVR2, and Pico this month, a futuristic anti-gravity racer with combat, weapons, and unmistakable Wipeout DNA. VR has needed a great arcade racer for years. This might finally be it.

The UploadVR Showcase returns June 12, kicking off VR's summer showcase season. After a rough month of gutted roadmaps and missing launch games, here is one player's wishlist.

Meta and Best Buy are opening dedicated 900-square-foot demo spaces in more than 50 stores. The layout reveals exactly where Meta's priorities have shifted: glasses first, headsets second.

visionOS 27 arrived at WWDC with the new Siri, spatial panoramas, curved windows, and faster Wi-Fi. It is a genuinely good update. It also lands one week after Apple erased every Vision Pro successor from its roadmap, which makes it the strangest release Apple shipped today.

Vivo's Vision headset runs an Android based OS, but it pointedly is not Android XR. As Google's spatial platform hits its launch year, that one decision says a lot about how hard the 'Android of XR' will be to pull off.

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.