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Though I do wear glasses and I'm intrigued by the idea of techie wearables on paper, I'm far from all-in on AR glasses. Still, depending on how Qualcomm's fresh chip geared towards augmented and...

After a standard spell in beta, the latest iteration of SteamOS—Valve's Arch-based Linux distro for use on Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame—has hit the big three-eight. Or, well,...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to try a private demo by Lumus, the company producing waveguides for smartglasses and AR glasses. And they finally showed me the path to 70° FOV AR glasses. The video...

When Subside first arrived on PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR, it quickly established itself as one of the most convincing underwater experiences available in virtual reality. Rather than focusing on...

The FCC has just made public some exhibits for the left Steam Frame controller (via SadlyItsBradley). We've known the FCC ID 2AES4-1013 refers to the left controller for the upcoming Valve VR headset...

Every few years, Silicon Valley announces the death of the desk. The laptop was supposed to free us. Then the smartphone, then the Metaverse. Now, with the breathless confidence that only the...

XGIMI's MemoMind One is a good pair of smart glasses blighted by a creepy AI that spies on you.

At Augmented World Expo (AWE) this week, digital imaging giant Canon showed off its latest advancements in XR tech, including a concept handheld mixed reality device, augmented reality waveguide...

Viture has propelled the momentous video display glasses category, which is mostly a consumer play. But now it's expanding into enterprise with the NVIDIA-fueled Helix. We went hands-on with the...

One of the popular ideas related to artificial intelligence is that it'll pave the way for vastly cheaper, advanced medical exams. A movie version of this is the home MRI-like machine, with the...

Occasionally in hardware and technology reporting, I'm left to wonder if everyone else is in on a joke I'm not privy to. Today is one of those days. Snap, the company behind the instant messaging app...

Meta has casually added some facial recognition code for smart glasses to the Meta AI app, but don't worry: the company says its just "exploring" the feature. Speaking in the monologue above, Jimmy...

Mashable's team of shopping experts spends all year researching, testing, and writing about the best products available at any given moment. A ton of gear comes through our homes for rigorous...

Smart glasses are rapidly evolving from niche gadgets into mainstream consumer technology. Devices from companies such as Meta, Google, Apple, and Snap are increasingly capable of displaying...

Credit: XREAL TL;DR Google has demonstrated how Android XR devices can guide users through a city using floating 3D navigation markers and Gemini-powered voice narration. The demo combines tech from...

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel reveals new Specs AR smart glasses at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California.

TL;DR Legislators in Illinois are already changing hands-free driving laws to address smart glasses. The state is preparing to explicitly deny smart glasses an exception for hands-free usage. The...

Amazon’s latest Prime Day sale is still a little way off, but the retailer’s gaming laptop deals are already dropping hard across various brands to save you more cash on top-tier models. Ahead of the...

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XREAL AURA, the company’s next flagship AR glasses built in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm, is coming this fall at a price the company says will “not exceed $1,500, excluding applicable...

Qualcomm has launched the next phase of XR processing from the AWE stage. Known as Reality Elite, the new branding and capabilities were unveiled by VP and GM of XR, Ziad Asghar, and it will get its...

Qualcomm announced at Augmented World Expo (AWE) Snapdragon Reality Elite, a new processor which aims to slim down XR headsets and glasses of the near future. Focusing on on-device AI, improved...

After a limited launch in the US, the Samsung Galaxy XR is now officially coming to the UK, with pre-orders opening today.

Today was the big day: Snap finally announced on the stage of AWE the Specs glasses, the first consumer-oriented AR glasses. I guess you’ve already read the news somewhere else, but let me give you...

Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Display is unveiling a prototype XR display designed for smart glasses. The company says the tiny RGB OLEDoS (OLED on Silicon) panel delivers...

At AWE this week, RP1 and the Metaverse Standards Forum introduced Sneeze, the first browser engine built for spatial computing, released as open source under Apache 2.0. After a year of walled-garden metaverses collapsing, this is the opposite bet: an open foundation anyone can build on.

The WebXR Device API has reached Candidate Recommendation and is now a proposed Interop 2026 focus area, with Safari joining Chrome, Quest Browser, and Samsung Internet. Here is why a stabilizing spec plus a public cross-browser scoreboard finally makes the immersive web safe to build on.

NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.

Credit: Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR A new report claims that Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods will launch in late 2027. Sources say the original plan was to launch in 2026, but the company’s...

XREAL Aura, the company’s first pair of Android XR glasses, are officially set to launch this Fall, but we don’t have a price just yet. All we know is that, according to XREAL, Aura will cost under...

Snap Inc. wants its Specs to be the future of everyday computing, but between the eye-watering price and lackluster demos, we don't see it happening.Snap Inc's new SpecsOn Tuesday, Snapchat unveiled...

You can now preorder Xreal Aura, launching this fall, and the company confirmed it has Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite in its Android XR puck. Yet despite opening preorders, Xreal won't...

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has just announced the long-anticipated release of its Specs AR smart glasses which will cost $2,195.

What’s the story? Qualcomm has unveiled Snapdragon Reality Elite at Augmented World Expo, a new XR platform built to power spatial computing with on-device AI across headsets and glasses. Why ......

At Augmented World Expo 2026, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Reality Elite as its flagship chip for XR form factors. This includes the latest Android XR devices, like XREAL’s Project Aura.

Following a first look at Google I/O last month, XREAL has today confirmed that its Android XR glasses, Aura, will be launching this Fall with reservations open today, and a list of confirmed apps...

Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall.The chipset's naming is a departure...

After much anticipation in the AR world, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company's consumer-focused AR glasses. With the streamlined "Specs" moniker, the device will be the center of Snap's AR...

Snap today unveiled its first pair of standalone AR glasses intended for consumers, which the company says will pack in a variety of features, including AI assistance, entertainment, and productivity...

Snap just officially revealed and opened preorders for Specs, fully standalone true AR glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France for $2195.At last year's AWE expo, the company behind...

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...

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...

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. ......

At AWE this morning, Evan Spiegel unveiled the consumer version of Snap Specs and opened preorders. Fully standalone true AR glasses, a 51 degree field of view, 132 grams, dual Snapdragon chips, shipping this fall for $2,195. After years of buildup, Snap's AR bet is finally something you can buy.

The June 2026 Steam Next Fest is the biggest one ever, and buried in nearly 5,000 free demos is a stack of VR experiences. Here is why this week matters more to VR players than anyone else.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.