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The Pimax Dream Air is tiny, nimble, and entirely able to take command of your at-home PC VR setup, so long as you can get one on your head.

As the eventual release of the 27-generation gets ever nearer, Apple has introduced its seventh developer betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27.An earlier iOS 27...

Apple today provided developers with the seventh beta of an upcoming visionOS 27 update for testing purposes. The beta comes a week after Apple released the fifth beta. visionOS 27 can be installed...

It has been widely reported by multiple reputable sources that Meta is working on a premium, ultralight, open-periphery headset with a tethered compute puck, intended to occupy a similar high-end...

I’m in Italy, but in a sunnier place than usual, enjoying a more relaxed environment and a lot of good food. Probably too much good food… but I can’t resist it ahahah. Anyway, I am still working, and...

A newly granted patent from Arm describes a head-mounted system that analyzes motion in the images headed to a display, then sends control signals to ultrasonic transducers intended to stimulate the...

If you’ve stepped into the Pechorsk Anomaly before, you know that survival here isn’t about rushing in guns blazing. It’s about preparation, tactical patience, and respecting the unknown. On...

A recent AR-guided abdominal exam at Cleveland Clinic revealed a liver lesion that was invisible to the naked eye. What does this detection and subsequent AR-guided treatment tell us about XR's role...

Cleveland Clinic Weston completed Florida's first intraprocedural use of MediView's 510(k)-cleared XR90, fusing CT with live ultrasound for a liver biopsy. The clearance, K223125, was granted on HoloLens 2, which loses support on December 31, 2027.

A granted Arm patent drives ultrasonic transducers at the wearer's semicircular canals whenever displayed motion and head motion disagree. Arm licenses silicon IP and ships no headsets, and the last company to try this was Samsung in 2016.

Singular Perception's three-player space roguelike opens Early Access on Quest 3 at $9.99, rising to $12.99 at launch. The AI crew fill-ins are still in development, which makes the roguelike run structure the thing that has to carry it.

XREAL says AURA has passed 10,000 reservations since June. Two of its three deposit tiers are sold out, the price cap now applies only to the base model, and Canada has quietly dropped off the launch region list.

In this week's Sunday Reboot, the AirPods Pro with cameras are probably the best alternative to smart glasses that Apple could've come up with.AirPods Pro with cameras that feed Siri AI are on the...

Apple has already raised prices on Macs and iPads to absorb the costs of increased RAM costs, but an iPhone price hike is still expected. The competition may have provided a hint as to how...

Meta's Supernatural shuts down December 3 and the independent relaunch is 15 people rebuilding what almost 200 used to run. Founding membership is $180, Favorites are already confirmed gone, and Leanne Pedante will not promise your workout history survives the move.

RayNeo announced a 33-gram camera-free waveguide HUD and a 78-gram 59-degree personal cinema, put both on sale for September 4, and priced neither. The largest seller of consumer AR glasses has decided one device cannot do both jobs.

CharacterBank's VR JRPG launches free-to-start on Quest and SteamVR. The free download is the introduction; the $18.99 Story Pass carries six chapters, every battle mission and the trading tables. The same studio charged $34.99 up front in 2022.

Virtualware will pay 5 million euros plus an earnout for Manchester's Virtalis, which reported 4 million euros of revenue and 1.3 million euros of EBITDA on 19 staff. The UK cleared the deal under the National Security and Investment Act, which says more about the asset than the price does.

Update 5.0 renames the game The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition and closes out three and a half years of support. The first line of its changelog adds Steam Frame compatibility. The studio's next game is flatscreen.

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Virtualware has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Virtalis Holding, a Manchester-based VR and real-time 3D (RT3D) visualization software company. Why it...

Jeff and Fernando discuss Apple’s recent leak of the upcoming AirPods featuring integrated cameras, and why they might be a much bigger deal than they seem on the surface. Is this Apple’s more...

Apple is cutting jobs across multiple teams, according to a new Bloomberg report. All told, the company has cut more than 200 jobs across teams working on Vision Pro, Siri, and software engineering.

A day after we broke the news of about 60 layoffs across the Apple Vision project, there are reportedly more in the Siri team too.Siri AI gets to live in this orb on Wes' deskCiting people familiar...

Sol Protocol, a procedurally generated space-based co-op roguelike, has announced a September 17 Early Access release date on Quest 3 & Quest 3S. Developer Singular Perception (Epyka) also opened...

TL;DR A new leak has extensively detailed Valve’s upcoming gaming-oriented Steam Frame VR headset. Among the leaked Valve assets are videos showing the device unboxing, the Ergonomic Accessories Kit,...

A source has exclusively revealed to us that Apple has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development, which aligns with incoming CEO John Ternus reportedly putting the category "on...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? RayNeo is expanding its consumer augmented reality glasses lineup with the launch of its new iO Smart Glasses for ambient AI productivity and ... continue...

Anthropic quarterly revenue overtakes OpenAI for the first time, platforms crack down on AI slop, and Snap says AR glasses won't go mainstream until 2030. We have these and other items from AI and XR...

Months after Meta ended new development and laid off its team, Supernatural is being rebuilt as an independent company. Head of Fitness Leanne Pedante tells UploadVR about the unlikely path back.When...

Bloomberg reports Apple eliminated more than 200 roles on Friday, about 100 of them inside the Vision Products Group. The headset's gaming team is largely gone and the immersive video unit was cut back, one week before Apple streams live baseball to Vision Pro.

Combat Waffle Studios built Tomahawk because Meta Attestation was the only thing standing between Quest games and modified APKs. Its founder says the Steam Frame, rooted and open by design, is the platform he has not cracked yet.

NHS Supply Chain tender 2026/S 000-076079 splits a £210 million medical simulation framework into five lots, with £40 million named for immersive technology. The lot values are not ring-fenced, and the immersive lot is scored on a criterion the manikin lots do not use at all.

Rollme's AuraView and ProView put a Sony 12MP sensor on your face for $99.99, and the company's own store pages list a price, a color, and no specifications at all. Every glasses rule written this year names Meta, and none of them reach a brand nobody has heard of.

Eight Steam Frame setup videos fell out of the Steam client, Gunman Contracts set its paid launch for the day the Frame ships, ICE banned Meta glasses by name, and the NHS put £40 million of immersive training out to tender.

AppleInsider reports that Apple “has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development,” with at least 60 employees reportedly affected. Here are the details.

Puzzles of the World on Meta Quest is a well-made cozy experience that needs more content to compete with other cozy options and keep players coming back.Puzzles of the World is a miniature building...

Resolution Games has announced that Twilight's End, Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons Battlemarked's next story campaign, will release on September 22 as a paid DLC.Twilight's End will cost $9.99 on...

We went hands-on with Fast Travel Games' Payday: Aces High at a recent media session. Read on for our thoughts.James Tocchio and I played the first heist job with Erik and Kris from Fast Travel....

It looks as though Valve is actually gearing up to release Steam Frame, as user setup videos have leaked showing off unboxing and first-time user experience with Valve’s first standalone VR headset....

XREAL Aura, the company’s first pair of Android XR-based glasses, are set to officially get a price point soon as the first sales figures have come in, and it’s pretty popular so far.

XREAL today announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, has now surpassed 10,000 global reservations. Xreal says the reservation milestone for the...

Surgical robotics face a gauntlet of regulatory and procedural requirements before they launch. One of those hurdles – surgeon training – is being accelerated through AR and 3D simulation. How's it...

Project Swan is now Pico Space Pro, debuting in Beijing on September 2. The claimed sheet reads 4,000 PPI micro-OLED, dual-chip compute at 12ms perception latency, and 270 grams. Nobody outside Pico has seen the hardware yet.

Virtuix named AVRT as weapons-tracking supplier for the Marine Corps Infantry Fireteam Virtual Trainer, due at Quantico in Q4. No contract value was disclosed, which is the most informative detail in the August 5 release.

The Long Survival, a co-op survival horde shooter claiming to have the biggest hordes in VR, arrives on PlayStation VR2 on August 27. Developer Friendly Fire Studios announced the date after an...

Pico’s Vision Pro competitor is set to debut at a special event in Beijing early next month, which is now officially named Pico Space Pro. As first reported by Chinese outlet Nweon, Pico Space Pro is...

Global XR consumer spending is projected to grow to U.S. $28.8 billion in 2030, according to ARtillery Intelligence. This is rapid growth, propelled by the popularity, momentum, and escalating...

I realized I never told you about a very interesting startup I met in May at the VR/AR Expo China in Shanghai: it is called Immersix and is bringing a slew of innovations to the eye-tracking field....

In XR News What’s the story? NHS Supply Chain has published a tender notice for its planned Medical Simulation and Technologies Framework, inviting suppliers to tender for one or several ... continue...

Dataminers pulled eight finished Steam Frame setup videos out of the latest ARM Steam client, including Valve's own unboxing and an unannounced Ergonomic Accessories Kit. Onboarding footage is the last thing a company finishes before it ships.

A memo from acting director David Venturella classifies Meta smart glasses as body-worn cameras and bars every ICE employee from wearing them at work, citing the risk of capturing and transmitting sensitive information. DHS is reportedly building its own biometric glasses instead.

CM Games confirmed the Quest 3 version of Into the Radius 2 leaves Early Access on August 27 with the full voice acted campaign. The telling detail: the friendly NPCs from the Steam release got their dialogue cut back after players said the silence was the point.

Blendkit opened its 67,000-asset free library to Godot with a GPLv2 plugin. Here is how it installs, what the one-click transfer actually does, and why Godot's .blend import is still the thing that will bite you.

In a developer's post released around last week's VR Games Showcase, developer Character Bank confirmed Knights of Fiona will launch free-to-play with the game's story and "additional features"...

The Light Brigade has received its final content update. Update 5.0, which also updates the game's name to The Light Brigade: The Definitive Edition, is available now for Meta Quest and Steam, with...

Ancient Dungeon VR's upcoming update, detailed in a new developer blog, introduces a new floor, enemies, relics, and augments to the roguelite dungeon crawler.Ancient Dungeon has been in Early Access...

Dystopian survival shooter Into the Radius 2 goes to a full release for Meta Quest 3/3S on August 27 after an Early Access launch in May.The game started in Quest Early Access in May 2025. Like...

Publisher Impact Inked teased Unlock The Vault, a new publishing initiative to help bring new titles to PlayStation VR2, starting with Soul Assembly's Drop Dead: The Cabin.Unlock The Vault was...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Virtuix has selected AVRT to supply weapons tracking and training content for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Infantry Fireteam Virtual Trainer system. Why it ......

All On Board expands its catalog of virtual tabletop party games with Virus!, a free new game coming on August 20 on SteamVR and Meta Quest.Developer The Game Kitchen made the announcement during...

We spoke to Scott Albright, the founder of Ghosts of Tabor developer Combat Waffle Studios, about Tomahawk, his team's anti-cheat solution for VR gaming.Scott joined us for this week's UploadVR...

CM Games announced its VR survival shooter Into the Radius 2 is officially leaving early access on Quest 3 and Quest 3S next week, bringing along with it a host of new (to Quest) content. First...

Most of our enterprise VR case studies focus on immersive training outcomes. But equally important is the technology's application to design collaboration. How did AEC powerhouse CanonDesign boost...

Gunman Contracts began as a free Half-Life: Alyx mod that a third of a million people installed. Its solo German developer just confirmed the paid standalone launches in Early Access the same day Valve ships the Steam Frame, a date Valve has still not announced.

Impact Reality, the company behind Flat2VR Studios and Impact Inked, has opened a StartEngine reservation page to extend a round its campaign material puts at $5 million. The terms are not disclosed, and the timing says something about where VR capital is coming from now.

FitXR has added knee strikes to its Combat and Flow studios on Quest.The new movement comes in two forms: Flow uses a standalone knee strike, while Combat includes both the standalone version and a...

Finding PC VR mods has always meant wading through a patchwork of Discord threads, news articles and GitHub repositories. Thanks to a new PCVR Central database though, you can now find it all in one...

Aiming for action, not reaction. Leaning into the relevance of physical places. And measuring the right things. These are best practices in AR marketing. We break it down, with lessons from real...

This has been a very special week for me because my blog turned 10 years old. It’s a huge achievement, and I’m super proud of it and super thankful for all the people who helped me reach this result....

US application 2026/0236218, published August 13, describes a recording cue that a secure microphone verifies actually played. The stated problem is not the bystander. It is that a wearer cannot see their own capture LED.