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The next major smartphone launch is just weeks away: Samsung has set the date for its next Unpacked event as July 22.The invite doesn’t say exactly what to expect at the London-based showcase, but it...

According to The Elec, Samsung Display has fully scrapped the development project of a component tied to the rumored lower-cost Apple Vision Pro. Here are the details.

As a special treat to me personally, Valve has released a new version of its Proton compatibility layer—the special sauce that lets Windows games run on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck, Steam...

A peculiar report claims that work on a key component of a lower-cost version of the Apple Vision Pro is winding down, and that it's because Apple is more interested in AI.Apple's current Apple...

Meta seems to think there's no such thing as a bad idea when it comes to smart glasses.

Veteran VR studio Cloudhead Games, developer behind hit rhythm shooter Pistol Whip (2019), is ostensibly deep in development of their next title, which according to a recent job listing could be a...

Yesterday on X, I saw a video about Boz teasing some VR announcements at Connect. This made many people excited, but honestly, I think we shouldn’t expect too much from this piece of news. Meta...

Meta is reportedly testing “super sensing” AI glasses that will collect all the information about your life and feed it to an AI agent that will assist you.

Apple has suspended development of the display for a cheaper, lighter version of the Vision Pro that it originally planned to launch in the next few years, according to The Elec. The Korean outlet...

Spatial computing continues to be an opportune north star, though it's taking longer than expected to materialize. Meanwhile, there continues to be a gap between imagination and reality, often seen...

Meta is rolling out an update to its line of smart glasses that will disable the camera if the device’s capture LED has been tampered with or destroyed. Since the rollout of Meta’s second-gen Ray-Ban...

TL;DR Meta says it will disable the camera function in its smart glasses if it detects damage to the LED indicator. The company’s smart glasses already disable the camera when the LED is blocked or...

...until someone finds yet another workaround.

Meta may have finally found a way to make smart glasses look normal. That might be the problem.On June 23, Meta announced a new line of AI-powered Meta Glasses, starting at $299. The collection...

Meta answers people's privacy concerns about its smart glasses in an FAQ.

Samsung has confirmed the date and location for its next Galaxy Unpacked event. While the company hasn't confirmed any devices yet, leaks point to two Fold models, a new Flip, updated smartwatches,...

Smart glasses with a camera are inherently a privacy nightmare, but Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses (and now its self-branded ones) have a privacy light to indicate when that camera is active. To thwart those...

Meta is rolling out an update, starting with its second-generation smart glasses, that will disable the camera capture system if the LED light is covered or physically tampered with.

Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It’s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be...

The Messages app is arguably the most important app on the iPhone, and in iOS 27, Apple is adding some useful improvements. There are some quality-of-life fixes for longtime issues, and new AI...

One of the worst-kept secrets in tech isn't a secret anymore. After months of rumors and leaks, Samsung on Tuesday finally confirmed what we already knew: There will be a Samsung Galaxy Unpacked...

The 18Birdies and Arccos apps, now integrated in Meta AI on smart glasses in the US & Canada, can act as your personal AI golf caddy.18Birdies is a popular assistant app for golf. On your phone, they...

Italian carmaker Lamborghini released an Apple Vision Pro app today, offering an immersive look at its latest models inside and out. Here are the details.

Sony's headphones come with some neat hardware designed for its own specially implemented spatial audio system. But on PC, that hardware often goes unused. That is, until now. As posted to Reddit by...

Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at the game Synapse and exploring the concept of embodiment and what makes it important to VR games....

Samsung is set to capture the world's attention by hijacking the tech world's attention for a couple of hours later this month.The Korean tech giant is reportedly holding a new Galaxy Unpacked event...

What’s the story? XPANCEO and JBD have entered the next phase of their collaboration to build a custom micro-display for future AR-enabled smart contact lenses. Why it matters The work ... continue...

Modders in the PC gaming community, thank you for always thinking up and developing the wildest ideas. The latest and coolest creation I’ve seen lately in a sea of incredible ones is a...

HTC has been attempting a second act as an XR and AI hardware company for a few years now with mixed results. And while the once-dominant smartphone company is still the midst of a protracted revenue...

A Change.org petition urging Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 172,000 signatures, six days after the company announced that it intends to stop producing discs for new games...

Dubai-based smart contact lenses startup XPANCEO announced it’s expanding a partnership with China’s JBD to co-develop a new micro-display designed specifically for smart contact lenses. Previously,...

What are best practices and tactical tips for XR experience design? First-time developer Philipp Stollenmayer walks us through his journey designing and releasing an immersive Vision Pro experience –...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game of many excellent parts, and some of its most excellent are lead characters Henry of Skalitz and Lord Hans Capon. That's in no small part down to the fact that...

A 'Meta One Premium' subscription is now required for more hours of access to select advanced features of the company's smart glasses, starting with Conversation Focus.Until now, all built-in...

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades hit its 1.0 release over the weekend, a full decade after entering Early Access. As someone who has watched this game grow the entire time, I need to talk about what it represents.

XPANCEO and JBD have moved to the next phase of co-developing a microLED display small enough to sit inside a smart contact lens. The specs are borderline absurd, and the real story is that they are now focused on manufacturing it.

Hellsplit: Labyrinth, a roguelike dark fantasy action RPG follow-up to Hellsplit Arena, popped up today on the Meta Horizon store for a Spring 2027 release. Update Notice - July 8, 2026 The original...

Apple Watch owners can now finally use the new-and-improved Siri AI, thanks to watchOS 27 beta 3.watchOS 27 beta 3 introduces a dedicated Siri app.At WWDC 2026, Apple's virtual assistant received a...

The Binary Mill has put its free-to-play multiplayer project Survive The Night on the shelf after teasing it at the Ruff Talk VR Showcase in May. The game was first teased by showcase hosts Damien...

Apple has released new betas today for its next major software updates, with developer beta 3 rolling out for iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and more.

After a decade in Early Access, sandbox FPS Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades goes to its 1.0 full release with Update 120 ahead of the highly anticipated sequel. Rust Ltd's Anton Hand thanked the...

Sony makes some of the best headphones on the market, and some of their recent models even include a myriad of sensors for spatial audio. These are standard gyroscopes and accelerometers capable of...

I’m finally back in Italy, and I can spend a few weeks here, recovering from all the long trips I had. It was really insightful going to China, the US, and Germany, and I think now I have a better...

Pico had a noticeable presence at AWE this year. It sponsored an entire gaming and LBE track and spoke on a few panels. One talk in particular contained new information about the upcoming Pico OS 6...

Even Realities, the China-based smart glasses company, has officially secured unicorn status with its most recent Pre-B financing round, bringing the company $150 million and a $1 billion valuation....

VR shooting simulator Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (H3VR) launched its 1.0 release over the weekend, exiting early access after more than a decade on Steam. Veteran VR studio Rust Ltd has...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In June, Sports games (NBA 2k26 and EA SPORTS FC 26) and DAVE THE DIVER from South Korea studio...

While Meta sells millions of camera-equipped smart glasses and absorbs the privacy backlash, a startup founded by ex-Apple engineers just raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation for glasses that deliberately have no camera at all. That is a real signal about where part of this market is going.

Samsung has confirmed July 22 in London for Galaxy Unpacked, and the Galaxy Glasses reveal is the moment Android XR stops being a headset story and becomes a wearable one. Here is what to actually watch for on the SDK side.

Hot on the heels of its successful Steam Next Fest demo, we interviewed Bramblefort studio False Member to learn more about the survival horror’s roots and its stellar inspirations.Seemingly out of...

Mixed reality's best trick, turning your real room into the game, has always been a solo experience. VirtualGo is building a system that lets remote friends join your scanned space as VR players, and the idea is bigger than the horror game it started in.

What’s the story? Virtuix has announced the deployment of its first Omni One system with the Air National Guard, purchased by a unit based in Horsham, Pennsylvania for military training ... continue...

The developer of Hauntify is building a system to let a remote player join your mixed reality game via a VR representation of your home.This system not only transforms the real-world objects in your...

The Castle is a dungeon-themed immersive VR experience built to teach electrical concepts through a series of escape-style challenges. I played through The Castle at the Augmented World Expo and...

It is the Fourth of July, the family is over, and there is a VR headset in the house. Here is how to turn that into the highlight of the gathering, with the games that work when you have one headset and a room full of people who have never tried VR.

I played High Horns, an upcoming arm-based locomotion social hangout climbing game, at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) last month.While my twenty-minute demo didn't present anything new or special, I...

The first week of the year's second half brought a cheaper path into AR glasses, a long-awaited app finally arriving on Quest, another Apple spatial departure, and a controversial new subscription. Here is what mattered.

Thales Australia signed an MOU with Operator XR, an ASX-listed VR training startup already in service with more than 100 military and law enforcement agencies. The document is non-binding, but the structure of the deal is exactly what enterprise XR has been waiting for.

Paul Meade, the Apple VP in charge of Vision Pro and the company's smart glasses hardware, is leaving to join OpenAI's device unit. It is another blow to Apple's spatial ambitions and a loud signal about how serious OpenAI is getting about hardware.

After years of clunky workarounds, Discord released an official native app for Meta Quest today, free on the Horizon Store. The headline feature is not voice or video. It is the ability to pin a Discord call in your playspace while you play anything else.

A-Frame 1.8.0 caught up to Three.js r184, retired the Oculus branding, dropped the last of WebVR, and quietly fixed a bug that was blocking WebXR Layers requests. It is a boring changelog, and that is exactly why it matters.

The first half of 2026 is officially in the books, and it was a genuinely strong six months to own a headset. From a PCVR survival masterpiece to two puzzle legends reborn on PSVR2, here are the VR games that earned my time, and yours.

Virtuix just launched Omni One for Quest, the first VR treadmill ever to earn Meta's official 'Made for Meta' certification. At $2,595 it is not the device that fixes VR locomotion at scale, but it is the moment a critical door for VR peripherals finally opened.

XREAL opened reservations for AURA, its Android XR display glasses, with a retail price capped at no more than $1,500 and a Fall 2026 launch. That is roughly $700 below Snap's Specs, and it makes AURA the most affordable serious entry into display AR yet. The catch is in the architecture.

Resolution Games quietly turned its tabletop dungeon crawler into the first XR title that runs across all six major headset platforms, and the Xreal Aura addition makes Android XR a first-class citizen in the lobby.

Valve's price reveal and Meta's Quest 4 delay got the headlines, but the most consequential VR hardware news of the month was a chip. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite is 60 percent faster on graphics, runs 12 degrees cooler, and runs AI models on-device, and nearly every headset and glasses maker builds on top of it.

Horror is the one genre virtual reality does better than any medium ever invented, and 2026 is proving it. From the summer showcase reveals to the games that players literally cannot finish, here is why VR turns fear into something your body cannot argue with.

Apple raised the Vision Pro to $3,699 on June 25 even though it has no consumer successor coming and only about 5 percent of the XR market. A price hike on a product nobody buys is an enterprise signal, not a consumer one.

After last week's AWE frenzy, this week settled into substance: a strong VR Games Showcase, confirmed Steam Machine pricing that hints at the Steam Frame's launch, a clever performance update, and a mid-year reckoning for Android XR. Here is what mattered.

Valve confirmed the Steam Machine starts at $1,049 and ships June 30, with the pre-order lottery closing today. The number nobody loves tells us almost everything about what Steam Frame will cost.