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A Steam Frame user asked for the ability to use an external optical drive with their headset, and Valve added the feature a day after one of its developers saw the post. Aiodensghost wrote the post...

The VR IS DEAD Halloween Jam closed on October 22 with 17 free games on itch.io, and nine of them put the player on the clock under the theme Graveyard Shift. Five name Godot, two ship ARM builds, one runs in the browser, and rating runs until October 29.

XREAL Games dated the PS VR2 port of Zero Caliber 2 Remastered for November 5, with native 90fps, headset haptics, adaptive triggers and bHaptics support at launch. A VR Games Showcase teaser had pointed at October, and Sony's own store page still lists the release date as to be determined.

Walker Industries moved the $650 Andromeda from 1600x1600 to 2160x2160 panels and from a 45Wh to an 85Wh cell at the same price, upgrading existing backers automatically. The campaign stood just under 24 percent of the way to its $150,000 goal on October 24, with delivery estimated for May 2027.

VRChat's Open Beta client and Avatars SDK 3.10.6-beta.1 put face tracking inside the Avatar Descriptor, with Unified Expressions keys, Auto-Fill blendshape mapping and up to 16 meshes. Synced face data no longer spends your custom parameter budget, and VRCFaceTracking's latest beta feeds it over OSC.

The Steam Next Fest demo for action-roguelite The Rifted Skies ticks all the right boxes while leaving a few questions only the full game can answer.Developer DreamVR, whose previous VR projects were...

Carnage-fueled racer FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR has gone to its 1.0 full release, adding multiple new features and a price increase to $29.99.Version 1.0 adds multiple new features and content,...

Fading Light, a VR action shooter survival game for one to four players, is coming to Quest next month. Joy Way, who previously developed Red Flowers (later, Catana: Red Flowers), Stride and Stride:...

No, I haven’t managed to get my hands on a prototype pair of Apple Glasses, but I now have experience of the rough equivalents of what we’re expecting from both a 1st- and 2nd-gen product. In both...

I already love to use all of Meta’s AI glasses when I leave the house, and now I’ve got a new reason to love the camera that comes on (almost) every pair. more…

Guest Article By Antony ‘SkarredGhost’ Vitillo Antony ‘SkarredGhost’ Vitillo is an AR/VR entrepreneur, developer, and blogger. Most people know him for his blog The Ghost Howls, which he uses to...

VRChat now offers native SDK-level Face Tracking support for avatars in the Open Beta client and Avatars SDK beta.VRChat has technically supported Eye and Face Tracking for years over OSC (Open Sound...

Robert Downey Jr. is Specs' Chief Customer Experience Officer, while Anthropic drops Claude Duet and AI CapEx raises more questions. We have these and other items from XR and AI world through the...

Ramen VR will switch Zenith off on December 18 with no offline version, while the relaunched Supernatural doubled Meta's price and opened a manual history transfer that closes December 3. Owlchemy priced a glasses game at $1.99, Victoria wrote smart glasses into its school phone rules, Snap put Robert Downey Jr. on the SPECS org chart, and the PAYDAY: Aces High playtest runs through Monday.

Snap's October 20 newsroom post names Robert Downey Jr. honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer of SPECS, with an original episode debuting during Game 1 of the World Series on October 23. The $2,195 glasses still carry the same fall shipping window Snap gave when preorders opened at AWE in June.

It’s been a while since the first time I read about the Vector Gear, the fully open mid-range headset built by Walker Industries. This project got a lot of praise from the community and has recently...

We checked out the PC VR demo for RAID VR as part of this week's Steam Next Fest and found a promising gameplay loop that plays it a little too safe.Imagine if the charming Border Bots met an...

Halfway through the second chapter of Daumier: Lila & Ghost, I stopped, looked around, and said "What the hell are we doing?" I was playing as Lila and my UploadVR colleague, Mike, was playing as...

Sunstone of Time is a colorful, history-inspired trek through ancient Aztec civilization where you will need to solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets to return to the present and save the world....

Two years after the end of active development, the servers for VR MMORPG Zenith: Nexus will close on December 18. New sales of paid DLC Zenith: The Last City and in-game currency Zennies have already...

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio behind smash hit VR games Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, today revealed Hyper Visor, a new arcade blaster arriving as a launch title for XREAL AURA....

Owlchemy Labs' new game Hyper Visor will be a launch title for HTC's XREAL Aura headset.

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In September, Marvel’s Wolverine led the PS5 charts in the US, followed by EA Sports FC 27, while...

Liminal VR, the app known for its short immersive experiences designed to influence its users’ emotional states, is introducing a new series called Fear Arena.As someone who has tried a VR horror...

How much time per week is spent in VR on average? The latest consumer survey from ARtillery Intelligence and Thrive Analytics tackles this question, and we break it down in the latest...

After a year of use, it remains clear that the Apple Vision Pro benefits from the power of M5, even if not much else changed. Apple's work is far from over.Apple Vision Pro review: one year into M5...

It’s been nearly two years since Ramen VR, the studio behind Zenith: The Last City (2022), announced it was ceasing development on the VR MMORPG due to difficulties in keeping users. Now the studio...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s AR glasses subsidiary SPECS as honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer, launching a series of original episodes that put...

In VR Gaming News What’s the story? Basement Bunker Labs’ first game, Heroes Together VR, a free four-player co-op roguelite dungeon crawler, has launched in Early Access on Meta Quest ... continue...

Ramen VR switches off Zenith's servers at 10:00 AM Pacific on December 18, with no offline version and no community hosting. Sales of The Last City and Zennies ended October 21, though Steam was still selling the $9.99 DLC a day later.

Owlchemy Labs revealed Hyper Visor on October 22, an eight-level, hands-only arcade blaster for XREAL AURA at $1.99 on Google Play, where Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator sell for $19.99. It is not listed yet, and AURA still has no ship date.

Ministerial Order No. 1515, signed October 18, makes students at every Victorian school switch smart glasses off and store them from January 28, 2027, and a separate policy bars adults from wearing them at government schools. Its definition covers any spectacles that can process digital information, camera or not.

There are two problems with smart glasses today. Most don’t deliver that futuristic display we all want to have, and the camera has become a serious point of friction. INMO GO3 solve both problems...

Following its Early Access release on Quest in September, co-op space exploration adventure Sol Protocol comes to PC VR on November 11 with crossplay support. A demo is available this week as part of...

The new independent version of VR fitness app Supernatural launched in Early Access on Meta Quest.The team of 15 people behind the re-launch of Supernatural includes all of the fitness coaches who...

Supernatural, the VR fitness app, has launched—or rather, re-launched—into early access on Quest today following a spin-out from Meta earlier this summer. Supernatural is a subscription-based fitness...

Supernatural made a name for itself as the de facto workout app through the COVID era and beyond, and is coming back from the grave as an independent app, starting today. more…

Gears of War: E-Day (2026) has only been out for a little over two weeks now, and there’s already a PC VR mod in the works to get you up close and personal with the Locust Horde. A free mod being...

Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is a roadway management puzzler in mixed and virtual reality that's equal parts relaxing and confounding. I love puzzle games, especially in VR, where the ability to...

PlayStation VR2 players won't have to wait too much longer for Zero Caliber 2. XReal Games announced a November 5 release date with enhancements to take advantage of the features of Sony's headset.As...

Embark on a new adventure with PlayStation Store’s latest promotion, Planet of the Deals, which is live now. Players can browse hundreds of PS5 and PS4 games featured in the deals and which are...

Meta has been behaving differently – from its product reveals to its stage setup, to body language and Zuckerberg’s custom T-shirts. Nothing is accidental, and the story that Meta is trying to tell...

Snap announced that actor and producer Robert Downey Jr. will work alongside the company’s augmented reality team to develop original content, Lens experiences, hardware collaborations, and more for...

In XR News What’s the story? Treeview’s CardioCompass patient education tool is available on Sony’s Spatial Reality Display, bringing its interactive 3D experience to users without a headset or...

A modder called rockonthehill showed an early build of a free PC VR mod for Gears of War: E-Day on October 18, with full-body IK, manual reloads and a lever-started Lancer chainsaw across the whole campaign. There is no download yet, the Xbox app version is untested, and the Steam build runs Easy Anti-Cheat.

Meta's VR Layout SDK, out since Connect on September 24, lets Jetpack Compose and React Native apps open spatial windows beside their main one and fall back cleanly on phones. Its Gaze SDK sibling is early access only: Meta says Horizon Store submissions that bundle it will be rejected until a stable release.

Supernatural's independent version opened in Early Access on October 21 at $20 a month or $200 a year, on Quest 2, 3, 3S and Pro in the US and Canada. Imported points and start dates show up right away; streaks, favorites, badges and workout history follow over the coming weeks, and transfers close December 3.

In my last newsletter, I mentioned to you the Alibaba N1 Pro smartglasses that have just been launched in China. I think these glasses have a couple of features that deserve more attention than a...

Payday’s first full-VR game is on the cusp of release, but you don’t have to wait! Join the playtest now and get exclusive rewards when the full game releases on November 5. more…

Co-op exo suit-fueled action-adventure Titan Isles has added a fifth suit in its latest update. This is the first new suit since the game launched in 2025.Titan Isles launched in September 2025 with...

During Meta Connect 2026, Meta announced several new SDKs and features designed to enhance spatial apps. These announcements come as the company expands its focus on broader computing use cases ahead...

It was just a few days ago that I was unboxing the new ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20, which went on sale just five days ago on October 15th, and now both the handheld ($1,299) and the $2,499 bundle...

In Robotics and XR News October 20, 2026 – Skyworth XR, a manufacturer of virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) hardware, has today announced that it will exhibit its ... continue reading...

Snap Specs are available for pre-order now, and actor Robert Downey Jr. is joining the team after he said he “was absolutely sold on Specs within 40 seconds.” more…

Steam Next Fest is live, going from now until October 26th and serving up gads of PC VR demos to play. We’ve counted 42 VR game demos currently available for download, and among the bunch are a...

What's the spatial computing revenue outlook? And how does that break down by subsegments from VR to AI glasses? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment highlights original market-sizing data from...

OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard which provides a single, unified interface for developing VR and AR applications. Most XR platforms support it—excluding Apple, which uses its own APIs for...

Fast Travel Games dated PAYDAY: Aces High for November 5 on Meta Quest, SteamVR and Steam Frame at $24.99. Its final playtest runs through October 26: on Steam it is the free Next Fest demo, and on Quest 3 and 3S it is an open playtest build.

XR_EXT_spatial_container and its self-rendering companion give OpenXR a bounded window mode the system positions for you. Khronos announced them on October 19, but both landed in the 1.1.63 spec on September 1.

With spooky season upon us, we've rounded up a selection of Halloween-themed updates for games you may already have in your catalog.This is another in our series of spooky season articles this month....

Co-op heist shooter Payday: Aces High launches November 5 for Quest and PC VR. A limited-time playtest demo is available on both platforms until October 26.Developer Fast Travel Games confirmed the...

The final Steam Next Fest of 2026 has kicked off and we've got the full list of new PC VR demos right here. The event runs through October 26.Next Fest is a chance for players to go hands-on with...

PAYDAY: Aces High, the VR game set in the Payday universe, is officially set to launch across Quest, PC VR headsets, and Steam Frame next month. Payday: Aces High is an upcoming VR co-op heist game...

It hasn’t been a bad week for AR/VR in general, and in this roundup you’ll find something interesting to read about. But the online debate has been, as usual, mostly about AI. Especially because Tim...

Virtuix's October 13 release made it an official Meta reseller and repeated a 3X orders figure it first published in September. Orders are not revenue: its last 10-Q put quarterly Omni One sales at $522,391, and the first full quarter of the Quest version reports by November 16.

XREAL's 1 Pro+ raises peak brightness from 700 nits to 1,200 and keeps the X1 chip, the 57 degree field of view and the 1080p panels at the same $599. The company's own release calls it a wearable display, and everything platform-shaped in the lineup still sits one rung up in AURA.

Real VR Fishing's October update lets Quest 3 and 3S owners scan a room, choose which parts flood, and keep the TV in view. The game also runs on Galaxy XR and Steam, and the developer says the mode is Quest only for now.

Valve stopped making the Index this week. Mine has been on my desk since the 2020 Alyx rush and still works. Valve is now building a Steam Frame strap with BMR drivers to match the Index's speakers, and the Frame's optional hand straps copy the Index design.

Sandbox VR calls its first New York venue its 100th, and the headline act is Deadwood Origins, from a zombie series whose first three games sold 2.66 million of the company's 6 million-plus tickets. The release says it opens October 23. Sandbox VR's own site now says October 30.

Valve put the last Index headsets on sale at $399.20 without the parts that make one work, gave Steam Frame reservations a by December or 2027 answer, published the Frame's port pinout and left a 3,552 by 3,840 panel in its kernel code. Meta called its glasses recording bug resolved, Supernatural changed its answer on Favorites, and Ultimechs goes offline Tuesday.