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You've got a friend in Trombone Champ Unflattened's next musical DLC, Disney Movie Magic Volume 1, coming this summer.As part of the latest VR Games Showcase, developer Flat2VR Studios and publisher...

A new gameplay trailer for Lovecraftian survival action game The Lightkeepers confirmed a September 10 release date for Meta Quest 3.The new trailer premiered at the latest VR Games Showcase this...

The Autobots and Decepticons wage war on Meta's headsets on September 3.As part of yesterday's VR Games Showcase, publisher Squido Studio announced that META4 Interactive and Illogika's VR rail...

Amazon Prime Day is among us, which also means you can save a couple bucks on a brand new Meta Quest 3S. Its only been a few months since Meta raised the price of Quest 3 and Quest 3S, essentially...

When Valve first announced the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame last year, it was the dinky living room PC that I latched onto. I've wanted to hook my PC up to a TV and treat it like...

I’m under no illusions that John Ternus’ Apple will be the exactly same as it has been under Tim Cook. Initially though, there will be few, if any, changes. Ternus is not an outsider with wild...

Valve has a new cube coming out, and boy is it pricey. The Steam Machine finally broke cover last Monday, revealing that its absolute cheapest model would still set you back $1,049—for which you can...

SAVE $490: As of June 24, the ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2025) is down to $2,099.99 at Amazon. That’s $490.01 off a high-end gaming laptop built for serious gaming and heavy workloads. Opens in a new window...

Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad, and the whole gang are back with Star Fox for the Nintendo Switch 2, and it’s a worthwhile ride. Star Fox’s reintroduction into the public eye...

The best Prime Day tech deals: Day two Best overall Bose QuietComfort Noise-Cancelling Headphones $179.99 at Amazon (save $179.01) Get Deal Best Kindle deal Amazon Kindle Paperwhite $124.99 at Amazon...

SAVE $200: As of June 24, the Apple 2026 MacBook Pro (M5 Pro) is down to $2,399.99 at Amazon. That’s a $200 discount on a high-end MacBook with 2TB SSD. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple 2026...

When most people think of digital twins, they picture high-tech dashboards used by massive metropolitan governments. Rory Linehan thinks that assumption is exactly the problem. He discusses on the...

SAVE $293: As of June 24, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025) is down to $357.24 at Amazon. That’s a 45% discount on an LTE smartwatch with built-in GPS. Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung...

The best new gadgets of 2026 include smartphones and wireless microphones with innovative display technologies, audio gear with incredible noise cancellation, and practical products for the home....

TL;DR: Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Nintendo Switch 2 Edition) is on a major discount at Amazon. Buy now for $44.99 on Prime Day. Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokémon Company...

There’s no shortage of hype surrounding Summer Game Fest, and its orbit of smaller indie game showcases, as well as the wildly successful Xbox Games Showcase. This year’s events were chock full of...

SAVE $270: As of June 24, the TCL 65-inch Class QM64L Series is on sale for $529.99 at Amazon. That's a 34% discount and the best-ever price. Opens in a new window Credit: TCL TCL 65-Inch Class QM64L...

SAVE $23: As of June 24, the DJI Mic Mini (2 TX + 1 RX) is on sale for $56 on Prime Day. That's a 29% discount and the best-ever price. Opens in a new window Credit: DJI DJI Mic Mini (2 TX + 1 RX)...

SAVE $60: As of June 24, the DJI Neo is on sale for $139 at Amazon. That's a 30% discount and the best-ever price. Opens in a new window Credit: DJI DJI Neo $139 at Amazon $199 Save $60 Get Deal...

Credit: Meta TL;DR Meta has launched a $59 standalone Charging Stand alongside its expanded smart glasses lineup. The dock features a premium stainless steel body, silicone base, and comes in Natural...

SAVE $59.80: The RayNeo Air 4 Pro AR/XR Glasses are on sale for $239.20 at Amazon, down from $299. That's a 20% discount or $59.80 in savings. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon RayNeo Air 4 Pro...

What’s the story? Prehension has released its gesture recognition SDK for XR developers, using temporal classification to identify hand movements such as swipes, waves and pushes. Why it matters The...

SAVE $70: The Soundcore Sleep A30 Special earbuds are on sale for $159.99, down from $229.99. That's a 30% discount or $70 in savings. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Soundcore Sleep A30 Earbuds...

The smart glasses market is growing quickly, but not every deal deserves your attention. Here are four Prime Day picks that balance innovation, comfort, and practical features.

What’s the story? Meta has launched Meta Glasses, a new AI eyewear line developed with EssilorLuxottica, featuring three frame styles and prices starting at $299. Why it matters The new ... continue...

Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow without multiplying operational...

Unity's latest Android XR update expands Application SpaceWarp support to include standard UI and text. It is a small line in a changelog that points at one of the most important performance tricks in mobile VR. Here is how SpaceWarp actually works, and why it matters.

Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime from Collabora, now sits under Android XR, NVIDIA CloudXR, Pico, and Snapdragon Spaces. Here is why the industry quietly standardized on it.

Inwigo is a free-to-play cooperative extraction horror game available on Meta Quest. It released today as part of the VR Games Showcase after conducting multiple open playtests. Here's the release...

The latest VR Games Showcase delivered over an hour of trailers, game announcements, release date reveals, shadow releases, major updates, and DLC drops. There were tactical shooters and co-op...

The sixth iteration of the VR Games Showcase just wrapped up, delivering massive new game announcements including the reveal of Breachers: Outbreak and DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew as well as new looks at...

Salmi Games (Sweet Surrender) announced its new title Drifters: Blackout Crew, a VR co-op extraction shooter, at today's VR Games Showcase. It is coming to Meta Quest and SteamVR.Here's the...

DreamVR, the VR veteran studio behind a host of location-based VR games, has unveiled its upcoming acrobatic roguelite action game, The Rifted Skies, which is slated to land on Quest and SteamVR...

Triangle Factory, the studio behind Hyper Dash (2021), Breachers (2023), and Forefront (2026), today announced they’re dipping back into the Breachers franchise with the release of Breachers:...

I Am Your Beast, a well-reviewed revenge thriller FPS, is the next release from the Flat2VR Spark program. It hits SteamVR in Early Access later in 2026. The Spark program is an initiative from...

Flat2VR Studios announced during the VR Games Showcase today that Trombone: Champ Unflattened is getting a paid DLC pack next month that will bring six new Disney songs to VR’s silliest music game....

R.A.I.D., first announced with a simple logo and playtesting call-to-action last month, dropped a teaser trailer at today's VR Games Showcase.The tease was shown during last month's Creature Feature...

Light-hearted pirate action-adventure Skeleton Crew hits Early Access today on Meta Quest 3, launching in conjunction with today's VR Games Showcase.Watch the swashbuckling launch trailer here: 0:00...

DreamVR announced action roguelite The Rifted Skies, its first consumer VR title, at today's VR Games Showcase. It is coming to SteamVR and Meta Quest in Early Access later this year, with a Pico...

Lanesplit, a high speed urban motorcycle street racer, dropped its update for VR supported gameplay as part of today's VR Games Showcase. We previously reported this was coming today in our UploadVR...

Triangle Factory revealed its latest title, Breachers: Outbreak, a four player co-op zombie extraction shooter built for VR and flatscreen cross-platform gameplay, at today's VR Games Showcase....

Releasing in Early Access exclusively on Quest, Spell Siege features waves of fantastical enemies that can only be defeated by your gesture-based magic spells.Fantasy in virtual reality is a thriving...

Meta is expanding its AI hardware ambitions with the launch of a new line of smart glasses that significantly lowers the barrier to entry for consumers, introducing an in-house range starting at $299...

VR treadmill manufacturer Virtuix has announced the Omni One for Quest as part of Meta's certified 'Made For Meta' program. This new partnership adds native support for multiple Meta Quest standalone...

Meta today announced it’s releasing Meta Glasses, the company’s first slate of smart glasses that don’t feature any EssilorLuxottica styles or branding. The News While Meta is still working with...

The latest beta of Apple's Reality Composer Pro 3, the content creation tool used to build spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro, appears to contain traces of "The Machinery," an ambitious game...

TL;DR Meta has announced three new pairs of smart glasses, its first without legacy eyewear branding partnerships. The glasses start at $299, undercutting the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses....

As the smart glasses era gets its proper start, Meta is expanding on its offering with a new lineup of “Meta Glasses” that ditch Ray-Ban branding and designs in pursuit of a more affordable price tag.

Glasses are the most exciting hardware category of the AI era — the ideal device to experience an all-day AI assistant that understands the world from your perspective. That’s why today, in...

Virtuix has finally brought native Quest support to Omni One, making it Quest’s first officially supported VR treadmill. As Virtuix’s consumer-focused VR treadmill, Omni One launched in 2024 with...

AWE wraps, while Anthropic is forced to pull back its latest models, and Meta employees get stuck in a greed prison. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the lens of Charlie...

Wizherd is a free-to-play co-op dungeon crawler on Meta Quest where you sling elemental spells with your own hands. The magic system is clever, the co-op is chaotic fun, and the price is right, even if the rough edges are real.

The Summer 2026 VR Games Showcase aired today, and the reveal that stuck with me is Breachers: Outbreak, a four-player co-op zombie extraction shooter from the studio behind Breachers and Forefront. Here is why the pivot is smarter than it looks.

In March we argued Android XR could be the most important platform launch since Android itself. We are now halfway through 2026. The hardware has shipped, the developer tools are real, and one big promise is still missing. Here is how the thesis is holding up.

Welcome to episode 37 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will is joined by Andrew Romero to discuss the ongoing rise of smart glasses, what brands are nailing the basics, and what to...

Samsung opened Galaxy XR preorders in the UK at £1,699 ahead of a July 8 ship date. The headline number is the price, but the £665 Explorer Pack bundle is where Android XR's actual strategy shows up.

The orchestra-conducting rhythm game Maestro arrived on PSVR2 on June 20 with a John Williams Star Wars track and a lightsaber baton. It is a delight. It is also only the third PSVR2 game to support hand tracking, which says a lot about a feature Sony shipped and the industry mostly ignored.

The Quest 4 is still unannounced, and the rumor mill has only gotten louder. Here is our continually updated tracker on the release window, the design and weight direction, the new OLED display reporting, and where the price is heading, with every claim labeled confirmed, reported, or rumor.

VR platforming was one of the genres that made early headsets feel like magic, and then it went quiet. Hyperstacks, a neon action-platformer with a built-in level editor, has its demo live at Steam Next Fest, and it is the one I am loading up first.

Augmented World Expo dominated the week. Snap opened preorders for $2,195 AR glasses, Qualcomm reminded everyone it powers the whole category, an open-source metaverse browser engine arrived, and a startup showed the smartest battery idea of the show. Here is everything that mattered.

Snap and Google owned the AWE USA 2026 keynotes, but the Auggie Award enterprise winners, from steel fabrication to surgical guidance, map where extended reality is actually delivering measurable ROI.

While Snap unveiled $2,195 AR glasses with a four hour battery, a startup called Raven Resonance previewed Raven Prism: a sub 70 gram, eye controlled Linux computer in eyewear form with hot swappable batteries. It is the most quietly interesting hardware at AWE.

Valve still says summer 2026, but the evidence is getting loud. The Steam Frame controller FCC embargo lifted June 18, tens of tons of headsets cleared into US warehouses, and a leaked June 23 price reveal lines up with the timeline. Here is what is real and what still hangs on the DRAM crisis.

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.

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.

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.