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After a delay from the planned April release, deep sea story-based puzzle game Echoes of Mora VR released today on Steam, with an optional flatscreen mode.One very important note: developer Selkies...

Newly minted Apple CEO John Ternus has praised the Apple Vision Pro, calling it an amazing device that is finding more users, but also that it's in its very earliest days.Apple CEO John Ternus -...

Counterpoint Research says global AI glasses shipments surged 263% during the first half of 2026, with Meta comfortably leading the display-less segment amid growing privacy concerns. Here are the...

The cost of PC components has shifted rapidly in recent years thanks to the RAMpocalypse, inflation, and more. So how much does a VR Ready gaming PC actually cost in 2026? Table of Contents:...

Apple is now on the second round of its developer betas for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and macOS 27.2.iOS 27 on an iPhoneThe second post-milestone release...

Alongside new betas of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, and macOS Golden Gate 27.2, Apple has released the second betas of watchOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, and visionOS 27.2. The betas come week after Apple released...

Using your virtual reality headset as a monitor for your Windows 11 PC just got a lot better.Remember when mixed reality and virtual reality were the biggest buzzwords in tech? Before the advent of...

In a lengthy new interview with Clique TV, Apple CEO John Ternus answered a range of questions covering what excites him about the future, how technology is used in his family, the offer to become...

Remember when, a couple of weeks ago, the singer of American band Breaking Benjamin was filmed promoting a Fallout 4 first person he'd made via a mid-gig speech about modding community drama? Well,...

Apple’s new CEO John Ternus recently sat down for a lengthy, in-depth interview with French outlet Clique TV, and in it he gave the best defense yet for Apple Vision Pro. more…

Having launched though the same system of reservations and waitlists as the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is still navigating that inscrutable void betixt "on sale" and "actually out." Nevertheless,...

A new version of SteamOS for Steam Frame has just landed. The company has fixed a few issues with the VR headset following its launch last week, which I'll get to in a bit, but one change stood out...

Are you considering where to publish immersive video experiences for Apple Vision Pro audiences?Apple TV, Amplium, Fovii, Primary: News in Depth and Theatre apps are just a selection of apps...

Spend enough time in a VR headset and you'll encounter some familiar complaints: heat, weight distribution, glasses, controller comfort and keeping track of your surroundings. Start exercising in one...

It’s been a HUGE week for XR! The Steam Frame has been officially launched, and also the Snap Specs have been fully unveiled. And we are not stopping here, because this coming week we’re going to...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Rokid has launched AIUI Studio globally, a browser-based agentic AI platform for building spatial AI applications that run on its Rokid AI Glasses, ......

We were fortunate enough to be among the few invited to demo Specs. The short version: Specs could mark the dawn of a long-unfulfilled AR promise, or what Evan Spiegel is calling 'intuitive...

In Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Proteus Labs’ mixed reality science lab has been selected for Avantis Education’s ClassVR Xcelerate headset and EduverseSTEM platform,...

Snap's CEO demoed the soon-to-launch Specs standalone true AR glasses live on stage, including an official Harry Potter experience from HBO.Revealed back in June, when the company opened preorders,...

Snap announced that its Specs AR glasses, still set to launch this fall, have a cross-platform AI agent and an optional cellular charging case for on-the-go connectivity.Snap Opens Preorders For...

Meta will launch smart glasses without a camera at Connect, The Information reports, as the backlash to the form factor grows.All of Meta's smart glasses feature a white LED at the end of one temple...

SteamOS 0.3.0 is the Steam Frame's first public update since the September 14 launch. Twelve lines, led by substantially faster charging while the headset sleeps, a fix for the garbled microphone bug, and a Playable tier rule that no longer demands 1440p.

Mixed Reality Link 26.9105.9070.0 gives Windows three new capture devices from a Quest 3 or 3S: the headset microphone, a passthrough camera, and a Meta avatar camera that Horizon OS already offered its own Android apps. It lands as support for the last Windows Mixed Reality headsets runs out in November.

Smart glasses are such a logical, futuristic step in mobile tech, and it’s one we’re on the cusp of being able to embrace. Yet, there’s a huge hurdle to overcome. For as useful and enjoyable as it...

Meta's Connect 2026 keynote is Wednesday. A line-by-line check of the last three keynotes: five products with a price and a date all shipped on schedule, Augments is three years late, and the Ray-Ban Display expansion Meta promised four countries never happened.

It's been quite a week over on Tom's Hardware Premium: let's go through all of the articles that we've published throughout this week so far. Kicking things off with a bang, Valve officially released...

Meta could demo its Project Phoenix headset at Connect 2026 alongside "a full-body, photorealistic hologram call experience" leveraging Codec Avatars, The Information reports.Multiple reputable...

Within hours of Valve's reservation emails, eBay sellers were asking $1,750 for a 256GB Steam Frame reservation and $2,000 or more for the 1TB. Valve's program terms say the right to buy cannot be transferred, and European buyers have a second scam to watch for once units ship.

Asgard's Wrath 2 came free with the Quest 3 in 2023 and Batman: Arkham Shadow with the Quest 3S in 2024. Meta has since closed Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel, Camouflaj no longer makes VR games, and the Connect 2026 agenda does not list a single Quest game.

Flat2VR Spark's port of Strange Scaffold's revenge shooter reached Steam on September 17 at $22.99. The no-reload gunplay made the jump to VR. The tree climbing and the story interludes did not, and without its rank gates the campaign runs under an hour.

The first smart glasses were Google Glass, launched way back in 2014. The product failed for a number of reasons, but the biggest of these was privacy concerns around video recording capabilities,...

Flow Chaser is a new spatial rhythm game for Apple Vision Pro that launched alongside the recently released visionOS 27. Developed around Apple's new on-device music intelligence, Flow Chaser...

After a five-month Early Access period, Innerspace's time-warping secret agent adventure Spymaster gets its full release on Steam and Quest on October 15. Spymaster is the latest project from...

Unseen Reality took to Kickstarter last month to fund its monitor-replacing mixed reality glasses, URXR One. Now concluded, the campaign has officially garnered over $1.2 million. URXR One aren’t...

Valve has just released its Lepton tool as an open-source resource for bringing Android-native games to Linux and, in turn, Steam. more…

Specs are showcased and met with strong reviews, Steam Frame finally releases, and AI gets pressure to both slow down and speed up. We have these and other events from AI and XR worlds through the...

Apple launched visionOS 27 for Vision Pro headsets this week.visionOS 27 is the fourth major operating system version for Apple Vision Pro headsets.Despite the relative lack of fanfare, visionOS 27...

Sony's US store lists PlayStation VR2 at $399 and "Currently Unavailable." Best Buy's only new units are Marketplace bundles from $855.20, Walmart shows pre-owned headsets, and Sony's UK store still sells it at £399.99. Sony has not said why.

Valve ran the Steam Frame draw and a community tracker has fewer than half of respondents reserved, eBay filled up with fake reservation screenshots, Snap gave Specs a Verizon bundle but no ship date, visionOS 27 shipped the same Monday as the Frame, and Connect is Wednesday.

Snap's September 16 enterprise post names Salesforce, AWS, NVIDIA, Trifork and Hololight, but no customer, no enterprise price and no device management vendor. The firmer commitment went to Verizon: a $2,395 cellular bundle with 36-month financing.

As Valve sends out emails to potential Steam Frame buyers and disappoints scores of potential buyers by putting them on a waiting list, outrageously marked-up Frame listings have been popping up on...

Gaussian splats are like dimensional photographs, capturing places you can explore from different positions and angles. They’re interesting on a screen, but VR makes them feel more like somewhere you...

Survival shooter Into the Radius 2's PlayStation VR2 release has been pushed back from September 24 to October 8, citing an issue with certification for Sony's platform. Here is the exact wording...

Large-scale PvP FPS Forefront adds fighter jets to its arsenal of combat vehicles alongside a new map in a free update. Developer Triangle Factory referred to the jets as an 'experimental vehicle'...

Singular Perception's upcoming co-op action roguelike is a lot to take in at first. But once you get your bearings, you are left with a promising foundation that the game's developers will surely...

You can play my most anticipated game of 2027 with the Dream Hackers VR demo released today. When the developers of Dream Hackers VR sent me a preview build of their upcoming game back in August, I...

A new goalkeeping soccer game has arrived on Quest today. Incisiv, the developers of CleanSheet Soccer 2, have released their goaltending arcade game on Meta Quest today. The game had previously been...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Snap has showcased its SPECS augmented reality glasses at an event in LA this week and announced SPECS Intelligence, an AI service that ... continue...

During Specs official launch, the big reveal was Specs Intelligence – a layer that brings AI capabilities to Specs, enabling smart agents for face-worn ambient computing. This post appeared first on...

Zuckerberg and Bosworth are reportedly set to demo a hologram-like call on Project Phoenix at Connect. The Hologram Calling framework already landed in Horizon OS, which is the part that decides whether developers ever get to call it.

The Information reports Meta will unveil camera-free smart glasses codenamed Luna at Connect on September 23, with six microphones, a Meta AI button and slimmer arms. It is the first Meta hardware that concedes the privacy argument instead of defending the camera.

After having unveiled its Specs glasses at AWE, today Snap has officially launched its glasses. And it has done that by unveiling new details about them, with a strong focus on the use cases of the...

Snap today announced new experiences, services and partnerships for SPECS, the company’s upcoming pair of consumer AR glasses. Snap’s big Specs livestream today wasn’t technically a launch...

Steam Frame is finally here. It’s Valve’s second-ever VR headset, and a radically different product than its first. Did Valve pull off the vision? And, if so, who is Steam Frame for? Read on in our...

I had to stop myself from applauding.Kacey Musgraves had just finished a cover of George Strait's "All My Ex's Live in Texas," and for a split second my brain apparently forgot that I was sitting...

People and companies are using AI hardware and software to make life easier and more accessible for everyone. That’s the case with smartARM, a Toronto-based startup developing a vision-first bionic...

Valve’s ‘Great on Frame’ page highlights games specifically optimized for Steam Frame, and it’s now grown to over 130 titles. ‘Great on Frame’ initially kicked off in July with a half-dozen titles...

Transformers: Beyond Reality Redux is the new Quest port of Transformers: Beyond Reality, an arcade-style on-rails VR shooter that debuted on PlayStation VR in 2022 before making a surprise...

The Steam Frame, unfortunately RAM shortage-ravaged as it is, is unique among virtual reality headsets for its ability to run Steam games - VR or 'flat' alike - entirely on its own, internal compute...

Meta is reportedly preparing a new slate of smart glasses that are ditching those pesky cameras. The News Zuckerberg previously teased a pair of smart glasses in May alongside the official...

Meta isn’t only rumored to unveil its next-gen mixed reality headset next week, but also a photorealistic “hologram-like” call function using its latest avatars. Images of Meta’s upcoming Project...

Valve priced the Steam Frame in six currencies on September 14. Stripped of VAT and converted at that day's ECB reference rates, the 256GB kit costs less before tax in Poland, the UK, Germany and Australia than its $1,059 US price, and the reservation terms say more about supply than any figure Valve released.

Valve priced the Steam Frame at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, with controllers, a wireless adapter and Half-Life: Alyx in the box. The charger is a $29 add-on, and color passthrough comes from a third-party camera.

Steam Frame signups close Thursday, September 17 at 10 AM Pacific. Who qualifies, how the shuffle and 72-hour purchase window work, and what to decide before checkout.

Valve spent more than a year porting Half-Life: Alyx to run standalone on the Steam Frame, Workshop mods included, and it comes free with the headset.

Valve's launch-day accessory list puts full color passthrough in a $149 Arcturus Vision Camera under a new Steam Frame Compatible mark, while its Steamworks engine guides say nothing about passthrough at all.

A 66-page class action filed September 4 in the Northern District of Illinois builds part of its facial recognition case on a Meta patent application published in May. The patent is real, and its own title cuts against the reading the plaintiffs give it.

Polyarc wound down on September 11 after nearly twelve years. Eight days earlier it shipped a free local co-op update for Moss: The Forgotten Relic, and two days earlier it posted a discount. The dates are worth reading in order.

SteamVR 2.17 went stable on September 10. Buried under OpenXR is 32-bit runtime support, which matters because Windows sends 32-bit apps to a different registry branch than the one your 64-bit runtime is registered in.

Below Great on Frame sits a Playable tier with 23 games in it, and the result tokens say why each one missed. Eleven failed because they never ask the system for the on-screen keyboard, and sixteen of the 23 are Steam Deck Verified.