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This month Road to VR celebrates its 15th year of bringing you the most important news across the XR landscape. To mark the occasion we’ve put together an interactive timeline of major industry...

CircuitLord's turnkey solution to one of VR modding's many friction points feels like a bigger step forward than yet another example of a great VR mod for an already great game.Getting the immediate...

Fresh Tracks VR brings the warmly received 2025 original combination of Beat Saber-like timing-based gameplay and roguelike RPG mechanics to VR headsets. The addition of sword-slashing motion...

Here we go friends, it’s that time again! Every summer and winter UploadVR partners with a wide range of developers from the industry to show off their exclusive new games, updates and special...

Pimax announced its next major VR headset, Crystal Pro, which not only boasts high-fidelity PC VR streaming, but also some native standalone gameplay too. Much like Steam Frame, Crystal Pro’s major...

Of all the games I thought I'd see converted to virtual reality, the Diablo games weren't among them, for some reason. But one industrious modder has set about changing that, converting probably the...

Amazon has dropped the XREAL xbx a01 Plus AR Glasses to $254 for Prime Day, down from the $299 retail price. That saves you $45, which is 15% off the recommended retail price, and it is the lowest...

Do you want the utility of Meta Glasses without paying Meta prices? Consider these three cheaper alternative smart glasses.

The virtual reality market has grown over the years, and depending on your budget, there's probably a VR headset out there for you. But can your VR gaming budget stretch to over $1,000 for the...

Working with Strivr, United Rentals placed trainees in VR-rendered construction sites to simulate typical sales scenarios. What were the results and, more importantly, executional lessons &...

The Norwegian government plans to issue a ban on the use of smart-glasses in public spaces These include parks, beaches, museums, gyms While the ban is temporary, Norway's government wants to...

Microsoft is set to drop OneDrive support for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, which will remove the cloud storage app's compatibility with several older iPhones and one iPad model. The loss of support for iOS...

TL;DR Meta’s v128 update brings turn-by-turn walking navigation to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, along with Spatial Audio and other improvements. The newer v129 release follows with Mono Audio and Audio...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Cellid, a developer of displays for augmented reality (AR) glasses, partners with Japanese eyewear retailer Megane Top to develop and sell AR glasses ......

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Schneider Electric has agreed to buy PTC, the industrial engineering software company behind the Vuforia augmented reality products, in an all-cash deal...

Valve's September survey first went up with no Steam Frame row and 'Other Headsets' at 1.93 percent. The table has since been revised: the Frame has its own line at 0.41 percent of VR headsets on Steam, 18th of 28, and 'Other' is 1.49. Quest 3 is back in first at 26.90.

D2R VR is a free, MIT-licensed mod that runs Diablo II: Resurrected in a PC VR headset with four views: the classic camera in stereo, third person, a diorama on your floor, and first person. Its own README calls first person a preview. It is offline only, needs D2RLoader, and runs through a $15 app with a free tier.

The Horizon OS 2.9 (v209) system software update recently started rolling out in the PTC (Public Test Channel). What Is the Public Test Channel (PTC)? The Public Test Channel (PTC) is Meta Quest's...

Meta’s most recent updates for its Ray-Ban smart glasses deliver upgrades to audio playback as well as new turn-by-turn walking navigation. more…

Credit: Meta TL;DR Norway’s government is proposing a temporary ban on smart glasses in some locations. The ban would apply to areas where “privacy is particularly important,” like schools,...

The third round of developer betas for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and macOS 27.2 has arrived for testing.iOS 27 on an iPhoneThe third developer beta round of...

Most immersive marketing, such as AR lenses and other playable brand experiences, achieves the wrong goal. For brands that already have reach that we can't bring them, it's all about a deeper...

Meta announced its VR Glasses at Connect last month, which is looking to appeal more to productivity and casual content by virtue of its high pixel density micro-OLED displays. They do however serve...

I’m back in Italy, but I’m still thinking about the beautiful days I had at Meta Connect. And talking about Connect, I want to thank the many people who are still writing me some kind words related...

AI vibecoding has caused a veritable explosion in the VR modding scene. The latest to benefit: PSVR exclusive and critically acclaimed platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018). The News VR modder...

In XR News What’s the story? Vuzix announces Shrike, a configurable waveguide display platform for defense, security and first responder applications, with initial units shipping to customers for...

Norway will propose a temporary ban on using AI glasses in parks, schools, gyms and clinics, with three candidate definitions of the device still open. In the Netherlands, Wehkamp and Hans Anders stopped selling Meta's glasses after the regulator had logged six signals and one complaint.

Quest's Horizon+ subscription now offers free add-ons for games, plus Swarm 2 and Waltz of the Wizard are this month's monthly titles.In addition to the usual release of two monthly games, new games...

Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is a mini motorway management game coming to Quest 3 this month. Infinity Games has shared that their traffic management game Traffix XR: Cities of Tomorrow is coming...

The free Titanfall 2 VR mod installs from one 350 KB program. You need your own copy of the game, the EA app and a PC VR runtime. The installer keeps the mod in a separate TF2VR profile with its own saves, checks every download against a hash, and covers the campaign only.

Sega's teaser says nothing, and the product page the specs came from now shows one line. What Attractions Magazine reported from it: a gothic manor facade with an 85-inch front door, two 43-inch windows, haptic recoil guns and two VR headsets, debuting at IAAPA in Orlando. Every screen on it faces the people who have not paid yet.

It is spooky season and while VR gamers have plenty of options for horror games already, we have spotlighted ten more promising games that lovers of suspense and jump-scares should have on their...

The silliest bird photography game in VR is coming to Steam next week. Birdseed VR, a comical birdwatching and photography game, is coming to SteamVR on October 8. The SteamVR release will include...

Meta’s new docuseries, Open Season on Draymond Green, premiered September 29 on the TV app on Meta Quest. The series follows four-time NBA Champion Draymond Green through six therapy sessions with...

Legendary movement shooter Titanfall 2 is now available in VR thanks to mod maker CircuitLord who has created a full VR conversion mod that adds head tracking, weapon aiming, mech weapon controls,...

EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS is the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Find out why I’m excited to play when it arrives next year. I went hands-on with an...

AI gets a rebrand and toothless safety pledge, ChatGPT's agentic play gets a cuddly makeover, and the struggle intensifies for VR studios. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds through...

Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) reached India on October 1 at 44,300 rupees, against 29,900 for the first pair in May 2025 and 39,900 for Gen 2 last December. In dollars the climb is 31 percent, not 48. Muse and the camera-free Audio pair are both listed as coming later, neither with a date.

Samsung's Android XR glasses cleared the FCC ahead of a November launch, California's recording-light bill was vetoed, Felix & Paul's bankruptcy file shows a $350,000 sale, Mighty Coconut cut ten more jobs, Titanfall 2 got a free VR mod, and a Steam Frame update added up to 12 percent battery.

Deloitte's reports on Felix & Paul Studios list US$34.5 million of liabilities, a sale process that reached 76 parties without one binding offer, and a court-approved $350,000 sale of Space Explorers and a lunar camera system to a company formed by former executives. AREA15 is selling Interstellar Arc tickets again.

It has been a week since the launch of the Meta VR Glasses, but the community is keeping debating about them. In particular, people are commenting about them being a good thing or a bad thing for our...

Visit Teahupo’o, Tahiti and get into some of the heaviest waves in the world, from perspectives that few will ever be able to experience, through The World of Red Bull: Big Wave Surfing episode -...

Samsung has apparently confirmed a November 2026 launch for its first Android XR smart glasses. more…

Ranveer Singh becomes the first Brand Ambassador for Ray-Ban and Ray-Ban Meta in India. Ranveer has had a long-standing relationship with Meta with multiple collaborations over the years and the...

Sega has released a teaser video revealing a new, large-scale VR arcade attraction in its long-running The House of the Dead series.Sega Amusements has unveiled a new immersive VR game in the The...

We go hands-on with Snap Specs, including a device review and analysis of its differentiators and market opportunity. Following our full written review, this latest hands-on take records our video...

Samsung’s long-awaited smart glasses have cleared FCC testing, suggesting their release is right around the corner. The News Two distinct SM-O200P and SM-O200J have appeared in FCC filings, which is...

Valve rates Phasmophobia Unsupported on Steam Frame, on a build that no longer ships. Seven more of our ten scariest VR games have no rating at all. What is certified for a PC-less Frame this October: Little Nightmares VR, Ravenholm in Half-Life 2: VR Mod, Deadly Delivery, and the Jeff chapter in the box.

Newsom vetoed SB 1130 on September 30, ending the first state attempt to require a recording indicator on smart glasses by law. The clause that mattered to hardware makers was a January 1, 2028 deadline for an indicator prominent enough to alert a reasonable person nearby.

A Samsung official told The Korea Herald the Android XR glasses launch in November. The FCC grants issued September 27 cover eleven frame models under two FCC IDs, Wi-Fi 6E with a very low power 6 GHz mode, and a left temple engraved Made in Vietnam.

Wondering what VR games are releasing in October that you can look forward to? Read our full roundup here.We're into the fall now, typically the busiest time of the year for gaming. September was...

A new teaser trailer has been released which gives a first look at gameplay from the upcoming VR/MR game Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections.Following the game's latest preview event in San Francisco,...

Lak Vijayaraghavan is an XR systems engineer whose career spans Magic Leap to TikTok Effect House. What are his biggest learnings and insights from that journey so far, and where does he see spatial...

Mighty Coconut, indie studio behind hit VR game Walkabout Mini Golf (2020), announced another round of layoffs affecting ~35% of staff. “This is an incredibly hard message to write, but I want to...

Beat Saber adds another shock drop track in ROSÉ and Bruno Mars' viral single, APT.The song was co-written by both artists and served as the lead single from 'Rosie,' the debut album for ROSÉ. It...

Meta says Muse is coming to its AI glasses to help buy products the wearer sees, paid with single-use Stripe Link cards. Zuckerberg plans to profit from a small fee on transactions, Shopify says merchants pay none yet, and Muse's terms leave the losses with the user.

Two hobby projects repackage the Steam Frame's SteamOS for Snapdragon handhelds like the AYN Odin 2 and KONKR Pocket FIT, Google Play included. The services they had to switch off show which parts of the image belong to the headset.

The free Tomb Extraction update for Dungeons of Eternity adds an entertaining, albeit limited, new type of dungeon to a game in need of a change of pace going into its fourth year of release.Dungeons...

Meta VR Glasses can play all of the same games you might on Quest, whether it be through integrated hand-tracking or by pairing optional Touch Plus controllers. But if you’re planning on getting...

Tiny Flock is a charming little puzzle game that understands the simple pleasure of manipulating a miniature world in VR.Made by the developers of Human Fall Flat, Tiny Flock's cuteness is balanced...

A through line at Snapdragon Summit was Qualcomm's latest initiative: personal AI. What does this entail and how will XR be a key piece of the puzzle? We had the chance to sit down with the company's...

It’s another big moment in VR hardware, but which headset should you consider buying? The old reliable Quest 3? Valve’s Steam Frame? Or maybe you should wait for Meta VR Glasses? Read on to see the...

Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut announced its second round of layoffs in 2026 with ten people affected. On the same day that Walkabout Mini Golf's next DLC course was announced, Lucas...

Mighty Coconut will lose 10 more people over the coming months, its second round of cuts this year. Lucas Martell blames the shrinking flow of new players, and Walkabout Mini Golf's own Steam review history shows the slide.

Snap and XREAL can publish apps to glasses almost nobody has yet. Meta's toolkit hit 1.0 on September 24 with Ray-Ban Display on shelves and publishing still closed. Google's audio glasses have an emulator, no store and no date.

Meta's Hologram avatars get dates: Early Access on Ray-Ban Display this fall, full body with Meta VR Glasses in spring 2027. The glasses have no camera on your face, so a server-side model generates your expression from your voice.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is exploring about four concepts for a headset codenamed N224, including a Meta-style compute puck. The project is on "life support" and unlikely before late 2028, and it sits uneasily with Kuo's June report that every successor was removed.

Gizmodo says Meta's 100-gram VR Glasses make headsets obsolete. Four years of Quest hardware took 56 grams off my face, so I get the appeal, but a 70-degree view, a movie-length battery and no controllers in the box leave my Quest 3 a job.

Connect week: Meta VR Glasses at $1,299.99 with no controllers in the box and a Store that sorts hand-tracked apps first, a hearing unlock cleared by the FDA in July, iFixit inside the Steam Frame, a CPSC recall for overheating glasses, and Supernatural's October return with streaks intact.

FDA cleared Meta's hearing aid software as K254044 on July 13, ten weeks before Connect priced it at $149.99. The filing covers an iPhone app, and the feature reaches Meta Glasses before any Ray-Ban pair.