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Moss was one of the first standout games for PlayStation's virtual reality headset

We may have our first proper look at Meta's Project PhoenixThe glimpse comes from inside the Horizon OS softwareAn official launch is expected to happen sometime in 2027We've known for a while now...

Polyarc, the Seattle studio behind the acclaimed VR series Moss, has closed its doors after almost 12 years. Read more

Polyarc, the studio behind the Moss series of VR platformers, has announced it is shutting down, three months on from releasing its latest game on Steam."After nearly 12 years riding the joyous...

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.

Developer Polyarc Games, best known for the Moss series in VR, has closed its doors for good after nearly twelve years.A post on Polyarc's LinkedIn account confirmed the news with the following...

Apple's new $1,999 iPhone Duo has two rear cameras, but seemingly can't capture spatial photos or spatial video for viewing on Apple Vision Pro.Apple first introduced spatial video capture on iPhone...

"Our work is now finished".Polyarc, the studio behind PSVR classics Moss and its Book II sequel, has shut down as of today, 11th September 2026.The developer's LinkedIn page broke the news, stating:...

Valve has dropped a sizeable update to SteamVR, paving the way for what appears to be imminent launch of its long-awaited standalone VR headset, Steam Frame. Update (September 11th, 2026): Previously...

Real VR Fishing's seventh anniversary event, kicking off on September 15 on Quest and PC VR, brings seven ancient sharks to hidden prehistoric locations for new and old anglers to hook.Apparently...

Images of Meta’s ‘Project Phoenix’ mixed reality headset appear to have leaked ahead of its anticipated unveiling at Connect later this month. The News Serial leaker ‘Luna’ appears to have found...

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.

Valve now names a runtime for every Great on Frame title, and 52 of the 130 point at lepton-stable, its Android layer, rather than Proton. Three of them are Steam pages with no PC build at all.

Counterpoint Research updated its quarterly XR shipment tracker on September 8. VR headsets fell 18 percent year over year in Q2 2026 and AR devices rose 138 percent, but the paragraph worth reading is the one naming enterprise buyers and robotics teams as the demand that held.

The first clear visuals of Meta's next headset have been found in Horizon OS firmware.It has been widely reported by multiple reputable sources that Meta is working on a premium, ultralight,...

This week I get into Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and start to debunk what it is, what it’s not, and if we’ve achieved it. This… Continue reading → Innovation Brief: What is AGI Anyway? This...

Exoshock developers PolarityOne announced that an open beta for their sci-fi VR shooter will launch next week.Exoshock will launch an open beta beginning on September 17. The beta will serve as the...

Golf+ introduced a mixed reality feature that lets you use your real putter, but it comes with notable caveats.Immersive Putting lets Golf+ players use their own real-world golf club and ball, not a...

The immersive Barbie Dance 'N Dream experience for Synth Riders ends on September 30. It has been available since December 2024.Dance 'N Dream paired a unique Barbie-themed environment with FIFTY...

I Am Your Beast VR, the latest project from the Flat2VR Spark program, releases on SteamVR on September 17.The revenge thriller FPS first released in September 2024 and currently has an...

Murder mystery puzzle game Detective VR launched on SteamVR and PlayStation VR2 this week with hand tracking support for the latter. Hand tracking support is a rarity for a PS VR2 title and, having...

Developer Triangle Factory has put its latest project, co-op PvE extraction shooter Breachers: Outbreak, on hold less than three months after it was officially revealed.Outbreak was announced at...

Before I played Gunman Contracts: Stand Alone, I worried that the game would be too violent and too disgusting. After blasting my way through the three contracts included in its Early Access...

Look, no offense to Apple Vision Pro. I’m sure Apple Vision Pro is a very nice person. But iPhone Duo and Apple Vision Pro are not the same. There’s a take that the iPhone Duo may have the Apple...

While we’re still waiting on Samsung’s first Android XR glasses to arrive, an update on the first pair with a color display has found its way online, hinting at a launch sometime towards the end of...

Award-winning rogue-lite bow-shooter In Death: Unchained (2020) isn’t dead, at least not with a new season coming later this month. The last actual update for In Death: Unchained was three years ago...

Credit: Paul Jones / Android Authority From virtual movie screens anywhere to real-time information without reaching for your phone, smart glasses have come a long way. The best models now pack sharp...

Brands spend an estimated $6.6 billion on immersive marketing, growing to $10.3 billion by 2030. What's driving that today, and where's it headed? We break down original forecasting data in the...

Hello Games has released its biggest update yet to VR-supported space sim No Man’s Sky (2016), completely overhauling space itself. At the game’s 2016 launch, space was admittedly barebones, offering...

In XR News What’s the story? Lumus has signed a manufacturing agreement with Chinese precision-optics manufacturer Crystal-Optech, which will produce its geometric waveguides for AR eyewear. Why it...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In August, Black Myth Wukong, NBA 2K27 and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 topped the charts in Asia, while...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? FORVIA HELLA has invested in Finnish startup Distance Technologies and partnered with it to develop a mirrorless 3D augmented reality head-up display for...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Avantis Education has launched EduverseSTEM, a virtual and augmented reality STEM suite for students aged 11 to 18 carrying over 500 experiences under ......

Last week, RayNeo launched its iO Smart Glasses, a pair of camera-free smart glasses meant to increase productivity and help users in their daily life. I immediately wrote a “first impression”...

Squingle Arcade, the quickplay version of the award-winning fluid-maze puzzler Squingle, is available now on SteamVR. The game launched earlier this year on Quest. Arcade takes the original game's...

Co-op survival tower defense The Lightkeepers, out this week on Quest 3, wraps multiple mechanics into a tight gameplay loop that plays much better than the quality of its individual elements would...

Lumus named Zhejiang Crystal-Optech as a third manufacturer for its geometric waveguides on September 9, eight days after licensing its next-generation thin waveguides to Quanta Computer. Both partners are also investors in the company.

Apple confirmed Wednesday that Siri AI will remain in beta when the OS 27 versions reach the public on September 14, with the long-delayed assistant subject to use caps and fees, plus language and...

As Apple prepares iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 for launch, it has rolled out the first release candidates for testing.An earlier iOS 27 beta screenThe first round...

Today Apple unveiled its latest hardware products during the “Surprise and shine” event, where we also learned the release date for visionOS 27, the new software update for Vision Pro. more…

Today's Cosmos update for No Man's Sky lists support for eye-tracked dynamic foveated rendering on SteamVR, providing a performance boost for the game ahead of the release of Valve's...

Cozy voxel-cube-coloring game Color-A-Cube is running a four-week collaboration with Walkabout Mini Golf, bringing four of Walkabout's courses in as 3D voxel coloring projects.Over the course of four...

Fantasy roguelike In Death: Unchained's long-running current season will end on September 29 with Fall Season 2026 starting on the same day. It should be noted that Superbright is only responsible...

You can go hands-on with Vaelorys, an upcoming spell-based combat game on Quest, for free in a playtest running through September 21.In our ongoing effort to pass along any playtests we are notified...

The Cosmos update for No Man's Sky teased in Hello Games' Tenth Year Anniversary video is here and it completely changes the outer space component of the game.Despite being termed a "space game" by...

TikTok parent ByteDance is reportedly preparing an AI model that could let you create real-time spatial videos similar to Google Genie. According to a Bloomberg report, ByteDance is readying an AI...

Fovii's launch this week on the App Store gives a huge signal boost for fans of the Apple Vision Pro and Vision OS, debuting a new home for immersive filmmakers on Apple. Emily Olman dives into the...

Hello Games shipped No Man's Sky Cosmos, update 7.0, on September 9. The rendering section adds foveated rendering on PC VR, the bug fix section still has time for a PSVR Move controller binding, and the spacewalk rework raises a comfort question nobody can answer yet.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, an immersive theatre experience built for VRChat, won an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program at this year's Emmy Awards ceremony.The project, headed by a small...

The creators of Human: Fall Flat have announced their next game, Tiny Flock, is coming this month. No Brakes Games, best known as the creators of Human: Fall Flat, have revealed that Tiny Flock is...

The Meta Virtual Display feature of Quest headsets has continued to receive improvements, including input forwarding, and the Mac version now offers the same core functionality previously exclusive...

The Fovii app is now available for Apple Vision Pro. It was founded by John Racine, who was NextVR’s VR Systems Specialist before the company’s acquisition by Apple in 2020.Racine later supported...

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...

Pico’s upcoming Apple Vision Pro competitor, Space Pro, was initially meant to debut earlier this month, although the ByteDance subsidiary cancelled the event and postponed its reveal and release...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? SimX has launched two nursing curricula that use its “Autonomous Simulation” approach, in which students complete VR scenarios independently, without...

FunFitLand is expanding beyond the headset with a new smartphone companion app for iOS and Android, bringing live heart rate data from compatible wearables directly into its VR workouts on Meta Quest...

A hand-tracked mixed reality investigation game reaches PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on September 9, nineteen months after its Quest launch and two seasons after the promised spring window. Nobody has explained how the mixed reality survives the trip.

Two FCC grants landed under Pico's grantee code on September 1. The head-mounted half is authorized for one radio band, 2402 to 2480 MHz. The tethered unit carries 5 GHz, 6 GHz and Bluetooth. The puck is not just a battery pack.

Meta announced Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere: An Immersive Experience on September 3, filmed at Billy Bob's Texas and shot for 3D VR 180. The announcement quantifies nothing, which leaves commissioning behavior as the only readable signal in a category both platform holders are treating differently.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a live theatre production performed inside VRChat for six people at a time, took Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the Creative Arts Emmys.

SteamDB shows two of the Steam Frame's seven backend packages changed on September 3 after sitting untouched since May 5, and Brad Lynch says a reservation system for two SKUs went live alongside them. The Steam Machine's packages moved six days before its lottery opened.

Sony's August 2026 PS VR2 download chart puts Job Simulator, Pavlov and Moss VR back in the top ten, all three dated February 22, 2023. Bootstrap Island reached number three in nineteen days on sale, and nothing from 2025 charted at all.

Realities.io shipped a five year birthday update for Puzzling Places on September 3. The feature list is filed under three platform headings instead of by feature, the three biggest additions are Quest only, and the passthrough slider is listed for a Valve headset that has not shipped yet.

Stryker announced on September 1 that the first hip arthroscopy using SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro was completed at Duke Health. The more consequential document is FDA's De Novo record DEN250040, which created product code SIT and regulation 888.1150, a new Class II classification whose listed submission type is already 510(k).

TDK's AIsight unit closed its OQmented purchase in May and announced it on August 18, taking the patents and the engineers but not the product support, warranties or customer obligations. The technology has now had three corporate owners and two insolvencies in under a year.

HTC published US store listings for the Vive Eagle on September 3 at $499. Three configurations are buyable, seven say Coming Soon, and the 90 language translation in the marketing is the paid tier, not the two years of VIVE AI Plus that ships in the box.

Valve's Steam Link public beta on Quest can now stream over a USB-C cable, riding on NCM support Meta added in Horizon OS 2.5. It still wants your Wi-Fi on, and a one-star open-source repo documents why.

Beyond 2 now starts at $959 and Beyond 2e at $1,159, down $60 each. The headset price did not move. The standard configuration swapped a $120 cushion built from a 3D face scan for a $60 universal one.

The Half-Life: Alyx mod turned commercial shooter was going to launch the day Valve shipped the Steam Frame. Its Steam page now reads September 10, and the developer says the timing is his own.

FIBA's August 26 release hands L1VE a three-year exclusive on immersive live rights across the 3x3 World Tour, Women's Series and World Cup. It names the competitions and the capture technology, and no fee, no headset and no ticket price.