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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...

Credit: Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Two pairs of Samsung smart glasses have been spotted in the FCC’s database. The smart glasses come with the model numbers SM-O200J and SM-O200P. Both...

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,...

Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property....

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Valve has released Steam OS for Arm following the release of its Arm-powered Steam Frame headset. Developers have subsequently ported this version of...

Or you can get it for free with the LEGO PS1.I was a big believer in Astro Bot back when he was effectively a tech demo in PS4 game The Playroom VR.Don’t believe me? I made a video and wrote about it...

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...

New Apple CEO John Ternus is reportedly planning layoffs ranging from small-scale ones in large teams, but also cancelling projects.John Ternus at the "Ted Lasso" launch - image credit: ReutersApple...

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...

TL;DR Google Translate is testing an “Auto-save transcript” toggle in Live Translate settings for mobile users. Transcript saving will be completely disabled when smart glasses are connected and in...

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...

Meta's Muse AI agent is coming to its smart glasses "soon", letting it take actions at your request while your phone stays in your pocket.If you're unfamiliar with the idea of an AI agent, it differs...

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.

Walkabout's fifth official DLC course of 2026, Escape from Planet Xylodon, releases on October 8. Mighty Coconut announced the new course on its social media channels with the following...

Solara One is an experience that sits in the center of a Venn diagram of VR genres: part game, part meditation, part sci-fi space exploration. What's most impressive is that the entire experience was...

Arizona Truck Driver is an open road trucker simulation coming to Quest standalone in Early Access this October, from the team behind The Wizards.For realistic truck sims, PC VR players have had the...

Will you be able to prove your value to AI agents by completing challenges that they cannot yet perform? Body Proxy is a location-based immersive game that challenges players to impress the AI at a...

Liminal, known for its VR app offering short experiences designed around emotional states like calm, focus, and energy, is now applying some of that experience to smartglasses.Liminal: Walking...

Siri AI is a major upgrade and highlight of iOS 27 and more. But only newer Apple devices support the overhauled Siri. Here’s the full list of Siri AI-compatible hardware across iPhone, iPad, Mac,...

The first granular updates to Apple's milestone operating system releases have arrived, with 27.0.1 updates now here for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.iPhone 18 ProApple released its...

Arcturus Vision Camera is an add-on module for Steam Frame which greatly enhances its passthrough camera quality. The obvious visual improvement, tiny size, and reasonable price make it easy to...

Meta’s long-promised photorealistic avatars are set to release in the next few months, which the company is calling ‘holograms’. I went hands-on the annual Connect developer conference to see just...

Meta has switched things up with the new Meta VR Glasses unveiled last week. Not only are they branded differently – dropping the Quest convention first launched in 2019 – but it's a fundamentally...

Pundits continue to hold up clear signs of restraint as failures while asking Apple to behave like Meta, OpenAI, Google, or anyone else but themselves, especially when discussing Apple Vision...

Ray-Ban Meta Audio drops the camera for a lighter and sleeker design that's likely to be more socially acceptable amid the public privacy backlash.Announced at Meta Connect 2026, Ray-Ban Meta Audio...

Hello everyone from Mountain View, California! I’m taking the plane quite soon, and the last thing I’ll do here in the US is write this newsletter episode to tell you the most relevant XR news of the...

At Connect 2026, Meta announced that Meta Ray-Ban Display is expanding beyond the US, can be ordered online without a fitting, and is getting third-party app discovery, major navigation improvements,...

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.

Apple is, once again, forecast to bring out Apple Glass by the end of 2027, while it also works on a brand new headset that takes after the new Meta VR Glasses.Apple wants thin and light smart...

After the release of Vision Pro, everyone wanted to know how long it would be before the company could release a lighter version that isn’t so bulky on your face. For the longest time, we had been...

The Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026 will award new "hands-first" Quest and VR Glasses apps, as well as adapted or significantly updated experiences, a total of $1 million across 20 prizes of...

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.

Just Hoops dropped its 2.0 update this week in conjunction with Meta Connect, focusing on hand tracking and more accessible ways to enjoy the top-ranked basketball experience.Per developer Realcast,...

GOLF+ continues to add to its ever-growing lineup of real-world golf courses with Medinah Country Club No. 3, the site of this year's Presidents Cup. Medinah Country Club No. 3 is the latest...

Shil takes you on a twisted journey into the subconscious with an interesting two-tone art style.The environmental-puzzle psychological horror game drops on Quest on October 8 with a Steam launch...

The latest update for co-op dungeon crawler Dungeons of Eternity adds a new extraction-style game mode alongside new enemies, loot, and weapons. Developer Othergate also overhauled the game's...

Fast Travel Games is holding an open playtest for its upcoming co-op VR heist shooter Payday: Aces High starting on October 19. Anyone who joins will get an exclusive Kitty Mask as a reward for...

Supernatural, the VR fitness app that Meta purchased and later put into maintenance mode, has been relaunched as a new independent company called Supernatural Health.Meta announced at Connect that...

Meta is launching a new slate of original immersive programming with Open Season, a documentary series following NBA player Draymond Green through therapy sessions during the 2025-26 season. Open...

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.

Today I’m going to tell you about the most incredible thing that happened to me during Meta Connect: I interviewed Boz, the CTO of Meta. It was surprising. It was incredible. And it was overly...

Hollywood's tech takeover is all but sealed; Meta blitzes AI and XR; and Qualcomm parades its 'personal AI' vision. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the lens of Charlie...

Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, called Holograms, its take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas.It's now been more than seven years since Meta (then Facebook) first showed...

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.

Unseen Reality's URXR One closed its Kickstarter at $1,288,712 against a $50,000 goal, with glasses due to ship in mid-October and nothing shipped yet. Retail moved from a planned $899 to $999, and the Power Hub phones need is slated for November or December.

We’re building personal AI agents for everyone and a whole family of devices that let you connect with them from anywhere. Bringing Muse to AI Glasses We launched Muse, a first-of-a-kind personal AI...

There will be new Tetris Effect, Beat Saber, and Ace Attorney games coming to the platform as well.

At Meta’s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated to award a prize pool of $1 million to spark the community to get cracking...

Meta’s annual XR and AI focused Connect conference is in full gear this week. The biggest news dropped during the opening keynote, while day two will feature the Developer State of the Union keynote....

I’m not saying that the reveal of Beat Saber’s "biggest update ever" was timed to coincide with a swell of VR interest induced by the new Steam Frame. But I am going to infer it, without evidence,...

Meta's developer blog says the Store puts hand-tracked titles first for VR Glasses owners without controllers. The v207 SDKs and IWSDK 1.0 are out now, and a $1M competition requires hands-only play.

Flux swaps Beat Saber's sabers for hand tracking in spring 2027 with 35 songs, a rebuilt campaign and the game's first rewards system. What losing the saber's rumble actually costs a rhythm game.

iFixit's Steam Frame teardown finds replaceable foams, a modular nose bridge and magnetically mounted lens stacks, then a glued 20.9 Wh battery it will not stock and a fan buried behind the optics.

Meta says Meta VR Glasses will carry more than 100 live immersive sports events a year with MLB, NBC Sports, TNT Sports and UFC, plus ESPN college football on Quest this fall. Apple aired ten live immersive games, six Lakers and four Friday Night Baseball, then cut its immersive video team.

Connect split Meta's glasses into no camera (Ray-Ban Meta Audio, $349), camera (Gen 3, $449) and display (Ray-Ban Display, now in five more countries). The Wearables Device Access Toolkit supports none of the new pairs yet, and publishing is still closed with 2026 almost over.

Meta's Project Phoenix is now Meta VR Glasses: $1,299.99, on sale spring 2027, about 100 grams on the face with a roughly 300-gram compute puck in the pocket. Controllers are sold separately, and the price lands $300 above the under-$1,000 target the Wall Street Journal reported in 2025.

Twilight's End launched today at $9.99, only the host needs to own it, and Battlemarked landed on Xbox the same morning. Every screenshot on its Steam page shows the flat version, and both platforms it has added since launch have no headset.

Three weeks into the job, Apple's new CEO told Canal+'s Clique that Vision Pro is "the early days of a long journey" and named surgeons as its growth case. He did not mention the successor Apple reportedly cut, the August layoffs, or glasses.

CM Immersive pushed the PS VR2 port back two weeks, from this Thursday to October 8, after Sony's final certification stage flagged issues. Two-player co-op still lands later, and the headset itself is out of stock in the US.

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.