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Instagram said it would get tougher on harassment filmed with Meta’s AI glasses. A month later, plenty of those videos are apparently still slipping through.

Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, enough for every blind and visually impaired adult the charity supports, with funded in-person training. The camera-free tier that has taken over the privacy argument cannot do any of this.

Exactly today, my blog turns 10 years old. It is a huge achievement. Or better, it is a HUUUUUUUGE achievement! This morning I started thinking about this since I woke up. And a lot of emotions...

Job Simulator's flatscreen sequel has taken $14,723 from 211 backers. A pair of display glasses that launched a week earlier has taken $793,716 from 1,002. Both campaigns are live on the same site right now.

Even Realities CEO, Will Wang, joins Overtime to talk about his history with Apple, why Silicon Valley is no longer the place for hardware innovations, insights into the Apple supply chain and China,...

There is a lot of excitement and some trepidation among The X-Files fans about Ryan Coogler's reboot for Hulu, currently in production. While we're waiting, Hulu just released Chris Carter's revamped...

High on Life is coming to a new platform, as the irreverent first-person shooter with talking alien guns is getting a VR port. Announced during the VR Games Showcase, this new version of High on Life...

Announced during the VR Games Showcase, Flat2VR Studios revealed it’s collaborating with Squanch Games to again work its flatscreen-to-VR magic on the comedic sci-fi shooter, High on Life (2022). The...

Gunman Contracts Stand Alone, the action-movie inspired shooter, will launch in Early Access on the same day as Steam Frame.The VR Games Showcase gave us a closer look at Gunman Contracts Stand...

XREAL Games has provided a new look at their upcoming new tactical shooter COVR, which is coming to PC VR and Meta Quest in 2026.During the August 2026 VR Games Showcase, independent studio XREAL...

Several PSVR2 games announced.PSVR2 is a fantastic bit of kit, and while there have been some great games that take advantage of the tech over the years, the release schedule has definitely felt a...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? ThirdEye has expanded its MIDAS platform into Response and Industrial product lines for hands-free AR use across emergency and hazardous work environments....

ChatGPT and Gemini make their momentum official with a billion monthly users, while Vision Pro adds pro ball, and Zuckerberg manifests. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms, through...

DPVR has priced its P1 Max enterprise headset at $549 and will open sample orders in November. Auganix has also corrected its 2025 story, which reported the same headset as already available for global enterprise customers.

WinlatorXR runs Windows games on a standalone headset with no PC, and its compatibility list now marks Half-Life 2 as working on Quest 3. A Half-Life: Alyx guide went up Thursday night. The head tracking arrives over UDP, and the mode list matters more than the headline.

Looking for all of the new game reveals and announcements from today's VR Games Showcase? Read on for a full recap. The showcase, hosted by Jamie Feltham, featured over twenty-five games with new...

Nightdive's System Shock remake is great. PC Gamer immsim guy Joshua Wolens gave it an 80% review score, and we later chose it as the Best Remake of 2023 in our annual Game of the Year awards. Three...

Total Chaos VR is coming soon to SteamVR, and will be free for those who already own Total Chaos on Steam. Leading today's VR Games Showcase, developer Trigger Happy Interactive and publisher Apogee...

Flat2VR Studios announced an official VR port of acclaimed sci-fi shooter System Shock for Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2, and SteamVR.The shocking reveal was the final announcement at today's VR Games...

Flat2VR Studios and Squanch Games have announced a port of High On Life is coming to PC VR, PSVR2, and Meta Quest in 2027.A surprise trailer during today's VR Games Showcase revealed that Flat2VR...

Fast Travel Games is holding playtests next week for its highly anticipated co-op heist shooter Payday: Aces High on SteamVR and Quest 3.The announcement came at today's VR Games Showcase with a new...

Knights of Fiona brings co-op JRPG-like adventure to SteamVR and Meta Quest on September 3. The release date was confirmed at today's VR Games Showcase alongside a new trailer showcasing...

Spirit Ritual is a terrifying ghost story that blends full motion video with mixed-reality gameplay. Spirit Ritual is a supernatural horror game, played in either mixed reality or virtual reality, in...

Triangle Factory and Triangle Labs have announced Grablings, a social hide and seek game coming to Meta Quest this summer.As part of today's VR Games Showcase, Triangle Factory and Triangle Labs have...

Omega Pilot Evolution, a high-speed VR futuristic racing game, blasts onto PlayStation VR2 today.As part of today's VR Showcase, developer XOCUS (makers of EXOcars) has announced that their...

Trombone Champ Unflattened launches Disney Movie Magic Volume 1 DLC on August 20th.As part of the latest VR Games Showcase, developer Flat2VR Studios and publisher Impact Inked have revealed that...

No Brakes Games, the maker of Human Fall Flat, has announced Tiny Flock, a made-for-VR physics-based puzzle game coming to Steam and Meta Quest. In Tiny Flock, you'll shepherd a group of adorable...

The VR Games Showcase’s second anniversary event just wrapped up, delivering massive new game announcements. Missed the show? Fear not – we’ve wrapped up every announcement for you right here,...

Benjamin and Chance talk about all the changes in iOS 27 beta 5, as Apple reportedly takes a fresh look at fitness wearables, details about the glassy iPhone 20, Friday Night Baseball on Vision Pro...

Go behind the scenes of Walkabout Mini Golf's new 90s pop culture-inspired course, Gloop Lair with our video tour hosted by Mighty Coconut's Shane Rhodes. The new course is available now on Meta...

Discovery: Rogue Planet, a narrative sci-fi first person shooter originally scheduled to release on August 6, is available now for Quest 3. Developer Immersmind Studio has stated plans for a PC VR...

After successful Early Access and 1.0 releases on SteamVR, survival adventure Bootstrap Island makes the jump to PlayStation VR2 today.Bootstrap Island follows the lone survivor of a shipwreck in a...

In what addresses only a lesser problem of privacy when filming with Apple Glasses, a new patent details ways the wearer can be alerted that they are recording, or if bad actors try to interfere.It...

An update for Laser Dance released today which brings six new levels to the game and introduces a new green laser that mimics your every move.Laser Dance, the Early Access mixed-reality laser...

Breachers gives players a new map and more custom game settings in its latest update, available now. Until recently, the custom game settings were quite limited. The Custom Game Settings update lets...

Waving Bear Studio has announced Stuffed: Two Foot Hero, a new VR wave shooter coming to SteamVR and Meta Quest this fall.Stuffed: Two Foot Hero is a sequel to Waving Bear Studio's Stuffed, which...

GOLF+ adds to its ever-growing catalog of real-world courses with Bellerive, the site of this year's BMW Championship.The Bellerive course first opened in 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri with course...

FarBridge, the Austin-based studio behind Quest strategy Homeworld: Vast Reaches (2024), has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support the development of a flatsceen entry in the Job Simulator...

One of the startups I absolutely wanted to visit at AWE was Oxford Optical Labs (OOL) because it is developing special lenses that can change their focus on demand. This company got me intrigued...

The spatial spectrum continues to diverge and diversify, meaning different architectures are required across that continuum. How does this principle map to various processing architectures and...

In VR Gaming News What’s the story? Glydr has launched Controller Translation in beta, letting its foot-pedal controller combine with a gamepad so games recognize both as one unified virtual ......

“What I really like about the glasses is the speed at which I get the information I need – instead of waiting for someone to read a letter or waiting for someone to tell me what I have in the fridge,...

  In Virtual Reality News August 12, 2026 — DPVR, a global developer and manufacturer of virtual reality (VR) hardware solutions, has this week announced pricing and availability details for ......

The August VR Games Showcase ran 29 games, and Flat2VR Studios closed it by announcing official VR versions of System Shock and High on Life. The studio started as a modding community. Plus every dated release from the show.

SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta shipped on August 7 with one line about preliminary support for the Steam Frame Wireless Adapter. The dongle plugs into the host machine, which is the detail that makes a Linux driver interesting.

Meta released Threads as a native Quest app on August 11, free on the Horizon Store. Hand tracking works, the moderation tools shipped with it, and you can write a post without touching a keyboard.

Beat Saber's list price fell from $29.99 to $19.99 on Quest, SteamVR, and PSVR2, the first permanent cut in the game's life. The 270 paid add-ons on Steam held at $1.99 a track. Here is what the split says about VR pricing.

Hi! I'm Rick Lane, and you might remember me from such columns as Reality Bytes, RPS' erstwhile monthly goggle at the world of virtual reality. I've spent the last couple of years trapped between the...

Breakout VR rhythm game Beat Saber has been priced at $30 ever since its 2019 launch, and has never once gone on sale since. In a surprising move, Meta has quietly slashed the price of Beat Saber to...

XR device unit sales are projected to reach 49.5 million in 2030. This factors in a projected inflection in 2027 as smart glasses blitz the market from Apple, Samsung, and others. How will this all...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? OpenGate Capital has agreed to acquire Maersk Training and its Maersk H2S Safety Services subsidiary from A.P. Moller – Maersk, with closing expected ......

Mighty Coconut announced Walkabout Dungeon Golfer on August 10, a roguelike that began as an April Fools joke and now has a summer 2027 target. The same stream revealed the studio is also becoming a third-party publisher.

A.P. Moller - Maersk announced on August 7 that it has agreed to sell Maersk Training and Maersk H2S Safety Services to private equity carve-out specialist OpenGate Capital. Terms were not disclosed, and the release does not mention virtual reality once.

Are you interested in helping to shape future VR games? Read on for our list of titles currently conducting testing, and instructions for how you can join in.UploadVR often learns about limited-time...

Following last week's news of Beyond Frames selling the rights to Ghosts of Tabor, Grim, and Silent North, Combat Waffle Studios announced Neem Interactive as its new publisher, with an eye on a...

Inspired by real-life martial artists, TaoLu is a fun spin on the fitness genre that gives players a virtual practice dummy on which to unleash their moves.Plenty of old martial arts movie fans have...

Beat Saber's price has been reduced from $29.99 to $19.99.UPDATE: Beat Saber is now discounted from $29.99 to $19.99 everywhere the game is sold. At the original time of publication of this article,...

Crementif released the ‘BetterVR’ mod for Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) last December, bringing full 6DOF support and motion controls to the game on PC VR headsets. Now,...

Continuing our AR marketing case studies, McDonald’s has not one but three campaigns to spotlight. In this installment, we look at its Snapchat Lens that promoted a new menu item by letting users...

In XR News What’s the story? Meta has awarded nearly USD $2 million in AI Glasses Impact Grants to 30 organizations across the United States supporting accessibility, education, and workforce ......

XGIMI's first smart glasses have taken over $1 million on Kickstarter at $399 and 47 grams, with no camera anywhere on the frame. The camera-free tier has fallen from $599 to $299 in five weeks, and the always-on microphone is the sensor nobody is regulating.

Meta named 30 recipients for its AI Glasses Impact Grants. Twenty-five nonprofits share $875,000 while five app developers building on the Wearables Device Access Toolkit take $200,000 each.

Hello Games marks ten years of No Man's Sky with record player counts and a teaser for its next free update, Cosmos. Evan looks back at the launch that burned him and the seven years of VR support that won him back.

Wetherspoons, Soho House, ATG theatres, and Comic-Con UK are all moving to ban Meta's camera glasses from their venues. The first institutional wall for AR is here, and it is aimed at the camera, not the display.

Four Friday Night Baseball games will stream live in Apple Immersive Video on Vision Pro, starting August 28 with the Red Sox at the Yankees. The feed is 8K and 180-degree, it reaches nine markets, and four games is a pilot rather than a season.

BetterVR adds stereo rendering, physics-based roomscale, and motion controls to Breath of the Wild through the Cemu emulator. Crementif opened the repo in 2021 and has shipped 21 releases since December, and the changelogs are the clearest public record of what moving a flat game into VR actually costs.

A free GitHub mod puts you in the driver's seat of Mario Kart 64 with full head tracking and four view modes. It had been public since June with fifteen stars. One thirty-second clip changed that, and the pattern says more about VR's discovery problem than it does about Mario.

Valve added a Steam Frame compatibility record to The Lab on July 9, then cut it from category 3 to Unsupported on July 29 and moved it onto an ARM64 Proton runtime on August 5. Its own VR demo is failing a bar a free Half-Life 2 mod just cleared.

Valve quietly cut the Steam Frame Verified bar to 72 fps and a free Half-Life 2 mod cleared it, Viture dropped display glasses to $299, Snap set September 16, and a peer-reviewed study clocked Vision Pro surgeons 19 percent faster.

Researchers at UC San Diego published the first controlled comparison of Apple Vision Pro against a standard endoscopy monitor, across 32 tear duct surgeries in the journal AJO International. The headset group averaged 34.4 minutes against 42.7, with identical outcomes, and all five surgeons preferred the headset.