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Both Ultrawings games have new versions built for Quest 3, Ultrawings Remastered and Ultrawings 2 Gold Edition, available now. The first game retails for $14.99 and the second is priced at $19.99. At...

Real VR Fishing's latest DLC, Great Lakes & Oceans, adds 10 new North American fishing locations, 30 new species of fish, freshwater monster fish and new sharks.Real VR Fishing Great Lakes & Oceans...

EXOSHOCK is a Halo-inspired co-op shooter for up to four players that we’ve been waiting on since it was announced last year. Now, you can find it on Quest and PC VR headsets. Last we heard, Exoshock...

Viture Phantom Beast features a unique design, comes in a special metal-and-leather scabbard carrying case, and includes three exclusive Phantom Blade Zero collectibles. more…

Legendary movement shooter Titanfall 2 (2016) has been available in VR for almost a month now thanks to CircuitLord’s unofficial VR mod. With a recent update, you’ll also now be able to go...

US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses.

Big Tech Stocks Got Whacked as AI Spending Soars and Cash Flow Turns Negative, while Xreal Aura arrives on the market. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the eyes of Charlie...

A letter dated October 28 asks Mark Zuckerberg for the human rights analysis Meta says preceded Ray-Ban Stories, its contractor and AI training arrangements for camera glasses footage, and whether captured bystanders can have their data deleted. Meta has until November 25, 2026 to answer.

A Valve employee said sorry to VR developers in Seoul over the Steam Frame's price, Meta tied new VR hardware to major breakthroughs, and XREAL cut AURA to $1,099 with refunds for anyone who paid more. Two senators gave Meta until November 25 to answer for its camera glasses, and the Titanfall 2 VR mod opened a multiplayer beta.

AURA went on sale October 28 at $1,099, $180 under the $1,279 XREAL set on October 7, as a launch offer running through December. Anyone who paid in full at the old price before October 28 gets the difference back, $180 or $200 by model, with refunds expected to start within 30 days.

Vaelorys, a gesture-based dark fantasy RPG taking inspiration from games like Diablo and Path of Exile, is out now in Early Access for Quest.Here's the trailer: 0:00 /1:00 1× Vaelorys features co-op...

The Host, the newest limited-time Elusive Target mission for Hitman: World of Assassination featuring content creator Jacksepticeye, is available now until November 25.The Elusive Target missions are...

Forefront's latest update, called Operation: Sandstorm, adds a new game mode, melee weapon, progression-tied unlockables, and much more.Forefront has just launched a new update known as Operation:...

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/cnib_x_meta___ms4_-_rev_3_picture_lockcc_eng-2160p.mp4 We believe the future is for everyone. That’s why Meta is partnering with CNIB – a non-profit...

VR shooter Exoshock is out now in Early Access on Quest 3 and PC VR via Steam. Exoshock, the 1-4 player co-op sci-fi PvE shooter built for VR is out now on Meta Quest 3 and 3S and PC VR via Steam....

Credit: Notebookcheck TL;DR The Rokid Color and Rokid Glasses 2 have been announced. The Color features 0.16cc microLED full-color displays, and the Glasses 2 have a single microLED waveguide...

In its latest earnings call, Samsung has teased its plans for the Galaxy S27 as well as new foldables and its Android XR glasses. more…

A new emulator may finally make it easy to not only play Quest exclusives on PC for better performance, but on any PC VR headset out there. The News Called Venture, the Quest emulator is designed to...

Among all of the utilities that AR can bring into our lives, navigation and wayfinding is at the top of several lists. How could this be applied to the common pain point of finding a parking spot? We...

It’s not very often we get insight into Valve’s thought process, as the company tends to let actions speak for themselves. But at a ‘Steam Indie Connect’ event in Korea, the company says it still...

In XR News What’s the story? Tripo AI launches EdenLive, an open-source real-time generative renderer for interactive experiences, with its model weights and real-time video generation code available...

At a private night for Korean indie studios in Seoul on October 27, Valve's Tom Giardino said a considerable number of Steam Frame owners use it as a screen for flat games, that memory prices kept the Frame's price higher than Valve wanted, and, in Inven's Korean report, that he was sorry to VR developers.

Sega Amusements International's product page now lists the full House of the Dead: Reawakened build: DPVR's PC-tethered, rotation-only E4C headset, a 270 by 145 cm cabinet weighing 630 kg, a 2,000 W draw and a steel-armoured headset cable load-tested to 130 kg. It debuts at IAAPA Orlando on November 17, still with no price.

Venture, a free GPL-3.0 app that shipped four builds in ten hours, runs the Quest games your Meta account owns on a PC VR headset. Its code signs you in on Meta's own page, checks ownership with Meta before every download and every launch, and labels its traffic so Meta can see it. Its Import page is the one door with no ownership check.

The upgraded AMVR BS1 head strap includes better ergonomics, a built-in fan, magnetic rechargeable batteries, and a new breathable mesh top support for ultimate comfort. more…

XREAL Aura already works with all your favorite Android apps thanks to Android XR, and that includes over 150 experiences that tap into the power of the XR glasses. more…

The first Android XR-powered smart glasses are almost here, and early adopters actually get a rare discount on the cutting-edge XREAL Aura hardware. more…

XREAL announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, is launching today, starting at $1,100 for a limited time. While the glasses have been available...

Fallout: Factions is a physical 1v1 tabletop game that launched in 2024, and now it’s getting an XR version next month. Fallout: Factions is a turn-based skirmish warfare game set in the Fallout...

Extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor & co-op JRPG Knights of Fiona have new Halloween themed content available now.Adding to the growing list of VR games with spooky season updates, both games have...

No Man's Sky gets into the Halloween spirit with the new Forsaken update introducing a new type of trade merchant and missions to send players into the eeriest locations in the game for new...

Sega Amusements has revealed more details and a new video showcasing House of the Dead: Reawakened, a new VR game coming soon to arcades.Sega Amusements has unveiled a new video, screenshots,...

Comparing the genuine Meta Lab experience to the Meta Lab @ Best Buy experience left me with very different conclusions than I expected to have going in. Let me explain.As a fan of VR, I've often...

What do Meta's Q3 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some financial reverse engineering. This post appeared...

Super Mario 64 (1996) was a seminal platformer that, for many, was also the first true 3D game they ever played. Now, with the help of AI vibecoding and a decompiled version of the game, you might be...

In Terry's Terraforming, what begins as a simple, low-stakes job simulator in which you terraform planets for refugee aliens soon morphs into something deeper. Before game's end, you're not just...

A Steam forum post on October 18 asked why the Steam Frame cannot read an external disc drive. A Valve developer replied the next afternoon, and under nine minutes later a commit in the Frame's kernel source turned on CONFIG_CDROM, BLK_DEV_SR and CHR_DEV_SG.

ByteDance's PICO has been publishing an Apache-2.0 plugin marketplace for AI coding agents since June, and since September it reaches ten assistant hosts. A separate Unity package gives agents ten MCP tools inside the Unity editor.

It is rare to see a recent release crack the top ten list on any VR platform, so Enver's latest game Fishy beating out the likes of juggernaut Animal Company in recent weeks stands out. With Fishy's...

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? Mojo Vision receives USD $24.4 million in additional government funding to develop monolithic full-color microdisplays for near-eye augmented reality...

Voxel Playground launches on Steam today, following a major update to the original Quest release earlier this month. The physics-driven sandbox Voxel Playground is now available on Steam for the...

Spooky season is upon us, which means only one thing: time to play some of the most horrifying games VR has to offer. We’ve got something for you no matter what headset you own, be it Quest 3, PSVR...

Diapers are a product category that's reached commodity status. So, growing and protecting market share is all about brand building and promotions. In that light, Huggies launched an interactive AR...

Even with the importance of physical media ownership in the current era of digital product ephemera, it's often unlikely your PC will actually be able to play the CDs, DVDs or Blu-Rays you have...

I had the exclusive opportunity to review the KAT Walk C3 Ultra treadmill before its official announcement, and in this article, I’m going to share my impressions of it. It doesn’t happen every day...

Valve's October 26 patch brings the foveated rendering it built for the standalone Steam Frame to the PC version of Half-Life: Alyx. It works in fixed mode on any headset, and the setup guide, written by OpenXR Toolkit co-creator Matthieu Bucchianeri, covers eye tracking on 13 headset families including PS VR2, Quest Pro and Vision Pro.

Grab a cup of hot cocoa and a sweater, because Even Realities’ new styles and glasses accessories are warming up for the fall. more…

Even Realities today announced that a new software version will be rolling out to the G2 smart glasses, complete with a personal knowledge base that, thankfully, only remembers what you tell it. more…

According to Meta’s recent quarterly earnings report, Quest headset sales are declining, however AI glasses are growing fast enough to partially offset a slump in Reality Labs revenue. And moving...

Physical AI can see more clearly, reason more accurately, and process complex environments. But there's a constraint that lives deeper than processing: all that capability is only useful if the...

Rustmourne's Steam Next Fest demo was a terrific taste of the upcoming sci-fi horror shooter. I've played several of these Dead Space-like VR adventures in the past like Memoreum and By Grit Alone,...

The newly released OpenXR Spatial Container extensions standardize system-managed spaces in which applications can display volumetric 3D content, similar to how traditional systems place 2D content...

Maybe it has not been a memorable week for VR, but it definitely has been for me: for the first time in my life, I’ve been able to see a guest post of mine on Road To VR, one of the best online...

On Meta's October 21 earnings call, Zuckerberg said new VR devices will ship only when Meta has a major breakthrough, as lower Quest sales pulled Reality Labs revenue down 6 percent to $443 million. For developers, Quest 3 and 3S become an open-ended target, and Meta VR Glasses are the one new profile to plan for.

The VR IS DEAD Halloween Jam closed on October 22 with 17 free games on itch.io, and nine of them put the player on the clock under the theme Graveyard Shift. Five name Godot, two ship ARM builds, one runs in the browser, and rating runs until October 29.

XREAL Games dated the PS VR2 port of Zero Caliber 2 Remastered for November 5, with native 90fps, headset haptics, adaptive triggers and bHaptics support at launch. A VR Games Showcase teaser had pointed at October, and Sony's own store page still lists the release date as to be determined.

Walker Industries moved the $650 Andromeda from 1600x1600 to 2160x2160 panels and from a 45Wh to an 85Wh cell at the same price, upgrading existing backers automatically. The campaign stood just under 24 percent of the way to its $150,000 goal on October 24, with delivery estimated for May 2027.

VRChat's Open Beta client and Avatars SDK 3.10.6-beta.1 put face tracking inside the Avatar Descriptor, with Unified Expressions keys, Auto-Fill blendshape mapping and up to 16 meshes. Synced face data no longer spends your custom parameter budget, and VRCFaceTracking's latest beta feeds it over OSC.

The Steam Next Fest demo for action-roguelite The Rifted Skies ticks all the right boxes while leaving a few questions only the full game can answer.Developer DreamVR, whose previous VR projects were...

Carnage-fueled racer FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR has gone to its 1.0 full release, adding multiple new features and a price increase to $29.99.Version 1.0 adds multiple new features and content,...

Fading Light, a VR action shooter survival game for one to four players, is coming to Quest next month. Joy Way, who previously developed Red Flowers (later, Catana: Red Flowers), Stride and Stride:...

Guest Article By Antony ‘SkarredGhost’ Vitillo Antony ‘SkarredGhost’ Vitillo is an AR/VR entrepreneur, developer, and blogger. Most people know him for his blog The Ghost Howls, which he uses to...

VRChat now offers native SDK-level Face Tracking support for avatars in the Open Beta client and Avatars SDK beta.VRChat has technically supported Eye and Face Tracking for years over OSC (Open Sound...

Robert Downey Jr. is Specs' Chief Customer Experience Officer, while Anthropic drops Claude Duet and AI CapEx raises more questions. We have these and other items from XR and AI world through the...

Ramen VR will switch Zenith off on December 18 with no offline version, while the relaunched Supernatural doubled Meta's price and opened a manual history transfer that closes December 3. Owlchemy priced a glasses game at $1.99, Victoria wrote smart glasses into its school phone rules, Snap put Robert Downey Jr. on the SPECS org chart, and the PAYDAY: Aces High playtest runs through Monday.

Snap's October 20 newsroom post names Robert Downey Jr. honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer of SPECS, with an original episode debuting during Game 1 of the World Series on October 23. The $2,195 glasses still carry the same fall shipping window Snap gave when preorders opened at AWE in June.

Ramen VR switches off Zenith's servers at 10:00 AM Pacific on December 18, with no offline version and no community hosting. Sales of The Last City and Zennies ended October 21, though Steam was still selling the $9.99 DLC a day later.

Owlchemy Labs revealed Hyper Visor on October 22, an eight-level, hands-only arcade blaster for XREAL AURA at $1.99 on Google Play, where Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator sell for $19.99. It is not listed yet, and AURA still has no ship date.

Ministerial Order No. 1515, signed October 18, makes students at every Victorian school switch smart glasses off and store them from January 28, 2027, and a separate policy bars adults from wearing them at government schools. Its definition covers any spectacles that can process digital information, camera or not.

A modder called rockonthehill showed an early build of a free PC VR mod for Gears of War: E-Day on October 18, with full-body IK, manual reloads and a lever-started Lancer chainsaw across the whole campaign. There is no download yet, the Xbox app version is untested, and the Steam build runs Easy Anti-Cheat.