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In my last newsletter, I mentioned to you the Alibaba N1 Pro smartglasses that have just been launched in China. I think these glasses have a couple of features that deserve more attention than a...

Snap has a new brand ambassador for its Specs AR glasses: Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. The company has brought on Downey as Specs' "Chief Customer Experience Officer" and has published several...

Payday’s first full-VR game is on the cusp of release, but you don’t have to wait! Join the playtest now and get exclusive rewards when the full game releases on November 5. more…

Robert Downey Jr. has joined SPECS, Snap’s augmented reality glasses business, as its honorary chief customer experience officer, Snap announced. His job is to show people what the see-through...

Co-op exo suit-fueled action-adventure Titan Isles has added a fifth suit in its latest update. This is the first new suit since the game launched in 2025.Titan Isles launched in September 2025 with...

During Meta Connect 2026, Meta announced several new SDKs and features designed to enhance spatial apps. These announcements come as the company expands its focus on broader computing use cases ahead...

It was just a few days ago that I was unboxing the new ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20, which went on sale just five days ago on October 15th, and now both the handheld ($1,299) and the $2,499 bundle...

In Robotics and XR News October 20, 2026 – Skyworth XR, a manufacturer of virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) hardware, has today announced that it will exhibit its ... continue reading...

Snap Specs are available for pre-order now, and actor Robert Downey Jr. is joining the team after he said he “was absolutely sold on Specs within 40 seconds.” more…

Sony sold over 400 XR patents to Meta, which is bad news for the future of VR gaming on PlayStation. It will become a problem for Apple Vision Pro gamers.PS VR2 controllers with an Apple Vision...

I made a Steam Frame screensaver from r/SteamFrameAs a PlayStation VR2 player previously, I've been admiring the wireless ways of Valve's Stream Frame from afar ever since it launched back in...

Steam Next Fest is live, going from now until October 26th and serving up gads of PC VR demos to play. We’ve counted 42 VR game demos currently available for download, and among the bunch are a...

What's the spatial computing revenue outlook? And how does that break down by subsegments from VR to AI glasses? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment highlights original market-sizing data from...

Popular graphics post-processing injector software ReShade, commonly used to mod DLSS 5 into unsupported games, now has a foveated imaging add-on, including another standalone project that doesn't...

OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard which provides a single, unified interface for developing VR and AR applications. Most XR platforms support it—excluding Apple, which uses its own APIs for...

Fast Travel Games dated PAYDAY: Aces High for November 5 on Meta Quest, SteamVR and Steam Frame at $24.99. Its final playtest runs through October 26: on Steam it is the free Next Fest demo, and on Quest 3 and 3S it is an open playtest build.

XR_EXT_spatial_container and its self-rendering companion give OpenXR a bounded window mode the system positions for you. Khronos announced them on October 19, but both landed in the 1.1.63 spec on September 1.

With spooky season upon us, we've rounded up a selection of Halloween-themed updates for games you may already have in your catalog.This is another in our series of spooky season articles this month....

Can't find a better price than free.In what's become something of a tradition for PSVR2 rhythm darling Synth Riders, the looming arrival of Halloween means Kluge Interactive is giving the game an...

The first release candidates for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, and macOS 27.2 have arrived for testing.iOS 27 on an iPhoneThe first release candidates for iOS 27.2,...

Co-op heist shooter Payday: Aces High launches November 5 for Quest and PC VR. A limited-time playtest demo is available on both platforms until October 26.Developer Fast Travel Games confirmed the...

The final Steam Next Fest of 2026 has kicked off and we've got the full list of new PC VR demos right here. The event runs through October 26.Next Fest is a chance for players to go hands-on with...

PAYDAY: Aces High, the VR game set in the Payday universe, is officially set to launch across Quest, PC VR headsets, and Steam Frame next month. Payday: Aces High is an upcoming VR co-op heist game...

Gears of War: E-Day has come and gone, and the game appears to have been a success. At least, that’s what the reports suggest, and ot’s hard to deny that people are genuinely enjoying it.Critics and...

It hasn’t been a bad week for AR/VR in general, and in this roundup you’ll find something interesting to read about. But the online debate has been, as usual, mostly about AI. Especially because Tim...

XR has proven useful for industrial training, assembly, and maintenance, yet adoption remains limited. Can AI breathe new life into the technology by finally fulfilling the promise of intelligent and...

Virtuix's October 13 release made it an official Meta reseller and repeated a 3X orders figure it first published in September. Orders are not revenue: its last 10-Q put quarterly Omni One sales at $522,391, and the first full quarter of the Quest version reports by November 16.

XREAL's 1 Pro+ raises peak brightness from 700 nits to 1,200 and keeps the X1 chip, the 57 degree field of view and the 1080p panels at the same $599. The company's own release calls it a wearable display, and everything platform-shaped in the lineup still sits one rung up in AURA.

Solo-developed arcade toy car racer Loony Laps is coming to Quest on December 15. Created by solo developer Paulo Cunha, Loony Laps is an upcoming toy car racing game that brings the magic of...

Good Morning [Employee Name] VR is an upcoming psychological job sim set in an unsettling office space. Shababeek Labs, a small game studio based in Abu Dhabi, recently announced their upcoming VR...

As an official Meta reseller, Virtuix now offers bundles which pair their Omni One full-body VR system with a Quest 3 or 3S headset.The collaboration between Virtuix and Meta expands on the...

Sci-fi cooperative extraction shooter Drifters: Blackout Crew has dropped its PC VR demo in anticipation of next week's Steam Next Fest.Blackout Crew is the latest project from Salmi Games (Sweet...

Fabula Rasa, the award-winning interactive medieval VR experience from veteran developer Arvore Immersive, comes to Quest on November 12. Arvore is best known for the Pixel Ripped trilogy and also...

Flat2VR has announced a free update for I Am Your Beast VR, Support Group, that adds an epilogue story expansion to the revenge thriller FPS with nine brand new levels. The new levels are played from...

MIT engineers have built a soft, wearable shape-sensing sheet with self-tracking movement that could be useful for controlling games, virtual reality, and physical therapy applications, reports MIT...

In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Sandbox VR will open its 100th location, and its first in New York City, on October 23 at 777 7th Avenue in Times ... continue reading Source

Real VR Fishing's October update lets Quest 3 and 3S owners scan a room, choose which parts flood, and keep the TV in view. The game also runs on Galaxy XR and Steam, and the developer says the mode is Quest only for now.

Valve stopped making the Index this week. Mine has been on my desk since the 2020 Alyx rush and still works. Valve is now building a Steam Frame strap with BMR drivers to match the Index's speakers, and the Frame's optional hand straps copy the Index design.

Sandbox VR calls its first New York venue its 100th, and the headline act is Deadwood Origins, from a zombie series whose first three games sold 2.66 million of the company's 6 million-plus tickets. The release says it opens October 23. Sandbox VR's own site now says October 30.

In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? XREAL launches XREAL 1 Pro+, an updated version of its One Pro augmented reality glasses with a display reaching up to 1,200 nits, ... continue reading...

I expected something a bit different when I first booted up Convrgence for the first time; for a game selling itself as an extraction shooter, with vibes bringing to mind S.T.A.L.K.E.R., I expected a...

This year's free annual spooky update for Synth Riders brings Apashe's Lord & Master, a dark, cinematic track built for the Halloween season. In addition to the new song, the spooky update also...

Supernatural announced it will soon be launching with new features in Early Access on the Quest store, as the newly independent team of 15 people continue to build out the full experience. According...

Spymaster, the latest project from A Fisherman's Tale developer Innerspace, leaves Early Access after five months with the full release adding four new missions to conclude the story campaign. We...

Payne's Valley, the first public course designed by world-famous golfer Tiger Woods, is the latest addition to the GOLF+ catalog. The recently added Immersive Putting mode will also be spun off to...

Xreal launches 1 Pro+ with brighter displays, while XR bids to accelerate world models, and once-high-flying Character.ai shuts down. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds through the...

Valve put the last Index headsets on sale at $399.20 without the parts that make one work, gave Steam Frame reservations a by December or 2027 answer, published the Frame's port pinout and left a 3,552 by 3,840 panel in its kernel code. Meta called its glasses recording bug resolved, Supernatural changed its answer on Favorites, and Ultimechs goes offline Tuesday.

Meta says the Ray-Ban Meta bug that saved conversations without a wake word is resolved and points owners to their voice logs. Its own AI Glasses Voice Privacy Notice lets UK, Irish and German owners switch voice storage off. The US version stores recordings by default, unintended ones included.

The third Steam Next Fest of 2026 kicks off on October 19 with multiple PC VR demos already popping up on Steam. Read on for a list of the ones that stood out to us.We will have a full list of every...

From the director of The House of the Devil, X, Pearl, MaXXXine, Apple Immersive’s first horror film, Remnants, is available in the Apple TV app starting at 6pm PT today.The approximately 24-minute...

Beat Saber gets into the spooky spirit with its latest shock drop, the theme from Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Beat Games has announced the latest shock drop for Beat Saber. Ghostbusters by Ray...

Free-to-play co-op JRPG Knights of Fiona drops Version 1.1 on October 20 with a story-concluding Chapter 6 and multiple updates based on player feedback.The new chapter will be available to all...

Cooperative wave shooter Stuffed: Two Foot Hero confirms a November 3 release date on Quest and PC VR. A new demo is available now on Steam ahead of next week's Next Fest.Stuffed: Two Foot Hero,...

As privacy complaints continue to dominate the conversation around Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the company is now fixing an issue that was letting the glasses record on their own without the user...

Sandisk, a longstanding memory and storage manufacturer known for USB flash drives, portable SSDs, and memory cards, including microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, has announced new...

Valve’s Steam Frame is barely out the door, but now data mining has reportedly surfaced that an OLED version may already in the works. The News As reported by Steam Frame Hub, Valve may be working on...

Co-operative story-driven VR puzzle game Daumier: Lila & Ghost is out now on Quest, and those who buy the game during the first month will get an additional game key to share with a friend. Daumier:...

Ahead of its Android XR-based Aura launching later this year, XREAL is giving its flagship One Pro a “Plus” upgrade without raising the price. more…

XREAL today announced XREAL 1 Pro+, a hardware refresh of its One Pro flagship AR glasses. Launching today at $599, Xreal 1 Pro+ includes a modest set of improvements over the original One Pro, which...

Valve's kernel source describes a 3,552 by 3,840 per-eye panel codenamed Plano. The one mode switched on sends 1,776 by 1,920 and lets the panel scale it up, fewer pixels than the LCD Steam Frame on sale now. Full resolution needs an overclocked display link, and 120Hz is marked as not working.

Remnants, written and directed by Ti West, arrives Friday in the Apple TV app on Vision Pro, at 27 minutes and rated PG-13. It is Apple's first horror film in Apple Immersive Video, and it lands eight weeks after Bloomberg reported that Apple was shrinking the team that makes those films.

Valve's Index page is now headed “Valve Index Sunset.” The headset is $399.20, down from $499, and the only other items left are a left controller and a tether. No base stations, no right controller, no full kit.

SideQuest 1.4.0 added x86_64 and aarch64 Flatpak builds and dropped the USB cable from Quest setup. It shipped on October 6, a week before this week's coverage, and 1.4.1 followed six hours later to patch the wireless path.

Andrew Eiche told Game Developer that studios cutting staff ignored data pointing at social games like Gorilla Tag. The single-player closures fit that. Rec Room, A Township Tale and Ultimechs do not, and Owlchemy's own players asked for controllers and a solo mode.

Valve's October 9 update gives Steam Frame reservation holders one of two windows, by December or in 2027, with 72 hours to buy once the email lands. The waitlist gets no date at all, and it only moves when a region's reservation queue is finished.

Valve released the Steam Frame's CAD files and the electrical document for its front expansion port on October 9. The pinout shows the PCIe lane is shared with the left camera's pins, the port can draw 6 watts, and anything unapproved plugged into it voids the warranty.

Google tagged XR Blocks v0.22.0 on October 10, its first release in more than six weeks. THREE.WebGPURenderer now runs in the desktop simulator, the notes state plainly that the spatial UI does not, and the on-device AI samples ship without a single performance number.

Micron's Form 10-K for the year ended September 3, filed October 9, adds smart glasses to the consumer products list in its Automotive and Embedded unit and says AR glasses are driving new demand for low-power memory. The same paragraph in the fiscal 2025 filing did not mention glasses.

Crimson Eye runs to November 1, and it is the first one since Kinetic replaced Phasmophobia's VR character rig. The three VR bugs still open in August were fixed 16 days later, Double XP starts October 15, and your friends do not need headsets to join.

Texas against Oklahoma streamed live in 180 degrees on Quest on October 10, with the replay up for seven days. Meta's post names the app and the playoff games still to come, and says nothing about price, countries or the next fixture.