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Hot on the heels of its successful Steam Next Fest demo, we interviewed Bramblefort studio False Member to learn more about the survival horror’s roots and its stellar inspirations.Seemingly out of...

In 2025, Commodore was bought by retro YouTuber Chris "Peri Fractic" Simpson, who re-assembled some key execs and went into the hardware business. The main result so far has been the Commodore 64...

Walk deep into Walt Disney Imagineering’s sprawling, surprisingly unassuming Glendale campus, and you’ll eventually find Studio C.It’s where Imagineering mixes the audio for its attractions, but when...

Our other mid-year roundupsOur top Bluetooth speakers of 2026 so far5 new laptops we've loved in 2026The finest new camera lenses that we've tested in 2026 so farOur pick of the new headphones and...

A virtual reality experience that asks attendees to sign over their biometric data sounds like the start of an episode of Black Mirror. But it's actually the reality of the Black Mirror Experience,...

What’s the story? Virtuix has announced the deployment of its first Omni One system with the Air National Guard, purchased by a unit based in Horsham, Pennsylvania for military training ... continue...

The developer of Hauntify is building a system to let a remote player join your mixed reality game via a VR representation of your home.This system not only transforms the real-world objects in your...

The Castle is a dungeon-themed immersive VR experience built to teach electrical concepts through a series of escape-style challenges. I played through The Castle at the Augmented World Expo and...

It is the Fourth of July, the family is over, and there is a VR headset in the house. Here is how to turn that into the highlight of the gathering, with the games that work when you have one headset and a room full of people who have never tried VR.

I played High Horns, an upcoming arm-based locomotion social hangout climbing game, at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) last month.While my twenty-minute demo didn't present anything new or special, I...

I had a chance to demo bHaptics' latest haptics gloves, the TactGlove DK3, at this year's Augmented World Expo.TactGlove is a haptic glove, meaning it provides the sensation of texture to your...

Code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta describes handling images from a pair of cameras, and hints that these are surely the expected AirPods with cameras.The current AirPods Pro in their charging...

The second iOS 27 developer beta seemingly hints at a new Apple product, according to code uncovered by app designer and developer Sam Henri Gold. The code mentions a product codenamed B790 that can...

MemoMind, a new AI hardware brand from projector manufacturer XGIMI, launched a crowdfunding campaign for its first smart glasses last week, the MemoMind One, which include dual displays,...

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In June, creepy, empty spaces took over the charts as Escape the Backrooms topped the charts in...

After the announcement of the Snap Specs at AWE, I saw a lot of criticism around the latest glasses released by Snap, and this triggered me a bit. Let me rant with you a bit about that. The critics...

Having a computer strapped to my face for 40 minutes was one reason to feel a little sweaty. But the tour of the Universe I had just received in virtual reality—including visits to the near vicinity...

In response to player feedback, Darts VR2: Bullseye has added a new experience (XP) system with skill achievements and unlockable avatars, skinned darts, and other rewards.Developer Gamitronics added...

Extraction FPS Contractors Showdown: ExfilZone dropped a mid-season content update today with no wipe, meaning players keep their gear and seasonal progress while checking out DLC content and mission...

Discord is now available as a 2D app on Meta Quest headsets. It supports streaming and comes with a month of Nitro, but is currently in a rough technical state.Meta first announced that Discord was...

The first week of the year's second half brought a cheaper path into AR glasses, a long-awaited app finally arriving on Quest, another Apple spatial departure, and a controversial new subscription. Here is what mattered.

Thales Australia signed an MOU with Operator XR, an ASX-listed VR training startup already in service with more than 100 military and law enforcement agencies. The document is non-binding, but the structure of the deal is exactly what enterprise XR has been waiting for.

Benjamin and Chance react to the news from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman that Apple is accelerating the roadmap for the M7 series of Apple Silicon chips, somewhat at the expense of the as-yet-unreleased M6...

Hello from the World Cup! For our 10th wedding anniversary, my wife and I went to MetLife New York New Jersey stadium to see France play… Continue reading → Innovation Brief: Instagram TV, Ramaggedon...

Legendary Tales follows through on its promised roadmap to expand the action RPG dungeon crawler with a new sandbox mode and friendly fire feature. A roguelite mode is planned for a future...

Meta will charge glasses users $20/month for a new Meta One Premium subscription, and one of the first features to get locked down is “Conversation Focus.”

We haven’t been graced with too many Galaxy Glasses leaks until today. Samsung’s Android XR Galaxy Glasses surfaced in a couple of leaks, leaving little doubt about their design.

Credit: SamMobile TL;DR Samsung’s Galaxy Glasses leak reveals a familiar design that closely mirrors Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The glasses are expected to run Android XR with deep Gemini...

Launched alongside the splashier Reality Elite at AWE, Qualcomm’s START program lowers barriers to entry for the growing crop of eyewear brands angling to get… Continue reading → Snapdragon START...

What’s the story? Cintoo has unveiled Cintoo Workspace, a multi-user collaboration solution for viewing and inspecting reality capture data in real time. Why it matters Cintoo Workspace gives office...

Paul Meade, the Apple VP in charge of Vision Pro and the company's smart glasses hardware, is leaving to join OpenAI's device unit. It is another blow to Apple's spatial ambitions and a loud signal about how serious OpenAI is getting about hardware.

Gun Club VR and Dragon Fist are Meta's Horizon+ monthly titles for July, plus Phantom: Covert Ops joins the catalog. Meta has once again bolstered its Horizon+ subscription service with two new...

Lanesplit is a motorcycle urban street racing game that added VR support in a June 23 update. Unfortunately, it is plagued with baffling design choices that cripple the experience.Hybrid games...

Sony announced via a brief post on The PlayStation Blog that the brand will cease production of physical discs for new games in January 2028. Citing "consumer preferences" and the broader...

When Eric Mosinger returned home after visiting the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, he wished he could keep exploring. Time spent in the galleries hadn't been enough.It wasn't the first time he'd looked...

What’s the story? Flatirons Solutions has acquired Scope AR, bringing AI-powered technical content management, immersive 3D work instructions and remote expert support into one platform. Why it...

Modder Alex Le Tux has released the first public build of Perfect Dark VR, a fanmade port for Quest headsets and PC VR.Back in February we reported on a preview video showcasing a fan-made port of...

Apple’s longtime Vision Pro hardware chief, who was promoted last year to lead the company’s broader headsets and smart glasses hardware group, has left to join OpenAI.First reported by Bloomberg's...

After years of interminable waiting, Discord has officially released an app for Quest, which is now available for free on the Horizon Store. While Quest fans have been begging for an official Discord...

Most XR investment strategy decisions are made in the wrong room. A Chief Innovation Officer walks out of a vendor demo, presents a compelling pilot concept to the board, and secures budget on the...

Sony today announced it’s starting the clock on the production of physical discs, as the company is set to adopt a full digital marketplace at the start of 2028. All new games releasing on...

Another Axiom announced Gorilla Tag, Quest’s most popular game, is coming to mobile devices in a standalone game, titled Gorilla Tag: Monke Mayhem. The free-to-play sandbox game is slated to land on...

Manufacturing environments need to train new hires to effectively operate equipment... but those environments can be inherently dangerous. Coca-Cola got around this issue with VR training. What were...

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses and the latest cheaper non-designer option are sold on the basis of the built-in AI features, but the company has just announced a “ridiculous” limit on the free usage you can...

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink announced the company has successfully performed its first transdural brain implant surgery, which promises to increase scalability while...

After years of clunky workarounds, Discord released an official native app for Meta Quest today, free on the Horizon Store. The headline feature is not voice or video. It is the ability to pin a Discord call in your playspace while you play anything else.

A-Frame 1.8.0 caught up to Three.js r184, retired the Oculus branding, dropped the last of WebVR, and quietly fixed a bug that was blocking WebXR Layers requests. It is a boring changelog, and that is exactly why it matters.

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Glasses are not coming out in the immediate future, but new leaks shed a bit of new light on the first Android XR glasses.

Cave Crave (2025) developer 3R Games is bringing Thailand’s Tham Luang cave system to VR, the very same that gained global recognition in 2018 after a local junior football team became trapped inside...

Meta has announced the next version of its AI system for non-invasively decoding brain activity into text. Called Brain2Qwerty v2, the company hopes its latest method will help people with...

After Evan Spiegel unveiled Specs last week, questions were sparked. Fortunately, we got the chance to ask those questions in an AWE panel discussion. Moderated by AR Insider Editor Mike Boland, it...

It’s the last day of June, and I’m writing this newsletter across airports during my trip to Berlin to be a mentor at the XRCC hackathon. It’s a pretty busy period of the year… Top news of the week...

The first half of 2026 is officially in the books, and it was a genuinely strong six months to own a headset. From a PCVR survival masterpiece to two puzzle legends reborn on PSVR2, here are the VR games that earned my time, and yours.

Virtuix just launched Omni One for Quest, the first VR treadmill ever to earn Meta's official 'Made for Meta' certification. At $2,595 it is not the device that fixes VR locomotion at scale, but it is the moment a critical door for VR peripherals finally opened.

XREAL opened reservations for AURA, its Android XR display glasses, with a retail price capped at no more than $1,500 and a Fall 2026 launch. That is roughly $700 below Snap's Specs, and it makes AURA the most affordable serious entry into display AR yet. The catch is in the architecture.

Looking for a list of all the new VR games and DLCs coming to Quest, Steam, PlayStation VR2, and other platforms in July? We've got you covered.June might have been lighter on new VR releases after a...

Meta Horizon Store's "Peak Summer Sale" is on, offering major savings on hundreds of Quest, games, apps, and DLC.Not to be outdone by the Steam Summer Sale, Meta's Horizon Store for Quest headsets...

What were the biggest takeaways from XR's Super bowl, AWE? Following our coverage of the major What were the biggest takeaways from XR's Super Bowl, AWE? Guest author Mat Pawuczuk breaks down his...

It’s heat wave season again, which means Meta is throwing out some pretty sweet deals on some of the best Quest games out there. From now until July 5th, you’ll be able to grab some of our favorite...

Resolution Games quietly turned its tabletop dungeon crawler into the first XR title that runs across all six major headset platforms, and the Xreal Aura addition makes Android XR a first-class citizen in the lobby.

Valve's price reveal and Meta's Quest 4 delay got the headlines, but the most consequential VR hardware news of the month was a chip. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite is 60 percent faster on graphics, runs 12 degrees cooler, and runs AI models on-device, and nearly every headset and glasses maker builds on top of it.

Horror is the one genre virtual reality does better than any medium ever invented, and 2026 is proving it. From the summer showcase reveals to the games that players literally cannot finish, here is why VR turns fear into something your body cannot argue with.

Apple raised the Vision Pro to $3,699 on June 25 even though it has no consumer successor coming and only about 5 percent of the XR market. A price hike on a product nobody buys is an enterprise signal, not a consumer one.

After last week's AWE frenzy, this week settled into substance: a strong VR Games Showcase, confirmed Steam Machine pricing that hints at the Steam Frame's launch, a clever performance update, and a mid-year reckoning for Android XR. Here is what mattered.

Valve confirmed the Steam Machine starts at $1,049 and ships June 30, with the pre-order lottery closing today. The number nobody loves tells us almost everything about what Steam Frame will cost.

Unity's latest Android XR update expands Application SpaceWarp support to include standard UI and text. It is a small line in a changelog that points at one of the most important performance tricks in mobile VR. Here is how SpaceWarp actually works, and why it matters.

Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime from Collabora, now sits under Android XR, NVIDIA CloudXR, Pico, and Snapdragon Spaces. Here is why the industry quietly standardized on it.

Wizherd is a free-to-play co-op dungeon crawler on Meta Quest where you sling elemental spells with your own hands. The magic system is clever, the co-op is chaotic fun, and the price is right, even if the rough edges are real.

The Summer 2026 VR Games Showcase aired today, and the reveal that stuck with me is Breachers: Outbreak, a four-player co-op zombie extraction shooter from the studio behind Breachers and Forefront. Here is why the pivot is smarter than it looks.

In March we argued Android XR could be the most important platform launch since Android itself. We are now halfway through 2026. The hardware has shipped, the developer tools are real, and one big promise is still missing. Here is how the thesis is holding up.