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Steam Next Fest is back with a fresh crop of new PC VR demos to play. The event starts today and runs through June 22.As always, this week-long festival features a mix of demos for upcoming games and...

The Steam Deck didn’t invent the handheld gaming form factor, or even debut it for PC hardware, but it’s certainly the iPhone equivalent for this particular moment. And the vast, vast majority of the...

A report suggests ties between Meta's facial recognition technology and a company that sells surveillance tools to military and police.

When I was in San Francisco, I managed to do a quick visit to REK, the startup that wants to use robots for mainstream entertainment. It was one of the coolest moments of this trip to the US, so keep...

Updated on June 15, 2026: Added new units from the Universal Finale update and reranked older units according to the new exclusive relics. The best units in Universal Tower Defense X depend on five...

Mighty Eyes announced it will longer be developing its previously announced sequel to VR action-adventure Wander: The Fragments of Fate (2025), citing a “volatile” VR gaming market. The studio...

The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell...

While recently attending the 4th annual AI on the Lot, the world’s largest conference for professionals working in the generative AI media space, I had… Continue reading → AI on the Lot: Priming the...

Snapchat parent Snap is nearing the long-awaited reveal of Specs, its next pair of AR glasses, as the company says we should keep our eyes peeled come June 16th. Specs Inc, the company’s new XR...

PiEEG XR is an upcoming Quest 3 accessory that aims to make your VR avatar expressive without adding cameras.The device replaces the Quest 3’s standard facial interface with a sensor-equipped frame...

The design of Pico's next headset leaked in videos from a public SDK, and it looks like a cross between Apple Vision Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR.After years of rumors, Pico and TikTok owner ByteDance...

I’m here in Long Beach, California, and I can’t wait for AWE to start tomorrow! It’s going to be a great event, with the Snap Specs announcement, the public demos of XREAL Aura glasses, and a lot...

Meta is opening its own section in 50 Best Buy stores across the US & Canada where it will demo its Quest headsets and smart glasses.Meta opened its own store in LA late last year, alongside...

There's a whole lot more coming in visionOS 27 than what Apple announced in its keynote and blog post.Announced by Apple at WWDC 2026 this week, visionOS 27 will be the fourth major operating system...

The ROG Xbox Ally X20’s OLED upgrade is nice, but after trying the bundled AR glasses, the bigger screen was the part I kept thinking about.

Getting locked out sucks. Besides just being incredibly inconvenient, it can also prove dangerous and expensive. But luckily for all of us, we’re basically living in the future, and locks have gotten...

Sony's surprise decision to reverse its strategy of porting singleplayer PlayStation games to PC has been scrutinized plenty. Bluepoint Games' head of technology suggested it was likely because...

Snap acquired spatial AR company Illumix to accelerate its Specs glasses, and the headline asset is not flashy. It is mapping technology. For AR glasses that have to understand the real world, that unglamorous capability is exactly what separates a demo from a product.

The Frankfort fire department is warning owners of the ‘VR Goggles’ after footage shows debris flying and dogs in a panic

WWDC 2026 has come to a close, and it brought a number of announcements with the headliner being the new Siri AI functionality available both in a standalone app and integrated throughout most of...

VR's summer showcase season kicked off with more than 30 announcements across Quest, PSVR2, and PC VR. I watched all of it. Here are the standouts, the trends, and what this lineup says about where VR gaming is headed into the back half of 2026.

The UploadVR Showcase - Summer 2026 has come and gone, and with that came a killer lineup of VR games that brought a little bit of something for everyone. A huge thank you goes out to all who...

Dark Trip receives a major update today, adding the long-awaited 15th room to the game.The psychedelic horror escape room game Dark Trip got a major update today during the UploadVR Showcase. The...

Rustmourne, a sci-fi horror shooter inspired by Dead Space and Half-Life: Alyx, was revealed at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase.The new game reveal trailer, seen here, closed out the showcase: 0:00...

Bomb the Hill, a cinematic VR downhill skateboarding game inspired by the outlaw spirit of 1970s freeride culture, is coming to SteamVR this summer.During today's UploadVR Showcase, Pokodzima Games...

Hyperlane Highway is a roguelite shooter that utilizes a unique 'head-leaning' locomotion system designed to mitigate VR motion sickness. The high speed FPS hits Early Access on SteamVR & Meta Quest...

Cozy low poly truck driving simulator Poly Truck's new gameplay trailer at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase confirmed a Q4 2026 release window. Watch the trailer here: 0:00 /1:02 1× Poly Truck is a...

Jetpack Clankers joins a crowded field of free-to-play social apps on Meta Quest when it debuts on June 16, forgoing the popular arm-based movement system popularized by Gorilla Tag for jets to move...

Apple shows up late to the AI party, while the curtain rises on AWE USA and the cinematic AI hits keep coming. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the lens of Charlie Fink....

The Obsessive Shadow Chapter 2, the successor to the 2025 survival horror game, follows a new character being stalked by a shadowy creature. The sequel was announced at today's UploadVR Summer...

Project NEOS is a futuristic survival thriller trapping players on a space station entirely controlled by a killer artificial intelligence. The announcement trailer premiered at today's UploadVR...

Voxel coloring game Color-A-Cube leaves Early Access and officially launches version 1.0 next week on Quest and PICO. As announced during today's UploadVR Showcase, the full release of cozy VR...

Mixed reality hand tracking platformer Disembodied is coming to Quest 3/3S in October. After a lengthy development cycle, Disembodied is coming to Quest this year, on October 15. Disembodied is a...

Theremin, a mixed reality musical app named after the instrument of the same name, will add an update on July 1 to record a single performance and play alongside it to create more robust music. Most...

The mixed reality miniature figure painting app BrushHammer is coming to Quest this August. BrushHammer is a mixed-reality game that lets you build, collect, paint, and display miniature figures....

Pedal Rebel VR is a cyberpunk street racing game that you can play on a real exercise bike and turn your whole body into the controller. A new trailer at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase confirmed an...

Cozy wooden miniature building puzzler Puzzles of the World announced its full release on July 23 on Meta Quest at today's UploadVR Summer Showcase. Watch the trailer here: 0:00 /1:08 1× It...

Narrative investigation game Detective VR is coming to PlayStation VR2 and PC VR on September 9. Announced during today's UploadVR Showcase, Detective VR is coming to PlayStation VR2 and SteamVR on...

Lanesplit, an urban motorcycle street racing game, announced VR support will be added on Steam on June 23.The announcement was made during today's UploadVR Summer Showcase. Watch the trailer here:...

Salmon Man is a rage baiting physics-based platformer in same vein as viral hits Jump King and Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy. A multiplayer update this July will let players bring their friends...

The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand adds a wrinkle to the standard arcade shooting formula this September. Instead of guns, the early 20th century fantasy shooter uses gesture-based spells to defeat...

Sol Protocol, a co-op roguelike with procedurally generated stellar systems, hits Meta Quest in Early Access in September following multiple open alpha playtests.A new trailer was revealed at today's...

C.A.B.A. is a terrifying first-person horror experience coming to PlayStation VR2, Quest, and SteamVR.C.A.B.A. (Center of Anomalies of Buenos Aires), is a short first-person survival horror...

Bootstrap Island's first major update since launch offers a friendlier on-ramp for those new to the survival genre.Maru VR has revealed the release of Major Update 1.1.0 for Bootstrap Island, the...

A new trailer has provided a closer look at Guardians Planetfall, an upcoming squad-based VR shooter that's been described as "VR's answer to Helldivers 2."First revealed during December 2025's...

Just in time for America's 250th anniversary, Disney Imagineers tapped Apple Vision Pro to help give one of their most iconic flight rides a patriotic makeover.A Disney audio engineer wears the Apple...

Siri AI is a major upgrade and big highlight of iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and more. But only newer Apple devices will support the overhauled Siri. Here’s the full list of Siri...

“When I lost my eyesight in Desert Storm from a bunker explosion, I also lost my independence. The moment I put on my Ray-Ban Meta glasses, I got my independence back.” — Don Overton, a blind veteran...

The team behind the Wanderer games announced the cancellation of Wanderer 2 & the end of ongoing support for Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, the remake of the original Wanderer. Developer Mighty...

According to recent import records, Valve seems to be gearing up for the imminent launch of Steam Frame. As spotted by XR analyst Brad Lynch, Valve has imported a large number “virtual reality...

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Valve confirmed that Steam Frame is shipping "this summer", and import logs show pallets of the headset arriving at the company's US warehouses.When revealing Steam Frame back in November, Valve said...

Meta pulls Horizon Worlds out of VR on June 15, but social VR isn't going anywhere. The communities are already migrating to VRChat, Resonite, and a wave of open, self-hostable worlds Meta could never shut down.

On June 15, creators lose the ability to build, publish, or update Horizon Worlds content in VR. Meta's flagship social platform survives only as a phone app. After a public reversal in April, this is how the VR chapter actually ends.

More than a year after public testing began, Meta has finished rolling out Navigator, the biggest overhaul of Quest's system interface since the Oculus Go era. Here is what changed, and what still has not.

Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now powers Meta AI on Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, replacing Llama 4. The benchmark numbers explain why Meta spent billions on new AI talent.

Apple just shipped open-source spatial plugins for Unity, Unreal, and Godot on GitHub, with CompositorServices support for custom engines on top. For a company famous for walled gardens, officially backing a community-built engine is a genuine surprise.

Apple's visionOS 27 developer sessions reveal the real story: a requestImmersive API that drops website visitors into 3D environments, OpenXR streaming from any PC built into the OS, and a Mac framework that needs zero visionOS code.

XOCUS is launching Omega Pilot Evolution on Quest, PSVR2, and Pico this month, a futuristic anti-gravity racer with combat, weapons, and unmistakable Wipeout DNA. VR has needed a great arcade racer for years. This might finally be it.

The UploadVR Showcase returns June 12, kicking off VR's summer showcase season. After a rough month of gutted roadmaps and missing launch games, here is one player's wishlist.

Meta and Best Buy are opening dedicated 900-square-foot demo spaces in more than 50 stores. The layout reveals exactly where Meta's priorities have shifted: glasses first, headsets second.

visionOS 27 arrived at WWDC with the new Siri, spatial panoramas, curved windows, and faster Wi-Fi. It is a genuinely good update. It also lands one week after Apple erased every Vision Pro successor from its roadmap, which makes it the strangest release Apple shipped today.

Vivo's Vision headset runs an Android based OS, but it pointedly is not Android XR. As Google's spatial platform hits its launch year, that one decision says a lot about how hard the 'Android of XR' will be to pull off.

X-Plane Streaming Link and iRacing Connect are now live on the visionOS App Store, streaming both sims from your PC with foveated rendering at up to 120FPS. The standout feature: passthrough blends your physical yoke, wheel, and pedals directly into the virtual cockpit.

Three weeks ago I wrote that Valve does not launch hardware without software to justify it. The evidence says I was wrong. Valve has flatly denied having any VR content in development, and the silence has held for seven months. Time to think honestly about what a Steam Frame launch without an Alyx moment actually looks like.

Apple's incoming CEO erased every Vision headset from the roadmap, two Quest 3 units are heading to the ISS, Meta cut Supernatural loose, Acer came back to XR, and the most important rhythm game ever made turned eight. One of the busiest weeks of the year, recapped.

Ming-Chi Kuo reports that incoming Apple CEO John Ternus signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the Vision product roadmap. Every Vision Pro successor is gone. What remains is a display-free AI glasses product in 2027 and waveguide AR glasses that have slipped to 2029.

A six-year collaboration between Meta and the European Space Agency is sending two Quest 3 headsets to the ISS, where astronauts will use them to rehearse spacewalks before stepping out the hatch. Consumer VR hardware just earned its way into the most demanding training environment there is.

Meta is spinning out Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, three years after its $400 million acquisition of Within. The original founders and coaches return, the current app shuts down December 3, and the subscription doubles to $20 a month.

At Computex 2026 Acer unveiled the AR Vision GR0 display glasses and Gemini-powered GI0 AI Glasses, its first XR hardware since 2019. Aggressive pricing meets a 60Hz spec sheet, and another PC giant joins the smart glasses race.