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Apple just rolled out a bunch of public betas for the next big iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS software upgrades, and you can try them now.As expected, after several weeks of developer beta access,...

Apple has finally introduced its first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27.iOS 27's public beta is hereSince the introduction of the...

The 2011 detective game LA Noire, which was published by GTA company Rockstar Games, starred Mad Men actor Aaron Staton as the lead character, Cole Phelps. A writer on the game has now revealed that...

GOLF+ VR, in partnership with the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, is bringing an official VR Open to the GOLF+ Tour. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to St. Andrews in 2027. The...

Credit: HTC Vive TL;DR HTC’s Vive Eagle AI glasses are finally coming to the US, with Amazon listing a September 1, 2026 launch. The $499 price is the biggest talking point, making the Vive Eagle...

After news surfaced of a 2020 arrest and subsequent conviction of one of its lead developers, Tactical Assault VR has been dropped by publisher 2080 Games and its association with Combat Waffle...

Palmer Luckey, the founder of military tech startup Anduril (also the founder of Oculus), quietly teased a pair of unannounced AR glasses that are presumably in development at Anduril. Despite their...

At Samsung's expected July event, the company is set to show off its first Android XR glasses. It could be built around Gemini, with Gentle Monster behind the design. Will they make a splash?

Apple today provided developers with the fifth betas of upcoming watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6 betas for testing purposes. The software comes a week after Apple seeded the fourth betas....

Micron committed up to $3 billion to the U.S. semiconductor supply chain last week. Of that, $500 million goes to GlobalWafers as strategic financing — subject to definitive agreements and closing...

XREAL glasses are designed for more than just creating a giant display for watching movies or playing games, but that’s probably what most people want to use them for. That’s where the new $299 XREAL...

Games on Steam have already been enjoying the various shades of the Steam Deck Compatibility check mark for some time now. Well, now you can check a title's compatibility on both the Steam Machine...

At AWE, the state of VR locomotion tech was on display. We went hands-on and have a roundup of our top three experiences. What stood out most, and what does it mean for the feature of movement and...

Lenovo has reportedly closed its XR business unit in the US, according to a report by Skarred Ghost. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report maintains Lenovo has shuttered its...

Combat Waffle announced it’s taking popular extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor back to its 2024 roots with a separate version of the game, called Ghosts of Tabor: LEGACY. Ghosts of Tabor: Legacy is...

In this VR winter, every day we keep reading news about layoffs of people working in AR/VR. Today I inform you about a new one: Lenovo has recently laid off its XR business unit in the US. Layoffs at...

Valve has quietly launched a Great on Frame storefront section collecting games certified for its upcoming Steam Frame headset. The page is nearly empty, but its very existence is the strongest launch signal yet.

Lenovo has laid off its US XR business unit and is redirecting its ThinkReality enterprise work toward AI-enabled consumer wearables under Motorola. Read on its own, it is another layoff. Read in context, it is the clearest map yet of where the industry's money is actually going.

It’s a hot summer here in Italy. But this is not stopping me from providing you with my usual roundup of the most important XR news of the week… Top news of the week (Image modified using ChatGPT)...

Apple has published a detailed technical specification for building third-party motion controllers for Vision Pro, down to the exact wavelength of the tracking LEDs. For a headset that launched insisting hands and eyes were enough, that is a meaningful reversal.

The man who wrote Doom, invented modern 3D game engines, and later ran Oculus is offering a million dollars of his own money to get official VR ports of the id classics onto the Quest store. The only thing standing in the way is Microsoft.

While the industry argues about expensive camera-equipped AI glasses and the privacy backlash they created, XREAL quietly put a 147-inch private screen on your face for $299. The affordable display-glasses category is the one part of AR that is genuinely selling, and this launch shows why.

Combat Waffle Studios has announced Ghosts of Tabor: Legacy, a spinoff from the original game locked to the 2024 era, for Meta Quest and PC VR.An inevitability with long-running games is a segment of...

FitXR on Quest now has 'Journey', a personalized recommendation system designed to help you spend less time searching for workouts and more time exercising.The app's July update also brings Profile...

Following Apple’s announcement that VisionOS 27 will support third-party motion controllers for Vision Pro, the company has published a set of technical specifications and requirements for...

TL;DR XREAL has opened sales of its affordable a01 Plus AR glasses in the US. The glasses offer a Micro OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 1,600 nits of peak brightness, all in a lightweight...

Valve hasn’t mentioned the price or release date for its long-awaited Steam Frame standalone headset, although we seem to be getting suspiciously close. As spotted by hardware analyst Brady Lynch,...

Rumors continue to go back and forth on whether the iPhone Fold will launch on time, plus there is now a question on if AirPods will get cameras at all. This and more on the AppleInsider...

John Carmack reminded Microsoft that he's “still willing” to put up a $1M guarantee to allow Team Beef to commercialize its VR ports of id Software’s classic games.Carmack first revealed that he made...

AR glasses maker XREAL today announced its ‘X by Xreal’ sub-brand (xbx) is officially bringing its first pair of budget XR glasses outside of China. Xreal today released its xbx a01+ in the US for...

John Carmack, former Oculus CTO and co-founder of id Software, announced he’s still willing to put up $1 million of his personal money to help make VR versions of Id’s most famous retro...

In my AWE preview article, I told you about Prehension AI, a startup developing an SDK to help developers implement hand gestures in their MR/VR applications. At AWE US, I’ve been able to get...

Meta tests always-on AI glasses and a brain-to-text UI, while Even Realities raises $150M and HTC bets on AI glasses. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the lens of Charlie...

The whole industry spent the week arguing about cameras on your face, Apple quietly killed the display for a cheaper Vision Pro, and underneath the noise VR gaming and open source had one of their best weeks of the year. Here is what mattered.

Samsung Display is formally terminating G-VR, the glass-substrate micro-OLED panel that would have powered a cheaper Apple headset, by September. Killing a product is reversible. Killing its display program is not.

Lamborghini’s free Apple Vision Pro app brings four of its rare vehicles into living rooms with life-sized immersive showcases.You can admire them, sit inside them, learn about their unique features...

Meta's CTO reaffirmed that the company is still working on "multiple next-generation headsets", and perhaps hinted at a reveal at Connect in September.During an "ask me anything" session on his...

I don't need to tell you that Stardew Valley is not a 3D game, and if I do, your understanding of dimensions is unsettling to me. However, where there's a will, there's a way, as a modder has done...

Meta is still internally debating how to handle the privacy LED on its upcoming glasses with always-on AI, The Financial Times reports.The Information first reported on Meta's plans to launch smart...

CONNECTOME: A Game Of Points is an immersive art experience on Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro that utilizes hand tracking on both platforms and eye tracking on Vision Pro. Developer Grant Hinkson...

Squingle Arcade, a free-to-play spatial puzzler with mixed reality support, is out today on Meta Quest. We first learned about Squingle Arcade, a faster-paced evolution of the original Squingle, at...

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Emerging smart glasses player Even Realities has raised $150 million in pre-Series B funding led by Meituan and previous-investor Tencent. The funding round confers a post-money valuation of $1...

In a case of hilarious timing – you know, in a dystopian kind of way – a new report details Meta’s forthcoming “super sensing” smart glasses that would have microphones and cameras that are...

A report surfaced that the now defunct Vertigo Games Amsterdam was working on a new VR game based on the Tomb Raider series. We dug into this, and here's what we found out.An article from yesterday...

As reported by MP1st, a sizable leak from Vertigo Games reveals its now-defunct Amsterdam satellite studio was working on an official Tomb Raider VR title before the project was cancelled earlier...

Apple recently increased the prices of most of its products, from the Apple TV and HomePods through iPads and Macs to the Vision Pro. iPhones have so far escaped the increases, but that will likely...

What’s the story? RP1 has launched Artemis, a native metaverse browser powered by the open-source Sneeze engine and designed to access spatial experiences without separate app installs. Why it...

What’s the story? Basemark has signed an MoU with Ignite by FORVIA HELLA to integrate its Rocksolid platform into Ignite’s automotive AR offering for automotive OEMs. Why it matters The ... continue...

What’s the story? Even Realities has become a smart glasses unicorn after securing a reported $150 million pre-Series B round led by Meituan and Tencent for its next phase. Why ... continue reading...

Code found inside a recent Spotify build reveals a deep Gemini integration built specifically for Android XR smart glasses, including music chosen from what the camera sees. The features are interesting. The architecture underneath them is the real story.

Meta shipped a mandatory update that bricks the camera if the capture LED is tampered with, then the Financial Times reported its prototype always-on glasses would not light the LED at all. New York banned smart glasses from all 1,240 of its courthouses the same week.

A leaked archive reveals Vertigo Games spent over a year building a Tomb Raider VR title for Quest 3, PSVR2, and PC before it was cancelled in January. It reportedly passed its vertical slice. That is the part that hurts.

Meta says it's improving the ability of its smart glasses to detect if the privacy LED has been tampered with and disable the camera, via a mandatory firmware update.All of Meta's smart glasses...

According to The Elec, Samsung Display has fully scrapped the development project of a component tied to the rumored lower-cost Apple Vision Pro. Here are the details.

A peculiar report claims that work on a key component of a lower-cost version of the Apple Vision Pro is winding down, and that it's because Apple is more interested in AI.Apple's current Apple...

Veteran VR studio Cloudhead Games, developer behind hit rhythm shooter Pistol Whip (2019), is ostensibly deep in development of their next title, which according to a recent job listing could be a...

Yesterday on X, I saw a video about Boz teasing some VR announcements at Connect. This made many people excited, but honestly, I think we shouldn’t expect too much from this piece of news. Meta...

Spatial computing continues to be an opportune north star, though it's taking longer than expected to materialize. Meanwhile, there continues to be a gap between imagination and reality, often seen...

Meta is rolling out an update to its line of smart glasses that will disable the camera if the device’s capture LED has been tampered with or destroyed. Since the rollout of Meta’s second-gen Ray-Ban...

Every company launching new gaming hardware faces the same brutal problem: an empty library on day one. Valve solved it years ago with an open-source compatibility layer, and that decision is quietly the most durable competitive advantage in the business.

Godot 4.7 ships production-ready support for Valve's Steam Frame and Android XR, subsampled foveated rendering that finally saves memory, simplified action maps, and a stable Android build environment. The free engine's XR story just got hard to ignore.

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades hit its 1.0 release over the weekend, a full decade after entering Early Access. As someone who has watched this game grow the entire time, I need to talk about what it represents.

XPANCEO and JBD have moved to the next phase of co-developing a microLED display small enough to sit inside a smart contact lens. The specs are borderline absurd, and the real story is that they are now focused on manufacturing it.

While Meta sells millions of camera-equipped smart glasses and absorbs the privacy backlash, a startup founded by ex-Apple engineers just raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation for glasses that deliberately have no camera at all. That is a real signal about where part of this market is going.

Samsung has confirmed July 22 in London for Galaxy Unpacked, and the Galaxy Glasses reveal is the moment Android XR stops being a headset story and becomes a wearable one. Here is what to actually watch for on the SDK side.

Mixed reality's best trick, turning your real room into the game, has always been a solo experience. VirtualGo is building a system that lets remote friends join your scanned space as VR players, and the idea is bigger than the horror game it started in.

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.

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.