Editor's PickRay-Ban Meta (Gen 3)
$449The runaway hit of smart glasses, now with a six-mic array, an action button and up to nine hours of battery. The Gen 2 is still $379.
AR / Spatial Computing
Augmented reality news and analysis. Smart glasses, AR wearables, spatial computing, and the technology blending digital content with the physical world. From Apple Vision Pro updates to lightweight AR glasses from Meta and Snap, we track the devices and platforms making AR part of daily life.
Most Popular AR & Smart GlassesEvery AR glasses device compared →
- 1Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3)Best all-rounder
- 2Xreal One ProBest display glasses
- 3Snap SpecsTrue AR
- 4Even Realities G2Everyday, no camera
- 5VITURE BeastBig-screen media
- 6Rokid AI GlassesOpen-platform AI
Editor's Pick
Xreal One Pro
$599120Hz micro-OLED display glasses with on-board spatial anchoring and Bose-tuned audio. The AR sweet spot.
Even Realities G2
From $599Everyday frames with a discreet display for navigation, notifications, and live translation. No camera, no bulk. The G1 is sold out.
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VR.org OriginalxrBy Evan Marcus
This Week in VR: Valve Sells Off the Index, Dates the Frame Queue and Leaves a Higher-Resolution Panel in Its Code
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.
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VR.org OriginalarBy Sam Whitfield
Meta's Fix for Unprompted Glasses Recordings Leaves US Owners a Delete Button and UK Owners an Off Switch
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.
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VR.org OriginalhardwareBy Sam Whitfield
A New Paragraph in Micron's Annual Report Says AR Glasses Are Driving Memory Demand
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.
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VR.org OriginalxrBy Evan Marcus
This Week in VR: XREAL and Pimax Name Prices, and the Waitlist-Only Steam Frame Hits 1 in 244 VR Headsets on Steam
XREAL priced AURA at $1,279, Pimax put $1,399 on Crystal Pro without agreeing with itself on a ship date, a reseller listed Pico Space Pro at $2,899, the Steam Frame got its first survey line, Sony Group's VR patents turned up at Meta, and Walkabout Mini Golf added a do-over button.
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VR.org OriginalenterpriseBy Sam Whitfield
$22.6 Billion for PTC, and Vuforia Is Not Named in Any of the Paperwork
Schneider Electric signed an agreement on October 4 to buy PTC for $205 a share. The announcement describes the business as CAD, PLM, ALM and SLM, and PTC's latest 10-Q reports two product groups. Vuforia, which PTC still sells in four products, appears in none of them.
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VR.org OriginalarBy Jordan Kuo
$1,279 and 95 Grams: XREAL Finally Put a Price on AURA
XREAL priced AURA at $1,279 for 12GB and 256GB, and $1,499 for 16GB and 512GB, with purchases open to paid reservation holders and shipping promised before the holidays. The glasses weigh 95 grams and carry their own X1S coprocessor, and the base model lands $20.99 under Meta VR Glasses, which do not go on sale until spring 2027.
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VR.org OriginalarBy Jordan Kuo
Norway's Proposed AI Glasses Ban Lists the Places First and Leaves the Device Definition Open
Norway will propose a temporary ban on using AI glasses in parks, schools, gyms and clinics, with three candidate definitions of the device still open. In the Netherlands, Wehkamp and Hans Anders stopped selling Meta's glasses after the regulator had logged six signals and one complaint.
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VR.org OriginalarBy Alex Reeves
Gen 3 Costs 44,300 Rupees in India, 14,400 More Than Meta's First Pair
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) reached India on October 1 at 44,300 rupees, against 29,900 for the first pair in May 2025 and 39,900 for Gen 2 last December. In dollars the climb is 31 percent, not 48. Muse and the camera-free Audio pair are both listed as coming later, neither with a date.
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