Hardware

Walker Industries moved the $650 Andromeda from 1600x1600 to 2160x2160 panels and from a 45Wh to an 85Wh cell at the same price, upgrading existing backers automatically. The campaign stood just under 24 percent of the way to its $150,000 goal on October 24, with delivery estimated for May 2027.

Ramen VR will switch Zenith off on December 18 with no offline version, while the relaunched Supernatural doubled Meta's price and opened a manual history transfer that closes December 3. Owlchemy priced a glasses game at $1.99, Victoria wrote smart glasses into its school phone rules, Snap put Robert Downey Jr. on the SPECS org chart, and the PAYDAY: Aces High playtest runs through Monday.

Snap's October 20 newsroom post names Robert Downey Jr. honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer of SPECS, with an original episode debuting during Game 1 of the World Series on October 23. The $2,195 glasses still carry the same fall shipping window Snap gave when preorders opened at AWE in June.

Ministerial Order No. 1515, signed October 18, makes students at every Victorian school switch smart glasses off and store them from January 28, 2027, and a separate policy bars adults from wearing them at government schools. Its definition covers any spectacles that can process digital information, camera or not.

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.

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.

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.