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Platforms, apps, developer tools, and the software ecosystem powering virtual and augmented reality. Horizon OS, Android XR, visionOS 27 and SteamOS on the Steam Frame, social VR platforms, creative tools and enterprise applications all land here, along with the SDK releases and platform policy changes that decide what developers can ship.

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Virtual DesktopEditor's Pick

Virtual Desktop

$19.99

The single most important app for any Quest owner with a gaming PC. Streams your entire desktop and SteamVR library into the headset wirelessly, with remarkably low latency.

VRChat

VRChat

Free

The largest social VR platform. Build a custom avatar and explore thousands of community-built worlds across Quest, PC VR, and now mobile. Free to play.

Immersed

Immersed

Free

Turns your headset into a multi-monitor workstation with up to five virtual screens and passthrough so you can still see your keyboard. A remote-work favorite, with a free tier plus paid plans.

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VR.org OriginalarBy Jordan Kuo
Google Play Now Takes Apps for Audio Glasses, on the Phone Track, With Samsung's Pair Reportedly Due in Mid-December
Google's Android XR docs now open Play distribution to audio glasses through the ordinary mobile release track, with a Differentiated for Glasses badge and strict camera rules. The libraries behind that badge are still alpha, and ChosunBiz has Samsung's first pair selling in mid-December.
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VR.org OriginalgamingBy Nina Castillo
Twelve Free Horror Worlds Are on Show in VRChat Until Monday, and One Has 1.09 Million Visits
VRChat's Spookality 2026 winners are twelve player-made horror games, free to enter on a headset, a PC or a phone, with their in-app row up until 2pm PT on November 2. DEADLIGHT alone holds 61 percent of the group's 1.79 million visits, so we sorted all twelve by the kind of night you have.
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VR.org OriginalsoftwareBy Nina Castillo
What the Venture Quest Emulator Does With Your Meta Account, Read From Its Source
Venture, a free GPL-3.0 app that shipped four builds in ten hours, runs the Quest games your Meta account owns on a PC VR headset. Its code signs you in on Meta's own page, checks ownership with Meta before every download and every launch, and labels its traffic so Meta can see it. Its Import page is the one door with no ownership check.
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VR.org OriginalsoftwareBy Nina Castillo
PICO Put Its XR SDK Behind Ten AI Coding Assistants, and the Whole Install Is One npm Line
ByteDance's PICO has been publishing an Apache-2.0 plugin marketplace for AI coding agents since June, and since September it reaches ten assistant hosts. A separate Unity package gives agents ten MCP tools inside the Unity editor.
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VR.org OriginalgamingBy Evan Marcus
Half-Life: Alyx Gets Foveated Rendering on PC Six Years In, and Valve's Guide Covers 13 Headsets, Only One of Them Valve's
Valve's October 26 patch brings the foveated rendering it built for the standalone Steam Frame to the PC version of Half-Life: Alyx. It works in fixed mode on any headset, and the setup guide, written by OpenXR Toolkit co-creator Matthieu Bucchianeri, covers eye tracking on 13 headset families including PS VR2, Quest Pro and Vision Pro.
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VR.org OriginalxrBy Jordan Kuo
Meta Now Ships VR Hardware Only on 'Major Breakthroughs,' Leaving Quest 3 and 3S as the Build Target With No End Date
On Meta's October 21 earnings call, Zuckerberg said new VR devices will ship only when Meta has a major breakthrough, as lower Quest sales pulled Reality Labs revenue down 6 percent to $443 million. For developers, Quest 3 and 3S become an open-ended target, and Meta VR Glasses are the one new profile to plan for.
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VR.org OriginalgamingBy Jordan Kuo
Seventeen Free VR Halloween Games Came Out of a Jam Themed 'Graveyard Shift'
The VR IS DEAD Halloween Jam closed on October 22 with 17 free games on itch.io, and nine of them put the player on the clock under the theme Graveyard Shift. Five name Godot, two ship ARM builds, one runs in the browser, and rating runs until October 29.
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VR.org OriginalsoftwareBy Nina Castillo
Sixteen Meshes and 512 Instructions: VRChat's Face Tracking Moved Into the SDK
VRChat's Open Beta client and Avatars SDK 3.10.6-beta.1 put face tracking inside the Avatar Descriptor, with Unified Expressions keys, Auto-Fill blendshape mapping and up to 16 meshes. Synced face data no longer spends your custom parameter budget, and VRCFaceTracking's latest beta feeds it over OSC.
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