NewSamsung Galaxy XR
$1,799Google and Samsung's flagship Android XR headset, with eye tracking, hand tracking, and Gemini-powered spatial AI.
XR / Extended Reality
Extended reality encompasses VR, AR, and everything in between. Platform launches, industry analysis, developer ecosystems, and the convergence of immersive technologies. Android XR, WebXR, mixed reality headsets, and cross-platform frameworks all fall under this umbrella.
Most Popular XR Headsets & GlassesFull headset buyer's guide →
- 1Samsung Galaxy XRAndroid XR flagship
- 2Apple Vision ProPremium spatial
- 3Meta Quest 3Best all-around
- 4HTC Vive XR EliteCompact hybrid
- 5Snap SpecsTrue AR glasses
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PremiumApple Vision Pro (M5)
$3,499The most advanced spatial computer, now faster with the M5 chip and the visionOS ecosystem.
Editor's PickMeta Quest 3 (512GB)
$599The standalone mixed reality headset most people should buy. Great passthrough and the deepest content library.
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VR.org OriginalenterpriseBy Sam Whitfield
Meta Promises 100 Live Immersive Sports Events a Year, Where Apple Stopped at Ten
Meta says Meta VR Glasses will carry more than 100 live immersive sports events a year with MLB, NBC Sports, TNT Sports and UFC, plus ESPN college football on Quest this fall. Apple aired ten live immersive games, six Lakers and four Friday Night Baseball, then cut its immersive video team.
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VR.org OriginalhardwareBy Alex Reeves
Phoenix Arrives as Meta VR Glasses: $1,299.99, Spring 2027, and a 300-Gram Puck
Meta's Project Phoenix is now Meta VR Glasses: $1,299.99, on sale spring 2027, about 100 grams on the face with a roughly 300-gram compute puck in the pocket. Controllers are sold separately, and the price lands $300 above the under-$1,000 target the Wall Street Journal reported in 2025.
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VR.org OriginalgamingBy Evan Marcus
Thirteen Screenshots, None From a Headset: Demeo's D&D Game Just Reached Xbox
Twilight's End launched today at $9.99, only the host needs to own it, and Battlemarked landed on Xbox the same morning. Every screenshot on its Steam page shows the flat version, and both platforms it has added since launch have no headset.
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VR.org OriginalenterpriseBy Sam Whitfield
Asked Whether Vision Pro Was a Flop, John Ternus Pointed to the Operating Room
Three weeks into the job, Apple's new CEO told Canal+'s Clique that Vision Pro is "the early days of a long journey" and named surgeons as its growth case. He did not mention the successor Apple reportedly cut, the August layoffs, or glasses.
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VR.org OriginalsoftwareBy Jordan Kuo
Mixed Reality Link Now Puts Your Meta Avatar in the Windows Camera List
Mixed Reality Link 26.9105.9070.0 gives Windows three new capture devices from a Quest 3 or 3S: the headset microphone, a passthrough camera, and a Meta avatar camera that Horizon OS already offered its own Android apps. It lands as support for the last Windows Mixed Reality headsets runs out in November.
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VR.org OriginalhardwareBy Sam Whitfield
Every Meta Connect Promise Since 2023, Checked Against What Shipped
Meta's Connect 2026 keynote is Wednesday. A line-by-line check of the last three keynotes: five products with a price and a date all shipped on schedule, Augments is three years late, and the Ray-Ban Display expansion Meta promised four countries never happened.
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VR.org OriginalxrBy Evan Marcus
This Week in VR: Frame Launch Week, From the $1,059 Price to the Waitlist Email
Valve ran the Steam Frame draw and a community tracker has fewer than half of respondents reserved, eBay filled up with fake reservation screenshots, Snap gave Specs a Verizon bundle but no ship date, visionOS 27 shipped the same Monday as the Frame, and Connect is Wednesday.
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VR.org OriginalxrBy Jordan Kuo
Eleven Years of Codec Avatars Research Is Reportedly Getting a Live Keynote Slot
Zuckerberg and Bosworth are reportedly set to demo a hologram-like call on Project Phoenix at Connect. The Hologram Calling framework already landed in Horizon OS, which is the part that decides whether developers ever get to call it.
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