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Apple Reportedly Accelerates Smart Glasses Development Amid Wider Push for AI Hardware
Apple is reportedly accelerating the development of smart glasses, as the company is ostensibly making a shift toward AI-centric hardware.
According to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is ramping up development of its forthcoming smart glasses, which are slated to head...
Omni One VR Treadmill Joins ‘Made for Meta’ Program, Opening Door to Quest Compatibility
Virtuix announced it's joined the Made for Meta program, which opens the door to bring official Quest compatibility to the company's Omni One VR treadmill.
Made for Meta is a hardware partnership that certifies that accessories not only work with...
VisionOS Update Gives Devs Improved Tools for VR Cloud Streaming
Apple Vision Pro just got a new update that brings Foveated Streaming to the headset, essentially the same bandwidth-saving feature Valve is bringing to its upcoming Steam Frame headset.
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As noted by VR supply chain analyst Brad Lynch, foveated...
SlimeVR Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Thinner & Lighter Full-Body Trackers
SlimeVR has launched its next crowdfunding campaign, this time looking to get backers excited about its next-gen 'Butterfly' body trackers, which promise to be thinner, lighter, and offer a longer-lasting battery.
SlimeVR's crowdfunding campaign for the new Butterfly Trackers quickly crossed its...
‘VRChat’ Breaks All-Time Concurrent User Record with Japanese Anime Concert
VRChat announced it just topped its all-time user peak, bringing in over 150,000 concurrent users to attend a Japanese language concert.
VRChat Community Head 'Tupper' confirmed on X that the social VR platform hit a new all-time high of 156,716 concurrent...
Vision Pro Finally Gets Native ‘YouTube’ App with Full Immersive Video Library
Vision Pro users have been waiting over two years for a native YouTube app. Now, it's finally here—thankfully also including support for immersive videos.
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Google first announced that a YouTube app was "on the road map" shortly after Vision...
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Meta Sold Over 7 Million Smart Glasses Last Year, Effectively Tripling Sales in 2025 Alone
EssilorLuxottica reported its Q4 2025 financial results, revealing the company sold over seven million smart glasses last year.
The French-Italian eyewear conglomerate has been making smart glasses in partnership with Meta since the launch of the original Ray-Ban Stories in...
‘Battlefield’-like VR Shooter ‘Forefront’ is Coming to PSVR 2 with Cross-Play
Triangle Factory announced that its Battlefield-inspired VR shooter Forefront is finally coming to PSVR 2.
There's no release date yet beyond the studio's initial announcement, however Triangle Factory has confirmed that when it does, the 32-player shooter will "support cross...
‘Star Citizen’ VR Support Isn’t Prime Time Yet, But It’s Getting There
Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) added experimental PC VR support to Star Citizen late last year, taking a first step in fulfilling a more than decade-old promise. Things are getting increasingly serious though after the release of its second post-VR update.
Update...
Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Get Massive Utility Boost with Cool (but risky) ClawdBot Hack
If you're comfortable mucking around with a new open source project, you could be shopping on Amazon just by looking at an object with your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are pretty useful out of the box,...
Studio Behind VR’s Most Popular Golf Game Aims to Solve a Key Challenge with Golf Training...
The studio behind GOLF+ (2020) is aiming to expand the game this year in a bid to solve some of the most persistent problems in off-course golfing simulators: building real-world muscle memory in a virtual environment.
Golf+ CEO Ryan Engle announced that the...
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ VR Game is Getting a Steam Demo Ahead of Spring Launch
Cortopia Studios and Beyond Frames Entertainment announced that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City is coming to Quest 3, SteamVR and Pico headsets this Spring.
There's no specific launch date yet beyond the spring release window, although the studios announced that players hoping...
HEADLINES
Valve Reconsiders Steam Frame Price & Release Date Amid RAM & Storage Shortage
Steam Frame is still shipping sometime in the first half of 2026, although now Valve says the current component shortage has led the company to revise both price and release date of the standalone VR headset.
Valve announced in a...
Quest Update Brings New ‘Surface Keyboard’ Feature, UI Changes & More
Meta released a new update for Quest that brings a host of new features, including a new 'Surface Keyboard' that lets you type on any flat surface.
Meta has already started rolling out Quest's v85 update on the public test...
Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future
DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an experimental prototype that Google AI subscribers can try today. Granted, you can't...
XREAL Rolls out Automatic Real-time 3D Conversion Feature for Its AR Glasses
XREAL has rolled out a real-time 3D conversion feature to its flagship AR glasses, which the company says converts any 2D content to 3D.
Xreal initially launched its 'Real 3D' software on Xreal 1S AR glasses earlier this month, however now...
Snap Forms ‘Specs Inc’ to Insulate AR Business Ahead of AR Glasses Launch
Snapchat maker Snap announced it's formed a new business dedicated to its upcoming AR glasses.
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Called Specs Inc, the wholly-owned subsidiary within Snap is said to allow for "greater operational focus and alignment" ahead of the public launch of...
‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ VR Game is Still Coming, Demo Debuting at 30th Anniversary Next Month
Indie studio Pixelity confirmed that its previously announced VR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) is still coming, as the studio just showed off its first teaser image.
Normally a single image wouldn't be cause...
Virtuix Goes Public During a Turbulent Moment for Consumer VR
VR treadmill creator Virtuix is going public, as its Class A ordinary shares will start trading today on the Global Market tier of the Nasdaq. The company's stock market debut comes as consumer VR investment and first-party content spending...
Studio Behind VR Hit ‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Lays Off 25% of Staff, Raises DLC Price Moving...
Mighty Coconut, the indie studio behind Walkabout Mini Golf (2020), announced it's reduced headcount by 25% n addition to raising future DLC prices to offset costs.
Might Coconut founder Lucas Martell published a blogpost explaining some of the difficulties the studio is...
Meta CTO: Metaverse Efforts Led to a “lack of focus” on Quest “at expense of user...
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly acknowledging that Meta’s metaverse efforts suffered from a “lack of focus” that ultimately hurt the user experience on Quest.
Speaking at Axios...