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The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.

XR Industry News

The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.

Meta Ray-Ban Display Repairablity is Predictably Bad, But Less Than You Might Think

iFixit got their hands on a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, so we finally get to see what's inside. Is it repairable? Not really. But if you can somehow find replacement parts, you could at least potentially...

Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Are Now Available, But That Doesn’t Mean Buying is Easy

Ray-Ban Display, Meta's first smart glasses with a display, are now available for sale. However, unless you're in the US and in a handful of major metropolitan areas, it's difficult to get your hands on a pair. The News Meta Ray-Ban...

Meta Ray-Ban Display Waveguide Provider Says It’s Poised for Wide Field-of-view Glasses

SCHOTT—a global leader in advanced optics and specialty glass—working with waveguide partner Lumus, is almost certainly the manufacturer of the waveguide optics in Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses. While the Ray-Ban Display glasses offer only a static 20° field-of-view, the...

Valve Expands ‘Steam Link’ PC VR Streaming to More Headsets and Opens the Door to Android...

Valve today announced that it's bringing its wireless PC VR streaming software, Steam Link, to five more headsets from PICO and HTC. The company also plans to make it easier for headset makers to bring Steam Link to even more...

Hideo Kojima’s Studio Partners with Niantic Spatial on Enigmatic AR Game of the “near future”

Hideo Kojima's production company and Niantic Spatial released a new teaser showing off a concept for an AR game that the studios see as a "significant moment for both companies." The teaser, seen below, follows a player wearing a futuristic...

Samsung Android XR Headset Rumored to Release Next Month, Undercutting Apple Vision Pro

Samsung could be launching its Project Moohan mixed reality headset next month, according to a report from South Korea's ETNews (Korean), which hopes to take on Apple Vision Pro in the prosumer XR segment. Citing industry sources, ETNews maintains that Samsung’s Mobile Experience...

Why Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Failed on Stage at Connect

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at this year's Connect wasn't exactly smooth—especially if you count two big hiccups that sidetracked live demos for both the latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen...

New Meta Developer Tool Enables Third-parties to Bring Apps to its Smart Glasses for the First...

Today during Connect, Meta announced the Wearables Device Access Toolkit, which represents the company's first steps toward allowing third-party experiences on its smart glasses. If the name "Wearables Device Access Toolkit" sounds a little strange, it's for good reason. Compared to...

Hands-on: Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses & Neural Band Offer a Glimpse of Future AR Glasses

The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the 'Neural Band' input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality. But Meta has made several clever design choices that will pay dividends once their true...

Meta Unveils Ray-Ban Smart Glasses with Display, Launching for $800 This Month

At the Connect developer conference today, Meta officially unveiled its next generation of smart glasses built with Essilor Luxottica, essentially confirming yesterday's big leak, which includes the long-rumored pair with a single heads-up display. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off...

Meta Reveals Next-Gen Ray-Ban & New Oakley Vanguard Smart Glasses

Undoubtedly the smart glasses headliner of Meta Connect this year was the new $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses, which pack in a single display into a familiar Wayfarer-style package. Alongside it though, Meta showed off two new smart glasses:...

VITURE Launches ‘Luma Ultra’ AR Glasses with Sony Micro-OLED Panels

VITURE has now launched Luma Ultra AR glasses, which pack in Sony's latest micro-OLED to go along with spatial gesture tracking thanks to onboard sensor array. Priced at $600, and now shipping worldwide, Viture Luma Ultra is targeting prosumers, enterprise...

Meta Leaks Next-gen Smart Glasses with Display Ahead of Connect This Week

It seems Meta has a new generation of smart glasses to show off at Connect this week, and it appears we've just got an eye-full of the long-rumored version with a built-in display, previously codenamed 'Hypernova'. As first reported by...

Snap Releases Spectacles OS 2.0 Ahead of 2026 Launch of Consumer AR Glasses

Snapchat creator Snap today released Snap OS 2.0, the XR operating system powering its fifth and upcoming sixth gen Spectacles AR glasses, which are expected to launch next year. Snap's sixth gen Spectacles (aka 'Specs') are looking to appeal to...

Virtualware Seals €5M Deal to Support Virtual Vocational Training in Spain

Virtualware, the Spain-based XR and 3D simulation software company, announced it's secured a €5 million ($5.8 million) deal to broadly roll out its VIROO platform in vocational training facilities supported by Spain's Ministry of Education. The six-year contract allows Virtualware...
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