Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with the main Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026
An Optical See-Through XR Device for Android XR David Heaney / UploadVR : Xreal's Project Aura Will Support Google's Android XR Via A Tethered Puck Mahnoor Faisal / XDA Developers : XREAL's upcoming A...
The FCC opens all 1,200 megahertz of the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by very-low-power devices, citing growth in wearables, AR/VR, and other cutting-edge tech
The move, which the agency says will spur innovation, had been opposed by the NAB for its potential impact on newsgathering
Sources: Meta plans to release a new MR device codenamed Puffin in 2027, resembling a bulky pair of glasses with a second unit for battery and computing power
Report Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Meta Reportedly Considering Smaller Mixed Reality “Glasses” for Release in 2027 Sarah Fields / Game Rant : Meta is Reportedly Working on a Super-Light Mixed Reality ...
Kuo: Apple plans to mass produce new AirPods with camera modules by 2026, which will include an IR camera like the iPhone's Face ID receiver, for use in AR/VR
According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is targeting to begin mass production of new “AirPods with camera modules” by 2026.
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest
Apple released the Vision Pro on February 2; 12 days later Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered his verdict: Ben Lang / Road to VR : Oculus Founder Reacts to Horizon OS News: “Hopefully it isn't too lat...
IDC: the global market for AR/VR headsets fell 23.5% YoY in 2023 but grew 130.4% YoY in Q4, when Meta's share surpassed 60%, up from less than 40% in Q4 2022
Meta's Reality Labs reports Q3 revenue down 26% YoY to $210M, vs. $299.3M est., and operating loss up 2% YoY to $3.74B, vs. $3.9B est.
Quest 2 Sales Slump Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Meta's VR division lost $3.7 billion last quarter, bringing total losses to almost $40 billion since 2020 Tomislav Bezmalinovic / MIXED Reality News : Meta...
A look at solid-state speakers etched from silicon and their potential applications, like helping people with hearing loss and making AR/VR objects feel real
And AirPods could be first. — Silicon-based, solid-state speakers for earbuds, over the counter hearing aids, even exotic stuff like arrays of ultrasound generators to make objects in augmented real...
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
Apple Vision Pro Vlad Savov / Bloomberg : Apple's Growth Vision Is Getting Hard for Some to See Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely : Apple's Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won't Tim Cook say that? D...