Apple announces visionOS 26 with spatial widgets, including Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos, all-new Personas, Spatial scenes powered by AI, and more
visionOS 26 sets the stage for killer smart glasses Ben Lang / Road to VR : Vision Pro Will Allow ‘Optional’ and ‘Required’ Designations for Apps Using Motion Controllers David Heaney / UploadVR : vis...
Infinite Reality, which is building an engine for creating immersive web content, says it has raised $3B from an unnamed private investor at a $12.25B valuation
Ben Lang / Road to VR :
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS for headsets and smart glasses, with Gemini built in, and plans a 2025 debut with Samsung's Project Moohan headset
I'm way more excited about Android XR in smart glasses Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Data Sheet: We don't judge Rebekah Carter / XR Today : Microsoft XR and Windows Mixed Reality: Could the HoloLens Make a...
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...
Microsoft releases Xbox Cloud Gaming in beta on the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers
here's how to play Kieron Verbrugge / Press Start : Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Now Available On Meta Quest VR Headsets David Matthews / TechSpot : Meta Quest owners can now play Xbox games on their headsets...
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...
Valve announces SteamVR 2.0 in beta, with an updated keyboard, Steam Chat and Voice Chat integration, and an improved Store, after teasing the project in 2019
Valve announces SteamVR 2. is in beta, offering enhanced support … PC Gamer : Valve launches SteamVR 2.0 beta with 'goal of bringing all of what's new on the Steam platform into VR' Tomislav Bezmalino...
Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by NTT Docomo to expand its web-based virtual events platform Vket Cloud
Ben Lang / Road to VR :
FCC documents reveal unannounced Samsung HMD Odyssey+ VR headset with same resolution per eye and field of view as the first Odyssey, new “AMOLED+SFS” display
Ben Lang / Road to VR :
Magic Leap says this summer it will start shipping the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, running on the Nvidia Tegra X2, with AT&T as the sole US wireless vendor
The Verge Adi Robertson / The Verge : Magic Leap is shipping its first headset this summer Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Magic Leap's mixed reality headset is coming this summer Matthew Handrahan...