Pico’s 2026 Headset To Have 4K Micro-OLED Displays & An R1-Style Chip

Pico’s 2026 headset will have 4K micro-OLED displays and a dedicated R1-style passthrough chip, a ByteDance executive reportedly said.

Godot Now Supports More XR Features & Builds A Universal OpenXR APK

Godot now supports Vulkan foveated rendering on Android, Application SpaceWarp, DirectX 12, and OpenXR render models, and can build a universal OpenXR APK.

POOLS Makes A Splash On PlayStation VR2 Today

POOLS brings the eerie walking simulator to PS VR2 today with native 120Hz support, and a free VR-supported demo is now live.

Inu Atsume VR Is A Dog Lover’s Best Friend

Inu Atsume is a delightful virtual pet sim for dog lovers across VR and mixed reality.

New Apple Immersive Content Coming Soon to Vision Pro From Real Madrid and Red Bull

Apple announced the next slate of immersive content is on its way to Vision Pro, this time bringing an immersive documentary from Real Madrid and some extreme sports from Red Bull. First reported by GQ Spain and later confirmed by Apple, next year Apple and Spanish football club Real Madrid are teaming up on a […]

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Godot Gets Big OpenXR Update Aiming to Attract XR Devs from Unity

Godot, the open source game engine, has included basic OpenXR support for a number of years now, allowing developers to easily publish their apps across a variety of XR headsets. Now, Godot just an update that brings even more OpenXR functionality, aiming to make the free and open source engine even more attractive to XR […]

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Crew Works Wide Variety of Research and Awaits New Arrivals

High intensity exercising and droplets teeming with particles were the main research topics aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. The Expedition 73 crew is also preparing to welcome three new crewmates this week while another trio gets ready to return to Earth next month.

Soyuz Rocket Rolls Out as Cygnus Parks Away from Station

A Soyuz rocket rolled out to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today to begin counting down to a Thanksgiving Day liftoff of three new crew members to the International Space Station.

The Best Black Friday Tech Deals Under $25

Save up to 50% on Echo speakers, Apple AirTags, Roku sticks, and more.

The Just-Released Pixel Watch 4 Already Has a Great Black Friday Deal

A great smartwatch for your Android phone.

The Phone-Shaped Viwoods AiPaper Reader Hasn’t Been Out a Month, and It’s Already $42 Off for Black Friday

The newest phone-shaped e-reader on the market is already 15% off.

This AirPods Competitor Has Noise Cancelling and Is Just $60 This Black Friday

Much cheaper than the AirPods 4 (with ANC).

?? Google Drops Nano Banana Pro and Changes AI Images Forever

PLUS: OpenAI details how GPT-5 will accelerate scientific breakthroughs…

The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy

Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. In this week’s conversation MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa…

What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate

In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from building AI that played games with superhuman skill and was starting up a secret project to predict the structures of proteins. He applied for a job. Just three years later, Jumper celebrated a stunning win…

The Download: how to fix a tractor, and living among conspiracy theorists

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home with a woodstove, and…

Threads Adds Group Chat Invites to Encourage DM Discussion

Now, you can more easily build your DM group in the app.

TikTok Launches ‘Foundry’ Program to Promote its Ads

The program offers incentives to venture capital and private equity firms looking to build their portfolio brands.

Facebook Will Now Let You Use a Nickname When Posting in Groups

The update could help people feel more comfortable contributing in groups.

X Clarifies Details About its New Location Sharing Feature

X says that some of the location info is not correct as yet. 

AI Can Bring Real-World Objects Into VR In Seconds

AI can bring real-world objects into VR as 3D assets in seconds, with Meta’s new SAM 3D Objects model setting a new standard for quality.

Marble Turns An Image Into A WebXR Volumetric Scene In Minutes

Marble, an AI model from World Labs, can turn a single image into a volumetric scene that you can view in WebXR in a matter of minutes.

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked Review: A Natural Crossover

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is a mostly natural crossover and a fitting evolution for the VR tabletop RPG.

Les Mills XR Dance Steps Onto Steam Next Month

Fitness experience Les Mills XR Dance gets a PC VR release next month.

Meta Reveals ‘WorldGen’ Tool to Generate VR Worlds from AI Prompts

Meta announced WorldGen, a new AI tool that could soon let you generate navigable 3D worlds in minutes from a single text prompt. The News Meta Reality Labs announced WorldGen in a blog post, a research-stage system for generating fully navigable, stylistically coherent 3D worlds from a single text prompt. As outlined in WorldGen’s research […]

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