The regular iPhone 16 can capture spatial videos, meaning the number of people with a 3D camera in their pocket will soon reach hundreds of millions.
You Can Now Share Your First Person View In Messenger Calls On Quest
You can now share your first person view during video calls in Messenger on Quest headsets.
New Hellsweeper VR Roadmap Promises Katana & New Game Mode
Hellsweeper VR revealed a new post-launch roadmap, adding a katana and new miniboss in this month’s Resurgence update.
Vision Pro Hackathon Takes Place This Week With $25K in Cash & Prizes
Vision Hack, the world’s first global visionOS hackathon, is being held this week from September 13–15th. The organizer has announced $25K in cash & prizes on offer for winners. Guest Article by Cosmo Scharf Cosmo Scharf is an Emmy-nominated product designer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience in XR. He co-founded Vision Hack and visionOS Dev Partners to support […]
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‘Beat Saber’ Gets New Eminem Track as Part of Surprise ‘Shock Drop’ Songs
Beat Saber is getting ‘Shock Drops’, something Meta calls a “new-ish hit single to keep things fresh,” the first of which is Eminem’s Houdini. Houdini, the chart-topping song from Eminem’s twelfth studio album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), has had over over 138 million views on YouTube and over 340 million listens on […]
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‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ Gets First Big Patch Today Following Critical Misfire
Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded flopped pretty hard when it launched on Quest 3 last week, currently garnering it a [2,7/5] star user rating to go along with an overwhelmingly negative reaction from reviewers far and wide. Now developer XR Games is pushing out its first big update which hopes to address a myriad of issues. In […]
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Sharp & Japan’s Largest Telecom Unveil Lightweight AR Glasses ‘MiZRA’
Sharp and Japan’s largest telecom NTT Docomo today announced a new pair of AR glasses called MiZRA, which is hitting the Japanese market sometime his Fall. It would be pretty tough to mistake Mizra for a normal pair of glasses, what with its chunky struts and rims, 6DOF tracking sensors, and center-mounted camera—not to mentions […]
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Astronauts Rest After Starliner Lands; Soyuz Crew Nears Launch
Six of the nine orbital residents living and working aboard the International Space Station relaxed on Monday following last week’s departure of Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner spacecraft. The trio on duty today readied for the next crew to launch to the orbital outpost and tested a negative pressure suit. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams …
Bluesky and Threads Rise Following X’s Brazil Ban
Brazilian users are shifting to other apps in the wake of the X ban in the region.
Snapchat Faces Lawsuit in New Mexico Over Failure to Protect Young Users
An investigation by the New Mexico DOJ found that Snap had failed to protect youngsters from exploitation.
VRChat Spotlight: NUCLEUS, Virtual Museum of Visual Art, & The Library of Hilbert
Don Hopper wraps up our exploration of the best community recommended worlds in VRChat by visiting three more exciting destinations… Where will he end up this week?
Vestiges: Fallen Tribes Is A PC VR Auto Battler Launching Next Month
Vestiges: Fallen Tribes, a strategic card game with autobattler mechanics from the Propagation team, reaches SteamVR in early access next month.
ICYMI This Week: Subside, Beat Saber, Sandbox VR, The Mixologist & More
Our latest VR news roundup is live and we’re highlighting stories we previously missed, like Subside confirming a Steam release date.
Memoreum Preview – Dead Space Meets Alien: Isolation
Memoreum excels with its physicality and tactile controls, and we previewed the upcoming VR survival horror game.
Puzzle Sculpt Exchanges Minesweeping For Spatial Sculpting On Apple Vision Pro
Puzzle Sculpt exchanges minesweeping for spatial sculpting on Apple Vision Pro, available now on Apple Arcade from Schell Games.
Starliner Lands in New Mexico
At 12 a.m. EDT, Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner spacecraft landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA will provide coverage of a post-landing news conference at 1:30 a.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. The following will participate in the news conference: Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, Space Operations Mission …
NASA’s Coverage Underway, Starliner Prepares for Deorbit Burn
NASA’s coverage is underway on NASA+, the NASA app, and YouTube, and the agency’s website as Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner spacecraft prepares for deorbit burn, entry, and landing. Starliner autonomously undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 6:04 p.m. EDT, and mission managers gave a “go” for the spacecraft to …
Uncrewed Starliner Undocks from Station for Return to Earth
At 6:04 p.m. EDT, Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station. Starliner is headed for a deorbit burn at 11:17 p.m. and a targeted landing at 12 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA’s coverage will begin at 10:50 p.m. for deorbit burn, entry, and landing …
The PICO 4 Ultra: How it Compares to the PICO 4
For a while, rumors have been circulating about the arrival of the “PICO 4 Ultra” headset- a new mixed-reality device offering incremental improvements to the previous PICO 4. When the Bytedance-owned XR company introduced the PICO 4, it was meant to compete with the popular Meta Quest 2. Like Meta’s device, Pico’s headset supported hands-free […]
Qualcomm Reveals AR Smart Glasses Project with Samsung and Google
Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm has announced it is designing AR smart glasses with Samsung and Google that can be powered by your smartphone. The partnership itself is not new. Qualcomm partnered with Google and Samsung at the beginning of the year to strengthen XR use cases for headset and smart glasses with the help […]
Can Meta Quest 3 Track Location? Managing Tracking Features
Can the Meta Quest 3 track location, and how do you manage the tracking features on the device? If you’ve already experimented with the Quest 3, or read our recent review, you’ll know it comes with a bunch of handy “tracking” capabilities. The device doesn’t offer eye tracking (unlike competitors, such as the Apple Vision […]
Apple Vision Pro OS 2: What’s New for VisionOS 2?
When Apple launched the Vison Pro, it didn’t just introduce the world to a new era of spatial computing and mixed reality experiences. It also launched an exciting new spatial operating system: VisionOS. Now the solution is getting a significant update with “Apple Vision Pro OS 2”. VisionOS 2, as it is officially named by […]
YouTube Implements Restrictions on Content Recommendations for Teens
YouTube is trying to limit the harm caused by repeated exposure to certain content.