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In Virtual Reality News What’s the story? Sandbox VR will open its 100th location, and its first in New York City, on October 23 at 777 7th Avenue in Times ... continue reading Source
Google says Gemini 4 Argon cut its own time on a pick-and-place task from 58.9 seconds to 17.4 across three attempts on a 6-DoF robot arm, working out what went wrong from its own logs and camera footage in between. The figures come from a…
Linux owners are reporting that games freeze for good within seconds of an alt-tab, and that switching Steam’s in-game overlay off is what stops it. Valve has merged four reports into two issues on its own trackers, issue 13709 and issue…
Squingle Arcade has added a one-time purchase that takes the wait for Energy out of a free-to-play VR puzzle game. VRAL Games says Limitless is "an optional one-time purchase that gives you infinite Energy across the whole game" and that…
Apple has run Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model from Meta with 42 billion parameters active at a time, across four Mac Studios and measured over 36 tokens a second. Apple’s machine learning researchers say the model "cannot…
Anthropic has taken fast mode out of research preview on Claude Opus 5.5, so asking for it no longer needs an access request or a beta header. The release notes dated October 15 say the model "now has a default fast mode rate limit in the…
Meta's AI glasses can now recognise eight artworks inside Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera and play the museum's own spoken description of each one through the frames, and it is a tour a visitor books rather than a demo on a stage. Meta says it…
The Support Group expansion went live in I Am Your Beast VR on October 15, adding nine new levels and a new epilogue four weeks after the game reached Steam. Impact Inked says the expansion "adds a new epilogue to the game and brings nine…
Valve has closed a Linux bug report with the line that "the current point release of ALVR is not supportable on SteamVR's side", and the release it means, ALVR v20.14.1, is 15 months old. kisak-valve, the Valve member account that triages…
Logins and signups stopped working across every ChatGPT mobile app on October 15, and OpenAI rated the failure major. The record on OpenAI's own incident feed opens at 16:29:26 UTC and closes at 18:56:00 UTC, two hours, 26 minutes and 34…
The Linux Steam client is now a 64-bit application and runs inside a Steam Runtime container, Valve says in a beta client note published at 22:04 UTC on October 15. But a requirements document a Valve engineer added to the client's own…
Spymaster left Early Access on October 15 with four brand-new missions, one more than InnerspaceVR said it was building. The studio promised "three brand-new missions" when it dated the 1.0 release in September, and its launch post counts…
Samsung's first smart glasses weigh about 41 grams with standard lenses, according to SammyGuru, which also counts 26 frame and colour versions across the two eyewear brands building them. Samsung has published no weight, no price and no…
Six staff from METR, a non-profit that evaluates frontier AI models, now have Anthropic company hardware, office space and access to its internal tools and systems, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish about it. Anthropic says that…
In Augmented Reality News What’s the story? XREAL launches XREAL 1 Pro+, an updated version of its One Pro augmented reality glasses with a display reaching up to 1,200 nits, ... continue reading Source
24 repositories carrying the Steam Frame's kernel, graphics drivers, bootloader and fan control were created on the evlaV GitHub organisation between 23:48:55 UTC on October 13 and 00:01:32 the next morning, 18 of them carrying the Frame's…
I expected something a bit different when I first booted up Convrgence for the first time; for a game selling itself as an extraction shooter, with vibes bringing to mind S.T.A.L.K.E.R, I expected a game with open-ended exploration and an…
Knights of Fiona gets the last chapter of its story on October 20, and anyone who paid $18.99 for the Story Pass gets it at no extra cost. CharacterBank says the Ver. 1.1 update adds Chapter 6, "the final chapter of the main story", and…
Steam is grouping a game’s achievements into developer-made sets, each with its own progress bar and its own trophy, and letting developers archive achievements nobody can unlock any more. Valve says it is "starting a beta for Steam…
Switching Claude Code to a model with a smaller context window could spend your usage credits on a summary written by the model you were leaving, without asking first. Anthropic’s changelog says version 2.1.301 fixes that case, and the npm…
Meta says the issue behind reports of its Ray-Ban glasses starting Meta AI without the "Hey Meta" wake phrase has been resolved, and it has not said what the issue was. Its entire answer, given to Android Authority on October 13, was two…
Mothergunship: Forge has changed engine. Terrible Posture Games says its October 15 update is "a behind-the-scenes massive upgrade to the core engine from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5.7", and that it ships with full hand tracking on Meta Quest…
The Steam Frame kernel tree does carry an OLED panel driver, and it is not the 3552x3840 panel that a mid-generation OLED Frame was read out of this week. panel-deckard-oled.c is on a branch of its own, declares a single mode of 1776x1920…
This year's free annual spooky update for Synth Riders brings Apashe's Lord & Master, a dark, cinematic track built for the Halloween season. In addition to the new song, the spooky update also brings limited time changes to the Spin City…
Supernatural announced it will soon be launching with new features in Early Access on the Quest store, as the newly independent team of 15 people continue to build out the full experience. According to Supernatural, Early Access users can…
Spymaster, the latest project from A Fisherman's Tale developer Innerspace, leaves Early Access after five months with the full release adding four new missions to conclude the story campaign. We played Spymaster in Early Access, finding…
Payne's Valley, the first public course designed by world-famous golfer Tiger Woods, is the latest addition to the GOLF+ catalog. The recently added Immersive Putting mode will also be spun off to its own app with carryover from the main…
Codex’s network proxy was resolving a hostname before it checked whether that host was allowed, so the name went out to whoever runs your DNS even when the proxy then refused the connection. OpenAI’s changelog says Codex CLI 0.163.0…
Steam Frame was switching Wi-Fi power saving back on at startup even when the setting had been turned off, Valve says, and the fix is in a Steam client build that reached every owner on October 15. The note went up at 21:53 UTC, says the…
Beat Saber's Level Editor can now hold 10,000 basic light events in a map instead of 120. Beat Games says in its patch notes for v1.45.3, out on October 15, that "the limit for basic (v1/v2) light events went up from 120 to 10,000", and…
Xreal put a new pair of display glasses on sale on October 15, and the Xreal 1 Pro+ costs exactly what the One Pro it follows costs, $599 in the US. Xreal's own US store published the listing at 11:54 UTC that day, in two frame sizes split…
Anthropic’s Compliance API can now return the text each member of a Claude Enterprise organisation typed into Instructions for Claude in claude.ai, and because that setting belongs to the account rather than to the organisation, the same…
SteamOS 0.5.6 for Steam Frame adds .apk files to the right-click "add to steam" menu in Desktop mode, which puts an Android package on the same library shelf as a Steam game. Valve's patch notes say the build is for the Frame's Beta…
The next mainline Arizona Sunshine game is not a VR game, and it has moved out of 2026. Vertigo Games says it launches on January 21, 2027 on PC and consoles with "a brand-new 3rd-person perspective built from the ground up", and the Steam…
Anthropic says Claude reliably refused a single harmful election request when two independent research organisations tried to get past its safeguards, but could miss a whole malicious campaign once that campaign was split into requests…
RayNeo's companion app for its AI glasses can now download translation and transcription models to the phone, and take the audio from the phone's own microphone instead of the glasses. RayNeo AI 1.0.6 reached the App Store on October 14 at…
Steam will now tell you before you install a Linux-unfriendly game on a desktop PC, not only on a Steam Deck. Valve’s October 13 client notes say that "On Desktop Linux we will now show the SteamOS unsupported dialog when installing games…
The third Steam Next Fest of 2026 kicks off on October 19 with multiple PC VR demos already popping up on Steam. Read on for a list of the ones that stood out to us. We will have a full list of every PC VR demo when Next Fest starts next…
From the director of The House of the Devil, X, Pearl, MaXXXine, Apple Immersive’s first horror film, Remnants, is available in the Apple TV app starting at 6pm PT today. The approximately 24-minute experience (27 minutes, including…
Beat Saber gets into the spooky spirit with its latest shock drop, the theme from Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Beat Games has announced the latest shock drop for Beat Saber. Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. brings the title track from the…
Free-to-play co-op JRPG Knights of Fiona drops Version 1.1 on October 20 with a story-concluding Chapter 6 and multiple updates based on player feedback. The new chapter will be available to all players who purchased the $18.99 Story Pass…
Cooperative wave shooter Stuffed: Two Foot Hero confirms a November 3 release date on Quest and PC VR. A new demo is available now on Steam ahead of next week's Next Fest. Stuffed: Two Foot Hero , first revealed at August's VR Games…
Sandisk, a longstanding memory and storage manufacturer known for USB flash drives, portable SSDs, and memory cards, including microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, has announced new storage offerings for Meta Quest headsets…
Valve’s Steam Frame is barely out the door, but now data mining has reportedly surfaced that an OLED version may already in the works. The News As reported by Steam Frame Hub , Valve may be working on a new version of Steam Frame, which…
In XR News October 15, 2026 – UDEXREAL, a Hong Kong-based developer of stretchable sensor technology and the company behind the UDCAP range of hand tracking gloves for robotics, simulation and ... continue reading Source
Co-operative story-driven VR puzzle game Daumier: Lila & Ghost is out now on Quest, and those who buy the game during the first month will get an additional game key to share with a friend. Daumier: Lila & Ghost is a co-operative…
XREAL today announced XREAL 1 Pro+, a hardware refresh of its One Pro flagship AR glasses. Launching today at $599, Xreal 1 Pro+ includes a modest set of improvements over the original One Pro, which launched in early 2025. Principally…
If you were hoping for better audio and battery life from Valve’s recently released Steam Frame, the company has confirmed it’s creating a headstrap to solve just that. Valve confirmed with PC Gamer (via Skarred Ghost ) that it’s working…
In XR News What’s the story? Kopin Corporation has secured a USD $18.6 million sole-source US government award to develop two more MicroLED displays for ground soldier equipment and pilot ... continue reading Source
Titanfall 2 VR, a mod that brings the game’s campaign to VR headsets is no less impressive than the flatscreen version, but feels fundamentally different. The original flatscreen version of Titanfall 2 leveraged an innovative combination…
The Magic Castle is an exclusive private club and home to the Academy of Magical Arts. It sits on a hill overlooking old Hollywood and hosts members and invited guests as they present and enjoy some of the best magic in the world. It is…
BattleGroupVR2 in Early Access is already an enticing tactical simulation in space that improves on its predecessor on nearly every level. Strategy games are almost perfect for VR - positioning a player like a gamemaster above the board…
The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand is a spooky and mystical shooter that gives players their very own magic wand and a list of tricky spells to conjure - though you should expect plenty of grinding and practice before you become a master…
The launch of Meta VR Glasses next year will mark the first time any of the company’s standalone headsets has featured expandable storage. Now, Meta and Sandisk have partnered to offer official ‘Made for Meta’ microSD and USB-C flash drive…
Index, Valve’s PC VR headset released in 2019, is officially on its way out. And to see it along, Valve has dropped the price of everything Index-related. The News Valve Index is no longer being produced, which means this could be your…
Terrible Posture Games announced a major update for their roguelite shooter Mothergunship: Forge, the first major update in three years. Called the "Thank You, Recruit! Update," it drops on October 15, bringing a whole slew of changes to…
SideQuest has been the number one unofficial store for Quest games ever since its founding in 2019. Now, it just got a lot easier to download and get playing. Downloading SideQuest used to mean going through a cumbersome setup process…
Regulatory filings in Japan may have inadvertently leaked Pico’s next flagship headset in full—inside and out. As first spotted by UploadVR , images of Pico’s Vison Pro competitor ‘Space Pro’ have leaked ahead of its planned Q4 2026…
Getting a Steam Frame for the holidays could be a bit dicey, as Valve says the order queue has now stretched into 2027. Valve says in a news update that customers hoping to get their hands on Steam Frame, the recently launched standalone…
Valve just released a new update for Steam Frame that improves battery lifetime, steaming quality, connectivity issues, and more. Steam Frame launched last month, bringing with it the ability for users to not only stream PC and PC VR games…
In XR News What’s the story? Avalon Holographics has announced it has received a CAD $11.7 million commitment from Lockheed Martin Canada for its holographic displays, including a new CAD ... continue reading Source
Images of ByteDance's upcoming headset, Pico Space Pro, have surfaced in Japanese regulatory filings. Pico and TikTok owner ByteDance first mentioned the existence of its next headset during a presentation in November 2025 , revealing some…