Meta announced it’s discontinuing Horizon Workrooms next month, its productivity-focused VR platform, marking another step in the company’s ongoing restructuring of its VR and metaverse strategy.

Originally launched in 2021 on Quest 2, Workrooms was not only the company’s answer to remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic, but also a first big push to make the Quest platform into a productivity device.

The platform allows up to 50 total participants to interact in a shared space, which includes a mix of 16 Quest users (max) […]

Meta’s recent rash of studio closures means that the planned sequel to Batman: Arkham Shadow has also officially been cancelled.

Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024) was developed by Camouflaj, released exclusively on Quest 3 in late 2024, coming just one week after the launch of Meta’s $300 Quest 3S.

Although it was confirmed the sequel was already underway, with Mark Rolston tapped to reprise his role as Commissioner Gordon, the next Batman: Arkham Shadow VR game is now cancelled.

And it’s not due to poor reception of the game—we […]

Meta and EssilorLuxottica are potentially set to double the expected production target for their smart glasses, according to a recent Bloomberg report.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the report maintains Meta has suggested increasing annual capacity to 20 million units by the end of 2026, as the company hopes to seize growing consumer interest in smart glasses.

Additionally, the report maintains that, provided demand is strong, capacity could exceed 30 million units. Talks […]

Meta has closed at least three of its XR studios, and seems to have also drastically reduced its budget for third-party Quest content too, reportedly including a now-cancelled Harry Potter VR title.

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In his latest video, YouTuber ‘Gamertag VR’ maintains Skydance Games, the makers of Skydance’s Behemoth (2024), was working on an official Harry Potter title set to be exclusive to Quest. At least, that was before Meta ostensibly pulled funding to a number of third-party […]

Against the backdrop of a broader shuffling of its Reality Labs division, Meta is reportedly closing Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru Games, three studios that Meta had previously acquired. The studios were behind some of the company’s biggest first-party VR games, including Deadpool VR, Asgard’s Wrath, and the Resident Evil 4 Quest port.

According to reports by Kotaku and Bloomberg, Meta is shuttering the three studios this week and laying off most or all of their staff.

Among the three studios, Sanzaru Games was […]

Meta is slated to layoff around 10 percent of staff at its Reality Labs XR division, a New York Times report maintains, as the company appears to be shifting focus to AI and smart glasses.

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According to three people with knowledge of internal discussions, cuts could come as early as today, and could affect more than 10 percent of the 15,000-person XR division.

Layoffs are said to affect those working on VR headsets and “a V.R.-based social […]

XREAL, the Beijing-based AR glasses maker, announced it has raised $100 million in a recent funding round.

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Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu broke the news on Bloomberg Television, noting the company secured funding from “supply chain partners” in addition to other backers, which Xu declined to disclose.

According to Crunchbase data, the company has raised a total of $433 million in outside funding since its founding in 2017.

Its second most recent funding round came in May […]

Steam has unveiled its mega list of the most played PC VR games of 2025. And it looks to be another year of ‘old reliables’, as the top 50 only features a single game released that year.

Valve released its annual “best of” games list, again offering insight into what PC VR people are playing on Steam.

As in years past, the list is sectioned into platinum, gold, silver and bronze rankings, and games within those rankings are sorted randomly. Notably, Valve says rankings are […]

Lumus, the company that developed the waveguide optic used in Meta’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, says it has achieved a 70° field-of-view in a new design revealed this week at CES 2026. This conveniently matches the 70° field-of-view that Meta achieved in its ‘Orion’ prototype, but only with the use of novel materials.

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Back in 2024, Meta revealed its first AR glasses prototype, codenamed Orion. One of the prototype’s big innovations was its ability to squeeze a 70° field-of-view into such a […]

Meta released an open source language learning app for Quest 3 that combines mixed reality passthrough and AI-powered object recognition.

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Called Spatial Lingo: Language Practice, the app not only aims to help users practice their English or Spanish using objects in their own room, but also give developers a framework to make their own apps.

Meta calls Spatial Lingo a “cutting-edge showcase app” meant to transform your environment into an interactive classroom thanks to its ability to overlay translated words onto real-world objects, which uses […]

A Chinese company which mass produces many of the best known headsets in the industry has shared a new compact MR headset reference design which sets expectations for 2026.

Goertek is a little-known but massively important player in the XR industry. The company is a key enabler in the production of XR headsets as it provides reference designs which function as blueprints for consumer companies to build headsets, and handles mass production for some of the best known headsets in the industry.

At CES 2026, […]

UNDERDOGS (2024) landed on PSVR 2 back in March 2025, making the popular physics-based mech brawler available across all major VR headsets. While the game is slated to get full multiplayer support on Quest and SteamVR, PSVR 2 owners won’t be so lucky.

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Developer One Hamsa released the news via an Instagram reel this week that Underdogs won’t be getting multiplayer content on PSVR 2.

“Porting to PlayStation is a ton of work. It took months to port Underdogs,” said Game Director Dave Levy. […]

Shiftall, the Japan-based VR hardware startup, is no longer working with Panasonic on its MeganeX series of thin and light PC VR headsets.

Initially acquired by Panasonic in 2018, Shiftall developed a number of devices as the company’s ad hoc internal skunk works, including the first MeganeX PC VR headset, HaritoraX wireless body trackers, FlipVR motion controllers, and mutalk soundproof microphones.

While Panasonic sold off Shiftall in early 2024, the companies continued to collaborate on the MeganeX headset series.

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses seem to be selling too well, as the company announced it’s delaying the international rollout of its first display-clad smart glasses.

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Initially released in the US back in September, Meta said it was hoping to bring the $800 smart glasses to a number of regions in early 2026, which includes a single color display embedded in the right lens.

Now, the company says in a blog post it’s decided to “pause” the planned expansion to the […]