Meta and Microsoft unveiled the Quest 3S Xbox Edition, a limited edition bundle that launches today, packing in everything you need for both XR and Xbox cloud gaming.

Make no bones about it: this isn’t Xbox’s long-awaited answer to PlayStation VR—i.e. it’s not a headset that you can hook up to your Xbox to play VR games. Essentially, it’s a new, limited edition colorway of the standard Quest 3S (128GB), skinned in Xbox’s Carbon Black and Velocity Green. Ok, it is slightly more than that.

Priced […]

Ahead of Google’s planned rollout of Android XR-equipped smart glasses, the company is reportedly making a $100 million investment in hardware partner Gentle Monster, the South Korean fashion eyewear brand.

According to a Korean Economic Daily report, Google is slated to sign a deal worth around 145.0 billion Korean won (~$100 million) in Gentle Monster.

Citing investment banking sources, the report maintains talks are now at final stages, wherein Google will obtain a 4% stake in the South Korean eyewear brand.

Google announced in May that it […]

VR treadmill company Virtuix launched a crowd-based investment campaign late last year to further scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion device. Now, the campaign’s second phase (Series B-2) has come to an end, garnering the company over $3 million.

The company’s Series B-2 round has come to a close, which offered Series B Preferred Stock to investors via crowd-based platform StartEngine, making for a total of $3,272,865 raised from over 1,300 investors. Overall, this puts its entire […]

Meta kicked off its big ‘Mega Summer Sale‘ on Quest this past weekend, bringing deep savings to VR games, apps, and DLC packs until June 29th.

There are currently hundreds of games on sale, ranging from some of the latest VR games, to old favorites that never go out of style.

We rounded up a few of our favorites below:

Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms. The partnership could be mutually beneficial as Snap’s platforms will get city-scale positioning capabilities while Niantic could see a massive influx of user-generated data to enhance its ‘Visual Positioning System’.

Many AR devices today are capable of localizing themselves within an arbitrary environment. An AR headset, for instance, looks at the room around you and uses […]

Meta today revealed its next smart glasses built in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica— Oakley Meta Glasses.

As a part of the extended collaboration, Meta and EssilorLuxottica today unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced HOW-stuhn), the companies’ next smart glasses following the release of Ray-Ban Meta in 2023.

Pre-orders are slated to arrive on July 11th for its debut version, priced at $499: the Limited Edition Oakley Meta HSTN, which features gold accents and 24K PRIZM polarized lenses.

Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist is slated to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign next week, aiming to revive the fun of recently shuttered VR MMO Orbus VR.

Coming June 24th, the Eldramoor Kickstarter is hoping to garner support for a new VR MMORPG, slated to launch on Quest 3 and SteamVR headsets late next year.

Founded by ex-Orbus players, developer Resolute Games took on the challenge early last year, forming the studio in February 2024 to create a VRMMO to pick up where […]

TDK, the Japan-based electronic component and software company, announced it’s acquired SoftEye, the US-based smart glasses hardware and software maker.

TDK calls the acquisition of SoftEye a “key milestone in the development of TDK’s contribution to the entire AI ecosystem and reinforces the business portfolio to establish a leadership position in this critical market.”

While financial terms have not been made public, a Reuters report claims the deal is worth “less than $100 million,” according to a source familiar with the matter.

SoftEye, a San Diego-based company, […]

Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week that Vision Pro is set to support PSVR 2 Sense controllers when visionOS 26 launches this Fall. While still in developer beta, YouTuber ‘Nathie’ got a chance to go hands-on, showing off just how the controllers work.

In the video, Nathie shows off PSVR 2 Sense controllers scrolling through some of Vision Pro’s most basic systems, including browsing apps via its UI, as well as exploring some of the new content coming to […]

Meta-owned Beat Games announced its block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2019) will no longer receive updates on PSVR and PSVR 2 starting today, with multiplayer slated to go offline early next year.

The studio announced in an X post that PS4/PS5 versions of the game will no longer be updated, effective immediately, as Beat Games looks “to the future and plan[s] the next big leap for Beat Saber.” 

Beat Games say players on PSVR and PSVR 2 will continue to be able […]

CM Games, the studio behind the Into the Radius series, announced it’s releasing its next game UnLoop in September, bringing single-player puzzles with a unique time-looping twist.

As a spy infiltrating a remote space station, UnLoop thrusts you into a temporal phenomenon that creates a copy of yourself each loop, letting you cooperatively solve puzzles with past versions of yourself.

Using your copies, players bypass increasingly complicated door-opening challenges, spurring them to retrieve critical data from the station, and ultimately uncover the source of the mysterious time loop.

Onward (2020), the tactical mil-sim shooter from Meta-owned Downpour Interactive, got its big 2.0 update in March, bringing improved visuals and a host of new content to the game. Now, Downpour Interactive announced that Meta is shutting down the studio, effectively halting development and moving employees to sister studio Camouflaj.

Downpour Interactive announced the news in a blogpost, detailing what’s happening next.

“Update 2.0 will be the last content for Onward,” the studio says, further noting that while the […]

Apple is bringing a huge visual upgrade to its Persona avatars on Vision Pro in VisionOS 26. After seeing the new system first-hand, it’s hard not to be impressed. But a major question remains—how will Apple overcome the challenge of bringing this level of fidelity to smaller headsets with even less room for the cameras that are essential for this kind of tech?

Personas in VisionOS 26 Raise the Bar Higher Still

The existing Persona system on […]