Monday, 12 October 2026
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AR glasses, VR headsets, spatial computing and the platforms around them.
Samsung's first Android XR smart glasses have cleared the US Federal Communications Commission, the last major regulatory checkpoint before a product can go on sale. Two model numbers, SM-O200P and SM-O200J, surfaced in FCC filings during…
Felix & Paul Studios, the Montreal studio behind one of virtual reality's most acclaimed documentary franchises, filed for bankruptcy protection on September 10, 2026. Court filings put its liabilities at roughly $34.5 million.
A festival exploring virtual and extended reality art is opening across two Pakistani cities next month, not one.
Every AR glasses launch this year has argued over displays — field of view, brightness, pixel density. Vonder skipped the display entirely.
Meta unveiled its next VR headset at Connect 2026 on September 23 - pitched as a media device, not a metaverse one. Meta VR Glasses ships spring 2027 at $1,299.99, weighs about 100 grams (roughly a fifth of a Quest 3), and moves its…
Snap's AR glasses launch on September 16 revealed something bigger than a spec sheet.
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset opened for reservations on September 14, priced at $1,059 for the 256GB kit and $1,299 for the 1TB kit, each bundled with the Steam Frame Controllers, a Wi-Fi 6E streaming adapter, and Half-Life: Alyx.…
VR headset shipments fell 18% year over year in Q2 2026. AR device shipments, in the same quarter, rose 138%.
A new training method from the University of Surrey and NVIDIA is closing one of the harder problems in real-time AI video: getting a generated scene to actually follow the camera command it was given.
Apple and Meta made opposite bets on immersive video in the same two weeks.
Pico canceled its own hardware launch nine days before it was scheduled to happen.
Venice Immersive turns ten this year — the Extended Reality competition that runs alongside the Venice Film Festival, and the first XR competition ever held at an A-list film festival when it launched in 2017.
Snap has spent two years showing its AR Specs only inside rooms it controlled.
RayNeo shipped two AR glasses lines this week that don't agree on what AR glasses are for.
Apple Vision Pro streamed its first live sports broadcast in Apple Immersive tonight: the Red Sox at the Yankees, in Friday Night Baseball.
Qualcomm no longer just wants to sell the chip inside your next pair of smart glasses. It wants to build the whole supply chain around it, then take a stake in whoever uses it.
Global XR device shipments grew 44.4% in 2025, to 14.5 million units, and IDC credits almost all of that growth to one category: smart glasses, not headsets.
Two AR glasses shipped this year at opposite ends of the same market.
A.R. Rahman has launched ARR Immersive, an Apple Vision Pro app carrying his own immersive catalogue: Kathak performances rescored against Western classical pieces, a re-edit of his Cannes XR film Le Musk, and a live concert archive, mixed…
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite arrives with 60% more GPU, 30% more CPU and 160% more NPU performance than the XR2+ Gen 2 — 48 TOPS of on-device AI, in silicon meant for glasses light enough to actually wear. It ships this autumn…
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