XR hardware, displays, chipsets, device engineering
Cole digs into the silicon and optics behind XR devices. Display panels, custom chipsets, thermal design — if it's inside a headset, he's written about it.
Snap, Meta, Google, Samsung, and Apple are all converging on AR glasses in 2026. The most alignment immersive tech has ever had happened fast, and the race to ship a pair people actually wear is on.
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Google wants Android XR to do for spatial computing what Android did for phones. The platform pieces are falling into place, but the content that proves spatial computing is its own medium hasn't arrived yet.
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Valve's Steam Frame VR headset is now marked 'coming soon' on Steam. The hardware looks solid. But with no new first-party VR game and a library dominated by titles from 2016-2020, the real question is whether anyone will build content worthy of it.
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The fifth VR Games Showcase delivered 30-plus announcements, but the real story is which titles treat VR as its own medium and which are just flat-screen games wearing a headset.
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From a 4-player VR heist wearing the Payday mask to a crossplay FPS bridging headsets and flatscreens, the fifth VRGS made one thing clear: VR gaming is done asking for permission.
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ByteDance's Pico is swinging hard at Apple's spatial computing throne with Project Swan — a 4,000 PPI micro-OLED headset running a purpose-built mixed reality OS. Here's why the hardware specs should make Cupertino sweat.
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