Latest news and analysis in mixed reality.
Meta is reportedly doubling AI smart glasses production capacity while cutting VR studios and freezing Horizon Worlds development. The dollars are moving from headsets to wearables, and developers need to read the room.
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.
visionOS 26.4 replaces the single-anchor audio model with per-window spatialization and room-aware acoustic caching. Here's what changed under the hood.
NVIDIA's Omniverse DSX Blueprint hits general availability while Foxconn, PepsiCo, and HD Hyundai run production digital twins. Here's the ROI data, integration reality, and total cost of ownership that your business case actually needs.
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.
NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0, announced at GTC 2026, natively streams RTX workstation graphics to Apple Vision Pro at 4K 120Hz with foveated rendering. Kia, BMW, Rivian, and Volvo are already using it to review car designs at full scale.
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.
A new Vision Pro app called AuraTap is building its entire social experience around Apple's Persona avatar system, starting every introduction with a two-minute trial call and mutual consent. It's a genuinely interesting design bet.
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.
Meta cut 700 more jobs yesterday, hitting Reality Labs again. Two rounds in three months, a gutted first-party content pipeline, and a company spending billions on AI. Here is what XR developers should actually do with their build decisions right now.
Autodesk VRED now streams to Apple Vision Pro via NVIDIA CloudXR foveated streaming. Kia, BMW, Volvo, and Rivian are already using it. Here's the TCO math and IT integration reality.
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.
Google's Android XR platform now spans headsets, AR glasses, and AI frames from five manufacturers. It's the Android smartphone playbook all over again, and the developer ecosystem race against Meta is just getting started.
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.
Meta announced it was killing Horizon Worlds on VR. Then the community spoke — and within 24 hours, the company reversed course. This is what that reversal actually means for spatial computing.
NVIDIA's GDC 2026 announcements include 90fps VR streaming on GeForce NOW, DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and RTX Mega Geometry. For spatial computing, the 90fps upgrade is the real headline.
French court filings confirm SL Process, parent company of Lynx Mixed Reality, has entered judicial liquidation. The R2 headset and its 126-degree FOV will likely never ship.
Samsung is taking the Galaxy XR global while Google reveals the full UI framework for Android XR glasses. With Apple's Vision Pro in retreat, the XR platform war just got a new front-runner.