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Valve’s Steam Frame Verified Standard Now Allows 72 FPS for Native VR Games
Image: Valve Valve has made an important change to the compatibility standard for its forthcoming Steam Frame headset: native virtual reality games can now qualify for Steam Frame Verified at…
Meta Reality Labs Posts $4.62 Billion Quarterly Loss Despite Higher Revenue
Chart: Virtual Reality Times, from figures in Meta's Q2 2026 earnings release Meta's virtual and augmented reality business generated more revenue in the second quarter of 2026, but its operating…
Samsung Shows New Android XR Smart Glasses Designs With Google and Eyewear Partners
Image: Samsung Newsroom Samsung has taken another step into everyday smart glasses, using its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on July 22 to present more designs for its upcoming Intelligent…
Lenovo Reportedly Cuts US Enterprise XR Unit as Focus Shifts Toward AI Wearables
Image: Lenovo logo (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Lenovo is changing the direction of its extended reality business, and a report published July 13 suggests the shift has come with…
Even Realities Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $150 Million Smart Glasses Funding
Image: Even Realities Smart glasses startup Even Realities has joined the billion-dollar club without embracing the camera-first design favored by many of its larger rivals. The Shenzhen-based company raised $150…
Discord Finally Gets an Official Meta Quest App With Voice Chat and Game Streaming
Image: Discord (official launch image) Meta Quest owners can now use Discord without relying on a browser window, sideloaded mobile application or another device. Discord released its official native Quest…
Apple Raises Vision Pro Price to $3,699 Amid Wider Hardware Cost Increases
Image: Apple Apple Vision Pro has become more expensive, not less. On June 25, the company increased the starting US price of its mixed-reality headset from $3,499 to $3,699, part…
Snap Opens Preorders for $2,195 Standalone Specs AR Glasses at AWE 2026
Image: Snap Inc. (official SPECS press photo) After years of treating augmented reality glasses as a developer experiment, Snap is putting an actual consumer price on its ambitions. At Augmented…
Apple Previews visionOS 27 With Siri AI and Personal Panorama Environments
Image: Apple Newsroom Apple used its WWDC26 keynote on June 8 to make a familiar argument about Vision Pro: the future of spatial computing will be shaped as much by…
Rec Room Shuts Down After a Decade and More Than 150 Million Players
Image: Rec Room (official announcement artwork) For millions of players, Rec Room was more than an app. It was a familiar meeting place: somewhere to play paintball, build a strange…