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Ubisoft Ends Game Development at Red Storm, the Studio Behind Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR
Image: Ubisoft One of the few large publishers still making ambitious VR games has stepped back further. Ubisoft is ending game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the North Carolina studio…
Meta at GDC: Quest Users Hit a Record in 2025 and More Than 100 Apps Passed $1 Million
Image: Meta "The rumors of the death of VR have been greatly exaggerated." That was the message Meta brought to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, where…
Pico Reveals Project Swan Specs: 4000 PPI Micro-OLED and a New Pico OS 6
Graphic: Virtual Reality Times ByteDance's XR division has put numbers to its next headset. Pico on Monday shared the first official specifications for Project Swan, a high-end device built around…
Report: Kenyan Contractors Reviewed Private Footage From Meta’s Smart Glasses
Image: Meta People who wear Meta's camera glasses may not be the only ones who see what those glasses capture. A joint investigation published Friday by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet…
Meta Separates Horizon Worlds From Quest, Bets on Third-Party VR Developers
Image: Meta logo Horizon Worlds, the social platform that once sat at the heart of Meta's metaverse pitch, is being pulled apart from the Quest headset business. In a developer…
EssilorLuxottica Sold More Than 7 Million Meta Smart Glasses in 2025
Image: Meta Smart glasses are no longer a niche experiment for the world's largest eyewear company. EssilorLuxottica, which makes the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta lines with Meta, said on…
Memory Shortage Forces Valve to Revisit Steam Frame Pricing and Launch Timing
Image: Valve People waiting for a price on Valve's Steam Frame headset will have to wait longer. In a post on Steam on Wednesday, Valve said the global shortage of…
Snap Moves Its AR Glasses Into a New Subsidiary, Specs Inc.
Image: Snap Inc. Snap is giving its augmented reality glasses a company of their own. The Snapchat parent said on Wednesday that it is establishing Specs Inc., a wholly owned…
Meta CTO Bosworth: VR Is “Growing Less Quickly Than We Hoped”
Image: Meta A week after Meta shut three of its VR game studios, the executive in charge of its hardware has offered the clearest explanation yet of why. Speaking in…
Meta Cuts About 10% of Reality Labs and Closes Three VR Game Studios
Image: Meta Three of the studios behind Meta's biggest Quest exclusives are being shut down this week as the company trims roughly a tenth of Reality Labs, the division responsible…