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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…
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…
Report: Apple’s First Smart Glasses Slip to Late 2027, Cheaper Vision Headset Years Away
Image: Apple Apple's answer to Ray-Ban Meta may be further off than expected. The company's first smart glasses are now aimed at a launch in late 2027, according to Bloomberg's…
Google and Samsung Show Gemini Smart Glasses at I/O, With Audio Models Due This Fall
Image: Google Google used its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, May 19, to give the clearest picture yet of its return to smart glasses. Working with Samsung and Qualcomm, the…
Meta Reality Labs Loses $4.03 Billion in Q1 2026, a Smaller Loss Than Wall Street Expected
Chart: Virtual Reality Times, from Meta's Q1 2026 Form 10-Q Meta's virtual and augmented reality division lost a little over $4 billion in the first three months of 2026. That…
Google Says Fixing Galaxy XR Slowdowns Is “Absolute Top Priority” After Android XR Update
Image: Samsung Newsroom Owners of Samsung's Galaxy XR headset have spent the past few weeks dealing with a problem that gets worse the longer they play. After installing April's Android…
Meta Raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S Prices, Blaming Soaring Memory Chip Costs
Image: Meta Buying into VR is about to get more expensive. Meta said on Thursday that it is raising the US prices of its Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets,…