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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…
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…
ROG XREAL R1 Gaming Glasses Open for Preorder at $849.99 With 240Hz Micro-OLED Displays
Image: ASUS Republic of Gamers Asus's Republic of Gamers brand and XREAL are now taking orders for the ROG XREAL R1, a pair of display glasses built specifically for gaming.…
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 Announced for SteamVR and Quest 3
Image: Rust Ltd (Steam store artwork) Ten years after a strangely named firearms sandbox became one of PC VR's most durable hits, its sequel is official. Rust Ltd has announced…
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,…
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…