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Moss Developer Polyarc Closes After Nearly 12 Years, Ending a Distinctive VR Studio
Image: Polyarc Polyarc, the studio behind the Moss games, has announced that it is closing after nearly twelve years. The September 11 news is another painful development for virtual reality…
VRChat Immersive Theatre Production Uncanny Alley Wins an Emmy
Image: VRChat logo A live theatre performance inside VRChat has won a major television-industry honor. Uncanny Alley: A New Day received the Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the…
Pico Delays Space Pro Headset to Late 2026 and Cancels September Reveal
Graphic: Virtual Reality Times Pico's next high-end mixed-reality headset will not receive the September introduction the company originally planned. ByteDance-owned Pico announced on August 24 that it was moving the…
VR Games Showcase Reveals System Shock VR, High on Life VR and Total Chaos VR
Image: System Shock VR official Steam artwork Three very different games dominated the August 13 VR Games Showcase: the tense science-fiction horror of System Shock, the talking-gun comedy of High…
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…
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…
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…
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…