John Carmack reminded Microsoft that he's “still willing” to put up a $1M guarantee to allow Team Beef to commercialize its VR ports of id Software’s classic games:

Lamborghini’s free Apple Vision Pro app brings four of its rare vehicles into living rooms with life-sized immersive showcases. You can sit inside and hear the engines rev. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/lamborghinis...

Meta's CTO reaffirmed that the company is still working on "multiple next-generation headsets", and perhaps hinted at a reveal at Connect in September:

Meta is still internally debating how to handle the privacy LED on its upcoming glasses with always-on AI, The Financial Times reports:

Meta says it's improving the ability of its smart glasses to detect if the privacy LED has been tampered with and disable the camera, via a mandatory firmware update. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/meta-improvi...

The 18Birdies and Arccos apps, now integrated in Meta AI on smart glasses in the US & Canada, can act as your personal AI golf caddy. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/18birdies-ar...

A 'Meta One Premium' subscription is now required for more hours of access to select advanced features of the company's smart glasses, starting with Conversation Focus:

Discord is now available as a 2D app on Meta Quest headsets. It supports streaming and comes with a month of Nitro, but is currently in a rough technical state:

Here's our roundup of the biggest VR games, updates, and DLCs set to launch in July:

Whereas we once hoped for more affordable Vision headsets to have slashed the entry price of visionOS by now, we're instead in a much darker timeline where the cost is going up.

Apple increased the price of many of its products, including Vision Pro, which now starts at $3700. Tim Cook blamed the memory crisis, calling it unlike anything he's ever seen:

With a diverse roster of playable heroes, gameplay packed with strategic depth and a thriving online community, first-person VR MOBA Starvault offers something genuinely worth playing. Read our full review: www.uploadvr.com/starvault-re...

Meta says it's offering free smart glasses to every legally blind US veteran, with more than 130,000 eligible. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/meta-is-givi...

Meta teamed up with Kylie Jenner for new 'Starfire' smart glasses featuring her voice for Meta AI, a gemstone on the right lens, and a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/meta-starfir...

Meta now sells a $60 stainless steel Charging Stand compatible with most of its smart glasses, providing 50% charge in 20 minutes or full charge in 1 hour:

Meta launched a range of cheaper smart glasses featuring the same technology as Ray-Ban Meta but without the branding, and with a compact folding case:

Any visionOS developers out there spent much time with Reality Composer Pro 3? If so, what are your thoughts so far?

Steam Machine (the desktop PC/console) is going to cost a lot more than some optimists are expecting.

Yesterday Snap revealed and opened preorders for Specs, fully standalone true AR glasses. But almost nowhere on the internet can you find clips of what Specs actually do. 🧵Here are 6 interesting things Snap says you can do with Specs:

Snapdragon Reality Elite offers 60% improved GPU performance compared to the XR2+ Gen 2 used in headsets like Samsung Galaxy XR, and is more powerful than even Steam Frame's GPU.

This is the strangest preordering system I've seen in a long time, and I'm surprised Google approved it from a first-class partner. Also, the fact that Xreal opened preorders but won't reveal the price is even stranger.

You can now preorder Xreal Aura, launching this fall, and the company confirmed it has Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite in its Android XR puck. Yet despite opening preorders, Xreal won't reveal the price:

Qualcomm's new flagship XR chip has a more powerful GPU than Steam Frame and a vastly more powerful NPU than Galaxy XR, which it says enables impressive on-device generative AI and continuous scene meshing without a depth sensor.

Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/qualcomm-sna...

Snap just officially revealed and opened preorders for Specs, fully standalone true AR glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France for $2195. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/snap-specs-d...

Finally, standalone true AR glasses are available to preorder. A milestone moment for the XR industry. We now officially live in the future.

The design of Pico's next headset leaked in videos from a public SDK, and it looks like a cross between Apple Vision Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/picos-next-h...

Meta is opening its own section in 50 Best Buy stores across the US & Canada where it will demo its Quest headsets and smart glasses:

The smartest move Meta has made in a long time. Headsets and smart glasses are conversion-on-contact products. They need to be experienced to be understood. A good demo is essential. The tech just doesn't sell itself well over the internet.

If you only watched the WWDC keynote, you might think visionOS 27 is a minor update. But it's actually one of the biggest upgrades yet:

There's a whole lot more coming in visionOS 27 than what Apple announced in its keynote. Read our extensive rundown of all the biggest features & improvements: www.uploadvr.com/visionos-27-...

Every single European with any interest in the fate of the continent should read (or listen to) this.

UPDATE: Valve reduced the 'Steam Frame Verified' tag VR FPS requirement from 90FPS to 72FPS, and import logs show pallets of the headset arriving at the company's US warehouses already.

Alongside launching the 'Steam Frame Verified' label, Valve confirmed that the headset is shipping "this summer":

I'm consistently amazed by what developers in this space can do when given new capabilities to ship for.

Meta rolled out the ability to develop visual apps for Meta Ray-Ban Display, controlled by Meta Neural Band, and developers are already building interesting things. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/meta-ray-ban...

A public filing shows VRChat reporting a data breach affecting over 2 million users to Maine's Attorney General. But the filing is fake, and the apparent employee who made it does not exist: www.uploadvr.com/vrchat-maine...

Google-powered smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are launching this fall to take on Ray-Ban Meta:

Meta said daily usage of its smart glasses tripled year-over-year, and that it remains "one of the fastest growing categories of consumer electronics ever":

Meta Connect 2026 takes place September 23 and 24. Here's a rundown of what it might bring:

The Boys: Trigger Warning is out today on PlayStation VR2. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/the-boys-tri...

Meta's Muse Spark now powers Meta AI on most of its smart glasses, a significant upgrade over Llama 4 that narrows the gap to leading AI systems:

Meta extended its "multi‑year" partnership with Unity to "power next‑generation VR experiences":

The new Horizon OS 'Navigator' system UI finally rolled out to all Quest headsets, more than a year after Meta began publicly testing it. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/meta-horizon...

Something has gone structurally, fundamentally wrong at Meta over the past few months. It has ceased to function with the level of security competence that must be expected from a company with its wealth and talent. This is unprecedented and extremely concerning.

Fascinating HN thread wherein respondents describe the exact moment they realized GenAI can be a profoundly useful and intelligent tool, not just a parlor trick.

Supernatural is returning under a new independent company, with Meta handing the IP back to the original founders and coaches who are reuniting to carry the VR fitness service forward: www.uploadvr.com/supernatural...

Those who hate standalone VR frequently describe games like I Am Cat as "mobile trash", and come up with elaborate explanations for how some dynamic unique to the Meta Quest market leads to their success. And yet, I Am Cat was the #1 downloaded PlayStation VR2 title in May.

Valve released a native visionOS client for the flatscreen version of Steam Link, with 4K 120FPS support, replacing the need to use the iPad app on Apple Vision Pro:

KRVR, a $15 visionOS app, lets you play any SteamVR game from your PC on Apple Vision Pro with foveated streaming: