I have finally given up and ordered air conditioning. The UK summers just aren't tolerable anymore. Focus & productivity are impossible at these temperatures. Can no longer sacrifice months to this.

The Snap Specs standalone true AR glasses will launch this fall, veteran tech journalist Alex Heath reports, priced around $2500:

As Horizon Worlds and Rec Room withdraw from VR, VRChat says it's growing, regularly setting new usage records, and "not going anywhere":

This is incredibly impressive and everyone with a headset should try it. The streaming & rendering side of volumetric video has been solved, something that just a few years ago people suspected wouldn't happen until the 2030s. A "volumetric YouTube" is on the horizon.

Gracia's moving fully volumetric captures can now be streamed, including to mixed reality on Quest 3, with no app or content download required — and an Apple Vision Pro app is coming soon. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/gracia-movin...

S/o to everyone who has checked out the new @uploadvr.com Gamescast with myself & @jamestocchio.bsky.social . We promise a live version is coming. We just need to get our sea legs under us first. Also, VR Download will return too! @heaney555.bsky.social confirmed as much in an article today.

A group of independent researchers built a device that can artificially induce smell using ultrasound, with no consumable cartridges required. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/researchers-...

Lucent VR, a recently-released exploration experience, is one of the most technically stunning and artfully inspired destinations on Quest 3. Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/lucent-vr-is...

Google's "Vibe Coding XR" Gemini workflow lets you rapidly build interactive mixed reality WebXR experiences by simply describing what you want with text:

The thing that people don't realize about running a company is how much time and energy will be sucked out by dealing with a lot of background BS that you don't ever get to see. Things seem a lot simpler on the surface, but this stuff is genuinely draining and it's hard to catch a break.

As Meta drops VR support for new Horizon Worlds, we take a look at the people who run virtual venues on the platform and what they intend to do after the pivot:

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

When you hear "but no one uses AI" it's worth bearing in mind that's...extremely not correct. It has reached mass adoption and use way quicker than other online technologies did, contentious as it is (and forced upon us as it often is). This is from a recent Ofcom report:

One of the reasons that the willful blindness about AI from people with platforms on the left is shortsighted is that “hope it goes away” doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.

MrSurviv0r's all-in-one VR Mod Installers streamline the process of getting Resident Evil 2, 3, 4, 7, Village, and Requiem playable in full VR on PC:

Star Trek: Infection is out today on Quest 3, and we went hands-on with the VR survival horror game ahead of its release. Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/we-boldly-go...

The new Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles promise "all-day comfort" for prescription wearers, with overextension hinges, interchangeable nose pads, and optician-adjustable temple tips. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta...

Important to note that the vast majority of Rec Room's players are non-VR.

Over on the other site, its impossible to just get a feed of games stuff without getting the THE WORLD IS FUCKING OVER IN TWO WEEKS schitzo-posting, along with just... barbarism. Over here, it's 2015-style "If you don't do/believe X, you should UNFOLLOW ME RIGHT NOW" nonsense. It's a problem..

Meta is launching two new prescription-focused smart glasses this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports:

Sony is again increasing the price of PS5 and PS5 Pro, bringing the buy-in price for a full PlayStation VR2 system up to $1000, higher than it was at the headset's launch:

Apple's WWDC 2026 is set to take place from June 8, and visionOS 27 will likely be announced during it:

Multiple developers of popular paid Quest games tell me they're elated at this news

Meta's lawyers successfully shut down VRPirates, which was by far the largest and most prominent source of pirated Quest VR games:

Maid of Sker VR only enhances its eerie atmosphere in virtual reality. While some features left me wanting, it's a great way to play the Welsh folklore-inspired survival horror. Here's my latest review for UploadVR.

We sat down with Lucas Martell from Mighty Coconut at GDC 2026 to talk about bringing Hollywood principles to the design of Walkabout Mini Golf:

Twenty One Pilots' 2015 hit Stressed Out is the latest Beat Saber Shock Drop track. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/twenty-one-p...

Autodesk VRED now has an immersive mode that streams to Apple Vision Pro via Nvidia's CloudXR, and Kia, BMW, Volvo, and Rivian are already using it. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/autodesk-vre...

French XR startup Lynx has entered compulsory liquidation, meaning it must shut down and its R2 headset will not be launching:

Coatsink's charming flight adventure game Skytail releases next week on Quest headsets. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/telekenetic-...

Ubisoft is ending game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the studio behind Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Assassin's Creed Nexus VR:

Finally taking at least *some* advantage of headset displays. What I still badly want to see, though, is Nvidia release a 3D SDK for flatscreen games on GeForce Now. Take *true* advantage of headsets, please!

I have some questions as to how exactly decisions are made at Meta.

ICYMI: X-Plane 12 and iRacing will be officially playable on Apple Vision Pro, streamed from your PC via Nvidia CloudXR, with your physical accessories blended in using mixed reality passthrough. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/x-plane-irac...

Meta's Horizon Worlds is dropping VR support in June, meaning it will only be available as a flatscreen experience for the web and smartphones:

According to a Chinese VR news outlet, Meta's next headset will use 2560×2560 micro-OLED displays, similar to Bigscreen Beyond headsets:

An absolutely terrific job of iterating a basic concept in Early Access to a top notch VR experience. It's not perfect though. Check out my full review on Upload.

Gaijin fixed the biggest issue with Aces of Thunder!

Meta says the number of active Quest users hit an all-time-high in 2025, and more than 100 store apps made over $1 million. "The rumors of the death of VR have been greatly exaggerated", the company declared:

Valve announced the specific criteria for VR titles to receive the 'Steam Frame Verified' label, and it includes running at a solid 90 FPS standalone:

Automatically blending in your physical accessories and using them to autocalibrate the cockpit position solves multiple home VR sim pain points at once.

X-Plane 12 and iRacing will be officially playable on Apple Vision Pro, streamed from your PC via Nvidia CloudXR, with your physical accessories blended in using mixed reality passthrough:

Bigscreen Beyond 2 orders now ship within 1-3 days, and in December Beyond 2e got support for eye-tracked foveated rendering in select VR titles:

Subcontractors see intimate Meta AI visual queries from the company's smart glasses, sometimes accidentally triggered, a report from two Swedish newspapers revealed:

Meta Ray-Ban Display's first major OS update brings two new EMG-controlled minigames, an Instagram Reels feed, widgets, a Calendar app, live captions for phone calls, and more. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/meta-ray-ban...

We went hands on with Bandai Namco's Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes at GDC 2026 on PlayStation VR2. Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/little-night...

Meta is upgrading the frame timing algorithm of Horizon OS with an overhaul called FrameSync, and it should result in more consistently visually smooth VR with noticeably fewer hitches. Read the technical specifics here:

The number of people using a VR headset on Steam ostensibly significantly decreased in February, according to Valve's data, but the figure isn't what it seems:

This is essentially the first true competitor to Apple Vision Pro. Why? Because others have followed the hardware, but only Pico is currently following the software architecture, which matters more for the long-term.

Graphics depicting Meta's upcoming ultralight headset with a tethered compute puck, codenamed Phoenix, have been found in Quest firmware: