Linus Tech Tips’ secondary channel ShortCircuit appears to have jumped the gun on publishing its first impressions and unboxing of Steam Frame, suggesting we’re truly now right around the corner from launch. Valve’s first standalone headset is coming very soon, it seems, as the LTT side channel ShortCircuit mistakenly released its unboxing and first impressions
Images of Meta’s ‘Project Phoenix’ mixed reality headset appear to have leaked ahead of its anticipated unveiling at Connect later this month. The News Serial leaker ‘Luna’ appears to have found video within Quest’s Horizon OS showing off the headset’s prescription lenses, which are apparently set to be released in partnership by Meta’s official prescription
Courtesy Superbright VR Award-winning rogue-lite bow-shooter In Death: Unchained (2020) isn’t dead, at least not with a new season coming later this month. The last actual update for In Death: Unchained was three years ago when developers Superbright announced it was releasing enhancements for Quest 3. After that, it was assumed the game was essentially
Hello Games has released its biggest update yet to VR-supported space sim No Man’s Sky (2016), completely overhauling space itself. At the game’s 2016 launch, space was admittedly barebones, offering relatively sparse interactions outside mining asteroids for fuel and resources, and occasionally encountering pirates or other ships. And while there have been 40+ updates since
TikTok parent ByteDance is reportedly preparing an AI model that could let you create real-time spatial videos similar to Google Genie. According to a Bloomberg report, ByteDance is readying an AI model dedicated to creating real-time spatial videos, which the company hopes will act as a “flywheel” to its various companies, including video streaming giant
Pico’s upcoming Apple Vision Pro competitor, Space Pro, was initially meant to debut earlier this month, although the ByteDance subsidiary cancelled the event and postponed its reveal and release date. Now, the company’s next flagship standalone XR headset just cleared the FCC. Previously known as ‘Project Swan’, Pico Space Pro has now surfaced in FCC
Valve has pushed an update to the Steam Link PC VR streaming app on Quest that finally includes the ability to play games via wired connection. As first spotted by data miner and serial leaker ‘Luna’ (via UploadVR ), Valve’s Steam Link app for Quest rolled out its 2.17.8 public beta update, finally bringing support
The Unity Cube is an objectively terrible game (it’s literally just a floating cube, after all) that was built to test the limits of what Quest content Meta would allow into its uncurated App Lab program. After Meta dissolved App Lab, The Unity Cube moved to the main Horizon store and showed that Meta would stay truly hands-off when
Steam Frame isn’t here yet, and we’re no closer to knowing the price or release date, although the component supplier behind the headset’s built-in camera tracking system is officially producing a color passthrough module for Frame. Steam Frame only includes monochrome passthrough, which the headset primarily uses for computer vision tracking in addition to letting
Bigscreen announced it’s permanently lowering the price of its slim and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond 2, which now starts at $959. The long-awaited Halo Mount is also now in production, with shipping estimated to largely take place in October. Despite inflation and rising component costs, Bigscreen is knocking a few bucks off its