Meta is slated to layoff around 10 percent of staff at its Reality Labs XR division, a New York Times report maintains, as the company appears to be shifting focus to AI and smart glasses. The News According to three people with knowledge of internal discussions, cuts could come as early as today, and could
XREAL, the Beijing-based AR glasses maker, announced it has raised $100 million in a recent funding round. The News Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu broke the news on Bloomberg Television , noting the company secured funding from “supply chain partners” in addition to other backers, which Xu declined to disclose. According to Crunchbase data, the
Steam has unveiled its mega list of the most played PC VR games of 2025. And it looks to be another year of ‘old reliables’, as the top 50 only features a single game released that year. Valve released its annual “best of” games list, again offering insight into what PC VR people are playing
Lumus, the company that developed the waveguide optic used in Meta’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, says it has achieved a 70° field-of-view in a new design revealed this week at CES 2026. This conveniently matches the 70° field-of-view that Meta achieved in its ‘Orion’ prototype, but only with the use of novel materials. The News
Meta released an open source language learning app for Quest 3 that combines mixed reality passthrough and AI-powered object recognition. The News Called Spatial Lingo: Language Practice, the app not only aims to help users practice their English or Spanish using objects in their own room, but also give developers a framework to make their
A Chinese company which mass produces many of the best known headsets in the industry has shared a new compact MR headset reference design which sets expectations for 2026. Goertek is a little-known but massively important player in the XR industry. The company is a key enabler in the production of XR headsets as it
UNDERDOGS (2024) landed on PSVR 2 back in March 2025, making the popular physics-based mech brawler available across all major VR headsets. While the game is slated to get full multiplayer support on Quest and SteamVR, PSVR 2 owners won’t be so lucky. The News Developer One Hamsa released the news via an Instagram reel this week that
Shiftall, the Japan-based VR hardware startup, is no longer working with Panasonic on its MeganeX series of thin and light PC VR headsets. Initially acquired by Panasonic in 2018, Shiftall developed a number of devices as the company’s ad hoc internal skunk works, including the first MeganeX PC VR headset, HaritoraX wireless body trackers, FlipVR motion
Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses seem to be selling too well, as the company announced it’s delaying the international rollout of its first display-clad smart glasses. The News Initially released in the US back in September, Meta said it was hoping to bring the $800 smart glasses to a number of regions in early 2026, which
Google announced a multiyear extension to its partnership with AR glasses maker XREAL, positioning it as a lead hardware partner for the Android XR ecosystem. The News XREAL Project Aura is an Android XR-based pair of AR glasses which is due to ship sometime this year. Combining a 70° field of view with an optical