Snap announced that actor and producer Robert Downey Jr. will work alongside the company’s augmented reality team to develop original content, Lens experiences, hardware collaborations, and more for its SPECS AR glasses. The News Robert Downey Jr. has joined the company’s Specs team as honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCEO), which the company says will
Courtesy Valve Steam Next Fest is live, going from now until October 26th and serving up gads of PC VR demos to play. We’ve counted 42 VR game demos currently available for download, and among the bunch are a surprising number of greats. If you’re not sure where to start first though, you should definitely
OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard which provides a single, unified interface for developing VR and AR applications. Most XR platforms support it—excluding Apple, which uses its own APIs for Vision Pro. While that hasn’t changed, OpenXR seems to have taken a page out of Apple’s playbook with a new multitasking spatial app framework. The
Courtesy Fast Travel Games PAYDAY: Aces High, the VR game set in the Payday universe, is officially set to launch across Quest, PC VR headsets, and Steam Frame next month. Payday: Aces High is an upcoming VR co-op heist game from Fast Travel Games which lets up to four players take on some pretty classic
Valve’s Steam Frame is barely out the door, but now data mining has reportedly surfaced that an OLED version may already in the works. The News As reported by Steam Frame Hub , Valve may be working on a new version of Steam Frame, which much like Steam Deck, may include OLED panels instead of
XREAL today announced XREAL 1 Pro+, a hardware refresh of its One Pro flagship AR glasses. Launching today at $599, Xreal 1 Pro+ includes a modest set of improvements over the original One Pro, which launched in early 2025. Principally, Xreal 1 Pro+ includes brighter displays, as well as improvements to spatial viewing and comfort.
Steam Frame’s default headstrap | Courtesy Valve If you were hoping for better audio and battery life from Valve’s recently released Steam Frame, the company has confirmed it’s creating a headstrap to solve just that. Valve confirmed with PC Gamer (via Skarred Ghost) that it’s working on a new headstrap with hot-swappable batteries and Balanced
The launch of Meta VR Glasses next year will mark the first time any of the company’s standalone headsets has featured expandable storage. Now, Meta and Sandisk have partnered to offer official ‘Made for Meta’ microSD and USB-C flash drive storage options. The News Sandisk is set to be the exclusive provider of flash storage
Index, Valve’s PC VR headset released in 2019, is officially on its way out. And to see it along, Valve has dropped the price of everything Index-related. The News Valve Index is no longer being produced, which means this could be your last chance to get new stock of the company’s landmark PC VR headset.
SideQuest has been the number one unofficial store for Quest games ever since its founding in 2019. Now, it just got a lot easier to download and get playing. Downloading SideQuest used to mean going through a cumbersome setup process, although now SideQuest CEO and co-founder Shane Harris says in a Reddit post the team