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
Courtesy Pixelity Pixelity Inc announced it’s hosting public demos soon in San Francisco for EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Hands-on previews of EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS are slated to kick off on September 25th, 2026, near Union Square in San Francisco, which will
Gunman Contracts is one of the most full-featured mods for Half-Life: Alyx (2020), and now the indie developer behind the project is about to release the long-awaited, built from the ground-up game for PC VR headsets called Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone. Arne Burkert (ANB_Seth) today announced that Gunman Contracts – Stand Alone is set
Valve hasn’t announced the price or release date of Steam Frame, its first standalone VR headset, although the company is reportedly getting ready with a promo that could bundle in its award-winning VR game Half-Life: Alyx (2020) for free. The News As first spotted by VR analyst and Valve watcher Brad Lynch, Valve appears to
Meta just pushed an update to Quest 3 that’s effectively boosted the headset’s refresh rate up to 240Hz—or 207Hz at the headset’s full resolution. Whether you’ll actually be able to make good use of it remains to be seen though. The News As first spotted by ‘Luna’ on X, Horizon OS 2.7 just added support
The investment and development community are constantly striving to find the next profitable sector in XR, turning to new business opportunities following a turbulent time in the consumer VR gaming space. One area of interest is in out-of-home XR attractions, known widely in the industry as Location-Based Entertainment (LBE) XR. The sector deploys XR as
Schell Games, the veteran VR studio behind spy-themed puzzle series I Expect You to Die and Among Us 3D, confirmed it has laid off around 10 percent of staff. As initially noted by Game Developer , multiple Schell Games employees posted on LinkedIn late last week that the studio was conducting its first layoffs in
Courtesy Rockstar Games GTA 6 will surely be among the most asked for VR ports of the next decade, and that made a parody in the newly released gameplay showcase especially vicious. Developer Rockstar Games today finally made its big GTA 6 gameplay reveal, showing 26 minutes of gameplay from the highly anticipated title. In
Courtesy Warby Parker Google is reportedly testing a new ‘Listening area’ mode for Google Live Translate on Android XR, something that sounds like a headlining feature for the company’s upcoming fleet of smart glasses. Google has always said it’s bringing real-time translations to its Android XR, so no surprise there, as the company promises its
Meta has introduced Meta XR Operator, an experimental tool designed to let AI coding agents autonomously build, test, debug, and visually verify VR apps. The News Using AI agents, developers have been able to speed up code-reading and writing in addition to running tests and fixing bugs, although verifying that all of it actually works