EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS is the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Find out why I’m excited to play when it arrives next year. I went hands-on with an early build of both the game’s ‘Story Mode’ and ‘Battle Mode’, which proved to be an exciting look at […]
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Samsung FCC Approval Signals Gentle Monster & Warby Parker Smart Glasses Nearing Release
Samsung’s long-awaited smart glasses have cleared FCC testing, suggesting their release is right around the corner. The News Two distinct SM-O200P and SM-O200J have appeared in FCC filings, which is typically one of the last steps before commercialization. Those two product codes indicate Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames, respectively, as they’ve been seen on […]
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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Studio Announces Another Round of Layoffs Following DLC Price Hike
Mighty Coconut, indie studio behind hit VR game Walkabout Mini Golf (2020), announced another round of layoffs affecting ~35% of staff. “This is an incredibly hard message to write, but I want to continue to be transparent with the Walkabout community,” writes Mighty Coconut CEO Lucas Martell in a company blog post. “Due to the […]
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Meta VR Glasses can play all of the same games you might on Quest, whether it be through integrated hand-tracking or by pairing optional Touch Plus controllers. But if you’re planning on getting active, Meta says they’ll be selling an accessory for that. We haven’t seen any images yet, however at Connect 2026 last week […]
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2026 is another big year in VR hardware, but which headset should you consider buying? The old reliable Quest 3? Valve’s Steam Frame? Or maybe you should wait for Meta VR Glasses? Read on to see the specs—and probably more importantly—their use cases compared. Skip to the conclusion, please. Here’s the quick and dirty conclusion […]
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Arcturus Vision Camera is an add-on module for Steam Frame which greatly enhances its passthrough camera quality. The obvious visual improvement, tiny size, and reasonable price make it easy to recommend. In the course of my decade plus of using VR headsets and various accessories, I can’t think of any that were as straightforwardly recommendable […]
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Meta’s long-promised photorealistic avatars are set to release in the next few months, which the company is calling ‘holograms’. I went hands-on the annual Connect developer conference to see just how Meta plans to take on Apple. Meta announced it’s finally rolling out its immersive avatars, and they’re coming first to its Meta Ray-Ban Display […]
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Meta Launches $1M Developer Competition to Stock ‘VR Glasses’ with More Hand-tracked Apps
At Meta’s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated to award a prize pool of $1 million to spark the community to get cracking on Meta VR Glasses-compatible content. Meta is hoping to appeal to developers of both new and existing projects across entertainment, gaming, and […]
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Meta has finally unveiled its next-gen mixed reality headset, Meta VR Glasses. While they could technically fit somewhere in its Quest lineup, Meta seems to be making a concerted effort to bridge the gap between its experimental augmented reality projects, like Orion, and its much bulkier Quest gaming platform. Previously known as ‘Project Phoenix’, Meta […]
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Meta today unveiled its long-awaited next-gen mixed reality headset: Meta VR Glasses. Previously known under the codename ‘Project Phoenix’, Meta VR Glasses was announced today, but isn’t launching just yet; the compute puck-tethered device is slated to go one sale sometime in Spring 2027, priced at $1,300. While we’re still waiting on a precise release […]
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