Topic: Mixed Reality
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Meta's Mixed Reality Glasses Delayed Until 2027
Meta has delayed the launch of its next-generation mixed reality glasses, **Project Phoenix**, from late 2026 to early 2027 to prioritize product quality and long-term viability. The device is a new product line, designed with a glasses-like form factor and an external battery pack, similar to co...
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Mixed Reality Block Breaker Creator Mode Launches Today
Cues, a mixed reality game on Meta Quest, launches a free Creator Mode update on its first anniversary, allowing players to design custom interactive environments in their own living spaces. The new mode adds a user-generated content pillar to the existing Free Play and Puzzles modes, enabling pl...
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Samsung and Google Reveal the Future of Smart Glasses
The Samsung Galaxy XR headset, developed in partnership with Samsung and Google, serves as an initial step toward creating everyday smart glasses, blending mixed reality and aiming to compete with products from Meta and others. Its key innovation is deeply integrated AI, like Gemini, which unders...
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Samsung's Galaxy XR Headset Launches at Half the Price of Vision Pro
Samsung and Google have launched the Galaxy XR mixed-reality headset as a direct competitor to Apple's Vision Pro, priced at $1,800 to make advanced technology more accessible. Previously known as "Project Moohan," the headset has been fully unveiled with its official branding, specifications, an...
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Samsung's Moohan Headset Launching Next Week
Samsung will unveil its Project Moohan mixed reality headset on October 21st, marking a major step into immersive technology. The headset runs on Android XR, a platform developed with Google and Qualcomm, focusing on AI-driven experiences across various devices. This launch occurs as Apple is rum...
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Google's XR Studio Launches Android-Exclusive Mixed Reality Game
Owlchemy Labs has released a free mixed reality game called Inside[JOB] exclusively for Android XR, showcasing new hand-tracking technology within the Job Simulator universe. The launch coincides with Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, priced at $1,800, targeting enthusiasts and businesses rather than ...
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Star Wars: Beyond Victory Review - A Disappointing Ride
Star Wars: Beyond Victory is a mixed reality experience that blends digital content with physical environments, offering narrative adventure, arcade racing, and creative sandbox modes. The game's frequent transitions between virtual and mixed reality disrupt immersion, making segments like podrac...
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Palmer Luckey's Anduril Debuts EagleEye MR Helmet
Anduril Industries has launched the EagleEye mixed-reality helmet system, integrating AI and sensors with its Lattice platform to enhance soldier capabilities through real-time data and command tools. The system improves situational awareness by displaying live video, detecting threats with rear ...
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Star Wars: Beyond Victory Review - A Thrilling New Adventure
Star Wars: Beyond Victory fails to deliver on its immersive VR podracing promise, with a rushed story that can be completed in about an hour and lacks depth in character development and plot. The gameplay is underwhelming, featuring simplistic VR segments and podracing viewed from a bird's-eye pe...
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Apple Vision Pro 2 Review: Display, Comfort & Performance Tested
The Apple Vision Pro 2 is a premium mixed reality headset designed for spatial computing, transforming work, connection, and digital content experiences with high-end materials and ergonomic comfort. It features a dual Micro-OLED display for near-4K resolution per eye and intuitive hand and eye t...
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Spatial Ops Update: bHaptics Support, New Enemies & More
The latest Spatial Ops update adds bHaptics support for tactile feedback, new enemy types like Advanced Hatchet Corp soldiers, and expanded gameplay options including a permadeath mode and in-game achievements. Players can now use the companion app to place Spatial Markers for precise map alignme...
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Explore The Universe From Your Living Room With Cosmic XR
Cosmic XR is a mixed reality app for Quest 3 and Quest 3S that transforms your living space into an interactive planetarium, allowing users to explore and manipulate celestial objects using hand-tracking technology. The app features impressive holographic models that blend with the physical envir...
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Espire: MR Missions - Stealth Shooter Now on Quest
**Espire: MR Missions** is a new standalone mixed reality game on Quest, available for free to existing owners of the VR title **Espire 2**. The game features 29 procedurally generated missions that adapt to a player's physical space, split between single-room and multi-room operations. The devel...
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Pocket Lands: Craft Miniature Worlds in VR Now on Quest
Pocket Lands is a new mixed reality sandbox game for Meta Quest, allowing players to build miniature worlds that blend with their physical space and then explore them in first-person VR. The early access version offers creative tools like multiple biomes, a day/night cycle, and quick construction...
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Pocket Lands: Mixed Reality Minecraft on Quest
Pocket Lands merges mixed and virtual reality, allowing players to build miniature dioramas in their physical space and then explore them interactively in VR, launching in early access next month. Developed by Thomas van den Berge, it uses hand tracking to manipulate building materials and enable...
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Samsung's Galaxy XR Headset Costs $1,700 Less Than Apple Vision Pro
Samsung's Galaxy XR headset is priced at $1,800, positioning it as a direct, more affordable competitor to Apple's Vision Pro, which costs $3,499. The device runs on Android XR, supports hand and eye tracking for interaction, and offers access to apps via the Google Play Store with "Made for XR" ...
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Amazon Slashes Meta Quest 3S VR Bundle Price in Surprise Move
Amazon has significantly reduced the price of the Meta Quest 3S VR bundle to $249, making it an affordable entry point into virtual and mixed reality without compromising core features. The Quest 3S features mixed reality capabilities that blend digital content with the physical environment, powe...
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Samsung's XR Headset May Launch Next Month, Cheaper Than Apple Vision Pro
Samsung is reportedly launching its mixed reality headset, codenamed Project Moohan, in late October as a more affordable competitor to the Apple Vision Pro. The device will run on Google's Android XR operating system, allowing access to a wide range of Android apps and native XR content without ...
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Meta and Stanford's Ultra-Thin Holographic System Could Disrupt Big Tech
Meta and Stanford researchers have developed an ultra-thin holographic display system measuring just three millimeters, potentially enabling lightweight mixed reality glasses. The system uses holography with lasers, MEMS mirrors, and an AI-optimized spatial light modulator to create images with a...
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Anduril's EagleEye Military Helmet Launched by Palmer Luckey
Anduril Industries has launched EagleEye, a mixed-reality system integrated into military helmets, developed in partnership with Meta to enhance battlefield awareness using AI. The system features a heads-up display, spatial audio, and sensors, allowing soldiers to view tactical data, operate dro...
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New Mixed Reality Game Night: Robot Boxing Meets Sumo
A new free minigame called **Final Throwdown** has been added to *Game Night*, combining robot boxing and sumo wrestling with intuitive hand-tracking controls for physical, chaotic play. The minigame features short, high-intensity rounds where players knock opponents out of an arena, with shiftin...
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Banners & Bastions Launches in December
Banners & Bastions is launching fully in December after early access on Meta Quest, featuring hand-tracking and procedurally generated battlefields for strategic defense. A recent update adds a dragon boss, new enemies like the Witch and Elite Swordsman, and the Minefield card to enhance tactical...
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House of Golf VR: Master The Course From Home
House of Golf VR uses mixed reality to turn home spaces into personalized miniature golf courses, though the execution can be cumbersome and fall short of its creative potential. The game's course-building process is hindered by a lack of a snap-to-grid system, unpredictable physics, and tedious ...
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Horizon OS Update: Rebuilt Home, Windows 11 Link & More
The update enhances personalization with a customizable Home environment and mixed reality features, allowing users to pin apps and place interactive objects in their physical space. It introduces a rebuilt Horizon Central as a more vibrant social hub, supporting more users, faster navigation, an...
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Windows 11's Vision Pro-style remote desktop launches on Quest 3
Microsoft's virtual desktop feature for Meta Quest headsets is now broadly available, enabling users to project their Windows 11 environment into mixed reality and transform multi-monitor setups into a curved ultrawide display. Setup requires downloading the Mixed Reality Link app on a Windows PC...
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Quest 3 Becomes Most-Used VR Headset on Steam
The Meta Quest 3 has surpassed the Quest 2 as the most-used VR headset on Steam, with a 26.68% share, indicating a significant generational shift in the VR market. This transition to the Quest 3, which emphasizes advanced mixed reality features, encourages developers to prioritize creating conten...
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Logitech's Apple Pencil for Vision Pro
Logitech has launched the Muse, a digital stylus for the Apple Vision Pro that enables precise writing, sketching, and 3D design manipulation in mixed reality, enhancing creative workflows with a natural feel. Priced at $129.95 and shipping from October 22nd, the Muse features haptic feedback, a ...
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Cubism's 5th Anniversary Update: Enhanced Gameplay & Quality of Life
Cubism has released a five-year anniversary update featuring seven new soundtrack songs, improved menu readability in mixed reality, and support for five additional languages. The update includes technical upgrades to the engine and rendering pipeline to ensure future compatibility and performanc...
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Tactical Tabletop RPG's VR Successor Launches on Quest
Successor, a tactical tabletop RPG, has launched on Meta Quest with mixed reality features, blending physical and digital environments for immersive gameplay. The game offers procedurally generated campaigns, real-time battles with a pause feature, and strategic elements like elevation advantages...
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Inu Atsume VR: The Ultimate Virtual Pet Experience
Inu Atsume VR is a virtual reality dog companion simulator developed by Hit-Point, expanding on the Neko Atsume concept to offer a low-stakes, relaxing environment for adopting and interacting with playful pups. Players care for their virtual dogs by providing essentials, training them with treat...
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Pocket Lands: A Mixed Reality Playground for Creators
Pocket Lands is a new mixed reality sandbox for creators on Meta Quest, offering a flexible platform to build digital worlds, though it's currently in Early Access with some rough edges. It features three distinct viewing modes for world-building and a standout ability to instantly shift from a g...
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Master VR Dance Moves with 'Trip The Light' on Quest
Trip the Light is a new VR dancing game that uses mixed reality passthrough, allowing players to see their real surroundings while learning choreography with a virtual partner in a safe space. The game's core gameplay involves learning routines like Salsa with a digital instructor and features a ...
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Get $100 Amazon Credit with Meta Quest 3 VR Headset Purchase
Amazon is offering a $100 digital credit with the Meta Quest 3 purchase using code "QUEST30," ensuring delivery before Christmas with free shipping. The Quest 3 provides a significant visual upgrade over the Quest 2, featuring a sharper resolution, pancake lenses, and a wider field of view. This ...
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Cyber Monday Deal: Get the Meta Quest 3 at Best Buy's Sale Price Now
The Meta Quest 3 is available with a $74 Amazon gift card promotion, effectively lowering its price to $426 and providing a versatile discount for various purchases. As Meta's flagship standalone VR headset, it offers high-resolution visuals, advanced mixed reality, and a rich library of games wi...
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December 2025's Hottest VR Games: Quest, SteamVR & PS VR2
December 2025 features a diverse lineup of virtual reality games across platforms like Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2, and SteamVR, including genres from supernatural adventures to competitive shooters. Notable releases include Ghost Town on PS VR2, a paranormal detective story, and Deadly Delivery,...
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Save $50 on Quest 3S Bundle with Free Game & Gift Card
Best Buy offers a discounted Meta Quest 3S bundle that includes the headset, *Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners* game, and a $50 gift card, making it an affordable entry into VR. The Meta Quest 3S is a standalone headset with advanced features like hand tracking and mixed reality, though it has a lo...
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Play Pickleball in VR: 'XR Is Having A Moment' With Resolution Games
Colocation technology is enabling natural shared virtual reality experiences, such as playing pickleball with friends, by seamlessly integrating digital environments into physical spaces. Affordable VR systems now feature reliable automatic co-location, which developers are embracing as a key fac...
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Wizardtag: Spellcasting Laser Tag for the Quest 3
Wizardtag is a mixed reality multiplayer game for Quest 3 where players use voice-activated wands to cast spells, evolving from the earlier Lasertag project by Julian Triveri. The game builds on Triveri's open-source continuous scene meshing technology, which updates the environment in real-time ...
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The Astonishing Transformation of Business through the Marvels of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Explore the impact of VR and AR in various industries, from education and healthcare to retail and marketing. These technologies are evolving, merging into mixed reality (MR), and providing new opportunities. Challenges include cost and privacy concerns, but startups and innovators are driving affordable solutions. Embracing VR/AR promises transformative rewards as they reshape industries and create endless possibilities for businesses.
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Top VR Games of 2025: Our Game of the Year Winners
The VR gaming landscape in 2025 features mature, high-quality titles that build on past innovations, with standout games recognized for exceptional contributions to the medium. Key 2025 releases include *Ghost Town* for its immersive puzzle-adventure world, *Marvel’s Deadpool VR* for its producti...
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Meta Halts Horizon VR Headsets for Third-Party Makers
Meta has paused its plan to license its Horizon OS VR operating system to third-party hardware makers, refocusing on developing its own first-party hardware and software. The decision reverses a recently announced open-platform strategy aimed at expanding the VR ecosystem through partnerships wit...
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Venice Immersive 2025: Top 7 Must-See Projects
Venice Immersive 2025, part of the Venice International Film Festival, will run from August 27 to September 6 and showcase nearly 70 XR projects from 27 countries, with 30 competing for awards. The event features a diverse lineup of groundbreaking experiences, including interactive art journeys, ...
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Meta Halts Quest Horizon OS Sharing With Third Parties
Meta has paused licensing its Horizon OS to third-party hardware makers to instead focus on refining its own first-party VR and mixed reality products. The company is prioritizing the development of its core hardware and software to advance the VR sector, with future partnerships to be reconsider...
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The Mysterious Objects No One Can Name
The tech industry is struggling to define a new generation of wearable devices, moving away from the outdated term "smart glasses" toward labels like "AI glasses," which reflects a strategic shift in marketing focus. Companies are using terminology inconsistently for branding purposes, with Meta ...
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Banners & Bastions Launches On Quest This [Date]
Banners & Bastions, a mixed reality tactical roguelite, will fully launch on Meta Quest on December 15, transitioning from its early access phase. The version 1.0 update will introduce new hero units, enemies, and an autumn biome, building upon previous updates like a dragon boss and controll...
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Little Critters: The Cozy Tower Defense Game You'll Love
Little Critters innovates the tower defense genre by using virtual reality to transform your living space into a fully spherical battlefield, requiring constant awareness and clever preparation from all angles. The game excels in accessibility and attention to detail, featuring intuitive controls...
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Top VR Games of November 2025: Quest, SteamVR & PS VR2
November 2025 features a diverse lineup of new VR games across platforms like Quest, SteamVR, and PS VR2, including shooters, sims, and puzzle adventures to suit various interests. Key releases include narrative-driven titles such as *Of Lies And Rain* and *Escape from Hadrian's Wall*, alongside ...
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Wallace & Gromit: The Grand Getaway - Out Now on PS VR2
Wallace & Gromit's new VR adventure, The Grand Getaway, brings the iconic duo into an immersive world filled with chaotic holiday fun, featuring new characters like a Robo Caddy and AI assistant Beryl. The PS VR2 version, developed by multiple studios, retains the core adventure but omits the mix...
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Meta Quest 3S Hits Its Lowest Price Ever in 2025
The Meta Quest 3S 128GB model is now available for a record low price of $249, making it a highly accessible entry point into VR. The most valuable Black Friday bundle is from Walmart and the Meta store, which includes the $50 game *Batman: Arkham Shadow* and a Meta Horizon+ trial for the same $2...
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Samsung Galaxy XR: Next Launch Locations Revealed
The Samsung Galaxy XR, initially released only in the U.S. and South Korea, is Samsung's entry into the mixed-reality market, with international customers awaiting availability. Samsung plans to expand the Galaxy XR's availability to Canada, France, Germany, and the UK in 2026, using a phased rol...
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