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Steam Next Fest Hosts 40+ PC VR Game Demos Until October 26th
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 check out […]
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What’s Driving XR Revenues?
What’s the spatial computing revenue outlook? And how does that break down by subsegments from VR to AI glasses? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment highlights original market-sizing data from our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence.
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OpenXR Takes a Page From Apple With New Cross-Platform Spatial Multitasking API
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 […]
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‘PAYDAY: Aces High’ Releases November 5th on Quest, Steam Frame & PC VR, Playtest Now Open
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 heisting: infiltrating banks, museums, […]
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Is AI the Missing Piece in Industrial XR?
XR has proven useful for industrial training, assembly, and maintenance, yet adoption remains limited. Can AI breathe new life into the technology by finally fulfilling the promise of intelligent and guided workflows?
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AI/XR Beats: Xreal Brightens Up, Character.ai Winds Down
Xreal launches 1 Pro+ with brighter displays, while XR bids to accelerate world models, and once-high-flying Character.ai shuts down. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds through the lens of Charlie FInk.
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Steam Frame OLED Version Surfaces in Source Code, Suggesting a Possible Hardware Refresh
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 LCD. […]
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XREAL Announces ‘1 Pro+’ Flagship AR Glasses, Now Available & Priced at $599
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. […]
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Can XR Unlock and Accelerate World Models?
There’s a hot take in the XR world that AI is the force multiplier it has been waiting for. And that’s valid. But it’s also incomplete. The inverse is true, as AI needs XR. This could be most evident in the development of world models.
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Valve is Building a Deluxe Audio Strap with Hot-swappable Battery for Steam Frame
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 Mode Radiator (BMR) drivers which are said […]
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