Bucking a trend of online-only sales in the XR universe, VITURE’s latest move is a deal with Best Buy to carry its display glasses in 200 North America stores. Will this inflect sales with the capacity to show rather than tell?
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VITURE Signals AR’s Retail Imperative
Galaxy XR is the Headset the Industry Needs to Take Its Next Major Step
Samsung’s Galaxy XR is finally here, and with it, a perfect middle-ground of price and features to simultaneously turn up the competitive pressure on both Meta and Apple. Over many years I had been patiently waiting for Apple to launch its own headset in order to finally give Meta some real competition. Even though the […]
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Researchers Propose Novel E-Ink XR Display with Resolution Far Beyond Current Headsets
A group of Sweden-based researchers proposed a novel e-ink display solution that could make way for super compact, retina-level VR headsets and AR glasses in the future. The News Traditional emissive displays are shrinking, but they face physical limits; smaller pixels tend to emit less uniformly and provide less intense light, which is especially noticeable […]
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‘VRChat’ Officially Releases on Android & iOS, Making Way for Next Big User Surge
VR’s biggest social VR platform, VRChat, has finally come out of beta on iOS and Android. The News VRChat has officially launched its app on both Android and iOS following a lengthy testing period. The app’s alpha launch on Android was released in August 2023, but only admitted VRChat Plus subscribers. Then, In August 2025, […]
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Decart Achieves Real-Time Generative AI
At TwitchCon San Diego, Decart staged a live demo of something we haven’t seen before: real-time generative AI. Graphics were generated on the fly and overlaid on users, via Geenee AR’s Magic Mirrors. Charlie Fink reports.
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Google’s XR Studio Releases ‘Job Simulator’ Style MR Experience Exclusive to Android XR
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio, released a new mixed reality title exclusively for Android XR which expands the Job Simulator universe. The News Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind VR games Job Simulator (2016) and Vacation Simulator (2019), released both games on Android XR’s first officially supported headset, Samsung Galaxy XR. Alongside it comes a free mixed reality […]
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Former Oculus Execs’ AI Smart Glasses Startup ‘Sesame’ Raises $250M Series B Funding
Sesame, an AI and smart glasses startup founded by former Oculus execs, raised $250 million in Series B funding, which the company hopes will accelerate its voice-based AI. The News As first reported by Tech Crunch, lead investors in Sesame’s Series B include Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital, bringing the company’s overall funding to $307.6 […]
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Spatial Beats: Galaxy XR Launches, OpenAI Joins the AI Browser Wars
The long awaited Samsung Galaxy XR launched this week, while OpenAI fires the latest shot in the AI Browser Wars with Atlas. We have these and other items from AI and XR realms through the lens of Charlie Fink.
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Mixed Reality Obstacle Course ‘Laser Dance’ Comes to Quest 3 in Early Access Next Month
Cubism (2020) developer Thomas Van Bouwel and publisher Creature announced that Laser Dance is finally coming to Quest next month, bringing its unique and immersive mixed reality obstacle course in early access. The News Laser Dance essentially turns your living room into a laser-filled obstacle course, forcing you to bend, duck and dance around a swirl […]
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