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Best AR Glasses 2026: Smart Glasses Comparison & Buyer's Guide
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (121+ words) Part of our Best Of 2026 guide collection. Made by Meta and EssilorLuxottica | Price: ~$379 | Display: None Made by Rokid | Price: ~$499 | Display: Micro-LED monocular Made by Xreal | Price: ~$599 | Display: 1080p micro-OLED, 57 degree FOV Made by Viture | Price: ~$499 | Display: 1080p micro-OLED, 46 degree FOV Made by…...
Magic Leap Is Cutting 193 Jobs and Getting Out of the Headset Business
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (703+ words) Magic Leap filed a WARN notice in July. It cuts 193 jobs at the company's Plantation, Florida headquarters, effective October 1. The affected list runs through software, hardware, UX and design, product management, manufacturing engineering, quality, technical program management, and a set…...
Meta Wanted $20 a Month for a Feature That Runs on the Glasses Themselves. Then It Backed Down.
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (333+ words) I have been covering Meta's glasses long enough to know the rhythm by now. Meta ships something, the internet gets loud, Meta says it is pausing to gather feedback. We got another verse of it this week, and this one…...
A Cargo Airline Just Put Its 777 Pilots in VR Before the Simulator. That Is the Enterprise Use Case That Actually Sticks.
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (542+ words) vr.org A Cargo Airline Just Put Its 777 Pilots in VR Before the Simulator. That Is the Enterprise Use Case That Actually Sticks. Every few months a splashy consumer headset launch soaks up the coverage, and every few months the…...
This Week in VR: Samsung Names Its Glasses, Instagram Bans the Creeps, and Four Studios Go Dark
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (393+ words) We skipped a couple of Fridays, so consider this a two week catch up rather than a normal column. It was the right two weeks to miss, in the sense that almost everything happened. Samsung finally said the name out…...
xMEMS Put a Silent Solid-State Fan Inside Smart Glasses. The Catch Is a 2027 Timeline.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (398+ words) The most interesting piece of VR and AR hardware to surface this week is not a headset, a chip, or a pair of glasses. It is a fan. Specifically, it is a solid-state fan roughly the size of a grain…...
Meta AI Just Became a System-Level Feature on Quest. The Headset Is Now a Glasses Rehearsal.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (604+ words) vr.org Meta AI Just Became a System-Level Feature on Quest. The Headset Is Now a Glasses Rehearsal. Meta AI has technically lived on Quest since 2024, when it showed up as an experimental toggle buried in a settings menu, limited…...
VR for Beginners 2026: How to Get Started with Virtual Reality
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (321+ words) Get the Meta Quest 3S. It is $349, standalone (no PC, no phone, no wires), and has the largest library of any VR platform. Every demo, every benchmark game, and almost every VR YouTube video is made with Quest users in mind....
EssilorLuxottica Bought Lynx for the Software and Left the Headset Behind
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (509+ words) vr.org EssilorLuxottica Bought Lynx for the Software and Left the Headset Behind EssilorLuxottica has acquired Lynx, the French mixed reality startup that spent eight years trying to prove a small European team could ship a headset against Meta's balance…...
Xbox Game Pass Is In Horizon+ Now, and the 10-Hour Cap Tells You What This Really Is
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (560+ words) vr.org Xbox Game Pass Is In Horizon+ Now, and the 10-Hour Cap Tells You What This Really Is Meta and Microsoft announced today that a "starter edition" of cloud-based Xbox Game Pass is now bundled into Horizon+, Meta's VR…...