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It’s been nearly two years since Ramen VR, the studio behind Zenith: The Last City (2022), announced it was ceasing development on the VR MMORPG due to difficulties in keeping users. Now the studio announced it’s finally pulling the plug in December.Despite attracting hundreds of thousands of players over the years and securing tens of millions in funding, Zenith struggled to retain its audience, ultimately becoming financially unsustainable despite Ramen VR’s efforts to revive it with a

Supernatural, the VR fitness app, has launched—or rather, re-launched—into early access on Quest today following a spin-out from Meta earlier this summer.
Supernatural is a subscription-based fitness app that’s all about dodging, squatting, batting (and punching) orbs to the beat—and burning some serious calories in the process. And Supernatural Health, the 15-person independent team behind the app, have now launched it in early access on Quest.Early access is said to al

Gears of War: E-Day (2026) has only been out for a little over two weeks now, and there’s already a PC VR mod in the works to get you up close and personal with the Locust Horde.A free mod being created by ‘rockonthehill‘ is set to bring full VR support for the entire campaign.
Items already crossed off the list include full stereo rendering, full-body IK, manual reloads, manual weapon switching, two-handed aiming, the ability to fight from cover, and take on the gunner positi

Snap announced that actor and producer Robert Downey Jr. will work alongside the company’s augmented reality team to develop original content, Lens experiences, hardware collaborations, and more for its SPECS AR glasses.The NewsRobert Downey Jr. has joined the company’s Specs team as honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCEO), which the company says will help “guide customers to understand and imagine what’s possible with SPECS.”
The company says the Iron Ma

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 VR co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High from Fast Travel Games, town-builder strategy game Outlanders VR from Mucho Games, and co-op extraction game DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew from Salmi Gam

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 Khronos Group, which leads development on OpenXR, announced it’s set to roll out a set of extensions soon that include new “s

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, and even a luxury penthouse apartment.Like all Payday games, you can also build out your own unique loadout—weapons, gadgets and special skills—as your team decides to go in hard

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, and even a luxury penthouse apartment.Like all Payday games, you can also build out your own unique loadout—weapons, gadgets and special skills—as your team decides to go

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, and even a luxury penthouse apartment.Like all Payday games, you can also build out your own unique loadout—weapons, gadgets and special skills—as your team decides to go

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 NewsAs 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.The codename ‘Plano’ has appeared in Valve’s publicly released Steam Frame kernel source code, describing a ‘Deckard’ (codename for Steam Frame) with a 3,552 × 3,

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.Like One Pro, the new model includes XREAL’s X1 spatial computing chip, three degrees of freedom (3DOF), 57-degree field of view (FOV), and the same 1,920 ×

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.Like One Pro, the new model includes XREAL’s X1 spatial computing chip, three degrees of freedom (3DOF), 57-degree field of view (FOV), and the same 1,920 ×

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.Like One Pro, the new model includes XREAL’s X1 spatial computing chip, three degrees of freedom (3DOF), 57-degree field of view (FOV), and the same 1,920 × 1,080 p

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 to match the off-ear speakers seen in Valve Index.Index, which was just discontinued, has long been the audio bar for VR headsets since its r

The launch of Meta VR Glasses next year will mark the first time any of the company’s standalone headsets has featured expandable storage. Now, Meta and Sandisk have partnered to offer official ‘Made for Meta’ microSD and USB-C flash drive storage options.The NewsSandisk is set to be the exclusive provider of flash storage solutions for Meta VR Glasses, which are slated to launch in Spring 2027, priced at $1,300.
Meta VR Glasses (128GB internal storage) are said to support mic

Index, Valve’s PC VR headset released in 2019, is officially on its way out. And to see it along, Valve has dropped the price of everything Index-related.
The NewsValve Index is no longer being produced, which means this could be your last chance to get new stock of the company’s landmark PC VR headset.Everything is now 20 percent off on the Valve Index page, including:Valve Index Headset was $499.00, now $399.20Valve Index Replacement Left Controller was $149.00, now $119.20Valve I

SideQuest has been the number one unofficial store for Quest games ever since its founding in 2019. Now, it just got a lot easier to download and get playing.Downloading SideQuest used to mean going through a cumbersome setup process, although now SideQuest CEO and co-founder Shane Harris says in a Reddit post the team has effectively reduced the process down to just a few steps.All new users have to do is sign into your Meta Account and allow SideQuest to connect over Bluetooth, enabling wirel

Regulatory filings in Japan may have inadvertently leaked Pico’s next flagship headset in full—inside and out.
As first spotted by UploadVR, images of Pico’s Vison Pro competitor ‘Space Pro’ have leaked ahead of its planned Q4 2026 launch.Filed under certification number 202-JWM032, the images are publicly available through Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), which, like the US FCC, oversees the certification of electronic and radio

Getting a Steam Frame for the holidays could be a bit dicey, as Valve says the order queue has now stretched into 2027.Valve says in a news update that customers hoping to get their hands on Steam Frame, the recently launched standalone VR headset, can now view their expected order window by going directly to the Steam Frame product page while logged in to your Steam account.
Order emails are being sent out either by December or in 2027, Valve says, with those in the 2027 camp due to receive fu

Valve just released a new update for Steam Frame that improves battery lifetime, steaming quality, connectivity issues, and more.
Steam Frame launched last month, bringing with it the ability for users to not only stream PC and PC VR games to the headset, but also play those games locally, albeit at a lower quality since content is rendered on the standalone headset’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile chipset.Now, the SteamOS 0.4 update is available for all Frame users, bringing with it some of t

I’m pleased to announced that longtime Editor Scott Hayden is stepping up to become Road to VR’s new Executive Editor.
After starting with Road to VR as a freelancer in 2014, becoming a contributor in 2016, and then Editor in 2019, Scott Hayden is now the publication’s new Executive Editor. As such, Scott is responsible for all editorial decisions and strategy, and for upholding the standards of reporting that Road to VR has been dedicated to over the last 15 years.There&rsquo

Meta is partnering with ESPN to offer select live, 180-degree immersive college football games all season long via Quest’s TV app. When Meta VR Glasses release next spring, Meta says there are also 100+ live sporting events on the horizon.The NewsThe first game kicks off October 10th with the Texas Longhorns taking on the Oklahoma Sooners, letting you watch in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl.Live games will be streamed in 8K with Dolby Atmos, and 180-degree views so user can see

Meta says VR Glasses are a different product for a different market. Quest isn’t dead, but it has been relegated, as the company has pulled back from games, shut down a number of studios, and is ostensibly building on its next chapter around something else.VR GlassesMeta VR Glasses are a compute-puck-tethered mixed reality headset that’s going on sale sometime in Spring 2027, priced at $1,300.They use the same operating system as Quest, which means the same games as Quest 3. Althoug

The Norwegian government announced it’s aiming to introduce a temporary ban on smart glasses in a number of public locations, citing privacy as the main concern.While the government says the temporary ban is a high priority, it must still be introduced as legislation and approved by Norway’s parliament, so its passage—and the scope of any eventual ban—aren’t yet certain.Still, the temporary ban could prohibit the use of smart glasses (called ‘AI glasses&rsquo

Meta has acquired a number of Sony patents, including some related to XR headsets, suggesting Sony is significantly pulling back from its XR ambitions.The NewsAs first reported by ZDNet Korea, a recorded transfer of 43 U.S. patent properties took place between June and September 2026, which include virtual, augmented and mixed reality headset patents.The patents cover things such as information processing specific to XR applications, head-mounted displays and various XR glasses types, filed by

This month Road to VR celebrates its 15th year of bringing you the most important news across the XR landscape. To mark the occasion we’ve put together an interactive timeline of major industry events and how our coverage has evolved over time. Industry milestoneHeadset launchRoad to VR milestoneMost Popular Articles & MilestonesPublished ArticlesBack to All YearsThis interactive chart requires JavaScript.When I started Road to VR as a college student back in October of 2011, I had no

Pimax announced its next major VR headset, Crystal Pro, which not only boasts high-fidelity PC VR streaming, but also some native standalone gameplay too.Much like Steam Frame, Crystal Pro’s major focus is on wireless PC VR streaming, which Pimax says is built around its own Native Foveated Streaming tech.PC VR streaming can be done via the included Wi-Fi 6E adapter, although the headset also supports an optional 60G AirLink kit, which uses a two-antenna, 2×2 multi-input multi-outpu

Meta announced its VR Glasses at Connect last month, which is looking to appeal more to productivity and casual content by virtue of its high pixel density micro-OLED displays. They do however serve up a noticeably lower field of view (FOV), but how noticeable?
As someone who’s gone hands-on with Meta VR Glasses, there’s really no optimal way of describing its FOV. It’s simply one of those “see it to believe it” sort of things.The company’s tethered standalon

AI vibecoding has caused a veritable explosion in the VR modding scene. The latest to benefit: PSVR exclusive and critically acclaimed platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018).The NewsVR modder ‘Bigmak94’ has released another mod, this time bringing Astro Bot Rescue Mission to Quest 3 and PC VR.Also known for their Super Mario Galaxy VR mod, Bigmak94 asked AI agent Claude to modify shadPS4, an open-source PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS.The modder reveals in a