Oppo’s Air Glass is an AR experiment with one great idea

Photo by Charles Pratt / The Verge Augmented reality, monocle style Continue reading… ... more - theverge

Meta Quest headsets will finally stop requiring a Facebook account

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is introducing a new account system for its virtual reality headsets, changing a 2020 requirement that most users log in with Facebook. The new “Meta accounts” don’t require users to sign up for Facebook, ... more - theverge

The GTA V modder we just wrote about has been slapped with a DMCA takedown

Last Friday, we introduced you to Luke Ross: a modder who now makes $20,000 a month on Patreon bringing big games like Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 to virtual reality. But the publisher of those games, Take-Two Interactive, was apparently ... more - theverge

Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Social media conglomerate Meta has created a single AI model capable of translating across 200 different languages, including many not supported by current commercial tools. The company is open-sourcing the project ... more - theverge

Meet the modder making $20,000 a month bringing the biggest games to VR

Illustration by Jarett Sitter / The Verge Luke Ross is doing what most game publishers won’t Continue reading… ... more - theverge

Pokémon Go developer Niantic cancels four projects and lays off more than 80 people

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Niantic, which has been trying to replicate the massive success of Pokémon Go with other mobile AR games, is laying off 8 percent of its workforce and canceling four projects, as reported by Bloomberg . “We recently decided ... more - theverge

Niantic is making a real-world NBA game

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced yet another new game, this time with its first foray into the world of sports. It’s called NBA All World , and it’s — as you’d expect from Niantic — a location-based game that also has augmented reality elements. ... more - theverge

HTC’s smartphone division limps on with metaverse-focused Desire 22 Pro

The HTC Desire 22 Pro. | Image: HTC It hasn’t released a competitive flagship device in years, but HTC’s smartphone division isn’t throwing in the towel just yet. Today it announced the HTC Desire 22 Pro, a follow-up to last year’s HTC Desire 21 Pro, ... more - theverge

Apple’s mixed reality headset will reportedly come with an M2 chip

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s mixed reality headset has been shrouded in rumors for months now, and a new report from Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman indicates that it could come with Apple’s flagship M2 processor. According to Gurman, Apple’s ... more - theverge

Apple’s AR / VR headset could release in January, analyst predicts

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s long-rumored mixed reality headset, which will reportedly offer a combination of augmented and virtual reality experiences, will “likely release” in January 2023, according to respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi ... more - theverge

Tim Cook is getting a lot less coy about Apple’s AR headset

More or less confirmation that an AR headset is coming. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tim Cook teased that Apple’s working on an augmented reality, or AR, product in an interview with state-run outlet China Daily , telling AR fans to “stay ... more - theverge

Welcome to our new Wednesday edition of The Vergecast

We have big news for listeners of The Vergecast , The Verge’ s flagship podcast. We are now publishing twice a week — on Wednesdays and Fridays! On Fridays, it’ll be the same show you know and love, with Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hanging ... more - theverge

Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft, Epic Games, Meta, and 33 other companies and organizations have formed a standards group for “metaverse” tech. The Metaverse Standards Forum is supposed to foster open, interoperable standards for augmented ... more - theverge

Oculus VR games are up to 40 percent off through June 26th

Resident Evil 4 on the Quest store is discounted to $35.99. | Oculus Meta has kicked off a Summer Sale on Quest VR games, and there are over 60 titles on sale. It might be a good time to stock up on games for a Quest 2 headset, especially if you’ve been ... more - theverge

Mark Zuckerberg has so many VR headset prototypes to show us

Mark Zuckerberg tries on the Holocake 2 prototype. | Meta Reality Labs And none of them are shipping Continue reading… ... more - theverge

Niantic’s pet game Peridot is too cute for words

It’s hard to put into words how cute the little creatures in Peridot are. The virtual pets, which star in the next release from Pokémon Go developer Niantic, seem scientifically designed to make you say “awww.” They have big eyes and colorful bodies, ... more - theverge

Valve VR patent stirs up fresh hopes about rumored standalone Deckard headset

The full headset taken from the recently-published Valve patent. Valve’s most recent VR headset was 2019’s high-powered, high-priced Valve Index. But rumors have long been swirling that the company is working on another device — a standalone headset ... more - theverge

Nreal is adding Steam streaming to its AR glasses

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Chinese augmented reality company Nreal is launching a Steam beta on its Nreal Light and Nreal Air AR glasses, letting users stream games from a PC to a virtual big screen. The company says its beta will go ... more - theverge

Meta adds parental controls to Quest VR headsets

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is adding parental controls to all Quest virtual reality headsets, letting guardians check underage users’ screen time and receive alerts or approval requests for purchases. The news comes alongside an expansion ... more - theverge

Horizon Worlds’ voice mode can turn strangers’ speech into pleasant gibberish

An icon will appear when a user can’t hear strangers’ voices. | Image: Meta Meta is adding a new “voice mode” to Horizon Worlds that garbles any voice chat coming from non-friends on the VR social platform, the company has announced. By default you’ll ... more - theverge

TikTok’s parent company is gearing up to invest a lot of money in VR

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, is getting serious about entering the virtual reality (VR) space, according to a report from Protocol . A source close to the situation told the outlet that the company ... more - theverge

Meta is adding social hangouts to the Quest’s VR home space

Meta Quest virtual reality headsets will soon offer an option for hanging out with other people in your homescreen. The v41 Quest update will add a multiuser Horizon Home space, which Meta announced last year at Connect. Horizon Home lets people put ... more - theverge

The first version of Meta’s AR glasses will be for developers only

Image: Meta Meta has decided to not sell the first version of its full-fledged AR glasses, codenamed Orion, and will instead distribute them to developers so they can build software experiences for the device and future versions, a person familiar with ... more - theverge

Amazon launches AR-powered virtual shoe try-on in its iOS app

iOS users can try on various brands within the Amazon app. | Image: Amazon Amazon is now letting iOS users virtually try-on shoes, the company announced in a blog post. Amazon customers in the US and Canada are able to try on shoes for various brands ... more - theverge

Meta reportedly shelves plans for dual-camera smartwatch

Images of the prototype device published by Bloomberg. | Image: Bloomberg Meta has halted development of a smartwatch with two built-in cameras, Bloomberg reports. The device — codenamed “Milan” — had reportedly been planned for release in spring 2023 ... more - theverge

Microsoft HoloLens boss Alex Kipman is out after misconduct allegations

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Insider is reporting that Microsoft’s Alex Kipman, who led the teams that developed the company’s HoloLens augmented reality headset and the Kinect motion controller for Xbox and serves as one of Microsoft’s top technical ... more - theverge

All the news coming out of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference

Apple continues with the Memoji developer art it started in 2020. | Image: Apple The conference runs from June 6th to June 10th Continue reading… ... more - theverge

Apple’s mixed reality headset will reportedly feature content created by Hollywood directors

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is reportedly teaming up with Hollywood directors to create video content for its upcoming augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR) headset, according to a report from The New York Times . Sources familiar ... more - theverge

Glasses or no glasses, this year’s WWDC is all about AR

Apple has been demoing AR for years but has never really shown us how it’s supposed to work. | Image: Apple Apple’s software is very good, generally speaking. Even as the company has spread its focus among more platforms than ever — macOS and iOS and ... more - theverge

Horizon, Resident Evil Village, and more are coming to PlayStation VR2

Sony Sony’s latest State of Play showcase gave a glimpse into what games will support the launch of the PlayStation VR2 (PSVR2) headset. Neither a price or release date has been shared yet for the headset, but at least we know what kind of games we can ... more - theverge