Apple’s Vision Pro team is reportedly focused on building a cheaper headset

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple may no longer be working on a new high-end Vision headset amid slowing sales of the Vision Pro, according to a new report from The Information . Instead, Apple has apparently been finding ways to reduce ... more - theverge

Xreal’s new gadget is a phone-sized Android tablet just for your AR glasses

The Xreal Beam Pro looks like a smartphone — but it’s not. | Image: Xreal Xreal has made a name for itself with some surprisingly nice-looking augmented reality glasses, which put a display in front of your eyes so you can do things like watch TV or ... more - theverge

Logitech’s first Meta Quest stylus helps artists work in 3D

The $130 Logitech MX Ink is compatible with both the Meta Quest 2 and 3, as well as “future” headsets. | Image: Logitech Today, Logitech officially announced its MX Ink stylus, the company’s first mixed reality accessory for the Meta Quest 2 and Quest ... more - theverge

Canon made a special lens for the Apple Vision Pro’s spatial videos

Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that Canon is making a funky-looking new lens for its EOS R7 camera, tailor-made for creating spatial video content for the Vision Pro headset. This comes alongside the new visionOS 2 update, which brings more emphasis on ... more - theverge

Ikea will pay 10 Roblox players to roleplay as employees in its virtual store

This could be you. | Image: Ikea Corporate publicity stunts involving virtual reality are almost always bad, but Ikea’s new Roblox store feels especially silly. The company announced last week that it plans to pay 10 people £13.15 or €14.80 per hour ... more - theverge

Meta is fixing three of the Quest 3’s biggest lingering annoyances

Photo: David Pierce The single biggest reason to buy a Meta Quest 3 over its predecessors is how it lets you bring the real world into view — but the VR headset’s still weird about your real-life hands, distorting the world around them. I always mess ... more - theverge

Palmer Luckey is now selling pixel-perfect ultrabright magnesium Game Boys for $199

The ModRetro Chromatic | Image: ModRetro Before he brought VR headsets out of the dark ages with Oculus, before he founded defense contractor Anduril, Palmer Luckey was a Nintendo Game Boy modder. It’s true. There’s photo evidence — and today, he’s revealing ... more - theverge

Sony’s PSVR 2 PC adapter launches in August

Image: Sony The PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter is now official. Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter, which would add PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, the company officially unveiled the connector. ... more - theverge

Here are a few of our favorite deals from Sony’s latest Days of Play sale

The new PlayStation 5 “slim” is matching its all-time low of $449 ($50 off) for a limited time. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony’s recent State of Play showcase may have given us a brief glimpse into the company’s plans for 2024 and ... more - theverge

‘Quest 3S’ could be the name of Meta’s more affordable VR headset

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Meta appears to have confirmed the name of its next virtual reality headset: the Quest 3S. In a Quest Store listing spotted by UploadVR , Meta lists the Quest 3S as a supported device. At this time of writing, you can ... more - theverge

Magic Leap is Google’s new mystery partner for XR headsets

Image: Magic Leap Google Glass and Magic Leap were both among the biggest technology flops of the past decade — but could their underlying ideas power something worthy and new? We may find out because Google and Magic Leap now have a “multi-faceted strategic ... more - theverge

All the news from PlayStation’s summer State of Play

Image: Sony Santa Monica Studio Sony is kicking off this year’s summer gaming events with a 30-minute showcase highlighting all the games coming to PlayStation this year and beyond. Continue reading… ... more - theverge

Marvel’s What If…? Vision Pro app is an awkward mix of video game and movie

The Watcher is quite large. | Image: Disney Besides watching movies, there’s not all that much to do with Apple’s Vision Pro once you get over the novelty. That’s why I was eager to try Disney and Marvel’s new What If…? An Immersive Story experience ... more - theverge

Sony’s next State of Play stream is 30 minutes of PS5 and VR games

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It begins. The summer showcase of games technically doesn’t officially start until Summer Game Fest next week, but Sony decided it wanted to get a jump on things by announcing its next State of Play event on Thursday, ... more - theverge

Sony made a PSVR 2 adapter for PC support

The PSVR 2 headset should have PC support by the end of this year, curtosy of a new adapter. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge PlayStation VR2 headset owners are one step closer to being able to use the virtual reality device with PCs. According ... more - theverge

Seeing the real world inside a virtual one

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge From the earliest pixelated games to the outrageously realistic experiences of today, flight simulators have always been pushing the boundaries of what can be visually recreated in a video game. It’s one thing to make ... more - theverge

Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets

Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge You can already beam your flat Windows desktop and its VR games onto your Meta Quest headset — but what if Windows could send HoloLens-like 3D apps and digital objects to the headset, too? At Build, Microsoft ... more - theverge

Meta and LG’s headset partnership is on the rocks

LG CEO William Cho and home entertainment company president Park Hyoung-sei met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in February to discuss the collaboration. | Image: LG LG is reportedly pausing its partnership with Meta to develop an extended reality (XR) ... more - theverge

Blink and you missed it: Google has a new pair of prototype AR glasses

I thought Google killed its augmented reality glasses after they couldn’t live up to the promise of real-time translation. I thought Project Iris was vaporware after the company shed its AR leaders and downsized the division that was reportedly facing ... more - theverge

The Pixel 8A and the camera you have with you

You know, normal backyard nighttime stuff. Sometimes you travel thousands of miles from home to see something amazing. And every once in a while, that something appears right in your backyard. That’s what happened on Friday. “What’s the aurora forecast ... more - theverge

The rise of the audio-only video game

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Not all video games need video. Over the years, games that exist only in audio have taken players into entirely new worlds in which there’s nothing to see and still everything to do. These games have huge accessibility ... more - theverge

Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses?

Stanford’s holographic AR glasses prototype. | Image: Andrew Brodhead / Stanford A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers ... more - theverge

Marvel is bringing a mixed reality edition of What If…? to the Vision Pro

Who watches the watcher watching The Watcher watching them? | Image: Marvel / Disney The Vision Pro is about to get what sounds like an honest-to-goodness mixed reality video experience from Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive, something the platform sorely ... more - theverge

The next Batman: Arkham game is a Meta Quest exclusive

Image: Meta Today, Meta has announced that the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham series will be Batman: Arkham Shadow , a VR game that’s exclusive to the Meta Quest 3. Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, ... more - theverge

Maybe go look at Google’s AR animals before they enter the grave

The shark still looks fake. | Image: Wes Davis / The Verge Remember Google’s AR search, which can make augmented reality bugs, dinos, neat objects, and buildings appear atop the real world through the lens of your phone? Now might be a good time to take ... more - theverge

Apple reportedly cuts Vision Pro production due to low demand

Demand for Vision Pro is falling. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is reportedly cutting its Vision Pro headset shipment forecast for the rest of the year due to cooling demand. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes that Apple cut orders ... more - theverge

An Xbox VR headset is on the way, but it’s a ‘limited edition’ Meta Quest

How Meta envisions an Xbox-branded VR headset. | Image: Meta Microsoft is teaming up with Meta to create a limited edition Meta Quest VR headset that’s “inspired by Xbox.” While both Microsoft and Meta aren’t sharing full details on this VR headset, ... more - theverge

The Meta Quest 2 gets a permanent price cut to $199

The Meta Quest 2 and its bundled controllers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Meta Quest 2 has been on sale for nearly a month, and today, Meta’s making that price permanent — $199 is the new sticker price for the virtual reality headset, ... more - theverge

Meta is making it easier to bring Quest headsets into the classroom

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Meta is launching a new hub for Quest headsets later this year that should make it easier for educators to use them in schools. In a blog post on Monday, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, writes that the ... more - theverge

Dyson’s AR app shows you where you’ve vacuumed

Dyson wants to make cleaning fun again, but I was already having fun letting the robots do it. | Image: Dyson Dyson has developed a new feature that uses your smartphone’s augmented reality sensors to virtually paint over areas you’ve vacuumed, so you ... more - theverge