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SteamVR 2.17 went stable on September 10. Buried under OpenXR is 32-bit runtime support, which matters because Windows sends 32-bit apps to a different registry branch than the one your 64-bit runtime is registered in.

Counterpoint Research updated its quarterly XR shipment tracker on September 8. VR headsets fell 18 percent year over year in Q2 2026 and AR devices rose 138 percent, but the paragraph worth reading is the one naming enterprise buyers and robotics teams as the demand that held.

The first visuals of Meta's Project Phoenix headset have been found in Horizon OS firmware, revealing a slim design with a tether for the compute puck.

Hello Games shipped No Man's Sky Cosmos, update 7.0, on September 9. The rendering section adds foveated rendering on PC VR, the bug fix section still has time for a PSVR Move controller binding, and the spacewalk rework raises a comfort question nobody can answer yet.

Meta announced Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere: An Immersive Experience on September 3, filmed at Billy Bob's Texas and shot for 3D VR 180. The announcement quantifies nothing, which leaves commissioning behavior as the only readable signal in a category both platform holders are treating differently.

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It’s the last day of August. The last day of what is usually considered a vacation month, before we start the busy period of XR product launches in September and October! So enjoy this last newsletter with more relaxed vibes, because I guess that from next week I’ll have a lot of work to do 🙂  (Btw, […] The post The XR Week Peek (2026.08.31): VR was featured in GTA VI trailer, Quest 3 got a frame…

Bad Inmate, a physics-driven prison escape comedy from HyperVR Games in Riga, hits Quest and PlayStation VR2 together on October 15. Same-day releases on both headsets are rarer than they should be for a studio this size.

The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech has developed a virtual reality training platform that prepares Kia assembly workers for the pace of the production line.

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Alex Himel says the glasses will now cut the camera if the capture LED is covered mid-recording, closing a loophole the July update left open. The check moved from a one-time gate to a running invariant, and that is a different engineering problem.

This article examines network layouts that show the relationships between a central node (ego) and surrounding nodes (alters) in virtual reality (VR).

QuestStack roots a Quest 1 on its final firmware and swaps in a vulnerable bootloader. A WebUSB version from darknight1050 does the same job from a Chromium tab. Meta stopped patching the headset on August 31, 2024.