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Virtualware will pay 5 million euros plus an earnout for Manchester's Virtalis, which reported 4 million euros of revenue and 1.3 million euros of EBITDA on 19 staff. The UK cleared the deal under the National Security and Investment Act, which says more about the asset than the price does.

Update 5.0 renames the game The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition and closes out three and a half years of support. The first line of its changelog adds Steam Frame compatibility. The studio's next game is flatscreen.

Rollme's AuraView and ProView put a Sony 12MP sensor on your face for $99.99, and the company's own store pages list a price, a color, and no specifications at all. Every glasses rule written this year names Meta, and none of them reach a brand nobody has heard of.

NHS Supply Chain tender 2026/S 000-076079 splits a £210 million medical simulation framework into five lots, with £40 million named for immersive technology. The lot values are not ring-fenced, and the immersive lot is scored on a criterion the manikin lots do not use at all.

Combat Waffle Studios built Tomahawk because Meta Attestation was the only thing standing between Quest games and modified APKs. Its founder says the Steam Frame, rooted and open by design, is the platform he has not cracked yet.

Bloomberg reports Apple eliminated more than 200 roles on Friday, about 100 of them inside the Vision Products Group. The headset's gaming team is largely gone and the immersive video unit was cut back, one week before Apple streams live baseball to Vision Pro.

Eight Steam Frame setup videos fell out of the Steam client, Gunman Contracts set its paid launch for the day the Frame ships, ICE banned Meta glasses by name, and the NHS put £40 million of immersive training out to tender.

Project Swan is now Pico Space Pro, debuting in Beijing on September 2. The claimed sheet reads 4,000 PPI micro-OLED, dual-chip compute at 12ms perception latency, and 270 grams. Nobody outside Pico has seen the hardware yet.

Virtuix named AVRT as weapons-tracking supplier for the Marine Corps Infantry Fireteam Virtual Trainer, due at Quantico in Q4. No contract value was disclosed, which is the most informative detail in the August 5 release.

A memo from acting director David Venturella classifies Meta smart glasses as body-worn cameras and bars every ICE employee from wearing them at work, citing the risk of capturing and transmitting sensitive information. DHS is reportedly building its own biometric glasses instead.

Blendkit opened its 67,000-asset free library to Godot with a GPLv2 plugin. Here is how it installs, what the one-click transfer actually does, and why Godot's .blend import is still the thing that will bite you.

Dataminers pulled eight finished Steam Frame setup videos out of the latest ARM Steam client, including Valve's own unboxing and an unannounced Ergonomic Accessories Kit. Onboarding footage is the last thing a company finishes before it ships.

CM Games confirmed the Quest 3 version of Into the Radius 2 leaves Early Access on August 27 with the full voice acted campaign. The telling detail: the friendly NPCs from the Steam release got their dialogue cut back after players said the silence was the point.

Impact Reality, the company behind Flat2VR Studios and Impact Inked, has opened a StartEngine reservation page to extend a round its campaign material puts at $5 million. The terms are not disclosed, and the timing says something about where VR capital is coming from now.

Gunman Contracts began as a free Half-Life: Alyx mod that a third of a million people installed. Its solo German developer just confirmed the paid standalone launches in Early Access the same day Valve ships the Steam Frame, a date Valve has still not announced.

US application 2026/0236218, published August 13, describes a recording cue that a secure microphone verifies actually played. The stated problem is not the bystander. It is that a wearer cannot see their own capture LED.

Business Insider found dozens of pickup artist and prank videos filmed on Meta glasses still live on Instagram, four weeks after Adam Mosseri said they would come down. Meta cites thousands of removals and will not say how the policy is enforced.

A new database catalogs 898 VR mods across 874 flat PC games, sorted by engine framework and graded from Excellent down to Experimental. Here is how to check it against your own Steam library.

Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, enough for every blind and visually impaired adult the charity supports, with funded in-person training. The camera-free tier that has taken over the privacy argument cannot do any of this.

Job Simulator's flatscreen sequel has taken $14,723 from 211 backers. A pair of display glasses that launched a week earlier has taken $793,716 from 1,002. Both campaigns are live on the same site right now.