Jay Peters
A native Discord app is coming to Quest VR headsets.
It will launch sometime in 2026.
Virtual Reality
Jay Peters
Meta is working on a new “spatial” UI for VR.
CTO Andrew Bosworth showed a sneak peek of it during the Connect developer keynote. Looks a little Vision Pro-y!
Jess Weatherbed
Samsung’s XR headset might arrive next month.
According to a translated Etnews report, Samsung will launch the Android XR Project Moohan headset on October 21st, later than the previously speculated September 29th date. Samsung’s anticipated trifold phone could follow at a separate event that’s expected by “the end of next month or November at the earliest.”
We got a glimpse of Meta’s new AI glasses and a bunch more.
Emma Roth
Jay Peters
Zuckerberg is now talking about the VR and metaverse.
Including a new “immersive” virtual home. There won’t be an “8-bit Eiffel Tower,” he said, referencing a famous Zuck meme.
Jay Peters
Verge Staff
What to expect from Meta’s Connect 2025 conference.
Jay Peters
Sean Hollister
Is this the proof Valve’s wireless VR headset is imminent?
Valve watcher Brad Lynch thinks so. He just found code to suggest Valve’s “Roy” controllers are no longer marked as prototypes, and that Valve has finished building drivers for a Steam Link VR USB dongle that apparently uses Wi-Fi 6E to connect the headset to your computer. Is this Steam Frame?
1/2Video via Brad Lynch (X)
Janko Roettgers
Richard Lawler
Meta’s ‘Hypernova’ AR glasses could be cheaper than expected.
In his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman mentions that Meta has decided that when its smart glasses with a heads-up display debut later this fall, the starting price will be around $800 instead of the $1,000 price range previously rumored.
Jay Peters
There are more games coming to PSVR 2, apparently.
I sold my PSVR 2 last year and haven’t missed it one bit, but for anyone hanging on to theirs, Sony shared details today about four games you’ll be able to play on the headset “later this year.”
To me, the most interesting one is the trippy Dreams of Another, but that game is coming to PS5 and PC, too, so you won’t need a PSVR 2 to play it.
Thomas Ricker
Meta teases Oakley AR glasses.
“The next evolution is coming on June 20,” reads the caption to a teaser video republished by Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth. The Oakley x Meta tie-up was first reported back in January as the sporty alternative to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, meant to appeal to cyclists and other outdoor athletes.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Dumb and dumberer.
Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey have buried the hatchet after Zuckerberg fired Luckey in 2017, so they can build virtual and augmented reality gear for the military. Oculus made, of course, the most successful VR headset and was also a tremendous flop for Meta. Anyway, here’s the WSJ story about their new team-up. Time and money heal all wounds, I guess?
Image: Anduril
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
XR at I/O.
Android XR didn’t get a lot of screen time at today’s Android Show — apart from confirmation that it’s going to get Gemini AI support — but Google promises that there’s more to come at the full Google I/O event next week.
Android president Sameer Samat even broke out the company’s prototype XR shades to promise some “really cool Android demos” to come. And as you can see, this is a man who knows what’s cool.
Screenshot: Google / Dominic Preston
Umar Shakir
It brings tears to your headset.
Apple’s new ad launching days before Mother’s Day (this Sunday!) pitches the Vision Pro as a one-of-a-kind memories headset that will put mom to tears as they watch Spatial Videos of baby in VR. It includes a heartfelt closeup shot, which is giving us Verge folks déjà vu.
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Now this is podracing.
Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset is a new podracing-focused experience for Meta’s Quest headsets that will be shown at Star Wars Celebration 2025.
You won’t actually race from the cockpit of a podracer, but that’s probably a good thing to prevent the game from being a “puke factory,” as one of my colleagues eloquently put it.
Wes Davis
Apple is still trying to figure out the Vision Pro’s next steps.
The company is working on two follow-ups to the Vision Pro, according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. The goal for one is a cheaper Vision Pro. The other would tether to Macs for use as a wired display or for “high-end enterprise applications.”
That’s different from its canceled transparent-lens AR glasses that would have worked the same way, Gurman writes.
Wes Davis
Apple releases an app for storing and streaming Vision Pro videos.
“Apple Immersive Video Utility” is available now for Macs and Vision Pros, though only in US English, as MacRumors notes. With the Mac version, you can “import, organize, package, and review Apple Immersive Video,” Apple’s immersive video format. You can stream the videos, synchronized, to one or more headsets with the visionOS version installed.
That could make it easier to share in-person experiences. If you can find another Vision Pro owner, that is.
