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Google and the USO are bringing a 3D video system built for corporate meeting rooms to USO centers worldwide, aiming to let deployed service members see their families in near-lifelike detail instead of on a flat screen. Google Beam is expanding to 20 USO locations globally, the company announced Oct. 26, a significant step beyond the previously announced Poland-Fort Bliss pilot.

XREAL's latest AR glasses promise a noticeably brighter picture without a higher price. The new XREAL 1 Pro+ brings a 1,200-nit peak display, improved 2D-to-3D conversion, and redesigned nose pads for $599, sharpening the experience of using a virtual screen for movies, games, and everyday computing.

The new Apple Vision Pro headset that Apple is reportedly testing under the code name N224 might never reach shelves. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman describes the project as being on "life support," with no guarantee it ever launches.

New York Times Cooking is coming to Meta's AI glasses with a new hands-free mode designed specifically for following recipes while cooking.

Pimax has unveiled the Crystal Pro, a wireless PC VR headset built around technology it calls Native Foveated Streaming, designed to send the GPU's native image to the headset within the eye-tracked focus area without the video encoding most wireless headsets rely on, according to Pimax. The announcement sets up a direct Pimax Crystal Pro vs Steam Frame contest for the future of wireless PC VR, arriving just over three weeks after Valve opened reservations for its headset.

Supernatural's VR workout app relaunch went live today in Early Access on the Meta Horizon Store, but the beloved fitness service returns as an independent company charging double what subscribers paid under Meta, according to The Verge. The Supernatural Meta Horizon Store listing is open to everyone on the Quest storefront, regardless of prior Founding Member status, 9to5Google reports.

Samsung and Google are preparing to launch AI glasses with Gemini built in, and the Samsung Android XR smart glasses design problem goes beyond the technology inside.

Display-less smart glasses, the camera-and-microphone kind with no lens display, shipped 2.25 million units in the first three months of 2026, a 167% jump from the same quarter a year earlier, according to IDC data published in June 2026.

HTC wants VIVE Eagle to be the smart glasses that finally get privacy right. The company says its AI-powered eyewear stores everything locally, skips ad tracking, and doesn't use customer data to train its models (HTC). It even ships with a light that switches on when the camera is recording. Judged purely on HTC smart glasses privacy features, that's a real step past the industry default of quietly uploading everything to the cloud. But look at who those features are built to reassure: the...

Three years after Meta launched AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses in partnership with the eyewear brand, the backlash was loud enough that even the staid Financial Times ran the nickname critics had settled on: "pervert glasses." Today, Meta answers with something that would have seemed almost beside the point back then: a version with no camera at all. Ray-Ban Meta Audio, unveiled today, is the company's first entry into camera-free smart glasses, and it raises a question that outlasts any single...

Apple plans to unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, with consumer sales following later that year, the clearest Apple smart glasses release date reported so far, according to The Korea Herald (two months ago) and BetaNews (two months ago). That target has already slipped once from an earlier late-2026 unveil with early-2027 shipping, and the delay sits at the center of the story behind Apple smart glasses 2027: a bet that privacy restrictions, possibly including no camera at...

The claim reads like a highlight-reel moment: a VR modder throws virtual models at 3D printer, and the print supposedly starts before the object even finishes its arc. No video, account, or creator statement accompanies it, so it's treated here as unverified, not as a confirmed event with a citation waiting to be found.

Supernatural's Meta-operated app keeps running through December 3, 2026, but anyone who wants to keep using it afterward will need a new account and should expect to pay roughly double what they pay today. That's the practical shape of the Supernatural VR fitness app reboot, which relaunches as an independent company called Supernatural Health this fall, according to UploadVR and The Verge.

Meta Connect 2026 begins Sept. 23, arriving after years of scrutiny over how Meta's smart glasses can record people without their knowledge or consent, as PCMag reported last week. Reporting suggests the company's response could include a new product: a camera-free pair of glasses that removes the most visible trigger for the backlash.

Google Translate's Live Translate Android XR upgrade could give future Android XR glasses users a choice: translate only the person facing them, or every voice within earshot.

Apple released visionOS 27 beta 6 to developers on August 17, beta 7 on August 24, and beta 8 on August 31, keeping a steady weekly cadence heading into the fall release. Apple's developer portal identifies beta 8 as build 24M5361a, but the latest coverage does not identify any major beta-8-specific feature additions.

Sixteen athletes from 15 countries will compete for a single gold medal when virtual taekwondo makes its first appearance as an official medal event at the Asian Games, part of the Aichi-Nagoya Games that open on September 19 (The Korea Times). It is the first time a virtual reality-based martial art has been added to the Games program, according to industry sources cited by The Korea Herald.

Smart glasses have stopped being a concept and started being a product category. Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley partnerships moved from niche curiosity to mainstream retail over the past year, according to an EFF analysis from earlier this year, which identified Meta as the biggest company in the category with the most popular options on the market. Google confirmed at I/O 2026 that Android XR audio glasses arrive this fall, designed, as Google put it, to "deliver help in the moment without taking...