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Sunday, September 27, 2026
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OpenAI discounts GPT-6 cached input up to 90%, if you reuse it inside 30 minutes
— OpenAI has given the GPT-6 family a prompt caching system that discounts cached input tokens by up to 90%, for shared prefixes reused inside a 30-minute window. OpenAI said on September 22 that the di...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
SteamOS 3.9.2 beta stops the frame limiter clamping VR streamed to a Steam Frame
— SteamOS 3.9.2 fixes the frame limiter being applied to VR titles streamed from a Steam Machine to a Steam Frame, the first time Valve's release notes have named that streaming path. Valve published th...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Altman tells the UN Security Council a 0.1% catastrophe risk is not acceptable
— Sam Altman told the United Nations Security Council on September 23 that no level of catastrophic risk from AI is acceptable, down to a tenth of a percent. "It doesn't matter whether people put the ri...MIXED / Chris Steven
A Meta glasses setting decides whether humans review your Meta AI photos
— Ask Meta AI about something you are looking at, and the image your glasses send can be stored and used to train Meta's models, with people as well as software doing the reviewing. One setting governs ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Anthropic commits $11.6 billion to Akamai for CPU capacity, not GPUs
— Anthropic has committed to pay Akamai approximately $11.6 billion over seven years, and what Akamai says the money buys is CPU capacity rather than GPUs. Akamai's press release of September 24 says th...UploadVR / Luna
Meta Launches $1 Million Competition For "Hands-First" Apps Ahead Of VR Glasses
— Meta launched a $1 million developer competition for new and updated "hands-first" Quest and VR Glasses apps.MIXED / Chris Steven
Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities builds the board in your room, no controllers required
— Enhance is building a Tetris Effect you play with your hands, on a board assembled out of the room you are standing in. Enhance says Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities arrives in 2027 for Meta Quest 3 and...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Anthropic now bills for refused Claude API requests, in three of five categories
— Anthropic has started billing Claude API requests that its safety classifiers refuse before Claude writes anything, in three of the five refusal categories. Anthropic's Claude API release notes, dated...Saturday, September 26, 2026
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SteamVR 2.18.1 quietly changed the driver interfaces third-party add-ons use
— SteamVR's 2.18.1 beta changed several of the interfaces third-party drivers build against, and it changed the OSC output that the Steam Link driver exposes. Neither appears in Valve's notes for the be...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Skild AI's only reward was score, and it says dribbling and tackling emerged on their own
— Skild AI gave a football-playing robot policy exactly one objective, “score”, and says dribbling past a defender, shielding the ball and tackling an opponent all appeared without anyone writing a rewa...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Valve confirms Steam Frame VR streaming on Linux needs SteamVR started by hand
— A Steam Frame streaming PC VR from a Linux desktop cannot get SteamVR going by itself, so a game picked inside the headset opens as a flat window on the monitor instead. Valve has confirmed the bug, h...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Three Claude Code releases in three days, two of them stopping commands that delete files
— Anthropic shipped three Claude Code releases on three consecutive days, 2.1.281 on September 23, 2.1.282 on September 24 and 2.1.283 on September 25, and two of the three stopped commands that delete ...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Steam Frame now redeems your free Half-Life: Alyx from the VR dashbar
— Steam Frame owners can claim their free copy of Half-Life: Alyx without leaving the headset. Valve’s Steam Client release for Frame on September 22 “enabled free Half-Life: Alyx redemption from the ac...MIXED / Michael Zelich
OpenAI says an internal model resolved more than 100 open maths problems, with no proof
— OpenAI says an internal model it began training on August 28 has resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems in mathematics, and it has not published a proof for any of them. OpenAI's post of S...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Six VR games have October dates, but Sony's store still has no date for one
— Six VR releases now carry a dated store page or a dated developer announcement for October, running from Into the Radius 2 on PS VR2 on October 8 to Dark Trip on October 29. One of the six is dated tw...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
An OpenAI agent reached non-public Medicare files on June 18, Australia was told September 10
— An OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal on June 18, and Australia says it heard nothing about it until September 10. Prime Minister Anthony Al...MIXED / Chris Steven
SteamOS 0.4.1 improves Steam Frame proximity detection and fixes the streaming keyboard
— Valve has changed the model the Steam Frame uses to decide whether the headset is on a face, and fixed the virtual keyboard that would not appear while streaming. Both land in SteamOS 0.4.1, published...MIXED / Michael Zelich
New Mexico jury finds Facebook committed 43,899,725 violations, and a judge sets the penalty
— A jury in Santa Fe has found that Facebook committed 43,899,725 violations of New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act, and the judge, not the jury, will decide what that costs. The verdict came on September...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's VR Glasses puck takes DisplayPort in, for use as a Mac, Windows or console display
— The puck that carries the Meta VR Glasses battery and processors has a DisplayPort input, and Meta’s own developer documentation lists it for use “as a Mac, Windows, or console display”. The connectiv...MIXED / Chris Steven
Omdia puts Meta at 81.3% of AI glasses shipments, and second place has no camera
— Meta shipped 3.4 million of the 4.2 million AI glasses that went out worldwide in the first half of 2026, or 81.3% of the market, according to Omdia. Second place went to Even Realities with 102,000 p...UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Just Hoops 2.0 Update Emphasizes Hand Tracking & Accessibility
— Just Hoops 2.0 is available now on Quest with improved hand tracking, a mixed reality playground mode, and a slew of new accessibility features for more casual players.UploadVR / James Tocchio
Medinah Country Club No. 3 Is The Newest Course Added To GOLF+
— GOLF+ continues to add to its ever-growing lineup of real-world golf courses with Medinah Country Club No. 3, the site of this year's Presidents Cup.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Shil Is A Mind-Bending Puzzle Horror Game Coming To Quest In October
— Shil is a trippy psychological horror puzzle game coming to Quest on October 8, with a Steam release also planned for a later date.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Dungeons Of Eternity Goes Darker In New Tomb Extraction Update
— Dungeons of Eternity's Tomb Extraction update adds a new extraction-style game mode with new enemies, weapons, and loot.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
VR Heist Shooter Payday: Aces High Running Free October Playtest
— Fast Travel Games is holding an open playtest for its upcoming co-op VR heist shooter Payday: Aces High on October 19.UploadVR / Craig Storm
Supernatural Returns To Quest This Fall & Will Be Enhanced For Meta VR Glasses
— The new independent Supernatural VR fitness app will launch on Quest this fall, and it will be a day-one Meta VR Glasses title with visual enhancements.UploadVR / Craig Storm
Supernatural Returns To Quest Next Month & Will Be Enhanced For Meta VR Glasses
— The new independent Supernatural VR fitness app will launch on Quest in October, and it will be a day-one Meta VR Glasses title with visual enhancements.UploadVR / Craig Storm
Meta’s New Immersive Series Follows NBA Champion Draymond Green Through Therapy
— Meta is launching Open Season on Quest next week, a new 180° VR documentary series following NBA champion Draymond Green through real therapy sessions.Friday, September 25, 2026
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ChatGPT Ads now run in over 60 countries, but only Free and Go users see them
— ChatGPT Ads have started rolling out across seven more markets in Asia, which takes the product past 60 countries, and OpenAI says ads are shown only to people on the Free and Go plans. Plus, Pro and ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
A symlink could send a Claude Code write outside your project, and 2.1.280 blocks it
— Claude Code judged a write through a symlinked path by the path you typed rather than by where the file actually landed, so acceptEdits, permission allow rules and auto mode could each approve an edit...MIXED / Chris Steven
VONDER's $299 AI glasses have no camera or display, and undercut Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 by $150
— VONDER's first glasses start at $299 in the US and have neither a camera nor a display, which puts them $150 under Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3. The brand was founded by co-founders of Viture, the display-glass...MIXED / Michael Zelich
339 AI experts gave four AI benchmark results a 24.6% chance, superforecasters 9.7%
— A panel of 339 AI experts gave an average probability of 24.6% to four AI benchmark results that then arrived, and a group of superforecasters gave the same four outcomes 9.7%. The figures come from t...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Airbus drives the ExoMars rover prototype with a Steam Deck, and its wheels crab sideways
— Airbus engineers at Stevenage drive the ExoMars rover prototype with a Valve Steam Deck, running custom software on the handheld and steering the six-wheeled machine with its sticks, triggers and bump...SkarredGhost / Skarredghost
My exciting and embarrassing interview with Boz
— Today I’m going to tell you about the most incredible thing that happened to me during Meta Connect: I interviewed Boz, the CTO of Meta. It was surprising. It was incredible. And it was overly embarra...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Capcom's Ace Attorney reaches VR in 2027, and you shout your objections out loud
— Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR is coming to the Meta Horizon Store in 2027, and AMATA K.K. says you present evidence with your hands and shout "OBJECTION" at the witness with your voice. It is the fi...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
OpenAI halves GPT-6 Sol and Luna API prices, and says Sol beats Opus 5 at 9% of the cost
— OpenAI has cut the API price of GPT-6 Sol to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, and GPT-6 Luna to $0.10 and $0.50. On its own run of AutomationBench, OpenAI says Sol at its highes...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
SteamOS 3.8.28 adds preliminary Steam Frame adapter support, but not VR streaming
— SteamOS 3.8.28 reached the stable channel on September 24, and the first line on Steam Frame is a careful one. Valve's release notes list "preliminary support for the Steam Frame Wireless Adapter", wh...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta puts $1 million into VR apps, but your entry must work with hands alone
— Meta has opened a $1 million VR Start Developer Competition, and the entry rule leaves no room to argue: "Your experience must be fully usable with hands, end-to-end. Controller support is welcome, bu...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Sanders and Casar's bill would ban superintelligent AI, with up to 20 years in prison
— Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on September 23, a bill that would outlaw the development of superintelligent AI outright and p...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Steam Frame's 20.9 Wh battery is glued in, and iFixit won't sell you a spare
— Steam Frame's battery is a 20.9 Wh two-cell lithium-polymer pack, and it is glued in with what iFixit's teardown found to be old-school adhesive: no stretch-release tabs, no easy-peel wraps, no debond...MIXED / Chris Steven
Draymond Green's therapy sessions are Meta's first original VR series, out September 29
— Meta is releasing Open Season on Meta Quest on September 29, the first thing it has commissioned itself for immersive video. Meta says the series follows four-time NBA champion Draymond Green through ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Anthropic's 950 Claude agents found an enzyme system in 21 hours, and nobody knows what it does
— Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents, running for 21 hours and burning 210 million tokens, turned up a previously uncharacterised enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, and the company does not know ...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Steam Link now streams to your Quest over a USB cable, if you run two betas
— Steam Link can now stream PC VR to a Meta Quest down a USB cable, with no Wi-Fi involved. Valve's SteamVR beta 2.18.1 notes add "tethered Quest support over USB (must be used with Steam Link Beta)", w...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's $1,299.99 VR Glasses see 70 degrees, where your Quest 3 sees 110
— Meta VR Glasses show roughly 70 by 66 degrees of field of view, against 110 by 96 on Meta Quest 3, and the comparison is Meta's own. Meta says the $1,299.99 headset has "a higher resolution per eye wi...UploadVR / David Heaney
Hologram: Meta Is Finally Set To Ship Realistic Avatars, And We Tried Them
— Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, shoulders-up on Meta Ray-Ban Display and then full-body on Meta VR Glasses. We briefly tried both at Connect.Thursday, September 24, 2026
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Meta Launches $1M Developer Competition to Stock ‘VR Glasses’ with More Hand-tracked Apps
— At Meta’s annual developer conference today, the company announced its next VR Start Developer Competition, this time slated to award a prize pool of $1 million to spark the community to get cracking ...MIXED / Michael Zelich
ILM filmed National Geographic: Beyond in Africa for Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3
— Industrial Light & Magic has filmed a National Geographic experience on location in Africa for Meta's headsets, and it is being built for Meta Quest 3 and 3S as well as the Meta VR Glasses that arrive...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Meta Quest gets a rent-or-buy film store in the US this year, but IMAX needs the 2027 glasses
— Meta says you will be able to rent or buy hundreds of 2D and 3D films on Meta Quest in the US later this year. Everything carrying the IMAX name belongs to a different device, Meta VR Glasses, which g...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Meta One covers hearing enhancement on AI glasses, and its plans run $2.99 to $499
— A Meta One subscription will switch on hearing enhancement, the AI glasses feature Meta otherwise sells for $149.99 in the US. Meta says the feature will be available to add to supported AI glasses "f...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta VR Glasses get 75+ hand-gesture games at launch, and the whole Quest catalogue
— Meta says more than 75 games will be playable on Meta VR Glasses using hand gestures alone, and that the entire Meta Quest catalogue comes across with them. Neither is anything you can buy into yet: M...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Supernatural returns as an independent app at $20 a month, twice Meta's 2023 price
— Supernatural comes back this autumn as an independent app, and it will cost $20 a month or $200 a year in the US and Canada, Supernatural says. That is twice the $9.99 a month Meta charged after cutti...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta Ray-Ban Display will tell you to turn left at the yellow house, not Third Street
— Meta Ray-Ban Display will soon cue a walking turn with a yellow house rather than Third Street. Meta announced the change at Connect on September 23, alongside cycling and public transit directions th...MIXED / Michael Zelich
H3VR2 hits Quest 3 on November 12, and PAYDAY's VR heist playtest opens October 19
— Meta has put firm dates on two of the games it showed at Connect 2026. Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 launches on Meta Quest 3 and 3S on November 12, and PAYDAY: Aces High opens a public playt...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Meta's cheapest AI glasses are a $249 Meta Adventurer, on sale on October 23
— Meta's cheapest AI glasses are a new Meta Adventurer with a black frame, grey lenses and a plug-in case, starting at $249 in the US. Meta says it can be pre-ordered on Meta.com now and goes on sale on...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Beat Saber's biggest update adds Flux, 35 songs and controller-free play in spring 2027
— Beat Saber will be playable from start to finish without controllers, and the change arrives inside what Beat Games calls the game's biggest update ever. Meta says the update lands in spring 2027 on M...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 costs $449, adds an hour of battery and an action button
— Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) went on sale on September 23, the day Meta announced it at Connect, starting at $449 in the US. Meta says the new generation runs for up to nine hours on a charge, an hour more th...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Disney+ starts streaming Marvel films in 3D in November, and Meta has not named the device
— Disney+ will start streaming Marvel films in 3D in November, Meta says, and the announcement names no device to watch them on. Meta lists Marvel's The Avengers and Marvel Studios' Black Panther, promi...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta Ray-Ban Display goes on sale in the UK at £749, with Germany at €899 on October 13
— Meta Ray-Ban Display is on sale outside the US for the first time, and Meta's UK store lists it at £749. Meta says the glasses went on sale in Canada and the UK on September 23, at £749 and CA$1,149, ...SkarredGhost / Skarredghost
My point of view about the Meta Connect 2026 keynote
— I just got home from the keynote of Meta Connect. It’s been a busy day; I am devastated; but before going to sleep, I still feel the urge to tell you what my impressions are from today. I’m pretty sur...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Meta's Muse will answer to its own name on AI glasses, and it gets an email address
— Meta will let you wake Muse on its AI glasses by saying the name you have given your agent, and Muse is getting an email address of its own. Meta says the glasses feature arrives "in the coming months...MIXED / Chris Steven
Ray-Ban Meta Audio costs $349, has no camera and lasts up to 12 hours
— Meta's first audio glasses have no camera at all, and they start at $349 in the US. Meta says Ray-Ban Meta Audio weighs 43 grams, runs for up to 12 hours on a charge and ships on October 13, with pre-...MIXED / Michael Zelich
ESPN brings 8K, 180-degree sport to Meta Quest this year, but only college football
— ESPN is bringing live sport to Meta Quest in a format Meta calls Immersive Sports, with a front-row camera position, 8K streaming and 180-degree views, and the only sport named for this year is colleg...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta says its new hearing feature for AI glasses is FDA-cleared, and it costs $149.99
— Meta will charge $149.99 in the US to switch on a hearing enhancement feature on its AI glasses, or give it to you as part of a Meta One subscription. Meta says the feature is FDA-cleared software for...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's 100-gram VR Glasses cost $1,299.99, but they don't ship until spring 2027
— Meta has announced Meta VR Glasses, a pair of VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams and keep the battery and the processor in a puck you clip to a pocket. Meta says they will go on sale in spring 2027...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta Ray-Ban Display gets hologram calls on WhatsApp, driven by your voice, not your face
— Meta is putting photorealistic hologram calling on Meta Ray-Ban Display, and the version arriving on the glasses is driven by your voice rather than your face. Meta says hologram “begins rolling out i...Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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Every New Game & Game Update Announced For Meta VR Glasses
— Several new games are coming to Meta VR Glasses as early as Spring 2027, alongside major updates to existing games.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Beat Saber's Biggest Update Ever Arrives Spring 2027 With A New Game Mode & More
— Beat Saber will get its 'biggest update ever' next spring to coincide with Meta VR Glasses including new game mode Flux, full hand tracking support, a new rewards system & more.UploadVR / James Tocchio
Tetris Effect: Mixed Realities Announced For Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3
— A hand-controlled, room aware mixed reality version of Tetris Effect is coming to Meta's new VR device.UploadVR / James Tocchio
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR Announced For Meta VR Glasses & Quest
— A new VR release in Capcom's visual novel adventure series brings courtroom drama to Meta VR Glasses and Quest in 2027.UploadVR / James Tocchio
Two Point Hospital Mixed Reality Edition Coming To Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3
— A VR version of Two Point Hospital is coming to Meta VR Glasses and Quest.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Dragon Grove Is A Cozy Free-To-Play 3D Puzzler Coming To Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3
— Dragon Grove is a new free-to-play mixed reality 3D puzzler from Schell Games coming this spring for Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Story Of Seasons - Your Wonderful Life Is A Cozy MR Farm-Life Sim Announced For Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3
— Cozy MR farming sim Story of Seasons: Your Wonderful Life was just announced for Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Cardmada Is A Pirate-Themed Tactical Card Battler Coming To Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3
— Cardmada is a free-to-play, pirate-themed tactical card battler coming to Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3.UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Dice Throne Digital Brings The Award-Winning Tabletop Dice & Card Game To Meta VR Glasses & Quest 3
— Dice Throne Digital is a free-to-play adaptation of the hit tabletop game coming to Quest 3 and Meta VR Glasses in early 2027, featuring crossplay with mobile and PC.UploadVR / David Heaney
Meta VR Glasses Officially Announced, Shipping Spring 2027 For $1300
— Meta VR Glasses have 2.4K micro-OLED displays, weigh 100 grams, and are powered by a tethered puck with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset.Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Meta VR Glasses Hands-on: What Apple Vision Pro Probably Should Have Been
— Meta has finally unveiled its next-gen mixed reality headset, Meta VR Glasses. While they could technically fit somewhere in its Quest lineup, Meta seems to be making a concerted effort to bridge the ...Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Meta Announces ‘VR Glasses’ Next-Gen XR Headset, Priced at $1,300
— Meta today unveiled its long-awaited next-gen mixed reality headset: Meta VR Glasses. Previously known under the codename ‘Project Phoenix’, Meta VR Glasses was announced today, but isn’t launching ju...Road to VR / Scott Hayden
‘Beat Saber’ is Getting a Big Hand-tracking Update Next Year, Ditching Blocks for Orbs & Rods
— Today at Meta’s annual Connect developer conference the company unveiled its next-gen mixed reality headset: Meta VR Glasses. Coming alongside it early next year is an update to everyone’s favorite bl...Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Meta Ray-Ban Display is Finally Rolling Out Internationally Starting Today
— Meta Ray-Ban Display has been a US-only device since launch last year, but now the company announced at Connect 2026 that it’s coming to international markets starting today. Meta Ray-Ban Display is a...UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 Launches On Quest 3 In November
— Hots Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 launches on Quest 3 on November 12 for $40 with pre-orders open now at a 10% discount. The PC VR version will follow in the second half of 2027.UploadVR / David Heaney
Snap Specs Hands-On: Minimum Viable Consumer True AR Glasses
— Snap Specs is optically rough, but with impressive tracking just about passes the minimum bar for first-generation true AR glasses.Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Watch the Meta Connect 2026 Keynote Right Here
— Meta’s annual XR and AI focused Connect conference kicks off today. The biggest news is expected in the opening keynote, where the company is expected to reveal its ‘Phoenix’ MR headset and latest sma...MIXED / Michael Zelich
VRChat's Quest open beta jumps to Unity 6, but creators must stay on Unity 2022
— VRChat has moved its Quest standalone client onto Unity 6, but only on the open beta branch, and only for players who opt in. VRChat’s release notes for Build 1913, dated September 15, say the regular...MIXED / Chris Steven
Apple's new CEO says Vision Pro is 'the early days of a long journey', and points to surgeons
— Apple chief executive John Ternus says Vision Pro is “the early days of a long journey”. He said it on the French programme Clique, in an interview CANAL+ published on YouTube on September 18, and he ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Acer's chairman expects PC prices to rise up to 20% in Q4, then fall after mid-2027
— Acer chairman and chief executive Jason Chen expects the PCs his company sells to cost 5% to 20% more on average in the fourth quarter of 2026, with prices peaking around the middle of 2027 and coming...MIXED / Chris Steven
Cité Alexandrie brings banned-book smuggling to PC VR for $19.90, almost 11 months after Quest
— Cité Alexandrie reached Steam on September 22 at $19.90 in the US, almost 11 months after the Quest version arrived on October 30, 2025. The French game hands you an illegal cultural network in an alt...MIXED / Michael Zelich
The EU's bank lends €20M to the Dutch firm that stamps AR waveguides
— The European Investment Bank signed a €20 million convertible loan with Morphotonics on September 22, the Dutch company whose machines stamp the waveguides inside display glasses. The loan is part of ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Paris prosecutors open a criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women
— The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened at least one criminal investigation into suspected sexual harassment committed with smart glasses, it told Reuters. Nobody has been charged, no case has reache...MIXED / Michael Zelich
The Human Fall Flat studio's first built-for-VR game lands September 29, at $14.99 on Quest
— Tiny Flock arrives on Meta Quest and Steam on September 29, and it is the first game No Brakes Games has built for VR from scratch rather than a VR edition of a game it had shipped before. The Meta Ho...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's $299 camera glasses land in Spectrum stores, with demo tables and no contract
— Charter has started selling Meta’s camera glasses in its own shops, listing the Meta Glasses Adventurer at $299 in the US at select Spectrum Stores and online at Spectrum.com. Charter says buyers need...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Western Australia bans smart glasses in all public schools from October 12, parents included
— Western Australia will ban smart glasses from every public school on October 12, and the rule covers parents, carers, visitors and contractors as well as students and staff. The Department of Educatio...MIXED / Chris Steven
For Honor is free until September 28, but it no longer runs on Steam Deck or Steam Machine
— Ubisoft is giving away For Honor Standard Edition on PC, and its own store page shows the game as free against $29.99, with the giveaway ending on September 28. Anyone claiming a copy for a Steam Deck...MIXED / Chris Steven
Proton Experimental adds the first ARM64 build of Wine Mono, the .NET layer Steam Frame uses
— Valve's Proton Experimental changelog for September 21 lists two component bumps among the game fixes: Wine Mono to 11.3.0 and Xalia to 0.5.0. Both of those upstream releases added an ARM64 build, Win...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Apple wants OpenAI's battery and metal-finish files, and OpenAI calls that snooping
— Apple has asked a federal court to order OpenAI to produce its research and development records on metal finishes, power management and battery functionality for consumer hardware, and to give Apple’s...MIXED / Chris Steven
JSAUX puts an E-Ink screen on the Steam Machine for $99.99, shipping in October
— JSAUX has opened orders for two replacement front panels for the Steam Machine, each with a screen built into it: an E-Ink version at $99.99 and a colour Pixel Matrix version at $89.99, both in US dol...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open models after a $2.62m reinforcement-learning run
— Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the top-ranked open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which scores it 46 and ranks it first of the 114 open weights models it tracks. Xiaomi says t...MIXED / Chris Steven
Steam Frame prescription inserts start at $59, and you still can't order Zenni's
— Prescription lens inserts for the Steam Frame now run from $59 to $69.99 across three outside companies, and Valve sells none of them itself. The one pair Valve lists as tested, Zenni Optical's $67.95...UploadVR / James Tocchio
'Android XR Bridge' Tool Brings Quest Exclusives To PC VR
— Quest exclusives like Batman: Arkham Shadow and Asgard's Wrath 2 are now playable on PC VR thanks to Android XR Bridge, an experimental tool from developer Feli Reintgen.MIXED / Michael Zelich
Pre-release Opus 5.5 wrote secret-stealing commands after a copying slip, says Anthropic
— Anthropic says an early internal snapshot of Claude Opus 5.5 wrote a command to steal secrets and send them to an outside host, unasked, moments after fumbling a copy-and-paste. Those snapshots were p...Tuesday, September 22, 2026
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Claude Code now defaults to Opus on $20 Pro and Team Standard plans, not Sonnet
— Claude Code 2.1.280 changes the default model on Pro and Team Standard plans from Sonnet to Opus, "matching Max, Team Premium, and Enterprise". Pro costs $20 per month in the US, or $17 per month on a...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
A pre-release Claude Opus 5.5 acted on instructions planted in pasted text 52% of the time
— A pre-release snapshot of Claude Opus 5.5 executed, planned or passed on an instruction that someone else had planted in text the user pasted into a prompt, in 52% of attempts. That figure belongs to ...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Claude Opus 5.5 sends most cybersecurity work to Opus 4.8 instead of doing it
— Claude Opus 5.5 will not do most cybersecurity work itself. Anthropic says most cybersecurity tasks are re-routed to Claude Opus 4.8, an older model, while identifying and fixing bugs as part of routi...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Anthropic scores Opus 5.5 at 66.4% on Terminal-Bench, but ran the test itself
— Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 scores 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, an agentic coding test it ran itself and published with the model on September 22. The public Terminal-Bench leaderboard, checked the...MIXED / Michael Zelich
AU$60 Temu smart glasses can be hijacked over Bluetooth, and the app leaks the owner's email
— A pair of AI smart glasses bought for AU$60 on Temu can be taken over by a stranger over Bluetooth alone, with no password in the way, according to an ABC News investigation published on September 22....MIXED / Michael Zelich
AI glasses shipments rose 263% in H1 2026, but 96% had no display, says Counterpoint
— Global AI glasses shipments rose 263% year on year in the first half of 2026, Counterpoint Research says, but 96% of them were glasses with no display at all. Meta accounted for about 94% of that disp...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
OpenAI will let lapsed $200 ChatGPT Pro subscribers back in once, within 30 days
— OpenAI has published the terms for getting back onto the $200 ChatGPT Pro plan while it is closed to new buyers: one return per customer, available for 30 days after your Pro $200 access ends. OpenAI ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Claude Opus 5.5 undercuts Opus 5 at $4 per million tokens, and Pro and Max limits go up
— Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22 and priced it below the Opus 5 it steps ahead of: $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, against Opus 5's $5 and $25. The company is...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
ChatGPT's new Privacy Center reaches five plans, but not Enterprise, Edu or Healthcare
— OpenAI has started rolling out a Privacy Center in ChatGPT to signed-in Free, Go, Plus and Pro users, and separately to ChatGPT Business workspaces, on the web and in the iOS and Android apps. OpenAI ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
ChatGPT can now show your Experian credit score in the US, and it updates monthly
— ChatGPT can now show you a credit score, if you are in the US and paying for Plus or Pro. OpenAI has added an Experian connection to Finances that pulls in your Experian credit report and your Vantage...UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Demeo X DnD: Battlemarked Twilight's End DLC Review - An Epic Tabletop RPG Conclusion
— Twilight's End, the third campaign for Demeo X Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, wraps up the tabletop RPG's story with an excellent endgame.MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
OpenAI says an internal model resolved Navier-Stokes, but has published no proof
— OpenAI says an internal model it began training on August 28 has resolved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, and more than 100 other long-standing open problems across most areas of mathemati...MIXED / Michael Zelich
A $149 camera gives Steam Frame colour passthrough, and Valve lists it as compatible
— The Arcturus Vision Camera costs $149 in the US and gives Steam Frame the one thing the headset cannot do on its own, colour passthrough. Valve lists the module on its own Steam Frame page under Steam...MIXED / Chris Steven
Valve's own Steam Machine repair guides are live on iFixit, but no parts are for sale
— iFixit has published 17 Steam Machine repair guides written from Valve's own instructions, and it sells no spare parts for the console. The list runs from an 11-step SSD swap to a 55-step motherboard ...Road to VR / Scott Hayden
‘Demeo DnD: Battlemarked’ Gets Third Campaign Today, Expands Support to Xbox
— Resolution Games, in collaboration with Hasbros’ Wizards of the Coast, today launched its next adventure campaign for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (2025). Called ‘Campaign III: Twilight’s ...MIXED / Chris Steven
VMX brings BMX and scooters to Quest on October 2, with Steam cross-play as the plan
— VR riding game VMX arrives on the Meta Horizon Store on October 2 at 10:00 PDT, according to its Meta store listing, which rates it 3+ with a “Users Interact” notice and files it under Sport and Simul...MIXED / Chris Steven
Skeleton Crew VR hits Steam Early Access on September 24, three months after Quest
— Skeleton Crew VR reaches Steam Early Access on September 24, its Steam page says, three months after 1A3M Studio dropped the game into Early Access on Quest 3 on June 23 with no build-up. The Steam ve...MIXED / Chris Steven
Battlemarked closes its first D&D story arc for $9.99, and hits Xbox the same day
— Resolution Games releases Campaign III: Twilight’s End for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked on September 22 for $9.99 in the US, and the studio says the paid campaign completes the game’s firs...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Z.ai's ZCode packed 42,411 of one developer's files and tried 564 times to upload them
— A developer who pulled apart Z.ai's ZCode assistant found that it had packed 42,411 files from his workspace into a 313MB encrypted archive and logged 564 attempts to push that archive to Alibaba Clou...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse from shopping, saying the agent never says it is an AI
— Amazon has shut Meta's Muse agent out of shopping on its store, two weeks after Muse launched. Amazon says the agent does not identify itself as an AI while it browses, that Meta never told Amazon it ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Grok 4.7 ties GPT-6 Astra's cheapest setting, and costs $2.73 per task against $0.82
— SpaceXAI's new Grok 4.7 scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same mark the leaderboard gives GPT-6 Astra at its lowest effort setting. Running the same test set cost $2.73 with...UploadVR / David Heaney
URXR One Kickstarter Raises $1.3M For Ultralight Tethered Passthrough Headset
— Unseen Reality's Kickstarter raised almost $1.3 million for URXR One, a 93-gram ultralight VR-style passthrough headset that acts as a virtual monitor.MIXED / Chris Steven
Steam's new Pyrowave codec uses up to 10 times the bandwidth, and wants gigabit ethernet
— Valve has added an experimental video codec called Pyrowave to Steam Remote Play, and it uses five to 10 times the bandwidth of the streaming codecs Steam uses now. Valve's Remote Play post says you w...SkarredGhost / Skarredghost
My predictions for Meta Connect 2026
— Meta Connect is coming soon, and as it is tradition for my blog, I’ll try to predict what is going to be announced this year! I love playing this guessing game, and it’s even more fun if you comment w...Monday, September 21, 2026
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Underwater Narrative Puzzler Echoes Of Mora VR Available Today On Steam
— After a delay from the planned April release, deep sea story-based puzzle game Echoes of Mora VR released today on Steam, with an optional flatscreen mode.Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Here’s How Much a VR Ready PC Costs in 2026
— The cost of PC components has shifted rapidly in recent years thanks to the RAMpocalypse, inflation, and more. So how much does a VR Ready gaming PC actually cost in 2026? Table of Contents: While the...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Tencent's Gander talks while it thinks, and hands the hard work to Codex or Claude Code
— A research team led by Tencent's Hunyuan Speech group has published Gander, a voice model that keeps a conversation running while a separate coding agent grinds away on the actual task in the backgrou...MIXED / Michael Zelich
News publishers ask a judge to reject OpenAI's fair use defence, quoting Microsoft's staff
— Five news organisations have asked a federal judge to rule that OpenAI and Microsoft broke copyright law in the way they built and run their AI products. The argument sits in a 92-page summary judgmen...MIXED / Michael Zelich
An OpenAI Codex developer says two parallel agents is the limit, after a $19,300 run
— Eric Provencher, who works on developer experience for OpenAI's Codex, says that running more than two sub-agents at a time is "almost certainly burning tokens for 0 quality gain". He posted that on S...MIXED / Michael Zelich
Anthropic reportedly moves its IPO to November to show third-quarter numbers first
— Anthropic plans to stage its initial public offering in November rather than October, according to the Wall Street Journal, which published the report on September 18 and attributes it to people famil...MIXED / Michael Zelich
GPT-6 Astra beat Pokémon FireRed in 18 hours, then lost a Minecraft run to one creeper
— GPT-6 Astra became Pokémon FireRed champion in 18 hours and 12 minutes, against 96 hours and 35 minutes for GPT-5.6 Sol on the same run. The developer behind the GPT Plays Pokémon stream, who posts as...MIXED / Chris Steven
Echoes of Mora launches September 21 on Steam as two apps, one VR and one flatscreen
— Echoes of Mora launches on Steam on September 21, and the Berlin studio Selkies Interactive is selling it as two separate products rather than one. Echoes of Mora is the flatscreen game, and Echoes of...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Qwen-Image-2.1 generates transparent images from open weights, but research use only
— Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, an image generator with 7 billion parameters in its visual generation component that writes transparent PNGs straight out of the model. It ...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
California orders work on an AI kill switch and onsite auditors in frontier labs
— California has told its own officials to work out how to put an emergency shutoff into frontier AI models, and how to station independent auditors inside the labs that build them. Governor Gavin Newso...MIXED / Chris Steven
ZuckOff spots Ray-Ban Meta and Snap Spectacles over Bluetooth, but not whether they record
— A free app called ZuckOff listens for the Bluetooth advertisements that camera glasses broadcast, then tells you when a pair is in the room. It flags Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Snap Spectacles, and...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Claude in Chrome transcripts can now be pulled by Enterprise compliance teams, in beta
— If your employer runs Claude Enterprise, what Claude does in your browser is now a record someone else can fetch. Anthropic's API release notes say the Compliance API's local session endpoints "now al...UploadVR / Laura Mingail
Acute Immersive Powers Custom visionOS Apps For Immersive Video
— Acute Immersive empowers businesses to build their own custom immersive video apps for Apple Vision Pro, complete with built-in publishing, monetization, and analytics tools.MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's CTO says a few bad actors should not shape the debate about its camera glasses
— Meta's chief technology officer says the argument about its camera glasses is being shaped by a small group of people misusing them. "I don't want the discourse to be entirely shaped by this kind of r...UploadVR / Craig Storm
Crucial Accessories To Make VR Fitness Work Better
— Exercising in VR can bring heat, sweat, and discomfort. From knuckle grips to battery straps, here are the accessories we use to make VR fitness better.MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
ChatGPT now connects your work and personal accounts to more plugins, on every plan
— ChatGPT can now hold more than one account for the same plugin, and the feature is no longer limited to Google's. OpenAI's release notes say the support has been extended "beyond Gmail, Google Calenda...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's next AI glasses reportedly have no camera, six microphones and a Meta AI button
— Meta is preparing a pair of AI glasses with no camera at all, and plans to release them this autumn. The Information reported on September 15 that the model is internally codenamed Luna, citing people...SkarredGhost / Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2026.09.21): Steam Frame launched for $1,059, Snap shows use cases for SPECS, and more!
— It’s been a HUGE week for XR! The Steam Frame has been officially launched, and also the Snap Specs have been fully unveiled. And we are not stopping here, because this coming week we’re going to have...MIXED / Chris Steven
Meta's Connect agenda says Horizon games will reach players on Facebook and Instagram
— Meta has published the session catalogue for Connect 2026, and its Horizon track describes a game published on Horizon reaching people on Facebook and Instagram, not only players in a headset. The wor...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Anthropic runs about 30,000 AI agents on itself and blocks one action in 47,000
— Anthropic has put a number on how much of its own company is run by software agents, and it is a large one. The Anthropic Institute says that as of August 2026 there were "approximately 30,000 agents ...MIXED / Chris Steven
Valve drops the 1440p requirement from Steam Frame's Playable rating
— Valve has taken the resolution floor out of one of the Steam Frame's compatibility badges. The release notes for SteamOS 0.3.0, the headset's first system update, carry a single developer-facing line:...MIXED / Shane S. Ellison
Claude Code stops charging API users for auto mode's safety checks, and now reads AGENTS.md
— Claude Code has stopped billing part of its own safety machinery, but only for some accounts. Version 2.1.278, released on September 19, changes auto mode for Claude API and Enterprise users, and on B...UploadVR / David Heaney
Watch Snap's CEO Demo Specs True AR Glasses Live On Stage
— Snap's CEO demoed the soon-to-launch Specs standalone true AR glasses live on stage, including an official Harry Potter experience from HBO.UploadVR / David Heaney
Snap's Specs Have A Cross-Platform AI Agent & Optional Cellular Charging Case
— Snap announced that its Specs AR glasses, still set to launch this fall, have a cross-platform AI agent and an optional cellular charging case for on-the-go connectivity.MIXED / Chris Steven
Valve turns Steam Link's new sharpening filter off by default in SteamVR 2.17.10
— Valve has switched off the Steam Link image sharpening filter it added to SteamVR eight days earlier. SteamVR Hotfix 2.17.10, posted on September 18, sets Contrast Adaptive Sharpening to off by defaul...UploadVR / David Heaney