1. Samsung's Headset Will Reportedly Ship In October, To South Korea First 2. WebXR Apps On Quest's Meta Horizon Store Can Now Use In-App Payments 3. ModRetro Chromatic Now Displays Nintendo Game Boy Games In Quest Headsets 4. Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Are Held Every Day In Virtual Spaces Smart Glasses 5. Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses Have Double The Battery Life Of Ray-Bans & Capture 3K Video 6. Google Reportedly Investing In Gentle Monster To Take On Ray-Ban Meta 7. A Developer Built A Real...
Jun 26, 2025•2 hr 19 min
Quest Content 1. Puma Made A Quest-Only WebXR Shopping Experience For Its Latest Shoe 2. Jigsaw Night Is A Master Class In Interaction Design For Mixed Reality And VR 3. DAZN Gives US Quest Owners A Free 3D Tabletop View Of The FIFA Club World Cup Meta Smart Glasses 4. Oakley Meta Glasses Seem To Be Launching On Friday 5. Prada Meta Glasses Are Reportedly Coming Too SDKs & AI Generation 6. Meta's Spatial SDK For Engine-Free Quest Development Got Significant Upgrades 7. OpenXR Spatial Entitie...
Jun 19, 2025•2 hr 16 min
Meta Section 1. Deadpool VR, Voiced By Neil Patrick Harris, Is Meta's Next Quest 3 Exclusive Blockbuster 2. Meta Shipped Quest v77 Update Knowing It Had Bugs, Despite Quality Control Pledge 3. Microsoft Employee Working On SteamVR Driver To Revive Windows MR Headsets AWE 2025 4. Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR1+ Chip For High-End Smart Glasses 5. Snap Says It Will Launch Consumer AR Glasses, Called Specs, In 2026 Apple Section 6. visionOS 26 Announced For Apple Vision Pro...
Jun 14, 2025•3 hr 22 min
Meta Quest Hardware & Tech News 1. Meta Financing Now In The UK Too, Offering Quest 3S From Twelve £30 Monthly Payments 2. Quest's Web Browser Now Experimentally Supports Colocated WebXR Immersive Video 3. Quest Owners Can Watch The NHL Stanley Cup Final Rinkside In 180° For Free 4. Bono: Stories Of Surrender, The First Feature-Length Apple Immersive Video, Is Out Now Anduril-Meta Partnership 5. Palmer Luckey's Anduril Partners With Meta To Build Military XR Devices Meta's Ultralight Headset...
Jun 05, 2025•2 hr 14 min
1. PlayStation VR2 Is $350 For Sony's Days Of Play 2025 Sale 2. Insomniac Games Does Not "Have Plans" For PlayStation VR2 Games 3. Apple Reportedly Plans To Launch Its Smart Glasses In Late 2026 4. D-Day: The Camera Soldier Is A New Kind Of Documentary On Apple Vision Pro 5. Team Beef Is Unofficially Porting Counter-Strike To Quest & Pico 4 6. Meta Reportedly Plans To Open More Physical Stores
May 29, 2025•2 hr 7 min
Meta Section 1. Meta CTO Responds To Quest Performance Regression & Battery Saver Issue 2. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Now Available In India & Mexico 3. Meta Horizon OS v77 Tests Total UI Overhaul & Turning Instagram Photos 3D Apple Section 4. Bono: Apple Is "Dying To Make Vision Pro More Affordable" 5. Godot Now Has Rudimentary Support For visionOS PC VR Section 6. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Now Has Foveated Rendering 7. Varjo's Documentary Highlights Non-Consumer Uses Of VR &...
May 22, 2025•2 hr 35 min
David discusses: 1. Play For Dream MR Is Getting Guy Godin's Virtual Desktop Next Week Smart Glasses 2. Google Teases Smart Glasses Demo For I/O Next Week 3. Apple Is Reportedly Developing A Custom Chipset For Its Smart Glasses 4. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Can Now Be More Descriptive About What They See visionOS 3 5. Apple Vision Pro Will Be Able To Magnify, Describe, Find, Or Read Anything In View 6. visionOS Is Getting Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Device Support 7. visionOS 3 Will Reportedly Let ...
May 15, 2025•3 hr 8 min
Ian and David discuss: Meta Rebrands Quest+ Subscription To Horizon+ Minecraft No Longer Officially Supports VR Next-Gen Meta Smart Glasses Set For 2026 Could Recognize Faces With Always-On A What An Apple Vision Pro Developer Learned Hiking 70 Miles Outdoors In a Headset A Developer Implemented Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3 Hauntify On Quest 3 Will Use Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing
May 08, 2025•2 hr 14 min
David & Ian discuss: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses App Change Bigscreen Beyond 2 Shipping Delayed To June Motorola Phones Are Now Usable In Horizon OS Meta Employees Working Weekends To Ship HUD Glasses Varjo Teleport 2.0 "Best-In-Class" Photorealistic Scene Capture Lowe's Letting Customers Design Their Kitchen With Apple Vision Pro Quest's Passthrough Camera API Can Now Be Used In Store Apps Meta Reality Labs Q1 Revenue Declined Due To Lower Quest Sales...
May 01, 2025•2 hr 16 min
David Heaney and Ian Hamilton discuss: 1. Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Can Now AI Generate 3D Meshes & Textures 2. Meta Now Sells Quest 3S Refurbished For $270 Immersive Video 3. Insta360 X5 Improves The Quality Of The Handheld 8K 360° Camera 4. Horizon Worlds Now Supports 3D 180° Video For Events Like Concerts Smart Glasses 5. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Now Translate Speech & Meta AI Is Now Available In Europe 6. Google Showed Off Sleek Smart Glasses With A HUD At TED2025 7. Spacetop For Windo...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 52 min
David Heaney discusses: 1. Sony Raises PS5 Console Price In Europe & Australasia 2. Quest 3S Is $270 For The Next Two Weeks, A $30 Discount 3. Trump Exempts Many Electronics From His "Reciprocal" Tariffs 4. A Developer Got PlayStation VR2's HDR Partially Working On PC 5. Nvidia's RTX 5060 Family Will Power Entry-Level PC VR From $300 6. REK Wants To Let People Pilot Fighting Robots Using VR Headsets 7. James Cameron: Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema 8. Demeo Now Supports Mixed Realit...
Apr 17, 2025•2 hr 46 min
David and Kyle discuss: Civilization VII VR PlayStation VR2's Eye Tracking Working On PC Quest 3 Winning Best Inflight Entertainment Award Quest's Horizon OS v76 DaVinci Resolve supporting editing Apple Immersive Video the report claiming Apple Vision Pro 2 mass production has begun Pico Motion Tracker Waist Version Half-Life: Alyx's first scene being ported to Quest 3 standalone via Unity
Apr 10, 2025•2 hr 21 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - Will Nintendo Switch 2 Get VR? - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Still Selling Very Fast - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Getting Foveated Rendering - visionOS 2.4 - Virtual Desktop's new macOS update - Meta Is Now The UFC Technology Partner, Including For Quest - Meta HUD Glasses Price, Features & Input Device - Will Trump's Tariffs Drive Up Headset Prices In The US?
Apr 03, 2025•2 hr 8 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: VR Headset Prices Now Used To Measure UK Inflation Apple Reveals The Date It's Expected To Unveil visionOS 3 Vivo Vision Looks Like A Blatant Apple Vision Pro Clone Bigscreen Beyond 2 Selling Impressively Fast Already Pico 4 Ultra OS 5.13.0 Inside The VR Holodeck That Sells Real Estate Quest v76 PTC Lets You Use Your Meta Avatar As A Virtual Webcam Quest Could Soon Let You Screenshare 2D Windows Is Valve's Lack Of Investment In VR Excusable? Could Valve Dec...
Mar 27, 2025•3 hr 19 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: Varjo XR-4 To Require Subscription For Some Features Metallica On Apple Vision Pro Quest Thumb Microgestures & Improved Audio To Expression Quest Passthrough Camera API Snap Spectacles See Peridots Play Together & Now Use GPS LG Ceases XR Product Efforts, But Will Continue R&D Meta CTO Responds To Controversy Around Using "MR" To Mean Both MR And VR Meta's CTO Says He "Loved And Hoped To Keep" The Oculus Brand Meta Claims Open Store & Worlds...
Mar 20, 2025•2 hr 23 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney talk for over three hours covering more than a dozen subjects in this week's episode: Samsung's Headset Could Launch In Q3, With A Very High Price Niantic Sells Pokémon Go To Saudi Arabia To Fund Spatial AI Transition GOLF+ Tests Tracking Your Real Putter Using Logitech's MX Ink Major Developers Are Already Using Quest's Passthrough API MAGE Uses A Custom Engine To Drive 120 FPS Physics With Dynamic Shadows On Quest 3 Meta To Recommend Using Unity & Unreal's Bui...
Mar 13, 2025•3 hr 16 min
Kyle Riesenbeck and David Heaney discuss: - PlayStation VR2's Price Cut To $400 - Apple's New Spatial Gallery Platform On Vision Pro - Yankee Stadium Friday Night Baseball Apple Immersive Video Coming In - AMD RX 9070 & 9070 XT Graphics Cards Out Now - Aria Gen 2 Research Glasses - Meta Researchers Generate Photorealistic Avatars From Just Four Selfies - F2P Apps Now Account For 70% Of Time Spent On Quest - Meta Is Discontinuing Move, Quest's Fitness Tracking Feature - Inseye "Pauses" Lumi, ...
Mar 06, 2025•2 hr 38 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - HTC's Viverse Worlds - visionOS 2.4 Coming In April - First Feature-Length Apple Immersive Video Announced - Meta For Education Brings Quest To Schools & Universities - Valve Deckard This Year At $1200? - PlayStation VR2 Price Cut
Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 22 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Production To Be Vastly Increased - The Highest Quality Immersive Video Yet - Anduril's EagleEye Helmet Will Give Soldiers Superhuman Senses - Quest v74 Brings Web Shortcuts, DisplayPort Out & More - PlayStation VR2 Hand Tracking Review - Horizon Now Has 'Fantastical Avatars', Including Captain America - Potential Of Computer Vision For MR & AR - Meta Horizon Desktop Editor & Creator Fund...
Feb 20, 2025•2 hr 45 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: dbrand's "Trypophobic" Apple Vision Pro Faceplate TouchDesk On Apple Vision Pro NBA Apple Vision Pro App's Tabletop View First PlayStation VR2 Game To Support Hand Tracking Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Super Bowl Ads With A-List Celebrities SideQuest & Meta Dependency Android XR Will Let Apps Access The Passthrough Camera View Anduril Taking Over The IVAS Program, Replacing HoloLens John Carmack's Comments On PC VR And Standalone VR...
Feb 13, 2025•2 hr 14 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: Apple & Sony Still Bringing PS VR2 Controllers To Vision Pro Apple Reportedly Cancels Mac-Connected AR Glasses Quest 1 No Longer Gets New App Updates Over 1 Million Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Sold Quest 3 & 3S SteamVR Usage Share Growth Meta's Head Of Quest & Horizon OS Leaving The Company Meta CTO's Leaked Memo Meta's Shifting Priorities Affecting Developers
Feb 06, 2025•2 hr 55 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney catch up on two weeks of VR news in this three-hour long episode covering: - GeForce Now Comes To Quest 3, Pico & Apple Vision Pro - VRChat Age Verification For VRC+ Subscribers - Shuhei Yoshida: "I'm Sorry I Was Wrong" About PS VR2 - Snap Now Offering Its AR Spectacles To Students & Educators - Meta Plans To Make Quest Scene Mesh Scans Update Automatically - Meta Reportedly Working On A Quest Pro Successor Again - Meta Reality Labs Achieves Its Highest Ever...
Jan 30, 2025•3 hr 15 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss Quest 3S outselling consoles, Meta removing Quest scoreboards app, Zuckerberg complimenting the Apple Vision Pro, a Sony standalone headset for enterprise and Play For Dream MR.
Jan 16, 2025•2 hr 28 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss Sony's XYN standalone making an appearance at CES 2025 as well as the use of Quest headsets in a Florida courtroom, with much more covered in this super-long three-hour episode.
Jan 09, 2025•2 hr 57 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss Meta's big sales for 2024 with Quest as well as the bricking issue that affected some headsets over the holiday.
Jan 02, 2025•2 hr 29 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney recap 2024.
Dec 19, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discussing the PlayStation VR2 controllers potentially getting support for Apple Vision Pro and our first hands-on with Samsung's Android XR headset.
Dec 12, 2024•2 hr 7 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss PlayStation VR2 hand tracking, adult groups in VRChat, Quest 3S on Steam, and more.
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss the Valve Roy Controllers and latest deals for VR headsets.
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 44 min
Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - Gracia Moving Volumetric Scenes Now On Quest 3 & Pico 4 Standalone - Working From Home With VR - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - Apple Vision Pro F1 Spatial Viewer Lapz Forced To Pause TestFlight - Valve Deckard's Controllers
Nov 21, 2024•2 hr 2 min
