Half-Life: Alyx adds foveated rendering on PC, no Steam Frame required
Valve has added optional foveated rendering to the PC version of Half-Life: Alyx, and you do not need its Steam Frame to use it. Mixed News reports the October 26,…
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Imani covers XR news and the business behind it: smart glasses, AR hardware, spatial computing platforms and the companies betting on them. She sticks to what has been announced or reported on the record and says so when a launch is still only a rumor.
SensoMotoric Instruments and Its Eye Tracking Legacy at Apple
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) was a German eye tracking company, founded in 1991 near Berlin, that Apple quietly bought in 2017. For more than two decades it built research-grade eye trackers…
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Half-Life: Alyx and Factorio now run natively on Steam Frame’s ARM64 chip
Update, October 25, 2026: UploadVR said on September 11, 2026 that PC VR foveated rendering did not actually ship in No Man's Sky's Cosmos update and was listed in the…
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VRChat open beta adds native face tracking for avatars, UploadVR reports
VRChat's Open Beta client on Steam now supports face tracking authored directly in the Avatars SDK, UploadVR reports. Creators using Avatars SDK 3.10.6-beta.1 or higher can set up facial expressions…
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Valve adds CD-ROM drive support to Steam Frame kernel after forum request
A Valve developer added CD-ROM drive support to the Steam Frame's Linux kernel shortly after a player asked for it on the Steam Community forum, according to Tom's Hardware. The…
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Meta defends smart glasses as viral chess clip and Karnataka sting claims spread
Meta is defending its AI smart glasses as two very different controversies pile up: a viral video of a creator apparently cheating at park chess, and a political row in…
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Apple glasses are not dead, Bloomberg reports, but the first pair may skip AR
Apple's smart glasses are still on track, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with a reported unveil at WWDC in June 2027 and a consumer release by the end of 2027.…
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FlatOut 4 VR 1.0 adds first-person ejections and a motorcycle, now $29.99 on SteamVR
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR has left Early Access and hit its 1.0 release on SteamVR, according to UploadVR and the game's Steam store page. The full version keeps you…
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Terry’s Terraforming is out on Quest 3 and 3S: reshape planets by hand for $14.99
Terry's Terraforming is now available on Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S. Mixed News reports that developer Really Interactive announced the October 22 release, and the game lets you reshape…
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Steam beta hides Frame-only games from Windows installs; 2027 delay claim is unconfirmed
Valve's October 16 Steam beta stops Steam on Windows from offering to install games built only for Steam Frame, according to Mixed News, citing Valve's beta release notes. Separately, low-authority…
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