Quest Headset Sales Drop, Passthrough Camera API Now Shippable

1. Quest 3S Xbox Edition Sold Out From Meta2. Bigscreen Beyond 2 Has Started Shipping To Customers3. Meta 'Celeste' HUD Glasses Name, Design & EMG Wristband Gestures Leak4. Apple Vision Air Coming In 2027, Supply Chain Analyst Claims

1. Samsung's Headset Will Reportedly Ship In October, To South Korea First2. WebXR Apps On Quest's Meta Horizon Store Can Now Use In-App Payments3. ModRetro Chromatic Now Displays Nintendo Game Boy Games In Quest Headsets4. Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Are Held Every Day In Virtual SpacesSmart Glasses5. Oakley Meta HSTN Glasses Have Double The Battery Life Of Ray-Bans & Capture 3K Video6. Google Reportedly Investing In Gentle Monster To Take On Ray-Ban Meta7. A Developer Built A Real-World Ad Blocker For Snap Spectacles8. Quest 3S Xbox Limited Edition Available For $400Immersive & Volumetric Video9. F1: The Movie - Hot Lap Is An Immersive Teaser For Apple's Blockbuster10. China's 4DV AI Releases WebXR Demo Of 6DoF Volumetric Video

Quest Content1. Puma Made A Quest-Only WebXR Shopping Experience For Its Latest Shoe2. Jigsaw Night Is A Master Class In Interaction Design For Mixed Reality And VR3. DAZN Gives US Quest Owners A Free 3D Tabletop View Of The FIFA Club World CupMeta Smart Glasses4. Oakley Meta Glasses Seem To Be Launching On Friday5. Prada Meta Glasses Are Reportedly Coming TooSDKs & AI Generation6. Meta's Spatial SDK For Engine-Free Quest Development Got Significant Upgrades7. OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Standardize Surfaces, Markers, Anchors & Persistence8. Meta Teases AI Generation Of Entire Horizon Worlds Coming "Very Soon"Oculus Studios9. Meta Ceases Onward Development & Merges Downpour Into Camouflaj10. Beat Saber Is Ending PlayStation VR & PS VR2 Support

Meta Section1. Deadpool VR, Voiced By Neil Patrick Harris, Is Meta's Next Quest 3 Exclusive Blockbuster2. Meta Shipped Quest v77 Update Knowing It Had Bugs, Despite Quality Control Pledge3. Microsoft Employee Working On SteamVR Driver To Revive Windows MR HeadsetsAWE 20254. Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR1+ Chip For High-End Smart Glasses5. Snap Says It Will Launch Consumer AR Glasses, Called Specs, In 2026Apple Section6. visionOS 26 Announced For Apple Vision Pro

Meta Quest Hardware & Tech News1. Meta Financing Now In The UK Too, Offering Quest 3S From Twelve £30 Monthly Payments2. Quest's Web Browser Now Experimentally Supports Colocated WebXRImmersive Video3. Quest Owners Can Watch The NHL Stanley Cup Final Rinkside In 180° For Free4. Bono: Stories Of Surrender, The First Feature-Length Apple Immersive Video, Is Out NowAnduril-Meta Partnership5. Palmer Luckey's Anduril Partners With Meta To Build Military XR DevicesMeta's Ultralight Headset With Puck & The Fate Of Quest 46. Meta Prioritizing Ultralight Headset With Puck For 2026 Over Traditional Quest 47. Meta's Ultralight Headset With Puck Will Reportedly Cost "Less Than $1000"8. Meta "Courting" Disney & A24 To Make Immersive Video For Horizon OS

1. PlayStation VR2 Is $350 For Sony's Days Of Play 2025 Sale2. Insomniac Games Does Not "Have Plans" For PlayStation VR2 Games3. Apple Reportedly Plans To Launch Its Smart Glasses In Late 20264. D-Day: The Camera Soldier Is A New Kind Of Documentary On Apple Vision Pro5. Team Beef Is Unofficially Porting Counter-Strike To Quest & Pico 46. Meta Reportedly Plans To Open More Physical Stores

Meta Section1. Meta CTO Responds To Quest Performance Regression & Battery Saver Issue2. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Now Available In India & Mexico3. Meta Horizon OS v77 Tests Total UI Overhaul & Turning Instagram Photos 3DApple Section4. Bono: Apple Is "Dying To Make Vision Pro More Affordable"5. Godot Now Has Rudimentary Support For visionOSPC VR Section6. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Now Has Foveated Rendering7. Varjo's Documentary Highlights Non-Consumer Uses Of VR & Mixed Reality8. Valve Deckard's Design "Is Quite Amazing", Lynx Founder Says9. Xreal One Glasses Will Become 6DoF With The Xreal Eye AddonGoogle / Android XR Section10. Google Showed Off Sleek Smart Glasses With A HUD Again At I/O11. Google Is Working With Gentle Monster & Warby Parker On Gemini Smart Glasses12. Xreal's Project Aura Will Support Google's Android XR Via A Tethered Puck

David discusses:1. Play For Dream MR Is Getting Guy Godin's Virtual Desktop Next WeekSmart Glasses2. Google Teases Smart Glasses Demo For I/O Next Week3. Apple Is Reportedly Developing A Custom Chipset For Its Smart Glasses4. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Can Now Be More Descriptive About What They SeevisionOS 35. Apple Vision Pro Will Be Able To Magnify, Describe, Find, Or Read Anything In View6. visionOS Is Getting Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Device Support7. visionOS 3 Will Reportedly Let You Scroll With Your Eyes8. Meta's AssetGen 2.0 AI Model Will Generate Higher-Quality 3D Assets, And Even Entire Worlds9. Pimax Delays 4K Per-Eye Dream Air & Announces Cheaper 2.5K Dream Air SE10. Samsung Unveils Advanced Micro-OLED Displays For "Next-Generation" Headsets11. As Horizon OS Advances, Developers Face Bugs & Performance RegressionAnd Ian joins to discuss:12. Meta CTO Says He And Mark Zuckerberg Are "True Believers" With "Actual Conviction"

Ian and David discuss:Meta Rebrands Quest+ Subscription To Horizon+Minecraft No Longer Officially Supports VRNext-Gen Meta Smart Glasses Set For 2026 Could Recognize Faces With Always-On AWhat An Apple Vision Pro Developer Learned Hiking 70 Miles Outdoors In a HeadsetA Developer Implemented Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3Hauntify On Quest 3 Will Use Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing

David & Ian discuss:Ray-Ban Meta Glasses App ChangeBigscreen Beyond 2 Shipping Delayed To JuneMotorola Phones Are Now Usable In Horizon OSMeta Employees Working Weekends To Ship HUD GlassesVarjo Teleport 2.0 "Best-In-Class" Photorealistic Scene CaptureLowe's Letting Customers Design Their Kitchen With Apple Vision ProQuest's Passthrough Camera API Can Now Be Used In Store AppsMeta Reality Labs Q1 Revenue Declined Due To Lower Quest Sales