XR Briefing: Steam Frame Lands Fifth Without Exclusives
Valve's Steam Frame takes 5.49% of Steam headsets in its first survey, and SteamVR 2.19.1 now supersamples streamed VR to 1.96x panel pixels.
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The story that matters, argued properly, plus a short list of what else moved in XR and graphics.
XR Briefing: 10M Splats at 9.2 ms in a Browser Tab
Radix sorts 10 million Gaussians on the GPU at 9.2 ms per frame in a browser, plus VRChat refusing an AI label and Ultrawings rebuilt for Quest 3.
XR Briefing: Aura Ships at $1,099, and Godot Runs On It
Xreal's Aura opens at $1,099 with 32 PPD optics and a Godot editor running on the device, days after Valve admits Frame buyers mostly play flat games.
XR Briefing: The Quest Upgrade Cycle Is Over
Meta's Q3 Reality Labs revenue fell to $443M on lower Quest sales, with losses guided to $15B in 2027 and no new headset without a breakthrough.
XR Daily: OpenXR Makes Room for 3D Apps
OpenXR ratifies spatial containers for 3D app multitasking, a 29 KB JPEG XL encoder on WebGPU, Godot's XR jam winners, and China's XR playbook.
XR Daily: An Open Headset With Two Brains
Vector Gear's dual-chipset open headset, Owlchemy's XREAL Aura lineup, Alibaba's eye-tracking glasses, and Bluey's 2D rendering trick.
XR Daily: VRChat Writes the Face Standard
VRChat ships native face tracking in its avatar SDK, Tripo P2.0 takes over 3D asset building, Supernatural relaunches solo, and China gets a field guide.
XR Daily: Mario 64 on Your Table
Super Mario 64 as a tabletop diorama on Vision Pro, Owlchemy's Hyper Visor leads XREAL Aura's launch, browser Gaussian splatting, and Getty's Chapter 11.
XR Daily: Zenith Goes Dark
Zenith's VR MMO servers shut down in December, Snap hires Robert Downey Jr. to sell $2,195 Specs, BioWare closes, and Painter learns to paint baking cages.
XR Daily: Meta Puts Windows Around Android Apps
Meta's Layout and Gaze SDKs wrap spatial windows around 2D Android apps, Fallout: New Vegas gets path tracing, and VMAF v1 changes the bitrate math.