XR Daily: Steam Frame Gets Color Passthrough
A $149 add-on gives Steam Frame 6MP-per-eye color passthrough and tracked 3D capture, and Godot 4.8 dev 6 lands a multi-layer projection camera.
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XR Daily: Steam Frame Finally Has a Price
Steam Frame reservations open at $1,059, Valve confirms a standalone Half-Life: Alyx port, Polyarc closes, and Apple cuts around 100 Vision Pro roles.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Leaks Before Launch
Linus Tech Tips leaks a 17-minute Steam Frame unboxing before pulling it, the closest look yet at what Valve ships, minus price and date.
XR Daily: Apple Skips Spatial Capture
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo cannot shoot spatial photos or video, WebAssembly runtimes get benchmarked, and RayNeo ships camera-free glasses.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Launch Nears
SteamVR 2.17 leaves beta for all users with Deck-style Quick Access controls and overlay changes ahead of the Steam Frame launch.
XR Daily: Phoenix Headset Visuals Surface
The first clear images of Meta's next headset surface in Horizon OS firmware, pointing to an ultralight open-periphery design with a compute puck.
XR Daily: No Man's Sky Preps for Steam Frame
No Man's Sky's Cosmos update adds eye-tracked dynamic foveated rendering on SteamVR, concentrating rendering where players actually look.
XR Daily: VRChat Wins Its First Emmy
A theatre production built inside VRChat wins an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program, beating Blumhouse and Fallout entries.
XR Daily: ArmorPaint 1.0 Finally Ships
ArmorPaint hits 1.0 after seven years as a full rewrite in C with no external libraries, still the free alternative to Substance 3D Painter.
XR Daily: Xbox Caps Cloud Gaming, Puzzling Places Turns Five
Xbox caps cloud gaming hours on Game Pass, Puzzling Places turns five, plus Metro 2039's 4K 60 ray tracing target and Steam Link's wired beta.