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.
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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: Meta's Glasses Heard What They Shouldn't
Ray-Ban Meta recorded speech without the wake word, photos became splats inside a browser, Steam's Linux client went 64-bit, and a Godot sky got rebuilt.
XR Daily: An OLED Steam Frame Hides in Valve's Kernel
Valve's kernel code leaks a 3,840-per-eye OLED Steam Frame, Godot 4.8 hits beta, XREAL ships 1,200-nit glasses, and Epic rebuilds Linux anti-cheat.
XR Daily: Android XR Glasses Clear FCC
Samsung's Android XR smart glasses clear FCC, Meta's $1,300 VR Glasses get a gaming strap, and Sony brings neural upscaling to the base PS5.
XR Daily: A $150 Camera Fix for Steam Frame
Arcturus gives Steam Frame true passthrough for $150, Meta opens a $1M hands-first contest, Hologram avatars get a hands-on, and Walkabout cuts staff again.
XR Daily: A Codec Built to Kill Latency
A Vulkan-compute wavelet codec hits sub-millisecond encode, GPU-sharing VMs make cloud XR cheaper, and SIGGRAPH shows LOD for volumes without popping.
XR Daily: Holograms Before Connect
Meta preps a full-body Codec Avatar demo for Connect, a hard look at VR-ready PC costs in 2026, and a 93g headset closes Kickstarter at $1.29M.
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.
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: 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: Pico Space Pro Clears FCC
A Pico headset, almost certainly the Space Pro, clears FCC certification, the radio approval ByteDance needs before shipping hardware in the US.
XR Daily: ArtStation Blocks AI Crawlers
ArtStation enables its NoAI tag by default for new uploads and applies it retroactively, as the platform moves to block AI crawlers.
Godot 4.6.3: What a 'Boring' Maintenance Release Means for XR Developers
Godot 4.6.3 ships 86 fixes from 41 contributors, including thread-safety work, Xcode 26 export support, and 3D and editor crashes. Boring, and vital.