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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XR Daily: OpenXR Grows Windows
OpenXR ratifies spatial containers so apps share one space, PAYDAY ships a native Steam Frame build, and Plasticity 2026.2 adds Class A surfacing tools.
XR Daily: OpenDLSS Rebuilds DLSS 5
A Vulkan rebuild of DLSS 5's neural rendering network matches it bit for bit, plus a full Titanfall 2 VR conversion and hand-tracked Evangelion combat.
XR Daily: Splats Move Into Blender
Blender 5.3 makes Gaussian splats native scene data, Android XR Bridge runs Quest exclusives on PC VR at 4K per eye, and IDC puts glasses at 84.6% of XR.
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.
Quest 3 vs Steam Frame: Specs, Streaming, and Which to Buy
Quest 3 and Valve's Steam Frame are both standalone headsets built for different players. How their specs, streaming, passthrough and prices compare.
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: DLSS 5 Gets a Date
NVIDIA dates DLSS 5 for September 3 in NBA 2K27, using 3D-Guided Neural Rendering to restore lighting and materials rather than rebuild frames.