XR Daily: Valve Retires the Index
Valve discontinues the Index and cuts 20%, Xbox opens a lab for WebGPU ports, SideQuest drops the cable, and Mothergunship jumps to Unreal 5.7.
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Valve discontinues the Index and cuts 20%, Xbox opens a lab for WebGPU ports, SideQuest drops the cable, and Mothergunship jumps to Unreal 5.7.
Pico Space Pro leaks inside and out in Japanese filings, Steam Frame slips to 2027, Epic tells devs to stop hand-writing code, plus real-time cutting.
Meta hides a Theater Home cinema in Horizon OS, Norway moves to ban AI glasses in public, Unity ships a browser game editor, and Minecraft lands in Source 2.
An AI-assisted PS4 emulator mod puts Astro Bot on Quest 3, a WebXR tool previews Meta VR Glasses' 70-degree FOV, and Halo runs in a browser tab.
Meta ships a camera-free Ray-Ban at 43 grams, Ray-Ban Display reaches Europe, Supernatural returns with a price, and Niagara gets a fluid solver.
A Vulkan-compute wavelet codec hits sub-millisecond encode, GPU-sharing VMs make cloud XR cheaper, and SIGGRAPH shows LOD for volumes without popping.
Valve puts real prices on Steam Frame and closes reservations, Meta lines up Project Phoenix for Connect, and Snap ships anticipatory AI for Specs.