This is what Valve’s new headset is all about.
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The best part might be the new headband, which costs $99 and supports the first model.
Brad Lynch, a project manager at EOZ VR, figured out that, while streaming Half-Life Alyx from SteamVR to a Samsung Galaxy XR headset, you can pull up Google Gemini, draw a circle on the screen, and have it spit out English translations of signs for you.
At $1,799 and with an impressive subscription bundle, Samsung is aggressively taking shots at the Vision Pro.
In an internal message seen by 404 Media, Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of metaverse, tells workers to use AI to build products five times faster:
Imagine a world where anyone can rapidly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours — not weeks. That’s the future we’re building.
Shah told Lowpass this week about Meta’s push to expand the metaverse to more places, like your Instagram feed.
In addition to a new documentary that highlights MotoGP rider Johann Zarco’s Le Mans win, Apple is also launching a World of Red Bull series surrounding extreme sports, as well as CNN’s journey to find emperor penguins in Antarctica. You can see the full lineup of upcoming experiences on Apple’s website.
CTO Andrew Bosworth showed a sneak peek of it during the Connect developer keynote. Looks a little Vision Pro-y!
According to a translated Etnews report, Samsung will launch the Android XR Project Moohan headset on October 21st, later than the previously speculated September 29th date. Samsung’s anticipated trifold phone could follow at a separate event that’s expected by “the end of next month or November at the earliest.”
We got a glimpse of Meta’s new AI glasses and a bunch more.
Including a new “immersive” virtual home. There won’t be an “8-bit Eiffel Tower,” he said, referencing a famous Zuck meme.
What to expect from Meta’s Connect 2025 conference.
Valve watcher Brad Lynch thinks so. He just found code to suggest Valve’s “Roy” controllers are no longer marked as prototypes, and that Valve has finished building drivers for a Steam Link VR USB dongle that apparently uses Wi-Fi 6E to connect the headset to your computer. Is this Steam Frame?
In his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman mentions that Meta has decided that when its smart glasses with a heads-up display debut later this fall, the starting price will be around $800 instead of the $1,000 price range previously rumored.
I sold my PSVR 2 last year and haven’t missed it one bit, but for anyone hanging on to theirs, Sony shared details today about four games you’ll be able to play on the headset “later this year.”
To me, the most interesting one is the trippy Dreams of Another, but that game is coming to PS5 and PC, too, so you won’t need a PSVR 2 to play it.
“The next evolution is coming on June 20,” reads the caption to a teaser video republished by Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth. The Oakley x Meta tie-up was first reported back in January as the sporty alternative to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, meant to appeal to cyclists and other outdoor athletes.
