Apple’s visionOS 27.2 beta 4 (24N5114a) carries the same four release-note entries as beta 3, including the open Safari 3D object drift bug. Xcode 27.2 beta 3 (27B5038j) lists a Vision Pro Simulator crash in Device Hub and a visionOS SDK deployment-target misreport.
A developer got HEVC 8-bit and 10-bit hardware decoding working inside a modified Lepton container on Steam Frame. Valve closed the opt-in request as a duplicate of a work item that still has no description, assignee or date.
WarpFrog’s October 14 patch replaces a mod manager built on a mod.io plugin the studio says became obsolete, lists 17 improvements and 16 fixes, and ships with a known first-open list bug. The 1.4 Madlu update is next, with no date.
SideQuest’s v1.4 Flatpaks put a Quest sideloading tool on Steam Deck and ARM64 Steam Frame, while GitHub counts show the Windows installer still leads by two orders of magnitude.
Hesai’s October 14 Kosmo launch pairs Kosmo One’s lidar-plus-8K camera with Kosmo World cloud reconstruction, claiming 15-minute room scans, Unreal and RenderMan workflows, and a Dairy Queen robot deployment at 99% success.
UploadVR gives The Magician VR: The Cursed Wand 3.5 stars for its gesture spellcasting, Realovirtual is more critical of its small arenas, and the Quest release now sits at October 15, with a $12.99 preorder on the store.
UploadVR’s Oct 14 impressions call SpaceOwl’s VR space RTS sequel a near-every-level upgrade over the original at $24.99, while flagging grating AI voice acting still slated for a human replacement before full release.
Owlchemy Labs CEO Andrew Eiche told Game Developer that VR hardware has not passed the ‘cafe test’ and that studios cut staff after ignoring data favoring social games. Spec sheets back the first claim; the second rests on internal numbers, and Owlchemy’s single-player mode is still due in 2027.
XREAL’s US store gives $299 Founder Priority Pass holders until October 17 to pay for AURA and secure a numbered Limited Edition; October 31 is the cutoff for priority shipping, which XREAL says is dispatch order, not a delivery date.
Zen Studios’ Pinball FX VR went live on Steam on October 14 as a Steam Frame-only game at $9.99. Hours later the studio said a DLC recognition fault may leave some purchased tables temporarily unavailable, with no fix timeline.