Maxon One 2027.0 Puts an MCP Server in Autograph and a Scatter System in Cinema 4D
Maxon’s October 14 Fall 2026 drop ships Cinema 4D Scatter and Liquid FX plus Autograph’s built-in MCP server for AI-agent compositing pipelines.
SoulFlame VRM Exporter Ships 17 Builds in 12 Days, but VRM 0.x and Cluster Paths Stay in Beta
Cucumberworks’ free Unity tool converts VRChat avatars to VRM. Seventeen builds landed between Oct 4 and Oct 15, while VRM 0.x and Cluster export remain pre-release.
Meta’s Immersive Web SDK 1.0 Lets AI Agents Test WebXR Apps on a Connected Quest
Meta’s October 14 developer blog says Immersive Web SDK 1.0 can run AI agent tests on a Quest plugged into a PC, with frame metrics from the headset, plus gaze-and-pinch prep for Meta VR Glasses.
ASUS Ships the $1,299 ROG Xbox Ally X20, and the $2,499 Bundle’s XREAL Glasses Reach 240Hz Only by Scaling
The ROG Xbox Ally X20 went on sale October 15 at $1,299, or $2,499 with ROG XREAL R1 Edition 20 AR glasses that ASUS says hit 240Hz through image scaling, at 700 nits peak.
Mudra Link Pitches a $499 EMG Wristband to Smart-Glasses Teams as a Plain Bluetooth Mouse, and Its New Studio Kit Has No Price
Wearable Devices brought its Mudra Studio Evaluation Kit to the Augmented Enterprise Summit in Atlanta. The $499 Mudra Link pairs with XREAL, VITURE, Rokid and INMO hardware as standard Bluetooth HID, but no kit price, customer or Meta support is listed.
Sandbox VR Opens Its First New York Site in Times Square on October 23, Hitting 100 Locations
Sandbox VR’s first New York City venue opens October 23 at 777 Seventh Avenue in Times Square as the company’s 100th location, with six private full-body VR rooms and a 20% early-booking discount through October 22.
Knights of Fiona Ends Its Main Story October 20, as CharacterBank Tells Quest 2 Buyers the Game Never Supported Their Headset
CharacterBank’s Version 1.1 adds Chapter 6, the final main-story chapter, free for Story Pass owners on October 20, along with loading cuts of up to 80% and a level cap of 45. A separate notice tells Quest 2 owners the game was never supported there.
OMBI Integrates Placeframe as the First Visual Positioning System Into Sneeze at the Metaverse Standards Forum
The Metaverse Standards Forum says OMBI is integrating Placeframe, Outernet’s Apache 2.0 visual positioning system, as the first VPS into the Sneeze spatial browser engine, with a demo expected before the end of 2026.
Fovii Puts Hollywood’s Magic Castle on Apple Vision Pro in Two Live-Captured Episodes With Siegfried Tieber
Fovii’s You Are Here series puts Siegfried Tieber’s live-captured Magic Castle close-up show on Apple Vision Pro in two ~20-minute episodes, free for subscribers or $1.99/$3.99 to rent or buy.
Fast Company’s 2026 XR Honorees Are Dassault, Excurio and Veyond, and Not One Is a Consumer Headset
Fast Company’s 2026 Next Big Things in Tech XR category picks an Apple Vision Pro design app, a 130-person free-roam VR floor and a pre-pilot ship telemedicine system. The headline numbers are the companies’ own.