XREAL AURA Drops UK From First Wave, Pushes EU to 2027
XREAL AURA’s October 7 launch plan names only the U.S., Canada, Japan and South Korea, dropping the UK from the first wave and pushing the EU to 2027.
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Clear-Lens Oakley Meta Vanguard Hits UK Retail at £499
Oakley’s clear-lens Meta Vanguard is listed in the UK at £499 and pitched as workplace glasses, but no official document confirms ANSI Z87 certification.
Lens Studio 5.24.1 Fixes SPECS Shader Batching
Lens Studio 5.24.1 fixes shader batching that never ran on Snap SPECS, renumbers cursor modes and says version 5.25 is the final release for Intel Macs.
Cellid Joins Snapdragon START and Brings Crux AR Glasses
Cellid joined Qualcomm’s Snapdragon START program on October 12 and will demo its binocular full-color Crux AR glasses reference design in Atlanta.
Valve Publishes Steam Frame CAD and Port Specs
Valve’s Steam Frame hardware repo details a 44-pin nose-bridge port with one PCIe Gen4 lane and warns a 6W accessory eats over 25% of the battery.
Steam Frame Reviews Praise Wireless PC VR, Split on Price
Engadget, Road to VR, Ars Technica and others praise Steam Frame streaming and comfort, but flag 1-2 hour battery life and a price $460 above Quest 3.
Snap Specs Hands-On Flags a One-App-at-a-Time Limit
A Cas and Chary XR hands-on of the $2,195 Snap Specs reports 132 to 136 gram frames that run warm, four-hour battery life and only one lens at a time.
Meta Glasses Toolkit 1.0.1 Fixes Frozen Camera Frames
Meta’s Wearables Device Access Toolkit 1.0.1 fixes corrupted HEVC camera buffers and stutter from 1.0.0, shipping 15 days later, but names no apps hit.
PICO Space Pro Hardware Shown in Japanese Filings
Japanese certification documents for model B3110 show PICO Space Pro’s external design and teardown images for the first time. Price and date are unknown.
Google Adds WebGPU to XR Blocks 0.22.0, Spatial UI Lags
XR Blocks 0.22.0 brings three.js WebGPURenderer to the simulator and an on-device Gemma 4 assistant, but Google’s spatial UI stays on the old renderer.