Snap Specs Ship at $2,195 as Reviews Split on Price
Snap Specs have started shipping to preorder buyers in the US, UK and France at $2,195, with reviews praising tracking and displays but not the price.
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SteamOS 0.4.1 Beta Smooths Steam Frame Spectator View
Valve’s opt-in Steam Frame OS beta defaults spectator view to smoothed output, adds Dominant Eye selection and bundles SteamVR 2.18.1 for the headset.
Half-Life: Alyx Runs Standalone on Steam Frame, Assets Kept
Valve’s ARM64 Steam Frame build of Half-Life: Alyx keeps every original asset and Workshop mod, with foveated rendering and reprojection making it work.
Vuzix Taps CommsPlus for Smart Glasses in Australia and NZ
Vuzix signs CommsPlus as a Pacific distributor, ships a six-figure smart glasses order, and pushes M400 and LX1 into Australia and New Zealand.
Cellid and Megane Top Partner on Branded AR Glasses
Cellid and Megane Top will sell AR glasses under Megane Top’s brand, with GREEN FUNDING preorders starting October 23, 2026 and Megane Ichiba retail later.
Canon Beams Live Asian Games Basketball Into Mixed Reality
Canon and NTT used about 100 cameras, volumetric video and MREAL to stream live Asian Games basketball as 3D data for free-viewpoint MR viewing in Tokyo.
PrismML Brings Tiny On-Device LLMs to Qualcomm Smart Glasses
Qualcomm showed PrismML’s 1-bit Bonsai LLM, about 2B parameters, running locally on Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses, with no shipping frames yet.
Amazon Scales Smart Delivery Glasses Toward 20,000 by 2027
Amazon is deploying 5,000 more AI Smart Delivery Glasses this year and expects more than 20,000 devices in the field by the end of 2027 across its drivers.
PAYDAY: Aces High Opens Quest Playtest on October 19
PAYDAY: Aces High opens an open playtest on Quest 3 and 3S on October 19, Meta says, with cross-play against PC VR and a Kitty Mask reward for players.
Cardmada Brings Pirate Card Battles to Meta VR Glasses
Cardmada, a free-to-play pirate tactical card battler built for hand and eye input, is coming to Meta VR Glasses and Quest 3 and 3S, Meta said at Connect.