Steam Frame vs Quest 3: Which VR Headset to Buy in 2026
Steam Frame vs Quest 3 in 2026: price, weight, battery, PC VR streaming, passthrough and games compared, plus which VR headset is right for which buyer.
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Microsoft Will Retire Teams Immersive Events and Avatars on April 2, 2027, About 16 Months After Shutting Mesh, and Its Admin Page Still Disagrees With Itself on Quest
Microsoft will retire immersive events and Avatars in Teams on April 2, 2027, ending the format that replaced Mesh in December 2025. Its own admin page still calls Quest support both generally available and not yet supported.
QuestRoomScan Names CoasterMania as Its Shipping Showcase on Quest 3, but the Game Skipped Splats and a Fix for 964 Lost Camera Records Is Still Untagged
Genesis Interactive says CoasterMania’s room-scan update runs on its MIT-licensed QuestRoomScan package. The game’s developer skipped Gaussian splats as too heavy for Quest, splat training still needs a PC, and an October 16 fix for a locale bug that discarded 964 camera records is on main but not in a release.
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.
Virtuix Becomes an Official Meta Reseller, Bundling Quest 3 and 3S With Omni One From $2,944
Virtuix now sells Omni One for Quest bundled with Meta Quest 3 ($3,194) or Quest 3S ($2,944), but its October 13 release repeats the 3X order claim without units or revenue.
A Quest 3 Scene Generator That Remembers Your Edits Cut Fixes From 8.52 to 5.62, but Not Overall Workload
SPHERE, a new arXiv preprint from Sungkyunkwan University and HKUST, carries user corrections across VR rooms. In a 42-person Quest 3 study it cut corrective edits and physical demand, but overall NASA-TLX workload did not change significantly.
AstroQuest Mod Puts PSVR Exclusive Astro Bot Rescue Mission on Quest 3, but Only From a European v1.00 Dump
A free, open-source mod built on the shadPS4 emulator runs the 2018 PSVR platformer on Quest 3 standalone at 30 to 45 fps, or at 60 fps from a PC. It needs your own dump of one specific European release.
Duke Study: GPT-5 Ranks AR Scene Quality Close to Human Raters, but Shadows Still Trip Models
A Duke University preprint headed to ACM VRST 2026 tested eleven vision-language models on RateAR, a new AR quality benchmark; GPT-5 tracked human rankings at up to 0.87, and a Quest 3 prototype used the ratings to fix misplaced virtual objects automatically.
Meta’s Five-Times-Lighter Claim for VR Glasses Covers the Face, Not the Puck
Meta says VR Glasses are five times lighter than Quest 3 — but only publishes the 100-gram face weight. The compute puck still has no official mass.
UploadVR: Knuckle Grips and Rear-Battery Straps Fix Quest Fitness Pain Points
UploadVR’s Craig Storm lists the Quest fitness kit that actually sticks: knuckle grips, a rear-battery strap, sweatband, fan, and wipeable face foam — not another software update.