Beat Saber Permanently Drops to $19.99. The Music Packs Did Not.
Meta cut Beat Saber’s list price from $29.99 to $19.99 for the first time since 2019. Roughly 270 paid track add-ons stayed at full price.
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Meta’s Malibu 2 Watch Is the Connect Rumor With a Job. Glasses Need a Wrist.
Reporting around Project Malibu 2 frames Meta’s first commercial smartwatch as a Ray-Ban glasses companion for Connect on September 23. Meta has not confirmed it.
Meta AI Glasses Suit Adds Bystanders. Intimate Footage Allegedly Fed AI Training.
August 31 amended complaint expands Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses privacy suit to bystanders. Plaintiffs allege intimate footage reached Kenyan contractors for AI training; Meta disagrees and will fight.
Meta Bricks Cameras on Thousands of AI Glasses Over LED Tampering
Meta disabled cameras on thousands of Ray-Ban Meta / AI glasses after detecting capture-LED tampering. Under 0.1% of units sold, per Semafor.
HTC’s VIVE Eagle Finally Has a U.S. Path. Lucyd Gets First Dibs.
Innovative Eyewear will sell HTC’s VIVE Eagle on Lucyd.co in September with U.S. Rx fulfillment. An earlier Amazon leak priced the glasses at $499—$200 above entry Ray-Ban Meta.
Meta Is Splitting Horizon Worlds Into Horizon Create. Mobile Games Get Their Own Front Door.
Dataminer finds in the Meta Horizon mobile app point to a spin-off of mobile game Worlds into a separate app, codenamed Eclipse and labeled Meta Horizon Create in pre-release strings. Meta has not announced it.
Pico Stepped Aside. Meta Connect Is Now September’s Only XR Tentpole.
Livestream registration is open for September 23–24 in Menlo Park. Pico just cancelled the headset launch that was supposed to jump the line. Glasses, not Quest 4, are the story.