New Canvas, Jacaranda Productions and PICO announced COLTRANE, a five-episode VR noir series starring Diana Glenn for Q4 2026. PICO commissioned it, but its hardware is still listed as to be announced, and Australia may not see it until Q1 2027.
Fall Season 2026 for In Death: Unchained is live today on Quest and Pico. Leaderboards reset, achievements carry, and Superbright’s six-month cadence starts now — content sheet still pending.
Triangle Factory ships Forefront v6.0 with experimental fighter jets, the Karst Conquest map, Gun Mastery unlocks, Paradise Jets, and Steam Frame support — free on Quest, Steam, and Pico.
PICO ships CLI 0.5.0 so Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and other agents can scaffold, build, and debug OS 6 spatial apps without Android Studio.
AlterEyes’ Color-A-Cube is running a four-week Walkabout Mini Golf crossover on Quest and Pico. Tiki à Coco is live; Sweetopia, Raptor Cliffs, and 8-Bit Lair follow.
Bloomberg reports ByteDance is building a Seedance-based real-time spatial video model for Pico, livestreams, and games. Zhang Yiming is overseeing. A launch window as soon as October is on the table.
FCC IDs 2A5NV-AA1Z0 and 2A5NV-B3110 cover a Mixed Reality Headset and tethered Main Unit with a 7,000 mAh battery and Wi-Fi 7 — one day before Pico’s canceled Beijing debut. Release still targets Q4 2026.
Realities.io marks five years of Puzzling Places with weekly free puzzles, a Walkabout-style guest pass, and deeper passthrough controls — Quest-first on the social features.
Maze Theory’s Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars trailer shows a Weir-written Eridani-leg chapter for Quest, Pico, and Android XR this autumn—with James Ortiz returning as Rocky.
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.