Noiz AI and HKUST open Helix World: from one image, WASD steers explorable video with camera-aligned stereo sound at 24 fps on an H800. Preview weights only; HelixBench spatial score 41.8 vs EchoWM 12.7.
An MIT Vulkan reimplementation of Nvidia DLSS 5 Neural Rendering claims bit-exact parity on Ada GPUs, ships a slow WebGPU port for non-CUDA XR paths, and still requires you to supply the weights.
Immersed’s September 29 Form 1-SA shows nearly $2 million in Visor deposits, a $12.6 million half-year loss, and substantial going-concern doubt as Q4 2026 production remains targeted.
Skyworth XR is showing head-mounted and wrist-mounted ego-centric capture systems at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, arguing that VR and XR engineering now feeds robot foundation-model training.
CPSC and Health Canada flag INMO’s Air3 AR glasses for left-temple overheating. About 1,643 U.S. units and 120 in Canada; stop use and install firmware 3.16.
Unity 6.6 adds day-one OpenXR support for Meta VR Glasses, with eye tracking, quad views, and launch titles already compiling ahead of spring 2027.
Zuckerberg unveils Meta VR Glasses at Connect 2026: about 100 grams, controller-free hand and eye tracking, Muse in the OS. Gen 3 Ray-Ban Meta starts at $449.
Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 at Snapdragon Summit on September 23: up to 2x on-device AI, Wi-Fi 6E without a phone, and a roadmap for audio glasses and hearables aiming at 2027.
WA bars wearing, using, storing, and charging smart glasses on public school sites from October 12. Parents, visitors, and contractors are included. No brand named.
AppleInsider and iClarified: visionOS 27.2 developer beta 2 (build 24N5093f) arrived September 21 with no feature list, five days after beta 1 and a week after visionOS 27 shipped.