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Who is paying for its support does.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/w4-games-18m-series-b-tencent-godot-enterprise-xr-2026"},{"id":"meta-xr-operator-agent-controller-input-unity-2026","slug":"meta-xr-operator-agent-controller-input-unity-2026","title":"Meta XR Operator Hands Your AI Agent the Controller, the Head Pose, and a Screenshot Button","author":"Nina Castillo","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-26","updatedDate":null,"category":"software","tags":["software","gaming","xr"],"snippet":"Meta XR Operator is an experimental OpenXR API layer in Core SDK v205 that runs an MCP server inside your Unity app, letting an agent set controller input and head pose. It cannot hear audio, track fingers, or judge motion.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/meta-xr-operator-agent-controller-input-unity-2026"},{"id":"pico-space-pro-delayed-q4-september-event-cancelled-2026","slug":"pico-space-pro-delayed-q4-september-event-cancelled-2026","title":"Pico Moves Space Pro to Q4 and Cancels Its September 2 Beijing Event","author":"Alex Reeves","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-26","updatedDate":null,"category":"hardware","tags":["hardware","xr"],"snippet":"Pico cancelled the September 2 launch event nine days out and pushed Space Pro to Q4 2026, citing a late software upgrade. Price, regions and the unconfirmed spec lines all go with it.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/pico-space-pro-delayed-q4-september-event-cancelled-2026"},{"id":"quest-1-bootloader-unlock-queststack-webusb-2026","slug":"quest-1-bootloader-unlock-queststack-webusb-2026","title":"Two Projects Now Unlock the Quest 1 Bootloader, and One of Them Runs in a Browser Tab","author":"Nina Castillo","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-25","updatedDate":null,"category":"software","tags":["software","hardware","xr"],"snippet":"QuestStack roots a Quest 1 on its final firmware and swaps in a vulnerable bootloader. A WebUSB version from darknight1050 does the same job from a Chromium tab. Meta stopped patching the headset on August 31, 2024.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/quest-1-bootloader-unlock-queststack-webusb-2026"},{"id":"google-translate-listening-area-android-xr-glasses-2026","slug":"google-translate-listening-area-android-xr-glasses-2026","title":"Google Translate 10.32.66 Has a Microphone Setting for Glasses Nobody Can Buy Yet","author":"Jordan Kuo","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-25","updatedDate":null,"category":"ar","tags":["ar","xr","software"],"snippet":"An Android Authority teardown of Google Translate 10.32.66 found a \"Listening area (Glasses only)\" control with Front only and Surrounding area modes. The one Android XR device you can buy today is a headset, and it does not get them.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/google-translate-listening-area-android-xr-glasses-2026"},{"id":"payday-aces-high-playtest-closed-q4-2026","slug":"payday-aces-high-playtest-closed-q4-2026","title":"\"Now It's Time to Hand Over the Keys.\" PAYDAY's VR Heist Just Spent Five Days in Public","author":"Evan Marcus","authorRole":"Co-Founder, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-25","updatedDate":null,"category":"gaming","tags":["gaming","xr"],"snippet":"Fast Travel Games ran the first public playtest of PAYDAY: Aces High from August 20 to August 24 on Quest 3 and SteamVR. The Steam page now reads Q4 2026, and the trailer's own title card lists Steam Frame as a platform.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/payday-aces-high-playtest-closed-q4-2026"},{"id":"mediview-xr90-cleveland-clinic-weston-liver-biopsy-2026","slug":"mediview-xr90-cleveland-clinic-weston-liver-biopsy-2026","title":"MediView's XR90 Guided a Needle 10 Centimeters Into a Liver on a Headset Microsoft Stopped Building","author":"Sam Whitfield","authorRole":"Contributing Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-24","updatedDate":null,"category":"enterprise","tags":["enterprise","ar","xr"],"snippet":"Cleveland Clinic Weston completed Florida's first intraprocedural use of MediView's 510(k)-cleared XR90, fusing CT with live ultrasound for a liver biopsy. The clearance, K223125, was granted on HoloLens 2, which loses support on December 31, 2027.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/mediview-xr90-cleveland-clinic-weston-liver-biopsy-2026"},{"id":"arm-patent-ultrasound-vestibular-motion-sickness-2026","slug":"arm-patent-ultrasound-vestibular-motion-sickness-2026","title":"Arm's Patent for Killing VR Motion Sickness Fires 5MHz Ultrasound Into Your Inner Ear","author":"Alex Reeves","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-24","updatedDate":null,"category":"hardware","tags":["hardware","xr","gaming"],"snippet":"A granted Arm patent drives ultrasonic transducers at the wearer's semicircular canals whenever displayed motion and head motion disagree. Arm licenses silicon IP and ships no headsets, and the last company to try this was Samsung in 2016.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/arm-patent-ultrasound-vestibular-motion-sickness-2026"},{"id":"sol-protocol-quest-3-september-17-early-access-2026","slug":"sol-protocol-quest-3-september-17-early-access-2026","title":"Sol Protocol Hits Quest 3 on September 17 With a Plan for the Empty Third Seat","author":"Evan Marcus","authorRole":"Co-Founder, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-24","updatedDate":null,"category":"gaming","tags":["gaming","software","xr"],"snippet":"Singular Perception's three-player space roguelike opens Early Access on Quest 3 at $9.99, rising to $12.99 at launch. The AI crew fill-ins are still in development, which makes the roguelike run structure the thing that has to carry it.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/sol-protocol-quest-3-september-17-early-access-2026"},{"id":"xreal-aura-founder-passes-sold-out-10000-reservations-2026","slug":"xreal-aura-founder-passes-sold-out-10000-reservations-2026","title":"XREAL Sold 2,000 AURA Founder Passes in 36 Hours and Still Has Not Named a Price","author":"Jordan Kuo","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-24","updatedDate":null,"category":"ar","tags":["ar","xr","hardware"],"snippet":"XREAL says AURA has passed 10,000 reservations since June. Two of its three deposit tiers are sold out, the price cap now applies only to the base model, and Canada has quietly dropped off the launch region list.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/xreal-aura-founder-passes-sold-out-10000-reservations-2026"},{"id":"supernatural-102-days-founding-members-workout-history-2026","slug":"supernatural-102-days-founding-members-workout-history-2026","title":"Supernatural Has 102 Days Left, and Its Head of Fitness Cannot Promise Your Streak Comes With You","author":"Evan Marcus","authorRole":"Co-Founder, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-23","updatedDate":null,"category":"gaming","tags":["gaming","software","xr"],"snippet":"Meta's Supernatural shuts down December 3 and the independent relaunch is 15 people rebuilding what almost 200 used to run. Founding membership is $180, Favorites are already confirmed gone, and Leanne Pedante will not promise your workout history survives the move.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/supernatural-102-days-founding-members-workout-history-2026"},{"id":"rayneo-io-gt-max-two-devices-september-4-2026","slug":"rayneo-io-gt-max-two-devices-september-4-2026","title":"33 Grams and 78 Grams: RayNeo Is Selling Both Halves of the Glasses Argument on September 4","author":"Jordan Kuo","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-23","updatedDate":null,"category":"ar","tags":["ar","hardware","xr"],"snippet":"RayNeo announced a 33-gram camera-free waveguide HUD and a 78-gram 59-degree personal cinema, put both on sale for September 4, and priced neither. The largest seller of consumer AR glasses has decided one device cannot do both jobs.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/rayneo-io-gt-max-two-devices-september-4-2026"},{"id":"knights-of-fiona-free-to-start-story-pass-2026","slug":"knights-of-fiona-free-to-start-story-pass-2026","title":"What Knights of Fiona Gives You Free on September 3, and What the $18.99 Story Pass Unlocks","author":"Nina Castillo","authorRole":"Staff Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-23","updatedDate":null,"category":"gaming","tags":["gaming","software"],"snippet":"CharacterBank's VR JRPG launches free-to-start on Quest and SteamVR. The free download is the introduction; the $18.99 Story Pass carries six chapters, every battle mission and the trading tables. The same studio charged $34.99 up front in 2022.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/knights-of-fiona-free-to-start-story-pass-2026"},{"id":"virtualware-virtalis-acquisition-5-million-nsi-clearance-2026","slug":"virtualware-virtalis-acquisition-5-million-nsi-clearance-2026","title":"Virtualware Is Paying 5 Million Euros Down for Virtalis, a Profitable VR Firm the Cabinet Office Had to Clear","author":"Sam Whitfield","authorRole":"Contributing Writer, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-22","updatedDate":null,"category":"enterprise","tags":["enterprise","software","xr"],"snippet":"Virtualware will pay 5 million euros plus an earnout for Manchester's Virtalis, which reported 4 million euros of revenue and 1.3 million euros of EBITDA on 19 staff. The UK cleared the deal under the National Security and Investment Act, which says more about the asset than the price does.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/virtualware-virtalis-acquisition-5-million-nsi-clearance-2026"},{"id":"light-brigade-definitive-edition-final-update-steam-frame-2026","slug":"light-brigade-definitive-edition-final-update-steam-frame-2026","title":"The Last Thing Funktronic Labs Put Into The Light Brigade Was Support for a Headset You Cannot Buy Yet","author":"Evan Marcus","authorRole":"Co-Founder, VR.org","publishDate":"2026-08-22","updatedDate":null,"category":"gaming","tags":["gaming","hardware","xr"],"snippet":"Update 5.0 renames the game The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition and closes out three and a half years of support. The first line of its changelog adds Steam Frame compatibility. The studio's next game is flatscreen.","featured":true,"url":"https://vr.org/articles/light-brigade-definitive-edition-final-update-steam-frame-2026"}]}