Road to VR published a starter guide for developers seeking to enter China's XR market. The article says the US and China currently lead in immersive realities and draws on the author's regular trips to China; further details are sparse in the available context.
Liminal is adding a Fear Arena to its Quest app, starting with a forest experience called Wander. The company says it aims for an enjoyable level of tension rather than making the experience as frightening as possible, expanding an app better known for short experiences intended to change a user's mood.
Google-owned Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, has announced Hyper Visor, a $1.99 arcade game for Xreal Aura in which players fire energy streams from their hands amid cracks appearing in reality. It is planned to arrive alongside the Android XR glasses.
Google is introducing a business hub to Gemini that allows it to retain a company's visual style for future marketing work. Users can provide a website, brand kit, fonts, or colors to avoid repeatedly uploading guidance for each new image.
Google announced that Gemini Notebook now allows users to review and change the plan for slide decks or video overviews before the final result is generated. This optional step enables users to correct the structure and avoid unwanted directions after rendering.
Dimensional Double Shift's Halloween event is underway。The event is underway, adding seasonal accessories and the game's first Worktoberfest premium cosmetic with animated wings. Owlchemy Labs calls the winged outfit Bat Attitude and prices it at $0.99. The seasonal collection also includes a free Pumpkin Finger Ring.
Nvidia announced support for connecting eight DGX Spark systems into a cluster to pool 1TB of combined unified memory. This larger configuration is intended to run local AI models that would not fit on smaller groups of desktop computers, though an eight-node setup milestone is still pending.
Valve has added a wired connection option in SteamVR 2.18, letting Quest owners stream PC VR games over USB using Steam Link in the public release. The latest Steam Link app on the headset is also required. The stable update brings streaming, controller, and Linux fixes out of testing.
Anthropic is handing over Agent Skills, a standard used to provide reusable instructions and workflows to AI agents, to the Agentic AI Foundation. Developers can continue to use and contribute to the standard without joining the foundation.
Fabula Rasa is a Quest experience that places the user in a medieval cage and requires them to persuade surrounding townsfolk to save their life. The experience uses AI-powered conversations, allowing users to invent their own defense instead of choosing from fixed dialogue options.
UploadVR shares impressions of a new demo for Sunstone of Time, a history-inspired VR puzzle game. The demo offers players a small taste of the Aztec-themed mystery title.
Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned XR studio behind Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, unveiled Hyper Visor, a new arcade blaster arriving as a launch title for XREAL Aura. Xreal Aura, from Google's official AR hardware partner, is the first pair of see-through AR glasses to run Android XR.
Images obtained by MIXED show the Lenovo Yoga PC Edition Gen 2 earbuds in Seashell and Thunder Grey, featuring Sound by Bose branding on the dark charging case.
Nvidia has introduced a faster DLSS Frame Generation mode, labelled Preset C, which the company says is up to 35% faster and works on both RTX 40 and RTX 50 cards. The mode is currently a beta feature in the Nvidia app, with a small loss in image quality as the trade-off.
Valve has fixed an issue in the Steam beta where games running only on Steam Frame could be offered for installation on Windows PCs. Valve's notes confirm that Frame native-only content no longer appears as installable on Windows.
Meta's new VR Layout SDK lets ordinary Android apps on Quest open extra spatial windows beside their main screen without becoming VR apps. These phone-style apps keep their flat design and can run alongside other open apps.
OpenAI announced that GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT can now distribute different parts of a single task among several agents simultaneously. Users can monitor the progress within the conversation and review each completed task to see what the respective agent accomplished.