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OpenXR, an open and royalty-free standard for VR and AR development, has introduced a new cross-platform spatial multitasking app framework. This development is seen as taking inspiration from Apple's approach, although Apple continues to use its own APIs for Vision Pro.

Salmi Games has made a free VR demo of DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew available on Steam, allowing players to experience two years of development. However, the game currently has no official release date listed on the store page.

Four open requests were filed regarding Intel's XeSS potentially utilizing the XMX matrix units on an Intel Arc card when running games under Proton. This would allow XeSS to bypass the current slower fallback path. These requests were filed by Damian Tomczak.

Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, pending stockholder approval. The fund's allocation increases with the company's value, and the company also noted that an additional 2% could be added by the board if the company's value increases by 50% above a set baseline.

An unofficial plugin allows the camera feed of Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 glasses to be streamed into a live OBS Studio scene on Windows. The project notes that using this plugin results in the PC becoming the owner of the glasses, rather than the phone.

A report on Valve's SteamOS tracker indicates that while the Steam Machine's native HDMI 2.1 link allows a 4K television to run at 144Hz, variable refresh rate (VRR) stops working on that link. The HDMI connector provides a VRR range of 40 to 144 on the stock signal path.

Anthropic published figures showing that the share of junior technical hires has decreased from 27% in early 2025 to 9%. The company's research post also noted that the share of junior-level employees in technical departments slipped from 21% to 14% since early 2025.

Installing the SteamOS 3.9.3 beta on a Steam Deck with an encrypted home partition caused the device to stop booting. An instruction warning against installing this build on encrypted machines had been available on Valve's tracker.

Valve's Proton maintainer closed three bug reports in four days, with the reporter's use of AI tools raised in each closing comment. The bluntest comment criticized the AI-generated report as an excessively wordy mess.

Bigscreen is developing a 3DoF mode for the Beyond 2 that operates without base stations. Bigscreen also published a statement from HTC, which indicates that dropping the base stations is unlikely.

Claude Code was reportedly spending usage credits on its own follow-up prompt suggestions whenever the model in use could only be paid for with credits. Anthropic's changelog says version 2.1.302 fixed it, with suggestions now skipped after a reply billed to credits, but the stable version has neither fix.

Crustacean Interactive has added three gambling games—blackjack, slot machines, and a betting wheel—to Strayed, its VR-only survival game, in the 0.22 update. Players pay for the games with shreds, the game's own currency.

A user reported that Steam's Arm64 Linux client can start natively on a 16K-page kernel after relinking 33 of Valve's files. Valve closed the report, stating that the Steam for Linux client is not currently supported on ARM-based hardware.

A report filed in Valve's Proton tracker on October 17 says a Windows VR app that draws the world plus two or more floating panels loses every one of those frames on Linux. The report now sits inside a 2018 Grand Theft Auto compatibility thread after Valve moved it.

OpenAI says it will give approved US university labs up to 30 free ChatGPT Business Standard seats for up to 12 months. However, GPT-Rosalind, the model the plan is named after, is not part of the offer and requires separate trusted-access approval on top of the free seats.

Aixceptional rebuilt the headset portion of Train Trek, addressing the initial issue where players lacked a body in the VR mode. Head and hands have now been attached to the rebuilt model.

Valve stated that Proton currently cannot support exFAT due to missing filesystem features, which causes Steam games installed on exFAT drives to fail to start.