The future leaves
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Six staff from METR, a non-profit that evaluates frontier AI models, now have Anthropic company hardware, office space and access to its internal tools and systems, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish about it. Anthropic says the access is "roughly on par with what our own risk assessment teams have access to".

Valve says it is starting a beta for Steam Achievement Sets, grouping a game's achievements into developer-made sets that each have their own progress bar and trophy, and letting developers archive achievements that can no longer be unlocked. Per the feed, base-game sets are shown in blue and DLC sets in purple.

The Steam Frame kernel tree includes an OLED panel driver, panel-deckard-oled.c, on its own branch, and it is not the 3552x3840 panel read out this week for a mid-generation OLED Frame. The driver declares a single 1776x1920 mode at 90Hz, with a 120Hz variant commented out.

The newly independent Supernatural has revealed new features and plans to launch 'soon' on Quest in Early Access. The report says it will offer thousands of workouts at launch, with existing progress carrying over.

Innerspace's quirky espionage thriller Spymaster has left Early Access and is now fully released on PC VR and Quest. The full release adds four new missions that complete the story campaign.

GOLF+ has added a new real-world course designed by Tiger Woods and plans a spin-off app for its hand-tracked mixed reality putting mode.

Beat Games' patch notes for Beat Saber v1.45.3, released October 15, state that the limit for basic (v1/v2) light events in the Level Editor has risen from 120 to 10,000 per map. The same update also adds a Ghastly environment.

Anthropic's Compliance API can now return the text each member of a Claude Enterprise organisation typed into 'Instructions for Claude' in claude.ai. Because that setting belongs to the account rather than the organisation, the same text is returned under every organisation the person belongs to, according to MIXED Reality News.

SteamOS 0.5.6 beta for Valve's Steam Frame adds .apk files to the right-click "add to steam" menu in Desktop mode, placing Android packages on the same library shelf as Steam games. According to Valve's patch notes, the build targets the Frame's Beta channel and requires opting in via Settings > System.

According to UploadVR, Remnants is Apple Immersive's first horror film, releasing later today. The 24-minute ghost story uses unsettling perspectives to make viewers feel haunted.

The co-operative story-driven VR puzzle game Daumier: Lila & Ghost is now available on Quest. Players who buy the game during its first month will receive an additional game key to share with a friend.

Valve traced the Error -203 black screen in the SteamVR 2.18.3 beta to an assert in SteamVR's own Vulkan renderer. A Valve developer cited two lines from the reporter's October 10 compositor log, both reading 'Vulkan transfer ring buffer overflow' at vrrenderer/vulkanrenderer.cpp line 5502, one at a transfer size of 71,100.

Valve's Steam Big Picture mode has added a new home screen layout called Big Art Mode and a screensaver that users can swap for their own. According to the client notes, Big Art Mode can be enabled in Settings > Home, and the new screensaver feature is accessible in Settings > Customization.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, with William Zhou and Daniel Freeman, ran the Gemma4-26B-A4B model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes bought for about $55 each with 4GB of RAM apiece, achieving 0.39 tokens per second overall. The authors write that the result shows "signs of life for AI worms."

Xreal has published a full spec sheet for its Aura glasses: 1920 x 1200 pixels per eye on Sony micro-OLED, up to 120Hz, a maximum 1050 nits, and a weight of 95g. Xreal's own page gives pixel density as 32 PPD and colour as '100% sRGB'.

Epic says its rebuilt Linux anti-cheat, EAC v2, cannot run on the Steam Deck because the device does not support the required features. The company says it is actively talking with Valve and hopes to support the handheld in the future.

Hollywood's Magic Castle is an exclusive club, but the "You Are Here" immersive video for Apple Vision Pro lets viewers step inside virtually to witness the magic up close.