The future leaves
signals in time.

Valve has stopped producing the Valve Index. Its "Valve Index Sunset" page says the headset is no longer being produced, remaining headsets, controllers and accessories are still available at new prices while supplies last, and existing owners' support remains unchanged.

Valve has announced that its Index PC VR headset, released in 2019, is no longer being produced. The company has discounted all Index-related products, which could be the last chance to buy new stock of the headset.

Pimax says a Linux version of Pimax Play, the desktop software its headsets need before SteamVR will see them, is being developed now as a dedicated client, according to an email to GamingOnLinux published October 12. This would put its headsets on SteamOS.

MIT engineers have built a soft, stretchable sheet that works out its own 3D shape as it bends and twists, with an error the team puts at under 0.4 centimetres. Graduate student Qifan Yu said in MIT's release that existing designs based on rigid sensors have errors of around 1 to 2 centimeters.

Per MIXED, an Arcturus Vision Camera app update posted October 10 lets the Steam Frame app automatically hand the view back to the headset's own passthrough when a room goes dark, with the switch assignable to preferred controller buttons; a second release followed.

Nvidia says it will close the Linux external-monitor freeze bug it has tracked since 2023 (bug 4322356, where the external monitor froze permanently in Reverse PRIME on X11), but only if complete freezes stop being reported. It now treats a short pause on a second monitor as expected behaviour.

Sketchy Realms has shipped the face tracking it promised for VR Realms, extending support to HTC's face tracker and to a Quest Pro over more PC links. The studio noted the feature is new and that it has not been able to test it on those headsets itself.

Hello Games is bringing the full No Man's Sky to iPhone and iPad, including ten years of updates, in a download of under 4GB that the studio says runs on hardware as far back as an iPhone 11. Multiplayer is not part of the mobile version.

Terrible Posture Games announced a major update for its roguelite shooter Mothergunship: Forge, marking the first major update in over three years.

The stutter Linux players report in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt appears to stem from a network check rather than the graphics card. A Wine bug report filed on October 8 says the game asks Windows whether the machine is online about 10 times a second on its main thread.

A student club has published a tool called RawMeta that turns the Neural Band wristband shipped with Meta Ray-Ban Display into an 8-channel, 2048Hz EMG recorder. The band hands raw electrode samples to anything that can prove it owns the band, and Meta has only ever priced it together with the glasses.

Meta's documentation for its glasses camera gives third-party apps three resolutions, with the top capped at 720x1280. The camera-streaming file in the Wearables Device Access Toolkit repository lists .high as 720x1280, .medium as 504x896 and .low as 360x640, with frame rate restricted; Meta says lower resolution yields better video.

According to an announcement published on October 10, D-Day VR Museum will drop its VR headset requirement with an update on October 27, letting visitors explore the virtual museum on a standard PC monitor without VR hardware. The VR version will remain available.

According to MIXED, Nvidia released version 4.18.0 of its real-time denoiser library NRD on October 9. In this version, the REBLUR and RELAX denoisers build their history from elapsed time rather than frame count, and the release ships five breaking changes. Nvidia's stated reason is truncated in the available context.

Design studio L+R rewrote its catalogue of Meta Ray-Ban Display demo apps on October 10, adding a status marker to all but one entry. The published catalogue lists 52 demos and marks 51 of them, including eight labeled as concepts rather than working apps and 33 as working on the glasses.

Sketchy Realms says the next version of VR Realms will animate avatars' faces with users' own expressions, and desktop players without a headset will be able to do the same via a webcam. The company promises the camera picture never leaves the user's PC; this is a stated plan and vendor promise.

Regulatory filings in Japan, first spotted by UploadVR, may have inadvertently leaked external and internal images of Pico's next flagship headset 'Space Pro' under certification number 202-JWM032. The Vision Pro competitor is planned for a Q4 2026 launch.