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Meta Quest Hardware & Tech News 1. Meta Financing Now In The UK Too, Offering Quest 3S From Twelve £30 Monthly Payments 2. Quest's Web Browser Now Experimentally Supports Colocated WebXR Immersive Video 3. Quest Owners Can Watch The NHL Stanley Cup Final Rinkside In 180° For Free 4. Bono: Stories Of Surrender, The First Feature-Length Apple Immersive Video, Is Out Now Anduril-Meta Partnership 5. Palmer Luckey's Anduril Partners With Meta To Build Military XR Devices Meta's Ultralight Headset With Puck & The Fate Of Quest 4 6. Meta Prioritizing Ultralight Headset With Puck For 2026 Over Traditional Quest 4 7. Meta's Ultralight Headset With Puck Will Reportedly Cost "Less Than $1000" 8. Meta "Courting" Disney & A24 To Make Immersive Video For Horizon OS…

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Apple Glasses In 2026 & Physical Meta Stores? 2:07:01

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1. PlayStation VR2 Is $350 For Sony's Days Of Play 2025 Sale 2. Insomniac Games Does Not "Have Plans" For PlayStation VR2 Games 3. Apple Reportedly Plans To Launch Its Smart Glasses In Late 2026 4. D-Day: The Camera Soldier Is A New Kind Of Documentary On Apple Vision Pro 5. Team Beef Is Unofficially Porting Counter-Strike To Quest & Pico 4 6. Meta Reportedly Plans To Open More Physical Stores…

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Horizon OS Overhaul, Google I/O, Android XR, Xreal Project Aura 2:34:59

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Meta Section 1. Meta CTO Responds To Quest Performance Regression & Battery Saver Issue 2. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Are Now Available In India & Mexico 3. Meta Horizon OS v77 Tests Total UI Overhaul & Turning Instagram Photos 3D Apple Section 4. Bono: Apple Is "Dying To Make Vision Pro More Affordable" 5. Godot Now Has Rudimentary Support For visionOS PC VR Section 6. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Now Has Foveated Rendering 7. Varjo's Documentary Highlights Non-Consumer Uses Of VR & Mixed Reality 8. Valve Deckard's Design "Is Quite Amazing", Lynx Founder Says 9. Xreal One Glasses Will Become 6DoF With The Xreal Eye Addon Google / Android XR Section 10. Google Showed Off Sleek Smart Glasses With A HUD Again At I/O 11. Google Is Working With Gentle Monster & Warby Parker On Gemini Smart Glasses 12. Xreal's Project Aura Will Support Google's Android XR Via A Tethered Puck…

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visionOS 3 Accessibility Features, Meta AssetGen 2.0, Pimax Dream Air SE 3:08:15

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David discusses: 1. Play For Dream MR Is Getting Guy Godin's Virtual Desktop Next Week Smart Glasses 2. Google Teases Smart Glasses Demo For I/O Next Week 3. Apple Is Reportedly Developing A Custom Chipset For Its Smart Glasses 4. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Can Now Be More Descriptive About What They See visionOS 3 5. Apple Vision Pro Will Be Able To Magnify, Describe, Find, Or Read Anything In View 6. visionOS Is Getting Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Device Support 7. visionOS 3 Will Reportedly Let You Scroll With Your Eyes 8. Meta's AssetGen 2.0 AI Model Will Generate Higher-Quality 3D Assets, And Even Entire Worlds 9. Pimax Delays 4K Per-Eye Dream Air & Announces Cheaper 2.5K Dream Air SE 10. Samsung Unveils Advanced Micro-OLED Displays For "Next-Generation" Headsets 11. As Horizon OS Advances, Developers Face Bugs & Performance Regression And Ian joins to discuss: 12. Meta CTO Says He And Mark Zuckerberg Are "True Believers" With "Actual Conviction"…

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Minecraft Drops VR & Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3 2:14:24

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Ian and David discuss: Meta Rebrands Quest+ Subscription To Horizon+ Minecraft No Longer Officially Supports VR Next-Gen Meta Smart Glasses Set For 2026 Could Recognize Faces With Always-On A What An Apple Vision Pro Developer Learned Hiking 70 Miles Outdoors In a Headset A Developer Implemented Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3 Hauntify On Quest 3 Will Use Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing…

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Quest Headset Sales Drop, Passthrough Camera API Now Shippable 2:16:24

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David & Ian discuss: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses App Change Bigscreen Beyond 2 Shipping Delayed To June Motorola Phones Are Now Usable In Horizon OS Meta Employees Working Weekends To Ship HUD Glasses Varjo Teleport 2.0 "Best-In-Class" Photorealistic Scene Capture Lowe's Letting Customers Design Their Kitchen With Apple Vision Pro Quest's Passthrough Camera API Can Now Be Used In Store Apps Meta Reality Labs Q1 Revenue Declined Due To Lower Quest Sales…

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Horizon Worlds AI Asset Generation & Ray-Ban Meta Speech Translation 1:51:52

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David Heaney and Ian Hamilton discuss: 1. Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Can Now AI Generate 3D Meshes & Textures 2. Meta Now Sells Quest 3S Refurbished For $270 Immersive Video 3. Insta360 X5 Improves The Quality Of The Handheld 8K 360° Camera 4. Horizon Worlds Now Supports 3D 180° Video For Events Like Concerts Smart Glasses 5. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Now Translate Speech & Meta AI Is Now Available In Europe 6. Google Showed Off Sleek Smart Glasses With A HUD At TED2025 7. Spacetop For Windows Brings Spatial Computing To Xreal Air 2 Ultra…

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Electronics Tariff Exemption, Apple Vision Pro 2 Leaks & Rumors 2:45:59

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David Heaney discusses: 1. Sony Raises PS5 Console Price In Europe & Australasia 2. Quest 3S Is $270 For The Next Two Weeks, A $30 Discount 3. Trump Exempts Many Electronics From His "Reciprocal" Tariffs 4. A Developer Got PlayStation VR2's HDR Partially Working On PC 5. Nvidia's RTX 5060 Family Will Power Entry-Level PC VR From $300 6. REK Wants To Let People Pilot Fighting Robots Using VR Headsets 7. James Cameron: Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema 8. Demeo Now Supports Mixed Reality & Foveated Rendering On Apple Vision Pro 9. Apple Vision Pro 2 Reportedly Cheaper & Lighter, Mac-Tethered Headset Coming Too 10. Is This The Next Apple Vision Headset's Battery Cable?…

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PlayStation VR2 Eye Tracking On PC, Half-Life: Alyx First Scene On Quest 3 2:21:04

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David and Kyle discuss: Civilization VII VR PlayStation VR2's Eye Tracking Working On PC Quest 3 Winning Best Inflight Entertainment Award Quest's Horizon OS v76 DaVinci Resolve supporting editing Apple Immersive Video the report claiming Apple Vision Pro 2 mass production has begun Pico Motion Tracker Waist Version Half-Life: Alyx's first scene being ported to Quest 3 standalone via Unity…

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Meta HUD Glasses Leak, Will Trump's Tariffs Drive Up Headset Prices? 2:07:51

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: - Will Nintendo Switch 2 Get VR? - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Still Selling Very Fast - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Getting Foveated Rendering - visionOS 2.4 - Virtual Desktop's new macOS update - Meta Is Now The UFC Technology Partner, Including For Quest - Meta HUD Glasses Price, Features & Input Device - Will Trump's Tariffs Drive Up Headset Prices In The US?…

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Could Valve Deckard Use LCD Panels & A Quest-Like Chip? 3:19:28

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: VR Headset Prices Now Used To Measure UK Inflation Apple Reveals The Date It's Expected To Unveil visionOS 3 Vivo Vision Looks Like A Blatant Apple Vision Pro Clone Bigscreen Beyond 2 Selling Impressively Fast Already Pico 4 Ultra OS 5.13.0 Inside The VR Holodeck That Sells Real Estate Quest v76 PTC Lets You Use Your Meta Avatar As A Virtual Webcam Quest Could Soon Let You Screenshare 2D Windows Is Valve's Lack Of Investment In VR Excusable? Could Valve Deckard Use LCD Panels & A Quest-Like Chip?…

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Quest Usage Up 30%, Bigscreen Beyond 2 Hands-On 2:23:12

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss: Varjo XR-4 To Require Subscription For Some Features Metallica On Apple Vision Pro Quest Thumb Microgestures & Improved Audio To Expression Quest Passthrough Camera API Snap Spectacles See Peridots Play Together & Now Use GPS LG Ceases XR Product Efforts, But Will Continue R&D Meta CTO Responds To Controversy Around Using "MR" To Mean Both MR And VR Meta's CTO Says He "Loved And Hoped To Keep" The Oculus Brand Meta Claims Open Store & Worlds Push Didn't Affect Spending Meta Says Quest Headset Usage Up 30% Meta "Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming" Bigscreen Beyond 2 & Beyond 2e…

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Meta's OpenXR Support, Valve SteamVR Link Dongle? 3:15:55

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney talk for over three hours covering more than a dozen subjects in this week's episode: Samsung's Headset Could Launch In Q3, With A Very High Price Niantic Sells Pokémon Go To Saudi Arabia To Fund Spatial AI Transition GOLF+ Tests Tracking Your Real Putter Using Logitech's MX Ink Major Developers Are Already Using Quest's Passthrough API MAGE Uses A Custom Engine To Drive 120 FPS Physics With Dynamic Shadows On Quest 3 Meta To Recommend Using Unity & Unreal's Built-In OpenXR Support From Next Week Meta: Suppliers "Heavily Pursuing" Producing "Wonder Material" Enabling Orion's Field Of View Immersed Now Says Visor Mass Production Will Begin "After Summer" VRChat Now Testing Drones, Dolly Cams And Desktop Webcam Mode visionOS 3 Will Reportedly Be A "Feature-Packed Release" Google Set To Acquire Ultra-Low-Power Eye Tracking Startup For Headsets & Glasses Steam Link App Seemingly Coming To Pico & HTC Vive Standalone Headsets D-Link VR Air Bridge No Longer Works In Windows 11 24H2 Valve Working On "SteamVR Link Dongle" For Reliable Wireless PC VR…

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Meta Vows To "Never Give Up", Samsung Headset's Resolution Revealed? 2:37:48

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Kyle Riesenbeck and David Heaney discuss: - PlayStation VR2's Price Cut To $400 - Apple's New Spatial Gallery Platform On Vision Pro - Yankee Stadium Friday Night Baseball Apple Immersive Video Coming In - AMD RX 9070 & 9070 XT Graphics Cards Out Now - Aria Gen 2 Research Glasses - Meta Researchers Generate Photorealistic Avatars From Just Four Selfies - F2P Apps Now Account For 70% Of Time Spent On Quest - Meta Is Discontinuing Move, Quest's Fitness Tracking Feature - Inseye "Pauses" Lumi, Its Quest 2 & 3 Eye Tracking Addon - Meta's Unity & Unreal "OpenXR" SDKs Block Other PC VR Headsets - Meta Support Page Suggests Quest's Passthrough API Is Imminent - "Never Give Up", Meta CTO Responds To Leaked Memo Discourse - Samsung's Headset Will Reportedly Use Sony's New 4K Micro-OLED Displays…

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PlayStation VR2 Price Cut, Will Valve Deckard Be $1200? 2:21:52

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