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Horizon OS Overhaul, Google I/O, Android XR, Xreal Project Aura May 22, 2025

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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

visionOS 3 Accessibility Features, Meta AssetGen 2.0, Pimax Dream Air SE May 15, 2025

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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"

Minecraft Drops VR & Lasertag's Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3 May 08, 2025

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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

Quest Headset Sales Drop, Passthrough Camera API Now Shippable May 01, 2025

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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

Horizon Worlds AI Asset Generation & Ray-Ban Meta Speech Translation Apr 24, 2025

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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

Electronics Tariff Exemption, Apple Vision Pro 2 Leaks & Rumors Apr 17, 2025

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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?

PlayStation VR2 Eye Tracking On PC, Half-Life: Alyx First Scene On Quest 3 Apr 10, 2025

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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

Meta HUD Glasses Leak, Will Trump's Tariffs Drive Up Headset Prices? Apr 03, 2025

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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?