XR Daily: visionOS 27 Opens the Tracking APIs
Apple ships visionOS 27 with high frame rate object tracking and an IR LED accessory framework, plus a hands-on tour of Quest Gaussian splat viewers.
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XR Daily: Steam Frame's $1,059 Lottery Opens
Valve puts real prices on Steam Frame and closes reservations, Meta lines up Project Phoenix for Connect, and Snap ships anticipatory AI for Specs.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Gets Color Passthrough
A $149 add-on gives Steam Frame 6MP-per-eye color passthrough and tracked 3D capture, and Godot 4.8 dev 6 lands a multi-layer projection camera.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Finally Has a Price
Steam Frame reservations open at $1,059, Valve confirms a standalone Half-Life: Alyx port, Polyarc closes, and Apple cuts around 100 Vision Pro roles.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Leaks Before Launch
Linus Tech Tips leaks a 17-minute Steam Frame unboxing before pulling it, the closest look yet at what Valve ships, minus price and date.
XR Daily: Apple Skips Spatial Capture
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo cannot shoot spatial photos or video, WebAssembly runtimes get benchmarked, and RayNeo ships camera-free glasses.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Launch Nears
SteamVR 2.17 leaves beta for all users with Deck-style Quick Access controls and overlay changes ahead of the Steam Frame launch.
XR Daily: Phoenix Headset Visuals Surface
The first clear images of Meta's next headset surface in Horizon OS firmware, pointing to an ultralight open-periphery design with a compute puck.
XR Daily: No Man's Sky Preps for Steam Frame
No Man's Sky's Cosmos update adds eye-tracked dynamic foveated rendering on SteamVR, concentrating rendering where players actually look.
XR Daily: VRChat Wins Its First Emmy
A theatre production built inside VRChat wins an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program, beating Blumhouse and Fallout entries.