XR Daily: Valve Retires the Index
Valve discontinues the Index and cuts 20%, Xbox opens a lab for WebGPU ports, SideQuest drops the cable, and Mothergunship jumps to Unreal 5.7.
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XR Daily: College Football Kicks Off in 8K
Meta streams college football to Quest in 8K, VR Glasses reshape the Quest line, WebGPU shader components go mainstream, and hand tracking hits VR games.
XR Daily: OpenDLSS Rebuilds DLSS 5
A Vulkan rebuild of DLSS 5's neural rendering network matches it bit for bit, plus a full Titanfall 2 VR conversion and hand-tracked Evangelion combat.
XR Daily: A $150 Camera Fix for Steam Frame
Arcturus gives Steam Frame true passthrough for $150, Meta opens a $1M hands-first contest, Hologram avatars get a hands-on, and Walkabout cuts staff again.
Meta's $1,300 VR Glasses Ship Without a Controller. That's the Point
The display specs got the headlines, but Meta shipping VR Glasses without controllers, and paying $1M for hands-first apps, is the real bet.
XR Daily: Meta Drops the Camera
Meta ships a camera-free Ray-Ban at 43 grams, Ray-Ban Display reaches Europe, Supernatural returns with a price, and Niagara gets a fluid solver.
XR Daily: Beat Saber Retrofits for Hands
Beat Saber rebuilds itself around hand tracking, Dungeons of Eternity brings Half-Life: Alyx style lighting tricks to Quest, and 177 scanned materials go free.
XR Daily: Meta's Avatars Ship as Video Streams
Meta ships Hologram avatars as server-side diffusion video rather than volumetric Codec Avatars, a $1M competition for VR Glasses apps, and more.
XR Daily: Meta's $1,300 Micro-OLED Bet
Meta VR Glasses arrive at $1,300 with a 37 PPD micro-OLED display and an off-head compute puck, plus Beat Saber's hand-tracking rewrite as Flux.