Quest Pro Had Twice the RAM and Still Died First
Meta froze Quest 2 and Quest Pro at SDK v213 while Sony pulled PSVR 2. The XR feature floor follows unit sales, not the best hardware in the field.
Where XR meets Computer Graphics
Deep dives into virtual reality, spatial computing, real-time rendering, and the art & science behind immersive experiences.
Deep Dives
View all →VR's Exclusives Are Leaving the Store That Paid for Them
A Quest emulator running exclusives on any PC headset, Valve admitting Frame buyers mostly play flatscreen, and Schell's second layoff of 2026.
XR's Next Platform War Is Over the 3D Compositor
OpenXR standardized spatial windows, Meta caps apps at two slots, and Pico moved rendering into the OS core. The compositor is XR's next platform.
Guides
View all →XR Game Engines Compared: Unity, Unreal, and Godot
Unity, Unreal, and Godot all target OpenXR, but they differ on visionOS support, licensing, renderer headroom, and iteration speed. How to choose for XR.
What Is Inside a VR Headset? Displays, Lenses, Cameras, Chips
A component-level look inside a VR headset: LCD and micro-OLED panels, pancake lenses, tracking cameras, IMUs, chips, and where the battery goes.
What Is OpenXR? The Cross-Platform XR API Explained
OpenXR is Khronos's open API between XR apps and headset runtimes. How the loader, extensions and action system work, and what the standard still leaves out.
Latest briefings
View all →XR Briefing: Android XR's First Consumer Hardware Is Screenless
Warby Parker and Gentle Monster ship Android XR glasses December 10 from $395, with 2GB of RAM, no display, and Gemini doing the heavy work on your phone.
XR Briefing: One Renderer, Four Targets, No Install
BenchUp ships a Rust and wgpu 3D modeler to Windows, macOS, Linux and a browser tab through WebAssembly and WebGPU, and XR authoring should copy the stack.
XR Briefing: Steam Frame Lands Fifth Without Exclusives
Valve's Steam Frame takes 5.49% of Steam headsets in its first survey, and SteamVR 2.19.1 now supersamples streamed VR to 1.96x panel pixels.
XR Briefing: 10M Splats at 9.2 ms in a Browser Tab
Radix sorts 10 million Gaussians on the GPU at 9.2 ms per frame in a browser, plus VRChat refusing an AI label and Ultrawings rebuilt for Quest 3.
XR Briefing: Aura Ships at $1,099, and Godot Runs On It
Xreal's Aura opens at $1,099 with 32 PPD optics and a Godot editor running on the device, days after Valve admits Frame buyers mostly play flat games.