XR Daily: Zenith Goes Dark
Zenith's VR MMO servers shut down in December, Snap hires Robert Downey Jr. to sell $2,195 Specs, BioWare closes, and Painter learns to paint baking cages.
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The story that matters, argued properly, plus a short list of what else moved in XR and graphics.
XR Daily: Meta Puts Windows Around Android Apps
Meta's Layout and Gaze SDKs wrap spatial windows around 2D Android apps, Fallout: New Vegas gets path tracing, and VMAF v1 changes the bitrate math.
XR Daily: OpenXR Grows Windows
OpenXR ratifies spatial containers so apps share one space, PAYDAY ships a native Steam Frame build, and Plasticity 2026.2 adds Class A surfacing tools.
XR Daily: The Memory Crunch Reaches XR
PS6 memory reportedly tops $680, Apple ships a Ti West horror film in Immersive, Virtuix bundles Quest headsets, and Supernatural goes independent.
XR Daily: Meta's Glasses Heard What They Shouldn't
Ray-Ban Meta recorded speech without the wake word, photos became splats inside a browser, Steam's Linux client went 64-bit, and a Godot sky got rebuilt.
XR Daily: Valve Leaves ALVR to Fend for Itself
Valve disowns ALVR's current SteamVR release, a Linux overlay bug freezes games, Samsung's glasses leak at 41 grams, and Meta tours a Milan gallery.
XR Daily: An OLED Steam Frame Hides in Valve's Kernel
Valve's kernel code leaks a 3,840-per-eye OLED Steam Frame, Godot 4.8 hits beta, XREAL ships 1,200-nit glasses, and Epic rebuilds Linux anti-cheat.
XR Daily: Steam Frame Slips Into 2027
Valve's Steam Frame queue pushes into 2027, SteamOS 0.4 lifts battery life 12%, RimWorld dumps Unity for its own engine, plus Pico Space Pro filings.
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.
XR Daily: Pico Leaks Its Vision Pro Rival
Pico Space Pro leaks inside and out in Japanese filings, Steam Frame slips to 2027, Epic tells devs to stop hand-writing code, plus real-time cutting.