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.
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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'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.
XR Daily: An Open Headset With Two Brains
Vector Gear's dual-chipset open headset, Owlchemy's XREAL Aura lineup, Alibaba's eye-tracking glasses, and Bluey's 2D rendering trick.
Why XR's Next Headsets Render at a Quarter of Their Resolution
Valve's leaked OLED Steam Frame pairs a 3552x3840 panel with a 1776x1920 framebuffer. Memory, storage and battery budgets now shape XR hardware, not displays.
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.
WebGPU vs WebGL: Which Web Graphics API Should You Use?
WebGPU and WebGL both run GPU code in the browser, but only WebGPU has compute shaders. Here is how they differ, and what it means for WebXR.
How VR Eye Tracking Works
VR eye tracking fires infrared light at your eyes, reads the pupil and the corneal reflection, and turns that into a gaze vector. Here is the full pipeline.
August 2026: The Roadmap Slipped, the Tools Got Cheaper
Apple cut Vision Pro staff, Pico pushed its flagship to Q4, Schell laid off for the first time in 24 years. The month XR's constraint became cost, not capability.
Gaussian Splatting, Three Years In: What Shipped, What Still Breaks
Khronos put splats inside glTF, SPZ 4 cut encode times again, and Quest 3 measurements show where the frame budget goes. A state of play for splats in XR.