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Sunday, January 18, 2026
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
Eye Tracking Is The Missing Piece In Mark Zuckerberg's VR Strategy
â Why did Meta take a pause on eye tracking after the Quest Pro?
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
The Metaverse At All Costs: How Mark Zuckerberg Fumbled Oculus VR
â Why did Meta take a pause on eye tracking after the Quest Pro?Saturday, January 17, 2026
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
Subject: Oculus Strategy (LONG)
â A letter from John Carmack from more than 10 years ago helps frame the layoffs endured at Meta this week.
Friday, January 16, 2026
UploadVR / Luis Aviles
Dark Fantasy RPG Legendary Tales Arrives On Quest
â Dark fantasy RPG Legendary Tales made the jump from PC VR to Quest this week.
Road to VR / Ben Lang
XR Year in Review: The Most Important Stories of 2025 and What They Mean for 2026
â The launch of Android XR, a newly announced headset from Valve, and major strategic shifts at Meta, are just the start of what made 2025 a significant year for the XR industry at large. 2026 will mark...
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
Tarzan VR Delisted: 'Renewing The License For This IP Is Simply Not Commercially Viable'
â Fun Train is pulling its Tarzan VR game from storefronts at the end of the month.
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Googleâs Leading AR Glasses Partner XREAL Files Patent Lawsuit Against VITURE
â AR glasses maker XREAL has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States against affiliates of VITURE, its direct competitor. Filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ...
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
âBatman: Arkham VRâ Sequel Cancelled Amid Meta XR Studio Closures
â Metaâs recent rash of studio closures means that the planned sequel to Batman: Arkham Shadow has also officially been cancelled. Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024)Â was developed by Camouflaj, released exclu...
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Meta is Deleting âHorizon Workroomsâ Next Month as Metaverse Ambitions Cool
â Meta announced itâs discontinuing Horizon Workrooms next month, its productivity-focused VR platform, marking another step in the companyâs ongoing restructuring of its VR and metaverse strategy. Orig...
UploadVR / David Heaney
Meta Is Shutting Down Its Quest For Business Program
â Meta is shutting down its Quest for business program in 2030, ending sales of commercial SKUs next month, and reducing existing subscriptions to $0/month.
UploadVR / David Heaney
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Workrooms Next Month
â Meta is shutting down its Horizon Workrooms VR meeting software on February 16, with no direct replacement for its online meetings functionality.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
Walkabout Tiki Ă Coco Reveals The Origins Of Mini Golf
â Tiki Ă Coco reveals the origin of mini golf in Walkabout's virtual reality.
UploadVR / David Heaney
Batman: Arkham Shadow Sequel Canceled As Camouflaj Sees Significant Layoffs
â Meta has canceled the Batman: Arkham Shadow sequel, UploadVR has learned, and conducted significant layoffs at Camouflaj, the developer of the first game.
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Meta Aims to Double, Possibly Even Triple Smart Glasses Production This Year
â Meta and EssilorLuxottica are potentially set to double the expected production target for their smart glasses, according to a recent Bloomberg report. Citing people familiar with the matter, the repo...
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Harry Potter VR Game Reportedly Cancelled Amid Meta Budget Cuts
â Meta has closed at least three of its XR studios, and seems to have also drastically reduced its budget for third-party Quest content too, reportedly including a now-cancelled Harry Potter VR title. T...
UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Crossings Anticipated Co-Op Mode Launches Alongside Steam Version In February
â The anticipated co-op feature for Neat Corp's Crossings is due out in February. Full story here.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
UploadVR / Mike Johnson
Stellar Cafe Review: And I, For One, Welcome Our AI Overlords
â Stellar Cafe is a brief, lighthearted cosmic experience in voice-driven AI NPC interactions. Our full review.
UploadVR / Alicia Haddick
Knights Of Fiona Aims To Be An RPG You'll Keep Coming Back To
â The developers of Ruinsmagus build a bigger role-playing game in Knights Of Fiona.
UploadVR / David Heaney
Meta & EssilorLuxottica Discuss Doubling Or Tripling Smart Glasses Production
â Meta and Ray-Ban owner EssilorLuxottica are discussing doubling or even tripling their smart glasses production capacity, Bloomberg reports.
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
Supernatural Coaches Face Same Fate As Oculus Home & Echo Arena
â Meta says Supernatural will no longer receive any "new content."
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
UploadVR / Luis Aviles
Smash Drums Campaign Mode Now Available On PlayStation VR2
â Become the God of Drums in the latest Smash Drums update now on PlayStation VR2.
Road to VR / Ben Lang
Meta Reportedly Closes Three First-party Studios Behind Some of Its Biggest VR Games
â Against the backdrop of a broader shuffling of its Reality Labs division, Meta is reportedly closing Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru Games, three studios that Meta had previously acquired....
UploadVR / David Heaney
Meta Closes Twisted Pixel, Armature & Sanzaru Games
â Meta has shut down Twisted Pixel Games (Deadpool VR), Sanzaru Games (Asgard's Wrath), and Armature Studio (Resident Evil 4 VR), UploadVR can confirm.
UploadVR / David Heaney
Meta Reportedly Laying Off More Than 10% Of Reality Labs
â Meta is laying off more than 10% of its Reality Labs division, specifically targeting VR and "the metaverse", The New York Times reports.
UploadVR / Ian Hamilton
Gorilla Tag & VRChat Set Usage Records In VR Headsets
â More than one million people logged into VR for Gorilla Tag over a recent weekend.
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Meta Reportedly Laying Off 10 Percent of Reality Labs, Shifting Focus from VR & Horizon Worlds
â Meta is slated to layoff around 10 percent of staff at its Reality Labs XR division, a New York Times report maintains, as the company appears to be shifting focus to AI and smart glasses. The News Ac...
Monday, January 12, 2026
SkarredGhost / Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2026.01.12): A Special Edition with the best XR news from CES 2026!
â This roundup of the week will be a bit different than the usual because it will mostly be about CES. I havenât been there, but I have read the most important pieces of XR news coming from there, and I...UploadVR / David Heaney
Apple's Open-Source On-Device AI Instantly Turns Images Into Volumetric Scenes
â Apple's open-source on-device AI model instantly turns images into scenes, and Vision Pro owners can try it out in the app Splat Studio.
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
Googleâs Leading AR Glasses Partner XREAL Raises $100M
â XREAL, the Beijing-based AR glasses maker, announced it has raised $100 million in a recent funding round. The News Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu broke the news on Bloomberg Television, noting the c...
Road to VR / Scott Hayden
