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What happens next with MIXED
- MIXED

MIXED is discontinuing its reporting. In future, MIXED editors Josef and Tomislav will report for Heise Online. The post What happens next with MIXED appeared first [...]

My personal farewell to MIXED
- Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Dear MIXED readers, Today’s news likely came as a surprise to many of you. In truth, the end of MIXED in its current form has been [...]

Meta and Anduril are now jointly developing XR  headsets for the US military
- Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril Industries and Meta are collaborating on the development of XR products for the US military. The post Meta and Anduril are [...]

An unofficial VR port of Counter-Strike 1.6 is coming to Meta Quest
- Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Team Beef, known for its standalone VR ports of classic games, is working on a VR version of Counter-Strike 1.6 for Quest and Pico headsets. The [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are getting their own VR game
- Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City will be released in 2026 for Meta Quest and PC VR. The post Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are getting their [...]

Pimax Crystal Super: New Ultrawide optics push VR field of view to 140 degrees
- Josef Erl

The Crystal Super VR headset gets a new optical engine that significantly expands the horizontal field of view. The post Pimax Crystal Super: New Ultrawide optics [...]

Meta Quest 3S Reaches Its Lowest Price Yet in Black Friday Sale
- Ben Lang

Meta Quest 3S is already getting Black Friday 2025 sales and Costco is offering the headset at its cheapest price yet. Updated: November 28th, 4:00PM ET [...]

The Best Black Friday VR Deals: Quest 3S, PSVR 2, Ray-Ban Meta & More on Deep Discount
- Scott Hayden

Black Friday 2025 is a great time to grab some of the best deals on VR gear, including deep discounts on Meta Quest 3S, PSVR 2, [...]

Pico Reportedly Releasing Vision Pro Competitor in 2026 with Self-developed Chip
- Scott Hayden

Zhenyuan Yang, Vice President of Technology at Pico parent company ByteDance, reportedly revealed plans for Pico’s next XR headset, which is said to sport a self-developed [...]

New Apple Immersive Content Coming Soon to Vision Pro From Real Madrid and Red Bull
- Scott Hayden

Apple announced the next slate of immersive content is on its way to Vision Pro, this time bringing an immersive documentary from Real Madrid and some [...]

Godot Gets Big OpenXR Update Aiming to Attract XR Devs from Unity
- Scott Hayden

Godot, the open source game engine, has included basic OpenXR support for a number of years now, allowing developers to easily publish their apps across a [...]

Meta Reveals ‘WorldGen’ Tool to Generate VR Worlds from AI Prompts
- Scott Hayden

Meta announced WorldGen, a new AI tool that could soon let you generate navigable 3D worlds in minutes from a single text prompt. The News Meta [...]

XR for Business: Why Renault is Rewriting the Rules
- Alex Cole

The automotive industry has never shied away from extended reality. Renault Group’s Technocentre is one of those rare spots where sci-fi energy meets workflow. If you’re [...]

Alibaba’s Quark Glasses – The AR Wildcard Silicon Valley Didn’t See Coming
- Tom Walker

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched its new AI-powered Quark smart glasses. Another headset? Another “revolution”? My cynical side warmed up for its usual eye-roll – [...]

Valve Showcases Steam Frame: The Next Big Swing for PC VR?
- Alex Cole

Valve’s reveal of the Steam Frame feels like a long-overdue jolt for the PC VR ecosystem. If you’re an XR vendor, enterprise buyer, or innovation lead [...]

Even Realities Doubles Down on AI Wearables with G2 Smart Glasses and R1 Smart Ring
- Alex Cole

As AR wearables continue to get smarter and more connected, they quietly edge their way into mainstream business use. Even Realities just pushed that shift further [...]

AI Meets Immersive Learning: How Lenovo and VR Vision Are Transforming Workforce Training
- Christopher Carey

Lenovo is working with partners to combine artificial intelligence and virtual reality to transform how workers learn.   Through its partnership with Canadian immersive learning company VR [...]

Samsung’s Big Bet: Using XR to Train 20,000 Employees a Year
- Tom Walker

When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled the telephone, people thought it was a pointless toy. It took years of marketing, demonstrations, and infrastructure investment before The [...]

Best Black Friday streaming deals for 2025: Disney+ Hulu bundle is only $60 for one year, plus major savings on Apple TV+, HBO Max and others
- Valentina Palladino,Sam Chapman

Streaming deals come and go throughout the year, but they are most abundant around Black Friday. It’s been a testy year for streaming services to say [...]

Apple's MacBook Air M4 is $250 off in this Black Friday deal
- Lawrence Bonk,Georgie Peru

Apple’s latest MacBook Air M4 is now discounted to $750 for Black Friday. The deal applies to the entry-level 13-inch model, giving you the same sharp [...]

Black Friday deals on tech for 2025 are still live: Up to 50 percent off the best gear from Apple, Amazon, Disney+, Lego, Dyson and others
- Valentina Palladino

Black Friday is technically over, but long gone are the days in which all of the deals dry up at midnight. Black Friday is very much [...]

Netflix's Assassin's Creed TV show could kick off in Ancient Rome
- Jackson Chen

Fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise may finally get to visit Ancient Rome, but it could instead be through a Netflix adaptation of Ubisoft's best-selling video [...]

Use this hack to get a year of Peacock for $49 before Black Friday
- Andre Revilla

Walmart is offering its Walmart+ subscription at half off for new sign-ups, and it includes a choice of either Peacock Premium or Paramount+ Essential. The deal [...]

Black Friday VPN deals are still live: Get 75 percent off Proton VPN two-year plans, plus deals on NordVPN, ExpressVPN and more
- Kris Holt,Sam Chapman

A VPN subscription can make for a good holiday gift. Everyone could do with having a VPN to help protect their online activity from prying eyes [...]

I tested 15 cases for the Switch 2 and these are the best
- Cameron Faulkner

Editor’s note: Black Friday deals are still happening, so check out the latest and greatest discounts that today has to offer. You might find it kind of [...]

The Fujifilm X Half is on sale for what it should have originally cost
- Allison Johnson

Fujifilm’s unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year — from “That looks like so much fun,” [...]

I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best
- Cameron Faulkner

Editor’s note: Black Friday deals are still happening, so check out the latest and greatest discounts that today has to offer. If you choose to get an [...]

Behold, the black Apple Watch Ultra 2 is $200 off during Black Friday
- Victoria Song

Last year, I wrote that you do not need a black Apple Watch Ultra 2. It was simply a color refresh, I said. The original Apple [...]

I bought this $110 Nespresso rig and it’s been caffeinated bliss ever since
- Victoria Song

Before I went to Italy on vacation, I was fine with instant coffee and my electric kettle. I’m no coffee snob — just get that sweet [...]

The Android phone you should buy your dad is just $349
- Allison Johnson

Not to generalize, but the Google Pixel 9A is a classic dad phone. It’s not fussy. It’s durable and scheduled to get software updates for the [...]