VR Was Step One. This Is What Comes Next.
From smart glasses and a dive mask with a HUD to exoskeletons and home robots, this is what we tried at IFA 2026.
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XR & VR
I Tried Meta’s 100 Gram VR Glasses
Hands-on with the Meta VR Glasses (codenamed Phoenix), Meta's 100 gram VR headset with a separate compute puck, tried at Meta Connect 2026. It…
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I Tried Meta’s New VR Glasses (It’s Not a Quest 4 But…)
A full VR headset in 100 g glasses that plays your Quest library. It's not a Quest 4, and the field of view is the catch.
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I measured the Steam Frame’s FOV. Valve undersold it
Valve says 110°. My face says 116° horizontal, 108° vertical, 94° binocular overlap. Measured with the What Is My FOV tool by BOLL, stock…
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The $149 fix for Steam Frame’s black-and-white passthrough
Steam Frame passthrough is black and white out of the box. The Arcturus Vision Camera clips onto the expansion port and gives you 5K…
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Headset Hour: Steam Frame AMA
Join us for a live stream where you can ask us anything about the Steam Frame! We're on US time, so this week we…
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I TRIED Snap SPECS: AR Glasses Are Finally Real
We finally wore Snap's $2,195 AR glasses. Can you wear them, are they useful, and are they worth the money?
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Half-Life Alyx Standalone vs Streamed PC VR on Steam Frame (Side By Side)
Half-Life Alyx standalone vs the PC VR version, side by side on Steam Frame. I still can't quite believe this is running on the…
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What’s in the $1,059 Steam Frame box
Steam Frame unboxing: Valve's $1,059 VR headset ships with the headset, two controllers, the 6 GHz wireless streaming adapter, a glasses spacer, a USB-C…
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I Wore Valve’s Steam Frame for a Week. More Than I Expected
A week with Valve's Steam Frame: comfort, the LCD display, PC VR streaming, standalone Half-Life: Alyx, passthrough, controllers and battery.
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RayNeo GT Max: Their Best XR Glasses Yet?
RayNeo's GT Max brings prism lenses, a 59° field of view and built-in 3DoF for $399. Here's what that buys you and the one design choice that limits it.
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I Unboxed the Steam Machine. The VR Part Isn’t Out Yet
Steam Machine unboxing: Valve's €1,039 / $1,049 (512GB) SteamOS living room PC with 6 Zen 4 cores, a 28 CU AMD RDNA 3 GPU,…
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