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Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Top story: Meta makes major announcement at Meta Connect (more below).
Other stories: INMO has recalled around 1,643 Air3 smart glasses in the US, plus about 120 in Canada, after 10 reports of the left temple overheating, including a burning sensation on the face.
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Top story
Meta made a few major announcements at Meta Connect:
VR Glasses: The company unveiled Meta VR Glasses at Connect 2026, launching in spring 2027 for $1,299.99. The roughly 100-gram headset uses a tethered compute puck, 5K micro OLED displays and hand tracking as its main controls. Meta Ray-Ban Display is now on sale in the UK at £749 and in Canada, with Germany, France and Italy following on 13 Oct.
Audio Glasses: Meta has launched the camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses from $349, weighing 43 grams with 12 hours of battery. Also, Meta will add an FDA-cleared hearing enhancement feature to its glasses in the US later this year for a one-off $149.99.
Finally, Meta has launched a $1mn developer competition for apps that work with hands alone.
This week’s stories
Beat Games will release Flux, a hand-tracking update for Beat Saber, in spring 2027, swapping blocks for rods and punch notes across 35 songs alongside a revamped campaign.
Capcom has licensed a VR adaptation of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies to AMATA, arriving on Meta VR Glasses and Quest in 2027 with hand tracking and spoken objections.
Cellid has shown its Crux AR glasses at Snapdragon Summit, a binocular full-colour device pairing its own waveguide displays with Snapdragon processing.
Dice Throne has confirmed Dice Throne Digital as a free-to-play day-one title for Meta VR Glasses, with hand-rolled dice on a mixed reality tabletop and cross-play across Quest, mobile and PC.
I'm Wizard, a $9.99 Vision Pro combat game made by four friends in their spare time, has updated for visionOS 27 so that spells now light up the walls and furniture of the player's real room.
Lenya Digital has released a free Quest 3 demo of Xploit Tower Defense, a mixed reality tower defence game from publisher AAA Game Studios that launches 10 Nov.
Niantic Spatial has signed an MOU with the Singapore Land Authority to evaluate building the country's first national visual positioning system for robots and machines.
Qualcomm has pitched AI agents as the next step for smart glasses at Snapdragon Summit, demonstrating local visual AI and agents that can book restaurants from the wearer's glasses.
Rendever has launched a Family Caregiving Mode for its VR Dementia and Empathy Training, developed with USC researcher Dr Francesca Falzarano for unpaid family carers.
Resolution Games has released Campaign III: Twilight's End for Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked at $10 and brought the game to Xbox.
Sandbox VR will open its first Spanish venue in Barcelona's Les Glòries on 1 Oct, with three holodecks for groups of up to six each.
Sugar Creative has announced Rhodes Reborn at IAAPA Expo Europe, a location-based XR trail through Rhodes Old Town built with 9D Cinema Consulting, the team behind the Throne of Helios attraction.
Supernatural is returning to Quest in October as an independent app at $19.99 a month or $199.99 a year, carrying over users' points, streaks and badges, with day one support for Meta VR Glasses.
VONDER, founded by VITURE's co-founders, will open pre-orders on 28 Sept for $299 AI glasses with no camera or display, shipping in November.
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Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.
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