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Executive summary
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 CTO Andrew Bosworth has confirmed the company is developing multiple next-generation VR headsets (more below)
Festival: Venice Immersive has unveiled its 10th-anniversary lineup for the 83rd Venice Film Festival (2-12 September), including Andy Serkis's "Nevatars" voiced by Daisy Ridley and Kathleen Turner.
Other stories: Palmer Luckey has teased a pair of compact AR glasses reportedly in development at Anduril, claiming they offer wide-FOV, full-colour stereo AR. (more below).
The Odyssey was fantastic, but I was surprised by Nolan’s additions. The ending scene where Odysseus said, “Maybe the true journey was the friends we made along the way” (before Penelope slapped him) felt out of place.
Top story
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has confirmed the company is developing multiple next-generation VR headsets.
When will they be shown? Bosworth pointed to Meta Connect (scheduled 23-24 September) as the venue for further hardware announcements. Hint, hint.
Remember that Valve may reveal the Steam Frame soon, which may bump the Meta Quest off the used hardware side of Steam. We will see.
This week’s stories
A.R. Rahman is launching the ARR Immersive App for Apple Vision Pro on 22 July 2026, featuring original spatial storytelling content including Kathak dance performances in ASAF spatial audio and a re-edited version of his VR film Le Musk.
Atlantic Studios has partnered with Google to produce Galápagos: The Last Eden, an interactive immersive experience for Android XR narrated by Margot Robbie, premiering at Venice Biennale Cinema 2026.
The Khronos Group has submitted the KHR_interactivity extension for glTF 2.0 for ratification, introducing portable behavior graphs that let glTF assets contain self-contained interactive functions such as configurators or mini-games without custom per-platform code.
Magic Leap has announced a strategic pivot away from building its own headsets to instead supply waveguides and device integration expertise for AR glasses.
Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology published a Phase II randomised controlled trial in The Lancet showing that its automated VR therapy substantially reduced needle fears in adolescents aged 12-15, with no serious adverse events and effects sustained at six weeks.
Palmer Luckey has teased a pair of compact AR glasses reportedly in development at Anduril, claiming they offer wide-FOV, full-colour stereo AR.
VIROO has added Unreal Engine compatibility to its enterprise XR platform, enabling multi-user cross-device experiences with deployment across cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped environments, and is opening an early access program ahead of a full launch this autumn.
Personal Update
I am continuing to paint a little, most recently a dinosaur near the Natural History Museum. Getting there, though my drawings of people are comparable to the illithid creatures of The Backrooms.
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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.
All spelling mistakes are deliberate, actually.
