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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 issues update and begins marketing campaign on privacy and smart glasses (more below).
Other stories: Pico has postponed the reveal and release of its Pico Space Pro headset to Q4 2026, cancelling a 2 September Beijing launch event and citing the need for a major software upgrade (more below).
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Top story
Meta issues update and begins marketing campaign on privacy and smart glasses.
What’s going on? The news story comes in two parts. The first is that an update has been issued so that if the LED is covered or disabled in any way, recording will stop. This ensures that people can't hide the fact that there's a recording in progress. The second is that Meta will run a general awareness campaign about when the glasses are filming, using imagery and billboards.
Thoughts? Given how new smart glasses are, it makes sense for there to be an education campaign, as well as workarounds for people's privacy. Something like this would take longer than a year and would require multiple companies producing smart glasses for awareness to build up. I'm willing to bet it will take at least 5 years before people really catch on.
This week’s stories
Arm has been granted a patent for a head-mounted system that analyses motion in displayed images and drives ultrasonic transducers to stimulate the wearer's vestibular system, aiming to reduce XR motion sickness.
Goodbye Kansas Group plans to establish a local legal entity in Saudi Arabia as the VFX and immersive experience provider expands its commercial presence across the region.
Google is reportedly developing two listening modes for Live Translate on Android XR, "Front only" for one-on-one conversations and "Surrounding area" using the full microphone array, found in a Google Translate APK teardown.
Meta has introduced Meta XR Operator, an experimental OpenXR API layer that lets MCP-compatible AI agents autonomously build, test, debug and visually verify VR apps in Unity.
Pico has postponed the reveal and release of its Pico Space Pro headset to Q4 2026, cancelling a 2 September Beijing launch event and citing the need for a major software upgrade.
Schell Games has laid off around 10% of staff in its first layoffs in 24 years, leaving roughly 125 employees, with CEO Jesse Schell saying headset VR has fallen from 80% of the studio's work to about 30%.
Supernatural Health has opened wishlisting on the Meta Horizon Store for its independent Supernatural app ahead of an autumn launch, with Meta's existing version renamed Legacy Edition and available until 3 December 2026.
W4 Games has raised an $18mn Series B led by Tencent, bringing total funding to $33mn and expanding engine-level OpenXR and Android XR support for enterprise developers building on Godot.
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