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‘Synth Riders’ Studio Confirms Major Layoffs Affecting 50 Percent of Staff Kluge Interactive, the developer behind popular VR rhythm game Synth Riders (2018), confirmed the studio has suffered a “major round of layoffs” earlier this year. Kluge Int @RtoVR rfr.bz/tffc0c9

‘Moss’ Developer Polyarc Lays Off Two-Thirds of Studio Following “major project” Cancellation Polyarc, the studio behind VR puzzle-platformer series Moss, announced it’s significantly reducing the size of the company, marking another VR pioneer cur @RtoVR rfr.bz/t4d83a1

Meta Slated to Launch Two New Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, According to FCC Filing Meta and EssilorLuxottica appear to be preparing two new Ray-Ban smart glasses for launch, according to US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) filings from earlier this @RtoVR rfr.bz/t459713

Watch The VR Games Showcase Right Here at 9AM PT The next edition of the VR Games Showcase is nearly here, bringing another heaping dose from VR’s leading Direct-style digital showcase dedicated to revealing high-quality VR games and showing update @RtoVR rfr.bz/t2393c9

NVIDIA’s Cloud Gaming Now Supports up to 90 FPS on Quest, Vision Pro & Pico Headsets Nvidia announced back at GDC earlier this month that it was upping framerate on its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for VR headset streaming. Now the company has @RtoVR rfr.bz/t27a310

VR Games Showcase Returns March 24th With ‘The Boys: Trigger Warning’, ‘Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR’, and More The VR Games Showcase is returning for its first show of 2026! Our Direct-style celebration of new games, trailers, and updates goes live on Y @RtoVR rfr.bz/t9bbe62

Bandai Namco’s Hit Puzzle Platformer Series ‘Little Nightmares’ Comes to VR in April, Trailer Here Bandai Namco announced that its hit puzzle-platformer franchise Little Nightmares is coming to VR in April. Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes is s @RtoVR rfr.bz/t3b3790

Upcoming ‘Project Helix’ Xbox Will “Play Xbox and PC Games,” But PC VR Support is Unconfirmed Microsoft today announced the codename of its next Xbox gaming console: Project Helix. Details are very light, but the company says Project Helix will “pl @RtoVR rfr.bz/t313fba

‘Zombie Army VR’ to Close Co-op Online Servers Less Than a Year After Launch Rebellion announced that Zombie Army VR (2025) is soon losing online co-op, as the studio chalks its up to a change made by the Unity to its underlying game engine. Publis @RtoVR rfr.bz/t602cee

Snap’s Top AR Exec Quits Ahead of Specs Consumer Debut Scott Myers, Snap’s top executive in charge of Specs, has left the company ahead of the planned release of its consumer AR glasses. The News Myers reportedly left his six-year tenure at the com @RtoVR rfr.bz/t935a10

‘VRChat’ Breaks All-Time Concurrent User Record with Japanese Anime Concert VRChat announced it just topped its all-time user peak, bringing in over 150,000 concurrent users to attend a Japanese language concert. VRChat Community Head ‘Tupper’ conf @RtoVR rfr.bz/tef14cf

‘Star Citizen’ VR Support Isn’t Prime Time Yet, But It’s Getting There Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) added experimental PC VR support to Star Citizen late last year, taking a first step in fulfilling a more than decade-old promise. Things are getting @RtoVR rfr.bz/t88b4f2

Studio Behind VR’s Most Popular Golf Game Aims to Solve a Key Challenge with Golf Training Sims The studio behind GOLF+ (2020) is aiming to expand the game this year in a bid to solve some of the most persistent problems in off-course golfing simul @RtoVR rfr.bz/tf8df30

Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in @RtoVR rfr.bz/td6b01c

Meta CTO: Metaverse Efforts Led to a “lack of focus” on Quest “at expense of user experience” Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered the first bit of insight into the company’s recent Reality Labs shakeup, publicly acknowledging that Meta’s metaverse eff @RtoVR rfr.bz/tf68ef6

VR Modder Luke Ross Removes All Mods Following ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ DMCA Takedown Luke Ross, the prolific VR modder, was recently involved in a DMCA takedown issued by CD Projekt for his paywalled Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod, which the studio claims breaks i @RtoVR rfr.bz/t98cfe7

VITURE Calls XREAL Lawsuit “patent-troll-style” in Escalating AR Glasses IP Battle AR glasses maker XREAL is taking its competitor VITURE to court over a patent dispute, claiming that it’s selling and/or importing units into the US that infringe on @RtoVR rfr.bz/tb2276d

Oculus Founder on Meta Cuts: “The ‘Meta abandoning VR narrative’ is obviously false” In light of Reality Labs’ reorganization, which has seen recent internal studio closures and layoffs, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey calls the doomer narrative “obvi @RtoVR rfr.bz/t25e12a

Google’s Leading AR Glasses Partner XREAL Files Patent Lawsuit Against VITURE AR glasses maker XREAL has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States against affiliates of VITURE, its direct competitor. Filed in the District Court for t @RtoVR rfr.bz/tba5ac1

Meta Aims to Double, Possibly Even Triple Smart Glasses Production This Year Meta and EssilorLuxottica are potentially set to double the expected production target for their smart glasses, according to a recent Bloomberg report. Citing people famil @RtoVR rfr.bz/t43bb18