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Android XR is getting even better! 🥽✨ We’re rolling out 5 new features to deepen your immersion from auto-spatialization updates to community-requested refinements. 🧵Check out the thread below for some highlights:

Big update for Android XR! 🌌 Auto-spatialize gives almost any 2D app an immersive 3D-experience 📌 Pin apps to walls to create massive video screens or consistent workspaces 👁️ Eye tracking for navigation can work with a single eye, for better accessibility ➕ and much more...

Calling all Android Devs! 🤖 I’m curious to hear your thoughts on AppFunctions. Have you found any standout use cases or do you have feedback to share? Let’s chat! 🙏 developer.android.com/ai/appfunctions

The future looks bright, beautiful, and augmented. 😎 Jetpack Compose Glimmer makes it easy to build an augmented experience. Enhance the user’s world with UI components built specifically for display AI glasses → goo.gle/4qJnOHW

@SkarredGhost Lol, it's not that 🤣 This is going to cause (more) consumer distrust of AI glasses for the whole industry 😞

@vad710 Sorry for those pictures you took in the shower with the glasses on...

So #Meta has been sued in the US for the fact that videos from the Ray-Ban Meta #smartglasses were reviewed in low-wage countries. In particular, it has been sued because the advertisement reassured people about privacy, while this data sharing feels like a privacy violation techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/met…

@backlon @Grace_Yang_ 💚 our community!

From headsets to glasses and everything in between, for everybody from fans to users to devs, check out this subreddit. Also! Incredibly happy that the subreddit will include the incredibly great @Grace_Yang_! Please welcome her back to Google and back to talking to our community about our 😎 products!

@jasteinerman This is awesome. What a great bit of news!

8th Wall goes open-sourced 👏

@XRandrew Was it?

Boastful much?

@SkarredGhost You can't run multiple OpenXR apps in Android XR today. You can only multitask 2D apps where sensitive data is tightly controlled by the OS.

@vad710 Wow, this is a very intriguing question. I have no idea... how does Android XR manage that?

Pico unveiled some features of its upcoming headset, codenamed Project Swan, and operating system, Pico OS 6. The headset will feature a dual-chip design, with a custom Pico Silicon aimed at spatial computing, and a SoC that will be 2x the power of a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2. The OS supports spatial computing and multitasking, and resembles that of Vision Pro. All in all, Project Swan seems to be a solid enterprise/prosumer clone of the Vision Pro. Price and release date are still unannounced, but the headset should come out in 2026. You can read all you need to know about this headset in my latest article: skarredghost.com/2026/03/02/pic… #MixedReality #Pico #VirtualReality #China #tech

@SkarredGhost At the end of the day, I'm a fan of XR and all of this pushes our industry forwards! We need more success stories all around!

@vad710 I love how you are praising the work of another company! This is the spirit we all should have

@SkarredGhost I couldn't tell from your article, but I'm curious if/how apps are managed for security. For example, how do you make sure one app couldn't infer a user entering their password with controllers/hand on a virtual keyboard on another app.

@SkarredGhost The multitasking looks pretty awesome! Way to go, Pico! Lots of hard technical problems to make it work.

Big day for the Android ecosystem! 🚀 We just announced AppFunctions (think Android MCP) and UI Automation, perfectly timed with the Samsung S26 launch.🎉 Check out the details:

@jasteinerman This looks awesome. Can't wait to see what projects come out of it!

We've already got over 100 applications to participate! Reply "Build" 👇 and I'll DM you the secret code to get your application priority

@arturoraetae @Spectacles 🤔

POV: Your AR glasses are your new climbing coach. 🧗 Duke senior Eleanor Taylor is using Spectacles to build the future of rock climbing. By combining hand tracking with personalized motion data, she’s making the wall more accessible for beginners. The goal? A full suite of AR climbing games that know your height and wingspan better than you do.

@AndyMorphs It feels like folks on X keep looking for winners and losers. We're still (even after 10+ years) very early in our industry. We need to root for everyone to succeed. Developers, platforms, OEMs, consumers, etc.

@vad710 It’s generally people who already have a disliking of some part of either the type of product or company

People may have claimed the Vision Pro has been a Flop. I would argue the came in and set the standard going forward. Most headsets will now aim to be an everything device.

@ASychov Sinking in... In your opinion, what should developers do with this info? What should consumers do with this info? What about platform makers?

Not a single VR manufacturer is profitable or has ever been profitable. Not. A. Single. One. 99% of them are burning through investors money and vast majority selling hardware at loss. Most of them are not truly "Independent" either. Let that sink in.