XR = eXtended Reality (everything VR, AR, MR)

🥳 But there’s more:

⚔️ It isn’t playable yet, but a first-person VR mod for Diablo II: Resurrected was teased.

🦻 Hearing aids meet eyewear in Legato Frames, camera-free AI glasses from the creator of Bose Frames.

🎮 Games can now be built just by typing prompts on Google Playground.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #118

XR Games

🦾 Thanks to a free full-conversion mod from CircuitLord, Titanfall 2’s single-player campaign is now playable in PC VR, complete with head tracking, mech weapon controls, and manual reloading for every gun.

🐦 Birdseed VR, the comedic birdwatching and photography game already out on Quest 3, arrived on SteamVR on October 8 with cross-play between Steam and Quest players.

☢️ Into the Radius 2 was released on PS VR2 on October 8, after a staged rollout that started with Steam Early Access in July 2024.

🤖 Never ported to PSVR 2 by Sony, Astro Bot Rescue Mission now runs natively on Quest 3 and via PC VR streaming through Bigmak94’s AstroQuest mod, which Claude helped build on top of the shadPS4 emulator.

⚔️ It isn’t playable yet, but a first-person VR mod for Diablo II: Resurrected, featuring true stereo 3D, motion-controlled hands, and optional BodyWalk locomotion, was teased in gameplay footage by a Reddit modder.

XR Entertainment

🏄 Tahiti’s Teahupo’o reef comes to Vision Pro in The World of Red Bull: Big Wave Surfing, an eight-minute Apple Immersive episode that puts viewers in the water with Olympic champion Italo Ferreira and world champion Molly Picklum.

🏈 Since the 2026 NFL season kicked off, player intros, warmups, and a halftime ceremony have been filmed on the MetLife Stadium turf for Giants 360, a 2D 360° video series viewable in VR through YouTube and the team’s app.

🎬 Meta may be building Theater Home, a virtual cinema environment for Quest headsets and its upcoming VR Glasses, according to unconfirmed code and an alpha build that dataminers found in the Horizon OS 2.9 test channel.

XR News

🕶️ After passing FCC testing in Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames, Samsung’s Intelligent Eyewear, its first Android XR glasses (with a camera but no display), launches in November, according to The Korea Herald, still without a price.

👓 Visitors to Snap’s new pop-up at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles can try the $2,195 Specs AR glasses, but the $200 refundable pre-order deposit only reserves a place in line and does not confirm an order.

🦻 Hearing aids meet eyewear in Legato Frames, camera-free AI glasses from the creator of Bose Frames that isolate and amplify speech, on sale in the US from $999 without FDA clearance.

🔒 OpenGlasses, the independent iPhone app that runs a non-Meta AI on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, has been renamed Avenkin and has added a face blur that wearers can’t switch off in its professional tier, though the blur hasn’t yet been run on real footage.

🥽 Although it costs $500 more than the Crystal Light, Pimax’s $1,399 Crystal Pro uses the same panels and lenses, adding eye tracking and wireless streaming, with shipping set for 2027.

🏃 ENGO’s engo Titanium AR glasses weigh 28.9 grams, show 40+ running and cycling metrics on a color HUD, and last over 24 hours per charge, starting at €599.

AI Games

🦯 Built with the visual interpreting service Aira, Guided Vision in Gemini Live now describes what an Android phone’s camera sees and tells blind and low-vision users how to reframe the shot.

📱 Meta AI 292.1.0, the app every Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta owner must keep installed, now connects to email and calendar and runs scheduled tasks, though Meta doesn’t say any of it reaches the glasses.

🎮 Games can now be built just by typing prompts on Google Playground, an experimental browser platform where people with no coding experience create, share, and play AI-generated games on phones and laptops.

🧩 Unity has partnered with Google on Unity Spark, a prompt-based tool that works only inside Playground and draws on the Unity Asset Store, so non-coders can grow a text prompt into a full game.

📲 Instagram took 15 years to get an iPad app, but Meta’s Muse agent needed only a month, landing on the tablet after an estimated 6.6 million installs and with new connectors such as Asana, Figma, and Zoom.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu