GravityXR G‐X100: The Key to Ultra‐Light XR

Super Strike left beta, Hello Kitty Skyland, Alibaba’s Quark smart glasses

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

📣 If you only read one thing today 📣

🧊 Meta hiring “Liquid Glass” interface specialists for next-gen AR displays.

📢 This points to a major shift in AR user interfaces - moving away from clunky floating phone-style UI toward subtle, ambient, context-aware overlays, which is exactly the kind of breakthrough AR still needs.

🕶 It hints at the future of truly seamless AR glasses: ultra-bright displays, minimal UI clutter, and interactions that feel natural, invisible, and always available.

🥳 But there’s more:

🎮 Sony’s official Black Friday deal drops the PSVR 2 Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle to $300.

🌋 Meta is promoting Avatar: Fire and Ash with an exclusive 3D clip in Horizon TV on Quest.

🩰 FluxPose has raised over $2 million on Kickstarter for its compact magnetic 6DOF body-tracking system.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #88

Discounts and Tips

🎮 Sony’s official Black Friday deal drops the PSVR 2 Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle to $300 through December 19, its lowest ever price and a 25% discount that makes high-end console VR markedly more attainable this holiday season.

XR Games

🔫 Super Strike, the popular arcade PvP shooter inside Meta Horizon, left beta and launched on December 4, with new 3v3 Showdown mode, Stadium map, and fresh gadgets like a bee-swarm gun and short-range teleport.

🪓 Neolithic Dawn reaches version 1.0 on Quest next week, evolving its New Stone Age survival sandbox - where you manage hunger, thirst, warmth, craft tools, and return as your own descendants - into a more polished, story-guided experience set in 10,000 BC North America.​

⚡ Project Demigod’s new Demigods United update adds social multiplayer to its physics-driven superhero sim on Quest and PC VR, letting players hang out together in the city and battle drones, turrets, and helicopters.

🎀 Hello Kitty Skyland, a free-to-play social VR world on Quest, enters early access December 22 with a central lobby, Gorilla Tag-style ‘Sky Dash’ racing, avatar dress-up, and limited-time outfits themed around Hello Kitty, Kuromi, and My Melody

XR Entertainment

🌋 Meta is promoting Avatar: Fire and Ash with an exclusive 3D clip in Horizon TV on Quest, letting fans preview Pandora in stereoscopic VR during the Hollywood and Paris premieres ahead of the film’s December 19 theatrical release.

XR News

🕶️ Alibaba’s new Quark smart glasses quietly plug AR and AI directly into its huge commerce and cloud ecosystem, positioning China’s tech giant as a serious infrastructure-first rival to US and Korean XR platforms.​

🩰 FluxPose has raised over $2 million on Kickstarter for its compact magnetic 6DOF body-tracking system, promising occlusion-free full-body VR tracking across major headsets without external base stations and with up to 24-hour battery life.​

💡 GravityXR’s G‑X100 coprocessor enables under‑100g mixed reality “glasses” by handling low-latency passthrough and tracking on-head, while offloading heavy processing to a tethered puck—showcasing how future MR devices can become dramatically lighter.​

🧊 Meta is actively hiring “Liquid Glass” interface specialists, signaling a push toward next‑gen AR UIs where ultra-bright Ray‑Ban and Orion displays show context-aware overlays that feel subtle, ambient, and almost invisible rather than like floating phone screens.​

👓 Cellid has revealed two MicroLED AR glasses reference designs for 2026 - one green monochrome using plastic waveguides and one full-color on glass - with up to 3,000‑nit binocular displays and Wi‑Fi 7, aimed at both entry-level and high-end AR applications.​

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu

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