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

🥳 But there’s more:

💔 Wanderer 2: The Seas of Fortune has been cancelled by Mighty Eyes.

🖌️ BrushHammer is a mixed reality app where miniature figures can be assembled.

♿ Meta donated its Ray-Ban AI glasses to more than 130,000 blind veterans in the US.

eXtend your gaming:

Welcome to XR Gamer Digest #107

XR Games

🎮 Over 30 mixed and virtual reality titles were unveiled at the UploadVR Showcase Summer 2026, spanning co-op shooters, horror roguelites, mixed reality sandboxes, and puzzle games across Quest, SteamVR, and PSVR2.

💔 Wanderer 2: The Seas of Fortune has been cancelled by Mighty Eyes, with the studio citing a volatile VR market and weaker-than-expected mobile sales as the reasons behind both the sequel's axing and the end of updates for the original game.

🧟 Bramblefort's free demo impresses with its FromSoftware-inspired level design and Bloodborne-adjacent atmosphere, merging soulslike structure with visceral survival horror across a generous two-hour experience.

⚽ Released June 11 for $34.99 on PSVR2, CleanSheet Soccer 2 puts players exclusively in the goalkeeper role, delivering a physically demanding mix of training drills, match simulations, and arcade modes that make great use of the PS VR2 Sense controllers.

📅 Scheduled to stream on June 23, the VR Games Showcase will spotlight PAYDAY: Aces High, H3VR2, The Lightkeepers, and Guardians Planetfall, alongside major updates for existing titles and several world-first reveals.

🎮 Running from June 15 to 22 as part of Steam Next Fest, over 35 PC VR demos are available for free this week - including Bramblefort, Fixer Undercover, and Peak Rhythm - with many accessible only during the festival window.

XR Entertainment

🖌️ Arriving on Meta Quest this August, BrushHammer is a mixed reality app where miniature figures can be assembled, painted with airbrushes and spray cans, and displayed in your own physical space through a Career Mode with commissions and progression.

🧠 Rather than relying on cameras, PiEEG XR replaces the Quest 3's facial interface with biosignal sensors that developers and researchers can train to map facial expressions - like smiles - directly onto VR avatars.

XR News

🕶️ Tutorial videos buried in Pico's public SDK have exposed Project Swan, its upcoming flagship headset featuring microOLED panels at 4,000 PPI, a separate battery unit, and a design clearly inspired by Apple Vision Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR.

🍎 Announced at WWDC 2026 but far deeper than Apple's keynote suggested, visionOS 27 brings high-frame-rate object tracking, an open IR LED tracked accessories framework, unfoveated 4K screen recording, physical space lighting, and an AI-powered Siri overhaul - all shipping this fall for both M2 and M5 Vision Pro models.

👓 Unveiled at AWE 2026 by CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap's consumer Specs AR glasses feature a 51-degree FOV LCOS display, dual Snapdragon SoCs, up to 20 hours of total battery life, and a $2,195 price tag, with preorders open now for fall shipping.

🖥️ Raven Prism (described as the world's first Ambient Computer) is a standalone Linux device in eyewear form - shown at AWE 2026 - that runs eye and voice controls locally, features hot-swappable batteries, and requires no smartphone for operation.

👓 Priced at under $1,500 and due this fall, XREAL AURA, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite and running Android XR with Gemini, becomes one of the first 70-degree FOV AR glasses built around a split-compute puck architecture.

AI News

♿ Donated free of charge to all 130,000 legally blind American veterans, Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses will let recipients identify objects, read text, and navigate daily life independently, with hands-on training provided through the Blinded Veterans Association.

🇨🇳 Under pressure from a Beijing divestiture order issued on national security grounds, Meta has severed Manus from its internal systems and halted data sharing, effectively beginning the unwinding of its $2 billion acquisition of the Chinese-founded AI startup.

🤖 Having pivoted away from Horizon Worlds and toward AI-first hardware, Meta is now placing its metaverse bets on smart glasses, ambient computing, and AR rather than the persistent social VR worlds that defined its 2021 strategy.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu