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🤖 Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections will finally be shown publicly via a hands‑on demo.

🎖️ The D-Day VR Museum on Steam offers a compelling educational journey that blends traditional exhibits with immersive 3D recreations.

⌨️ On Quest 3’s v85 test build, you can rest your hands on a desk and have Horizon OS spawn a surprisingly accurate surface keyboard and touchpad.

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 ⛳ GOLF+ is teeing up a big 2026 with a new social lobby, dozens more courses, and a visually enhanced PC VR port on Steam aimed at unifying multiplayer and physics across platforms.​

🤖 Evangelion: Δ Cross Reflections, a three‑part original-story VR game set in the classic anime universe, will finally be shown publicly via a hands‑on demo at the series’ 30th‑anniversary Yokohama event this month.

​🗡️ After certification‑related crashes on Quest 2, Orcs Must Die: By The Blade has slipped from its January launch and is now scheduled to hit Quest 3/3S on February 12, with the Quest 2 version arriving later.

​🎯 A fan developer, Alex Le Tux, is crafting an experimental but promising standalone Quest VR port of N64 classic Perfect Dark, built from the 2022 decompilation project and showcasing full head‑tracked, motion‑aiming gameplay in early footage.

​✈️ Aces of Thunder earns praise as a fiercely immersive WWII/WWI‑era combat flight sim where cockpit‑only VR, accessible aircraft, and robust mission tools deliver exhilarating dogfights despite sparse menus, zero comfort options, and some dated scenery.

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XR Entertainment

🎖️ The D-Day VR Museum on Steam offers a compelling educational journey that blends traditional exhibits with immersive 3D recreations to bring the pivotal events of the Normandy invasion to life.

XR News

🕶️ Despite Reality Labs racking up $83.6 billion in losses over six years, Meta is shifting most spending to wearables while insisting its VR bet will eventually pay off.

​🌍 With Project Genie, Google lets subscribers rapidly conjure, tweak, and explore short-lived interactive worlds from text prompts, hinting at a Holodeck-like VR future that’s still constrained by physics, latency, and stability limits.

​👓 XREAL’s latest update turns any ordinary 2D video or game source into on-the-fly 3D via its on-glasses X1 chip, avoiding special formats while trading a bit more power draw for depth-rich AR viewing.

​⌨️ On Quest 3’s v85 test build, you can rest your hands on a desk and have Horizon OS spawn a surprisingly accurate surface keyboard and touchpad, while Quest 3S users gain the option to remap their once single-purpose Action Button.

​📊 By reverse-engineering Reality Labs revenue, AR Insider estimates Meta moved about 3.8 million XR devices in Q4 2025 - mostly Ray-Ban smart glasses, with VR headsets now a smaller slice of a still money-losing hardware push.

​🏥 ORamaVR just secured $4.5 million to scale its CMXR platform, which mixes AI, digital twins, and standard XR hardware to deliver clinically validated gains in medical training while expanding into planning, navigation, and therapy use cases.

​🧠 Meta’s Neural Band, tested with the University of Utah, is being explored as a sleek EMG wristband that could turn subtle nerve signals into intuitive controls for assistive devices, potentially replacing chin sticks and sip-and-puff interfaces.

​💍 A newly surfaced Oura patent describes pairing a smart ring with AR glasses so gesture-based controls and live biometrics, like heart rate during workouts, can float in view - though it’s unclear if this concept will ever ship as a real product.

​🏠 Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset is gaining deep SmartThings integration, recasting it from a mostly entertainment device into a persistent spatial hub where you can manage lights, climate, and security hands-free while immersed in mixed reality.

Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!

Bobby Voicu