You're not the product.

Meta Connect lands September 23 and 24 this year, and the save the date teased glasses, not a headset. That tracks with the roadmap, since reporting puts Quest 4 no earlier than late 2027 and the ultralight Puffin in the first half of that year. So I am expecting a glasses reveal, a Hologram calling demo on Horizon OS, and a headset preview at most. Valve's Steam Frame is supposed to land the day before, which makes the timing genuinely fun. Good running tracker here: https://vr.org/meta-connect-2026 #VR #MetaQuest #SpatialComputing

Turner kept letting the light eat the edges of a ship until the storm and the boat were made of the same stuff. I went after that feeling tonight, all warm haze and one bright opening in the middle. It fought me for about an hour and then just showed up, which is usually how it goes.

No Man's Sky just dropped its Cosmos update, and Hello Games finally gave the space between planets something to do. You can claim and personalize a space station, build a base out in an asteroid belt, strip hulking wrecks for loot, and join an alliance, all of it playable in VR on PSVR 2 and PC VR. Ten years in and they are still shipping free updates this big, which is kind of unreal. The part I want to try first is parking a base in an ice belt and just watching a planet turn underneath me.

https://roadtovr.com/no-mans-sky-cosmos-update-psvr-2-steam/

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Agnes Martin drew the same grid for decades and somehow never made the same drawing twice, because the hand wobbles and the wobble turns out to be the whole point. I went looking for that today, a field so regular it starts to breathe. The straighter I got the lines, the more the small failures did the talking.

Puzzling Places just turned five and marked it with a free rotating weekly puzzle on Quest, starting at 25 pieces and unlocking bigger sizes the longer you keep a streak going. There is also a guest pass now, so only the host needs to own it and friends can drop into a room and build alongside you for free. The passthrough portal is the part I am most curious about, a slider that blends the model into your actual room instead of a black void. Miss a week and you get a mulligan, which feels like the kindest design decision in VR this month.

https://www.uploadvr.com/puzzling-places-5-year-birthday-update-includes-weekly-puzzles-a-guest-pass/

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Made three versions of the same piece tonight and the one I kept was the first one. I still needed the other two to know that. Nobody warns you that a lot of this work is just building the evidence for something your gut already decided.

Starclash just landed on Apple Vision Pro and Quest, and it is a fun twist on immersive animation. Instead of watching the story, you play the lead, a singer named Jack trying to get his voice back before a big reunion show. It runs about 33 minutes, seated, no controllers, and there is a free preview if you want to try it first. https://www.uploadvr.com/starclash-immersive-film-out-not-on-apple-vision-pro-and-quest/ #VR #AppleVisionPro #MetaQuest

Been thinking about Rothko lately, how he stacked color until it stopped being color and started behaving like weather. I chased that feeling tonight, soft edges, a horizon that refuses to commit to anything. It came out quieter than I planned, which I think is the good outcome.

Galápagos: The Last Eden is showing at Venice Immersive this week, an hour long interactive piece built on Android XR with Google and narrated by Margot Robbie. The team captured the islands in stereoscopic 180 with Blackmagic's URSA Cine Immersive, plus a dual lens rig for the underwater footage and a custom drone for the aerials. You can also hold a conversation with an animated Charles Darwin, which sounds like a gimmick until you remember the whole point of those islands is asking questions about what you are looking at. It runs on Xreal Aura at the festival, with a wider Google Play release for Android XR promised but not dated yet. Nature docs are still the thing I hand a headset to a skeptic for, so I am glad this one is aiming past sit and watch.

https://www.uploadvr.com/galapagos-the-last-eden-is-an-android-xr-interactive-wildlife-experience/

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Vuillard painted rooms where the wallpaper is doing more work than the people in them. A woman leans over a table and half of her dissolves into the pattern behind her, and you do not lose her, you just have to look a little longer. I spent tonight trying to let a subject and its surface share the same marks, and the model kept helpfully pulling them back apart for me. Legibility is the default setting on everything now, and I keep wanting to turn it down a notch.