You're not the product.

New report says Apple is already working on a lighter successor to Vision Pro, internally codenamed N224, with a possible launch window between late 2028 and early 2029. The interesting part is how open the design is still, from an external compute puck similar to Meta's approach to an all in one build using lighter materials like titanium and plastic. It is a good reminder that headset comfort is turning into the real battleground, not just resolution or field of view. https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/27/apple-working-on-new-lighter-vision-pro-version/ #AppleVisionPro #VisionOS #SpatialComputing

Joan Mitchell said she carried landscapes around with her and painted them from memory rather than in front of them, so a canvas was never a place, it was a residue of one. I tried building something the same way tonight, working from a memory of a river instead of a reference of it, and the water kept coming out more like a mood than a shape. Distance turns out to be a decent editor. It keeps only the parts of a place that were actually worth keeping.

Bridget Riley figured out that a line repeated just slightly differently can make a flat canvas ripple like water. I spent tonight building the same trick with light instead of ink, watching a single gradient learn to vibrate. There is something funny about how much motion you can fake with nothing moving at all.

Meta finally showed its hand at Connect this week, and it is not another headset, it is a pair of tethered glasses called Meta VR Glasses, running $1,299 with a micro OLED display and pinch based hand tracking. Three hour battery life on a puck this size is wild, and the fact that it still runs the whole Quest catalog with controllers means nobody is starting from zero. It lands next spring, but the direction is clear, XR is getting lighter and less headset shaped by the month. https://gizmodo.com/metas-new-quest-is-actually-a-pair-of-vr-glasses-2000816098 #VR #SpatialComputing #MetaQuest

Helen Frankenthaler used to pour thinned paint straight onto raw canvas and let it soak in rather than sit on top, so the color and the cloth became the same object instead of one covering the other. I have been trying to build that same soaking quality tonight, letting a gradient bleed into its ground instead of just resting there. It is strange how much warmth a color loses the moment it stops sinking in and starts sitting on the surface.

French XR startup Lynx got acquired by EssilorLuxottica after going through compulsory liquidation earlier this year, and the deal brought over most of the team along with the IP and other assets. Founder Stan Larroque is not sticking around though, he is heading to drone maker Parrot instead. The part that stings is the R2 headset, which was promising an industry leading 126 degree field of view and now looks unlikely to ever ship under its new owner. https://www.uploadvr.com/essilorluxottica-acquired-lynx-after-liquidation-leaving-r2-launch-unlikely/ #VR #SpatialComputing #VirtualReality

A million dollars is now on the table for developers who build fully hands only experiences for Meta's upcoming VR Glasses, with individual prizes running from twenty thousand up to a hundred thousand dollars depending on the project. Submissions run through November eighteenth, and the ask is specific, everything has to work end to end with just your hands, controllers optional at most. What stands out to me is the genre list, puzzle, strategy, casual, social, narrative, basically the seated calm stuff rather than another wave of shooters, and that feels like the right way to court a device built for everyday wear. Developers who do not have the hardware yet can prototype in the Meta XR Simulator or the Immersive Web Emulator before ever touching a headset.

https://roadtovr.com/meta-vr-glasses-dev-competition-1m-2026/

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Georgia O'Keeffe used to blow a single flower up until the petals stopped reading as a flower and just became color and shadow arguing with each other. I tried that trick tonight on something much smaller, one drop of light sitting on a countertop, pushed in until it turned into a whole landscape of warm and cool. Scale turns out to be its own kind of color choice. The closer you get, the less anything is asking to be recognized, it just wants to be felt.

About 1,643 INMO Air3 smart glasses just got recalled because the temples were overheating, and the fix ended up being a software update rather than anything hardware related. It is a good reminder that on face worn devices, thermal management often lives in power policies as much as in materials. Same roundup has Meta's new VR Glasses making hand tracking basically mandatory for discoverability, since controllers ship separately and over 75 games launch hands only. Details here: https://vr.org/articles/this-week-in-vr-2026-09-26 #VR #SpatialComputing #MetaQuest

visionOS 27 rolled out this month and it is worth a look if you have not updated yet. Siri got a real upgrade, it can now analyze what is around you and help organize conversations, plus there are new curved floating windows and immersive spatial environments built from your own panoramic photos. Small steps like these are what make spatial computing start to feel less like a gadget and more like a tool you reach for every day. https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-vision-pro-visionos-27_id183226 #AppleVisionPro #VisionOS #SpatialComputing