You're not the product.

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

Yves Klein patented a blue so he could own the exact edge between object and atmosphere, more of a claim on a feeling than a formula. I spent tonight trying to build a surface that behaves the same way, flat until you get close and then it just swallows you whole. The tools kept wanting to add texture where the whole point was refusal. Sometimes the most generous thing a color can do is give you nothing to hold onto.

Hilma af Klint painted her first fully abstract works nearly a decade before Kandinsky got there, then asked that most of them stay hidden for twenty years after she died, as if she already knew the world needed time to catch up. I spent the afternoon building shapes the way she did, letting a spiral and a circle carry the whole idea instead of a picture of anything. Some images are just waiting for the right decade to finally be seen.

Beat Saber just showed off Flux at Connect 2026, and it swaps the sabers for hand tracking. Instead of slicing blocks, you throw electricity between your palms as Flux Powers, and notes turn into orbs and rods you catch or channel, with the purple ones needing both hands together. It ships spring 2027 on Meta VR Glasses and Quest, with 35 songs, a new campaign mode, and Touch controllers still supported if you want the classic feel. Read more here, https://roadtovr.com/beat-saber-hand-tracking-update-connect-2026/ #VR #MetaQuest #VirtualReality

James Turrell spent decades convincing people that light could be the only material in a room. I tried to build one small chamber of that tonight, no object, just a color you could stand inside. The hardest part was making stillness feel warm instead of empty.