Good Virtual Reality

Valve offered a sentence of new guidance for Steam Frame shipments after blowing out the original early 2026 guidance offered late last year. The new page on Valve’s Steam begins with the following sentence: “Today we are expanding the Verified program to include Steam Machine and Steam Frame, both of which are shipping this summer.” Summer begins June 21 and ends September 22 for Valve’s U.S.-based offices.

When I started Good Virtual Reality in January after more than a decade at UploadVR I wrote “the only thing that’s real about VR is the people. That is my focus and always will be.” Fans of Supernatural VR fitness share that in common. Many in the community of more than 110,000 on the official Facebook group for Supernatural had become despondent, seeking solace in other services like FitXR and FunFitLand, after Meta laid off the coaches in January.

The human heart of VR fitness service Supernatural — the coaches — are set to return as the original founders spin out their work from Meta. January’s seismic strategy shift at Meta to center on AI laid off thousands of employees and shuttered gaming studios ahead of winding down the company’s wider Horizon Worlds effort. The shift also tore the heart out of the acquired service Supernatural as the coaches who guide members through their fitness journey were effectively turned into ghosts.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -19:26 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. An app called Let’s Go Fly is available free today as part of Cirrus Aircraft’s pitch to sell personal airplanes starting with Apple Vision Pro demos. The sales team at Cirrus now carry Vision Pro headsets to show potential buyers the short immersive film made with Blackmagic immersive cameras, with the project representing a new sales tool to help in selling luxury personal aircraft.

Excitement for Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 reinvigorates VR gamers and those who’ve been waiting for something to draw them back to their headsets.

AstroBeam’s Stellar Cafe is buried in Meta’s Quest ecosystem underneath the Horizon Worlds slop and a whole bunch of casual shooters, but it does something new and innovative with virtual reality that demands attention. It’s a game that can be played entirely with voice input. Across three days of interactions with more than half a dozen robots, you’ll f…

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Good Virtual Reality will be in Long Beach the week of June 15 to visit the Augmented World Expo with Snap sponsoring travel. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is scheduled to headline the event with a keynote talk titled “Making Computing More Human” on Tuesday, June 16 starting at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time.

Doug North Cook is the most important developer working in virtual reality today. In defense of my labeling, which drew critique from North Cook himself when I uttered my belief to him, let me walk you backward in time from the present day company he’s founded called Creature.