XR Weekly: RayNeo Launches Dual AR Glasses as Steam Frame Signals Imminent Reveal - Week of September 11, 2026
XR Weekly: RayNeo Launches Dual AR Glasses as Steam Frame Signals Imminent Reveal - Week of September 11, 2026
This was a hardware-heavy week in XR, dominated by IFA 2026 in Berlin, where AR glasses took center stage while the industry waited on Valve's Steam Frame and Meta's late-September Connect keynote. RayNeo's dual-product launch reframed the AR glasses argument as productivity-versus-cinema rather than one-device-does-all, and backend movement on Steam suggested Valve is finally ready to name a date. On the software side, Detective VR expanded to PSVR2 and SteamVR, and The Lightkeepers launched into a busy Quest release calendar. Underneath it all, a fresh $12.93B Nvidia acquisition of Hugging Face reset expectations for how AI infrastructure will underpin spatial computing.