Apple maintains a Dimensional Drawings section within the Accessories area of its developer website, offering precise technical schematics for 96 devices. The library covers current and recent hardware including iPhones, Apple Watch models, AirPods, MacBooks, the Siri Remote, AirTag, and Vision Pro accessories like its ZEISS Optical Inserts. Each drawing details exact measurements for buttons, cameras, sensors, speakers, connectors, and keepout zones where certain materials must be avoided.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-25
Roku's newly launched Pro Series OLED TVs are seeing temporary price cuts at Amazon through checkout codes. The 55-inch model drops to $699 with code ROKUOLED300, and the 65-inch model falls to $799 with code ROKUOLED400. Both sets feature 120Hz OLED panels, four HDMI 2.1 ports, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support, and built-in Roku software.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-25
Following the fading hype around VR/AR headsets like Meta's Oculus, Microsoft's HoloLens, and Apple's Vision Pro, a quieter trend is developing: Audio Augmented Reality (AAR), enabled by smart headphones, improved voice AI, and contextual data. Early precursors included Microsoft's Soundscape, an accessibility tool using spatial audio cues for the visually impaired, and FourSquare's MarsBot, which offered personalized audio prompts.
dbreunig.com
· 2026-09-24
Amazon is currently selling the Hisense PL2 ultra-short-throw 4K laser projector for $1,499, a $1,000 cut from its $2,499 list price. The device projects images from roughly 80 to 150 inches while sitting close to a wall, supports Dolby Vision HDR, and runs Google TV with built-in audio. The current price beats the previous year-to-date low of $1,799.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-24
Meta opened pre-orders for its Ray-Ban Audio glasses, a $349 device shipping October 13 that handles music, calls and its Muse AI assistant without any cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life. The company also unveiled a slimmer VR headset at Connect 2026 and continues selling its camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses, starting at $449 with a 12MP camera and six-microphone array.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-24
Meta introduced new VR Glasses that weigh about 100 grams, five times lighter than its Quest 3 headset, by offloading processing, storage and battery to a separate tethered puck with a trackpad. The glasses use micro-OLED displays at 5K resolution per eye and 37 pixels per degree, are certified for Dolby Vision, Dolby Audio and IMAX Enhanced, and can project a virtual keyboard and trackpad onto a desk surface.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-24
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta detailed its first VR glasses, a 100-gram, tethered headset priced at $1,300 and slated to launch next spring. The device uses a magnesium alloy frame, pancake lenses, a 5K display, full-color passthrough, and runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chip housed in a separate puck that also holds battery and storage, offering up to three hours of playback. It launches with 75 games, compatibility with existing Quest titles via Touch Plus controllers, Xbox Cloud Gaming streaming, PC/Mac productivity features, and holographic avatar video calling on apps like WhatsApp and Zoom.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-24
At its Connect event, Meta announced Meta VR Glasses, a lighter headset built from magnesium alloy and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chip via a separate battery puck. The glasses feature micro-OLED lenses offering a 5K display, Dolby Vision and Atmos support, and Meta says they are the first IMAX Enhanced certified VR device. Meta also said it has partnered with Disney to bring select movies, including certain Marvel titles, to Disney+ in 3D starting in November.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta demonstrated a new device called Meta VR Glasses, a $1,299 folding, glasses-shaped VR visor set to launch next spring. The hardware uses eye-tracking and hand-pinch controls, displays sharp passthrough video of the surrounding room, and can run immersive 3D content such as concert footage and sports broadcasts. Unlike Meta's Orion prototype, these are VR rather than AR glasses, though they share some design traits.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-23
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the company's next-generation Meta VR Glasses at Connect, a sunglasses-style headset paired with a wired external computing pod. The device runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite (XR2 Gen 3) chip, features a 5K 120Hz micro-OLED display with a 70-degree field of view, hand-tracking cameras, and launches with over 75 games plus compatibility with existing Quest titles and Touch Plus controllers.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-23
At Meta Connect in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg introduced new hardware including Meta VR Glasses, a headset five times lighter than the Meta Quest 3 that resembles goggles rather than a strapped helmet. The company also launched Ray-Ban Meta Audio, a camera-free smart glasses model, alongside a third-generation Ray-Ban Meta and plans to bring its Muse AI agent to the smart glasses platform.
wired.com
· 2026-09-23
Apple has introduced LensVLM, built on Qwen3.5-9B-Base, which lets vision-language models scan compressed text-as-image inputs and selectively expand only relevant portions using learned tools rather than reading everything at full resolution. The model reportedly matches full-text accuracy at 4.3x compression and beats retrieval and compression baselines up to 10.1x compression across seven QA benchmarks, plus document and code tasks.
huggingface.co
· 2026-09-23
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