Updates and announcements leading up to XR VisionDevCamp Fukuoka 2026.
Not every XR project needs a build step. Shoot 180° or 360° video, inject the right metadata, and YouTube plays it stereoscopically in the headset — no app, no engine. Here is the zero-code path from a camera to a Quest, PICO, or Vision Pro, and where it hands off to a custom WebXR viewer.
▸ Read moreA video clip is already a multi-view capture rig — walk a phone around an object and the frames hold enough parallax to train a 3D Gaussian splat. Here is the practical weekend path: extract frames, train with Postshot or Nerfstudio, export a .ply or .splat, and view it in WebXR — plus where 4D (moving) splats stand.
▸ Read moreThree.js is the engine A-Frame is built on and the one most WebXR examples are written in. Its WebXRManager turns a flat WebGL scene into a headset app with two extra lines — renderer.xr.enabled and a VR button. A single-file starter for Quest 3, PICO 4 Ultra Enterprise, Vision Pro, and Spectacles.
▸ Read moreDescribe a spatial scene in plain language and let an AI agent build it. Two AWE-circuit talks by Deutsche Telekom's Terry Schussler show the practitioner version — Cursor and Windsurf driven by Claude and Grok, building VR and AR apps from intent, including native visionOS and Android XR. Google XR Labs' XR Blocks + Gemini is the research-backed version of the same loop: intent, plan, preview in a desktop simulator, deploy to a headset, refine. Here is how the loop works, why XR is the hard case for it, and how to set it up for the hackathon.
▸ Read moreSTYLY returns as a sponsor of XR VisionDevCamp Fukuoka 2026, providing XR devices and access to the STYLY platform — the spatial-layer platform for building and publishing LBE and immersive VR, AR, and MR experiences. Here is what participants get and how to make the most of it.
▸ Read moreStack two diffractive plates, rotate one against the other, and the pair becomes a lens of any focal power you like — from strongly divergent through flat to strongly convergent. The moiré lens is the rotational cousin of the Alvarez lens and an elegant candidate for the varifocal optics that would finally fix focus in XR. It is also, today, entirely a lab device. Here is how it works, where it sits among the varifocal approaches, and why 'varifocal is coming' is true while 'moiré is shipping' is not.
▸ Read moreSTYLY, the Japanese spatial-layer platform, lets you author a scene once and play it across mobile AR, the web, Quest, and Vision Pro. But 'the STYLY SDK' is really four authoring tools and two incompatible Unity toolchains, with one rule across all of them: no custom C#. Here is the full map — every SDK, which AR and VR targets each reaches, and the constraints to design around before the hackathon.
▸ Read moreThe creative inverse of scanning the real world: paint, sculpt, and model 3D art from inside a headset, then run the same asset pipeline to drop it into a WebXR scene, a Quest app, or a Vision Pro build. The free, open centerpiece is Open Brush — and the part that actually bites is the export, where vertex colors, unlit materials, and brush shaders quietly break unless you handle them. Here's the toolkit and the pipeline that works for free.
▸ Read moreSpatial video is the most accessible XR format there is — an iPhone in a pocket is a stereoscopic camera. The catch is the format fork: Apple's MV-HEVC plays natively only on Vision Pro, while Quest 3, Spectacles, and WebXR need frame-packed stereo. Here is the full path — capture on iPhone or Vision Pro, convert with one free tool, and play it back on each headset, with WebXR as the one portable viewer that spans them all.
▸ Read moreApple's WWDC 2026 keynote (June 8) shipped visionOS 27 and a developer-beta SDK that lands squarely on this hackathon: RealityKit now renders 3D Gaussian splats natively, the HTML <model> element brings immersive 3D to the web on every Apple platform, and Xcode 27's agentic coding gains a provider-swappable model layer. Here's what is actually new for spatial and WebXR developers — and what is rumor, carryover, or simulator-only.
▸ Read moreApple's SHARP turns a single photo into a 3D Gaussian splat in under a second on a GPU — and it runs on a MacBook. Two small starter repos make the whole loop practical: a fork with a uv-based quickstart that gets SHARP installed in four commands, and a Spark + three.js template that serves the resulting PLY straight into a WebXR headset session.
▸ Read moreAndroid Studio now has a built-in agent that edits across files, runs Gradle, and fixes build errors on its own — and since the Otter 3 drop it can be driven by Claude, not only Gemini. Three setups (Gemini Agent Mode, Claude Code, Cursor), how to wire project memory and skills for efficient agentic coding, and how to point all of it at Jetpack XR — where the catch is that the alpha APIs post-date the models, so the agent has to be grounded.
▸ Read moreThe native Quest build needs sideloading and developer mode. Godot's WebXR export needs neither — judges open a link in the headset browser. Same project, a different XR interface, and one hosting gotcha that trips everyone. It even reaches Vision Pro Safari (VR-only).
▸ Read moreThe Godot OpenXR setup gets a headset rendering, but the scene is inert. Godot XR Tools is the community toolkit that drops in the missing half — grab, teleport, locomotion, and pointer-driven UI — as prefab scenes you instance rather than scripts you hand-write.
▸ Read moreYes, you can build Apple Vision Pro apps in Unreal Engine 5 today — natively, no pixel-streaming. Epic's support is experimental (full-immersion VR is solid, mixed-reality passthrough is newer and fragile), and Polyarc's UE 5.6 visionOS fork closes the performance gaps. Expect EULA-gated source and a custom-engine build.
▸ Read moreBuild Apple Vision Pro passthrough mixed reality in Unity — no Swift required — with PolySpatial and the visionOS XR plugin. The day-one decision is which app mode you target; this walks the four modes and the two things teams get wrong: the Unity Pro license gate and the Shader Graph / MaterialX limits.
▸ Read morevisionOS 26 adds a high-level interaction layer on top of RealityKit: make any 3D object physically grabbable, rotatable, and scalable in a few lines with ManipulationComponent, then pin SwiftUI panels and gestures directly onto entities — no hand-joint math required.
▸ Read moreThe native on-ramp to Apple Vision Pro mixed reality: build a .mixed ImmersiveSpace with RealityKit, then use ARKit's hand tracking and scene reconstruction to anchor virtual content to the real room — with a clear-eyed list of what only works on the device, not the simulator.
▸ Read moreA brand-new, first-party experimental starter from IoTone that turns a Snap Spectacles Lens into a live MIDI controller — driving real synths and DAWs. The interesting part is the architecture: because Spectacles can't pair bonded BLE-MIDI devices on-device, it routes MIDI through a WebSocket bridge to a companion computer's CoreMIDI / ALSA / WinMM.
▸ Read moreLichtFeld Studio v0.5 is a native desktop workstation for training, editing, and exporting 3D Gaussian splats — and it ships a real Model Context Protocol server, so an AI assistant can drive training and scene edits through the same code paths as the UI. Here's that workflow, plus the export-to-XR leg for Quest 3 and Vision Pro.
▸ Read moreApple Research's LiTo turns a single image into a 3D Gaussian splat that preserves view-dependent lighting, exportable as PLY. Here's a realistic single-image → splat → WebXR pipeline — and a clear-eyed account of why it is a PyTorch research model, not a Vision Pro tool, and what getting it onto Apple Vision Pro actually costs.
▸ Read moreThe phone-capture counterpart to our 360-camera 3DGS pipeline: scan a scene with Niantic's free Scaniverse app, which trains a Gaussian splat on-device and exports .ply or the compact open-source .spz, then bring it into WebXR (Quest 3 browser, Vision Pro Safari) or Godot — with clear notes on where each path breaks down.
▸ Read moreHow to drive Lens Studio with AI coding assistants — Cursor, VS Code Copilot, or Claude Code — using TypeScript scripting, the auto-generated type definitions, and Lens Studio's MCP server, which lets an assistant query the scene graph, create objects, and install assets directly. Inspired by Andrew Douglas's Spectacles tutorial.
▸ Read moreA community spotlight on six underused Lens Studio Asset Library components — Surface Placement, 3D Hand Hints, Spectacles UI Kit, Interactable Helper, Access Components, and Marker Tracking — surfaced by AR developer Lafiya Watson (Bad Chick Studios) as practical building blocks for a hackathon Spectacles Lens.
▸ Read moreManabu Hubs joins XR VisionDevCamp Fukuoka 2026 as a sponsor, bringing founder perks for participants — up to 6 months of Notion Business with Notion AI ($12,000 value), 10% off the APAC Founder incubator plan, and promotion across their startup network.
▸ Read moreTwo starter paths for XREAL optical see-through glasses: build on shipping hardware today with the Unity-based XREAL SDK 3.0, and prepare for Project Aura — XREAL's first Android XR glasses — with the Android XR SDK and emulator.
▸ Read moreGodot 4.6 ships OpenXR as a core interface — no third-party plugin. A small project-settings checklist, a six-node scene, and a five-line init script are all that stand between a fresh Godot project and a Meta Quest 3 build.
▸ Read moreOne TypeScript codebase, three native targets: ViroReact lets a React Native team ship AR to iOS (ARKit), Android (ARCore), and Meta Horizon OS (Quest 3/3S) without an engine onboarding step.
▸ Read moreWebSpatial is a polyfill-style SDK that extends HTML/CSS/DOM with spatial primitives and ships a React app as a native visionOS spatial app. Distinct from the WebXR-in-a-browser path covered earlier in the series.
▸ Read moreMeta's open-source Immersive Web SDK ships WebXR with a built-in agent interface: screenshots, scene inspection, input simulation, and state snapshots — designed for AI coding tools like Claude Code or Codex to read the running scene and iterate.
▸ Read moreWhen a WebXR demo needs PBR materials, physics, a GUI, or AR features like hit-testing and hand tracking, Babylon.js is the no-build path that already wraps them. A starter for Quest 3, Vision Pro, and Snap Spectacles.
▸ Read moreAndroid XR Developer Preview 4 ships APIs ahead of consumer hardware. Here's how to build and test locally on the emulator — including the important API 34 (glasses) vs API 36 (VR) split and copy-pasteable Jetpack XR Gradle dependencies.
▸ Read moreTurn one photo into a meshed 3D world with image-blaster, then take it on-device the engine route — import assets into Unity/Unreal/Godot and build to Meta Quest 3 or Apple Vision Pro.
▸ Read moreXR VisionDevCamp Fukuoka 2026 is now live at its official domain — https://xrvdc.org. Please update bookmarks and use this URL when sharing the event.
▸ Read moreA capability spotlight: MultiSet's Visual Positioning System gives Meta Ray-Ban glasses 6-DOF location for turn-by-turn audio navigation and shared-space multiplayer — with an open iOS sample app to try.
▸ Read moreOne HTML file, no build step, runs across headsets: an A-Frame WebXR starter and practical guidance for targeting Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, and Snap Spectacles.
▸ Read moreA community spotlight and Apple Vision Pro starter: 30 bite-sized visionOS 2 samples from Satoshi Hattori (@satoshi0212), a VisionDevCamp Tokyo 2024 alum — many run in the Simulator, no headset required.
▸ Read moreCapture photoreal 3D scenes for your hackathon project: a summarized 360°-video Gaussian Splatting pipeline — Insta360 capture, SfM, LichtFeld training, and export — with every tool and repo linked.
▸ Read morePart two of the native-platform starter series: build experiences for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with plain HTML/CSS/JS and an AI-assisted toolkit — from install to on-glasses deploy.
▸ Read moreFirst in our native-platform starter series for the hackathon: how to get Lens Studio, pair Spectacles, and walk through all 34 official Spectacles sample projects to find a strong starting point.
▸ Read moreXR VisionDevCamp Fukuoka 2026 is now accepting registrations. Reserve your spot through Luma for the 26 – 28 June hackathon at Engineer Café · CIC Fukuoka.
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