Since its founding in 1998, Google has remained at the forefront of technological innovation. Though it had humble beginnings as a search engine, it has since grown massively into everything from a ...

Google LLC today debuted Android XR, a new operating system for virtual reality and augmented devices. The software will initially ship with headsets. Down the road, Google will also enable hardware ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. The Android operating system runs on billions of devices worldwide. Most of them are phones, but many of them are also ...

Google is paying HTC $250 million in cash for a deal that will give the bigger company's plans for Android XR a boost. Under the terms of their agreement, some members of the HTC Vive engineering team ...

Qualcomm announced a new chip designed for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Google and Samsung are set to use the latest Qualcomm chip to create VR and AR experiences. The new chip ...

While VR is getting a second wave thanks to the popularity of Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, older implementations are fading away. This week, Plex confirmed it will shut down its VR apps, including ...

Google today announced Android XR, a new core branch of Android, designed as a spatial operating system for XR headsets and glasses. The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing ...

The Xreal-made hardware is one element of a three-part launch next year with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and lots of upgrades coming to Galaxy XR. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

Google is bringing Android to VR headsets and smart glasses… again. The company has introduced a new Android-based operating system called Android XR, released a preview SDK, announced a partnership ...

Google's latest push into extended reality is taking shape. While the company isn't entirely ready to show off any products just yet, it has laid out a vision for a unified Android XR ecosystem that ...