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VITURE Pro 2 Packs a 146-Inch Screen Into 63 Gram XR / AR Glasses for $299

By Bill Smith September 25, 2026

VITURE Pro 2 ships as a $298.99 (was $380) pair of XR/AR display glasses that treat a private cinema as the whole job. Sony micro-OLED panels sit behind birdbath optics and throw a 1920 by 1080 image to each eye at up to 120Hz, with a 50-degree field of view that the company sells as a 146-inch screen viewed from about four meters. Peak perceived brightness climbs to 1,600 nits from the 1,000 nits on the first Pro, with nine brightness steps and contrast rated at 100,000:1 or higher. Color covers 108 percent of sRGB, and VITURE tunes that color at the panel itself rather than through an extra management chip.

Goose by The Robot Works Arrives as a Household Robot Built to Grow

By Jackson Chung September 25, 2026

Rolling down a hallway with a shirt slung over its neck, Goose looks less like a factory demo and more like a small appliance that decided to grow a personality. Prototype 1 from San Francisco’s The Robot Works is a white, low, rounded base with a long articulated neck, camera eyes set in a bonnet so you can see where it is looking, and a bright orange beak that doubles as a gripper. A blue polka-dot wrap gives the machine a costume instead of a chassis. Founders posted the first public clip this week with a simple brief: tidy, play, live.

Rare Burnout 3 Xbox ‘Beta 3’ Disc From July 2004 Finally Gets Dumped

By Bill Smith September 25, 2026

Game preservationist MattKC spotted an undocumented original Xbox copy of Burnout 3 on eBay this summer and paid a steep price to have it shipped from Australia. Printed on the face is July 28, 2004, the words Beta 3, and a warning that reads Confidential material: return to mastering lab. A name on the label, blurred in the video for privacy, belonged to a product manager at EA Australia, which fits the moment Electronic Arts bought Criterion and took the series in-house. How the disc left that office and landed on a public auction remains a guess.

Renault 8 Gordini Concept Rebuilds a 1964 Rally Hero as an Electric Two Seater

By Bill Smith September 25, 2026

Sixty two years after Amédée Gordini fitted a hotter 1.1 liter four cylinder and twin Weber carbs to a modest rear engine Renault sedan, the same badge sits on a low, wide two seat coupe that never has to share its garage with a production schedule. Renault showed the one off on September 24 at its Carwalk event and will park it on the Paris Motor Show stand from October 12 to 18 before it heads to the new Renault Collections museum in Flins.

Google Adds Talking Live Avatars to Gemini 3.8 Live for Enterprises

By Jackson Chung September 25, 2026

Google just gave its newest live conversation model a face. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar became generally available on September 24 for Gemini Enterprise customers, one week after the audio-focused Gemini 3.8 Live models launched and months after a first look at Google Cloud Next 2026. The update generates a 24-frame-per-second video of an animated person or cartoon character whose mouth and expressions stay locked to the spoken words, pairing the existing speech model with low-latency streaming video in a single pass.