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Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum to Open New Exhibition, Kenny Chesney: Living in Fast Forward

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will explore the life and career of Kenny Chesney in a new exhibition, Kenny Chesney: Living in Fast Forward, presented by Blue Chair Bay Rum. The exhibit will chronicle Chesney’s path to stardom, from his early years playing in his university’s bluegrass band to becoming one of the top touring acts of this century. The exhibit, which will be open from July 23, 2026, until June 2027, is included with museum admission.

“Kenny Chesney’s creative vision and intense drive to continue raising the bar has helped him reach staggering commercial and artistic highs,” said Kyle Young, chief executive officer of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. “He has broken almost as many records as he has made, and his work is far from done. Through his distinctive sound and dynamic live show, he continues to expand country music’s audience, its perception and its sound.” 

“When you’re so busy living life – literally in fast forward – you rarely pause to think about all the miles traveled, the faces you’ve met along the way,” offered Kenny Chesney, who Billboard named the Country Artist of the Century. “Trying to decide what things to send to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum that represent a whole lot of dreams, living, songs, the work and things you don’t dare imagine was as hard as anything I’ve ever done. But in the end, I feel like every piece of who I am is represented – and I hope that for someone who’s thinking about chasing their own crazy dreams, this may be the spark to get them on their way.”

The exhibit will include instruments, memorabilia, manuscripts, awards, photographs and more. Examples of items to be displayed include:

The varsity jacket and jersey Chesney wore while he was a member of the Gibbs High School Eagles football team in the mid-1980s. He began playing Pee Wee football when he was five, and the sport has remained constant in his life.The Fender Concord acoustic guitar Chesney played throughout college at East Tennessee State University and after he moved to Nashville in the early 1990s. Country artists and songwriters he encountered along the way signed the instrument — including Kent Blazy, Whitey Shafer, Karen Staley, Sheb Wooley and Country Music Hall of Fame members Dean Dillon, Harlan Howard and Porter Wagoner.The cassette tape on which Chesney recorded a demo of “When She Calls Me Baby” on June 1, 1992. Co-written with Rick Williamson, the song was re-recorded for Chesney’s debut album, In My Wildest Deams, released in 1994.The weathered wicker rocking chair that provided the inspiration for Chesney to write “Old Blue Chair” after waking up on the beach as the sun rose over Peter Bay on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The song was first released on his 2004 quintuple Platinum album, When the Sun Goes Down, and reappeared on his next more intimate singer-songwriter project, Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair). The chair was prominently featured on the front and back cover of the later CD and in the 2005 music video for “Old Blue Chair.”A handwritten Nashville Number System chord chart for “You and Tequila” that was used in the studio when Chesney recorded the song in 2010. Featuring guest vocals by Grace Potter, it was released as a single from Chesney’s album Hemingway’s Whiskey and went to #3 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The Grammy-nominated “You and Tequila” was co-written by Matraca Berg and Deana Carter and first recorded by Carter in 2003.A life-size, plastic replica of the 235-pound blue marlin Chesney landed while fishing in the Virgin Islands North Drop in 2003. After having the fish mounted, he named it “Marley” in honor of reggae legend Bob Marley. The fish became an iconic tour mascot, displayed onstage as a reminder to Chesney and his road family not to take life too seriously. Nicknamed “Marley 2,” this replica washed away from Chesney’s home during the 2010 Nashville flood but was found several miles downstream in the Cumberland River and returned to him largely intact.The No Shoes Nation tank top and Diesel Safado jeans Chesney wore when he performed at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts, on August 26, 2022.The Atwood pinto palm leaf hat that Chesney wore on the cover of his 2024 album, Born.The football Gillette Stadium presented to Chesney to commemorate his three sold-out shows at the Foxborough, Massachusetts venue, on August 23-25, 2025. Chesney has cultivated a close relationship with the nearby city of Boston, connecting with New Englanders who share his passions for music and sports. A Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul LPR-8 electric guitar autographed by two of Chesney’s musical heroes: guitarist and singer-songwriter Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band, and Sammy Hagar, former lead vocalist for the rock band Van Halen, signed during his 2008 Poets & Pirates concert at San Francisco’s AT&T Park.

The official exhibit playlist is now available here.

Public Programs
In support of the exhibition, the museum will host related public and family programming including:

Interview: Buddy Cannon – Saturday, July 25, at 2:30 p.m.
Buddy Cannon will participate in an interview about his life and career in the museum’s Ford Theater. Cannon began his career playing bass for Bob Luman and Mel Tillis before shifting his focus to composing. He then started producing in the 1990s and has worked with Kenny Chesney on 17 albums, including the multi-platinum No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002). The interview will be hosted by the museum’s Jon Freeman and feature photos, video clips and recordings. Tickets will be available here on Wednesday, June 17, at 10 a.m. Central.

About Kenny Chesney
Growing up with his mother and grandparents in East Tennessee, Kenny Chesney was raised with traditional values, a “work hard, love harder” approach to living and a sense of family and community that defined his world. Although sports were an integral part of his childhood in Luttrell, Tennessee, music was always a presence. Chesney saw bluegrass with his grandparents on local morning television’s “The Cas Walker Show” and attended life-changing concerts by Conway Twitty, George Jones, Merle Haggard and Alabama. He also sang in the Gibbs High School choir and rocked to Van Halen and Steve Miller Band with friends as a teen. A marketing student at East Tennessee State University, he joined the college’s famed Bluegrass Band under the guidance of acclaimed musician Jack Tottle and built a repertoire of cover songs to perform at Chucky’s Trading Post outside Johnson City. After he graduated in December 1990, he moved to Nashville on the day the Gulf War started.

Playing sports growing up taught Chesney discipline, teamwork and how to work hard. He applied those principles to music, honing his songwriting, singing and performing long before he had a publishing or record deal. He still heads into each new tour season with the mentality of an athlete gearing up for a championship run: strict diet, intense physical training, multiple tech teams creating sound, lights, staging and video elements, and many weeks of rehearsals.

Songwriting was the first thing to open doors for Chesney in Nashville, where he played for tips downtown at the Turf nightclub and worked as a parking valet on Music Row. One night in his apartment, he wrote the vulnerable ballad “The Tin Man,” which earned him a publishing deal with Acuff-Rose Music — the firm that had published Country Music Hall of Fame members Hank Williams and East Tennessee’s Dean Dillon. Since his debut, Chesney has written or co-written many of his hits, including “I Go Back,” “I’m Alive,” “Pirate Flag” and “Beer in Mexico.”

After moving from iconic Southern rock label Capricorn to RCA subsidiary BNA Records, he slowly but steadily gained momentum. Chesney began working with producer Buddy Cannon (initially paired with Norro Wilson) on 1997’s I Will Stand and scored his first #1 with “She’s Got It All.” He continued in the modern country vein, until he made a conscious decision to create a blend of styles that bridged country’s tradition with straightforward rock and island music on 2002’s No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems; the album was a three-million seller and his first #1 debut on Billboard’s all-genre Top 200 albums, becoming one of the era’s defining country releases. The 2004 follow-up, When the Sun Goes Down, surpassed its sales success with six hit singles. Winning the Country Music Association’s Album of the Year, Sun reinforced Chesney’s trusting his gut instincts. He has over 105 million RIAA certified units, including multiple Platinum albums and singles, and more than 30 #1 hits, all by making bold creative choices that proved commercially viable because they resonated with fans.

As Chesney’s fame grew, he made friends with people whose music he admired and has recorded duets with Country Music Hall of Fame members George Strait, George Jones and Willie Nelson, as well as beyond genre artists including Dave Matthews, Grace Potter and Uncle Kracker and country stars Kelsea Ballerini and Megan Moroney.

Chesney’s first headlining stadium show was June 7, 2003, at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he had grown up going to Tennessee Volunteers football games with his father. For the last two decades, Chesney’s stadium tours have been a highly anticipated fixture of the summer entertainment calendar. Perpetually among the most attended tours in any year, in any genre, Chesney’s ticket counts rival U2, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen, and he is the only country artist in the Top 10 of POLLSTAR’s Touring Acts of the Millennium. His ability to bring people together through music in such a massive way has seen the industry repeatedly recognize Chesney, naming him ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year four times each between 2004 and 2008.

In Spring of 2025, Chesney became the first solo and first country artist with a residency at Sphere Las Vegas. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October. His memoir “Heart Life Music” debuted at #1 on the New York Times Nonfiction Best-seller list and was named one of publisher William Morrow’s 100 Books of Distinction. Chesney returns to Sphere this summer for a second residency in June and July. Having co-founded Hey Now Records, his first single “Carry On” made history as only the third single to be added by the entire Mediabase country radio panel in its first week – a first-time accomplishment for an independent label.

About the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum:
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum collects, preserves and interprets country music and its history for the education and entertainment of diverse audiences. In exhibitions, publications, digital media and educational programs, the museum explores the cultural importance and enduring beauty of the art form. Among the most-visited history museums in the United States, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was awarded the country’s highest honor in the arts, the National Medal of Arts, in 2024. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The Country Music Foundation operates Historic RCA Studio B®, Hatch Show Print® poster shop, Haley Gallery, CMA Theater, CMF Records, the Frist Library and Archive and CMF Press.

More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at www.countrymusichalloffame.org or by calling (615) 416-2001.

About Blue Chair Bay Rum:
Blue Chair Bay Rum embodies the carefree rhythm of a day in the Caribbean. Created to share with No Shoes Nation, Chesney distilled the essence of the best day with friends on the water by employing true craftsmanship and maintaining exceptional quality. An authentic Caribbean rum, blended with natural ingredients, it’s available in: Spiced, White, Coconut, Banana, Key Lime Rum Cream, Banana Rum Cream and Pineapple Rum Cream. Blue Chair Bay® Rum is an award-winning premium brand steeped in Kenny Chesney’s heart and love for living, from beach to bottle.

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Kachilu unveils AI marketing automation app for macOS with browser-based campaign execution

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Kachilu helps marketing, sales, and recruiting teams move from strategy to execution by planning outreach tasks and performing browser-based actions such as posts, replies, DMs, follows, and form submissions.

TOKYO, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Kachilu today announced the launch of its macOS desktop app, an AI marketing automation agent that helps teams plan and execute campaign workflows in a real browser. Built for marketing, sales, and recruiting teams, Kachilu turns campaign goals into task plans and performs eligible browser-based actions with user visibility and control.

AI can help teams plan campaigns, but execution often still stops at the browser. Kachilu helps teams move from intention to action while keeping important decisions under human control.

AI tools can generate strategy and copy, but many teams still rely on manual work to post content, reply to messages, follow up with leads, send DMs, and submit contact forms. Kachilu is designed to bridge that gap by organizing goals into tasks, executing eligible actions in a real browser, and pausing when human judgment or authentication is required.

With Kachilu, users can create marketing, sales, or recruiting workflows from a goal, review the AI-generated strategy and task plan, and monitor execution through a desktop dashboard. The product includes Kachilu Browser, which lets users see browser actions as they happen, pause or resume work, add instructions, and review execution history.

Kachilu supports use cases including social media marketing, form-based outreach, and direct recruiting. It is designed for teams that want to scale repetitive outreach while maintaining visibility and control over account-specific activity.

“AI can help teams plan campaigns, but execution often still stops at the browser,” said Ryutaro Imai, founder of Kachilu. “Kachilu helps teams move from intention to action while keeping important decisions under human control.”

The macOS version is available now for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. As part of its launch campaign, Kachilu is free to use until June 30, 2026. Paid plans are based on completed actions, starting at $9 per month.

For more information or to download the macOS app, visit https://www.kachilu.com

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A New Era of XR Begins: XREAL Launches XREAL AURA, Powered by Android XR, This Fall

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Reservations for XREAL AURA are available now, enabling customers to secure a spot for the launch later this year

LONG BEACH, Calif., June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XREAL, the global leader in lightweight XR glasses, today officially unveiled XREAL AURA, powered by Android XR and built with Snapdragon. This represents the company’s next-generation spatial computing glasses built in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Formerly known as Project Aura, and now confirmed to launch in the Fall, XREAL AURA combines lightweight optical see-through (OST) wired XR glasses, Android XR and deep Gemini integration, and the power of Qualcomm Technologies’ latest Snapdragon® Reality Elite Platform. With all these features working in concert, XREAL AURA delivers a new era of immersive and wearable spatial computing experiences.

XREAL also announced multiple reservation paths for XREAL AURA are now open through XREAL.com/aura. XREAL AURA will make its first public appearance this week at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California; attendees can visit the Qualcomm booth (#911) for hands-on demos.

“XREAL AURA sets a new benchmark for OST XR glasses, bringing powerful AI-driven experiences to both work and everyday life,” said Chi Xu, Co-founder and CEO of XREAL. “The new era of portable spatial computing glasses starts now, as XREAL AURA combines rich and cinematic visuals, powerful platforms, and advanced on-device AI capabilities required to realize immersive next-generation XR. From developers who demand more headroom to consumers who expect seamless, premium experiences, Snapdragon Reality Elite and Android XR enable XREAL AURA to excel and lead in defining today’s smart glasses use cases.”

Powered by Android XR and Snapdragon Reality Elite

At the core of XREAL AURA is Google’s Android XR and the newly unveiled Snapdragon Reality Elite, Qualcomm’s latest XR platform. Both are engineered to deliver industry-leading performance, multitasking, multimodal AI, and power optimization for next-generation wearable devices.

“XR adoption continues to expand, evidenced by the global developer and consumer excitement for XREAL Aura,” said Ziad Asghar, Senior Vice President and General Manager of XR, Wearables and Personal AI at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “As advanced and integrated XR devices come to market, like XREAL Aura, demand is increasing for XR technologies that deliver better immersive experiences, higher performance, greater intelligence, and improved power optimization. Snapdragon Reality Elite is designed to meet those demands — and it reinforces our leadership in VR and MR as we create purpose-built XR chipsets from the ground up.”

“Android XR is made for everyday life, and XREAL AURA brings XR experiences to life through the most innovative wired XR glasses yet,” said Shahram Izadi, Vice President and General Manager of Android XR, Google. “This is indeed a turning point, and the right teams are united to lead what comes next.”

Built for the Next Generation of Android XR Experiences

XREAL AURA delivers premium spatial computing experiences in a lightweight and portable form factor. Key features include:

A massive 70-degree field of view with a virtually borderless visual canvas

Light, less than 95g optical see-through frames designed for immersive mixed reality experiences

World-facing sensors on the frames support hand tracking, 6DoF tracking, and multimodal AI experiences with user permission

Dual-chip, split-compute architecture designed for portable spatial computing

A dedicated spatial compute unit, powered by Snapdragon Reality Elite for advanced XR performance and power optimization

Inside the frames, the XREAL X1S Spatial Coprocessor supports low-latency spatial display, sensor processing, and stable glasses-based XR experiences

Deep integration with Google’s Android XR platform and helpful support from Gemini

Through the Android XR Catalyst Developer Program that was announced at the Google I/O Developer Conference, hundreds of XREAL AURA developer kits are being distributed to developers around the world, accelerating development across entertainment, productivity, gaming, sports, healthcare, and enterprise applications.

Leading Global Partners Building for XREAL AURA 

Because it’s powered by Android XR, millions of Android mobile and tablet apps are available day one on XREAL AURA through the Play Store. There are also over one hundred apps made specifically for XR in development already. Today, XREAL also offered an early peek at the expanding ecosystem of partners developing unbound experiences for Android XR and XREAL AURA.

Sports, Games and Entertainment

Announced today, Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars, will launch on XREAL AURA, powered by Android XR, Google’s groundbreaking spatial computing platform. Developed in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios and featuring a new, original chapter created in collaboration with Andy Weir specifically for the game, Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars allows players to step into the role of Ryland Grace at a pivotal, untold moment in the Hail Mary mission, diagnosing failing ship systems and improvising ingenious scientific solutions as the spacecraft itself bleeds into their real-world environment. Precise hand tracking enables intuitive, tactile interaction with ship panels and zero-gravity objects, while the Hail Mary spacecraft merges seamlessly with the player’s physical surroundings. The result is a new form of spatial storytelling that leverages Android XR, cutting edge XR hardware starting with XREAL AURA, and mixed reality to bring the world of Project Hail Mary directly into the player’s space.

Announced today, Fallout: Factions is the official digital adaptation of the hit tabletop game from Modiphius Entertainment for XR. This turn-based skirmish warfare game set in the Fallout universe combines squad-level tactics and strategy with immersive 3D maps and gesture controls in stunning augmented reality. Compete with friends around the table or around the world as you play as one of three Factions seeking to dominate the devastated landscape of Nuka-World. Each Faction has a unique set of weapons and abilities, creating nearly endless replay-ability. War never changes, but now it’s in your hands! Fallout: Factions launches from Mirrorscape later this year on XREAL AURA and Android XR.

Announced today, “The Nutcracker: A Spatial Awakening” is a pioneering full-scale spatial preservation of a legacy ballet, developed by San Francisco Ballet and YBVR in partnership with Google and XREAL. Captured in stereoscopic 8K with a Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive three-camera array, the experience places audiences closer than ever to the artistry and emotion of this iconic holiday production. Bringing the breathtaking “Snowfall” sequence directly into the user’s surroundings, the experience showcases how cutting-edge hardware can unlock a profound sense of presence for world-class performing arts, accompanied by the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Expect more to come with the official premiere later this year.

Asteroid, a groundbreaking immersive film from acclaimed director Doug Liman, will combine cinematic storytelling, interactive gameplay, live conversational AI, and natural multimodal interaction powered by Gemini. The experience launched exclusively on Android XR and will be free for all XREAL AURA owners. The project is developed by 30 Ninjas.

EMMY and BAFTA award-winning Atlantic Studios is bringing ambitious immersive films to Android XR and XREAL AURA. Atlantic is bringing Hollywood elites to its projects, with more to be revealed soon.

Resolution Games brings its painstakingly crafted turn-based co-op tabletop dungeon crawler, Demeo to XREAL AURA. Demeo is designed from the ground up for XR, and players on AURA can join others on Samsung Galaxy XR, Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, PICO and PlayStation VR2, as well as enjoy cross-play with flatscreen players (Steam PC, Mac, iOS, PlayStation 5).

The Fox Sports XR app on XREAL AURA will feature immersive live sports and highlights.

Cubism is one of the most respected puzzle games in XR built around an engaging concept: fit a set of colorful 3D blocks into a target shape, but this time set in your real world thanks to XREAL AURA’s optical see-through headset. Cubism is renowned for its excellent handtracking and strong spatial interaction design.

One of the world’s largest XR video game developers, nDreams, is bringing Oh My Galaxy! to XREAL AURA. Oh My Galaxy! is a beautifully crafted arcade-style physics puzzle game designed from the ground up for spatial computing. XREAL AURA marks the first time the popular game will be available on an OST headset.

Odders is bringing its premier tabletop strategy game, Chess Club to XREAL AURA. Chess Club is the leading chess application across major spatial computing platforms today; its standout feature is its precise native hand-tracking. XREAL AURA marks the first time Chess Club will be available on an OST headset.

South Korean streaming powerhouse, Naver is bringing CHZZK to XREAL AURA. CHZZK is Naver’s massive livestreaming and content creator platform heavily centered around gaming, esports, virtual streamers, music videos and watch parties. CHZZK includes spatialized 180- and 360-degree videos that bring VR entertainment to XREAL AURA without isolating the viewer from the real world around them.

DB Creations is actively developing three XR games for XREAL AURA. Disassemble, mend, and rebuild a variety of gadgets and robot parts while learning about the fantastical world around you in Robo Repair. Fly a jet, pilot a helicopter, and more to complete arcade challenges right in your room with the exciting RC-inspired action of Tiny Motors Arcade. Transform your space into a thriving solarpunk city of the future with easy to connect building block elements in Table Towers.

Productivity, Learning, Enterprise and Healthcare

Announced today, representing next generation geospatial immersion, the Rathausverein of Aachen, Germany, and ZAUBAR are creating a first-of-its-kind location-based AR experience in Aachen’s historic city center. Set around the Krönungssaal (Coronation Hall) in Aachen City Hall and connected to the city’s imperial heritage, including Aachen Cathedral as part of the former Carolingian palace complex and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the experience brings history to life through an immersive museum-quality exhibition with realistic time travel, lifelike animations, historically accurate reconstructions, and incredible detail, all comfortably enjoyed through XREAL AURA. This exciting project is targeting an on-site launch in mid-2027.

Announced today, in healthcare, apoQlar is bringing their XR HoloMedicine® platform to XREAL AURA that transforms CT, MRI, PET, and other medical imaging data into interactive 3D holographic models that clinicians can view and manipulate in real time. The early apoQlar workflows with XREAL AURA are showing real promise and are already making advanced medical visualization and training more intuitive for clinicians.

Simply Piano XR comes to an OST headset for the first time with XREAL AURA, bringing its finetuned hand tracking and spatial computing to merge physical instruments with digital overlays along with AI-powered real-time feedback for the ultimate XR piano-learning platform.

In enterprise, ShapesXR is moving design work into XREAL AURA’s immersive 70-degree FOV, allowing teams to sketch environments, place UI, storyboard interactions, and test concepts before writing much code. ShapesXR is leading in collaborative spatial creation and for the first time, bringing its highly recognized platform to XR glasses.

Frontline.io turns complex CAD models into interactive digital twins for the enterprise space, letting technicians learn, troubleshoot, and collaborate through XREAL AURA with OST workflows. It’s reshaping remote assist, virtual training, and augmented work instructions — and going further with AI agents that generate, retrieve, and guide maintenance procedures in real time, all hands-free without taking workers’ eyes off the task, making the smart connected worker a reality.

The Plynk Spatial™ app turns stock research, portfolio management, and trading into a spatial experience coming for the first time to OST XR glasses with XREAL AURA. Instead of viewing markets through flat charts on a phone or laptop, through XREAL AURA, Plynk Spatial™ users can explore 3D market visualizations, interact with spatial heatmaps, view sector performance in layouts, analyze portfolio holdings in 3D space, track market movers, and execute trades directly inside AURA, all while not losing sight of their real world surroundings.

Reserve XREAL AURA Now, Secure Your Spot at Launch

Reservations for XREAL AURA are now available for $99 USD at XREAL.com/aura for US, UK and Japan.

For a limited time two-week launch offer, reserve XREAL AURA with a $99 USD Launch Credit and receive $199 USD credit toward your purchase at launch later this year —saving you $100 on the final price. Launch Credit holders will receive priority shipping access when AURA becomes available, along with early customer support and launch updates.

XREAL also announced the XREAL AURA Founder Priority Pass. Starting today, the Founder Priority Pass will be limited to 2,000 reservations globally and is designed for early adopters, developers, creators, and consumers who want XREAL AURA on day one. Those customers who reserve AURA with a $299 USD deposit secure guaranteed launch-day delivery in supported launch regions when XREAL AURA releases later this year plus numbered special edition hardware.

In addition, XREAL announced Best Buy as its first in-store retail partner for the U.S. launch of XREAL AURA.

Coming Later This Year

XREAL is targeting a wave 1 launch of XREAL AURA in the Fall in US, UK, Japan, Canada and South Korea with additional Europe markets* coming soon after.

“With Android XR, Gemini, Snapdragon Reality Elite, and an incredible ecosystem of developers and partners, XREAL AURA marks the beginning of a new era for spatial computing glasses,” said Xu. “The road to release starts now!”

*Europe markets: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia (Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

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NetActuate Expands Networking Platform for the Independent, AI-Ready Edge, Adding Cloud Routers, Magic Mesh, Stateful Firewall, and VPC Load Balancing

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New capabilities give infrastructure teams hyperscaler-grade networking (Cloud Routers, Magic Mesh, a stateful Firewall, and VPC Load Balancing) with the visibility, control, and cloud independence to build on their own terms, not their provider’s.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C., June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NetActuate, a global provider of edge infrastructure and Anycast network solutions across 45+ markets worldwide, today announced a major expansion of its Networking platform. The release introduces Cloud Routers, Magic Mesh, stateful firewalling, and VPC Load Balancing, alongside a redesigned Networking portal that gives customers deeper visibility and full self-service control over their networking resources.

Three forces are reshaping how companies think about infrastructure. AI and real-time workloads are pushing compute, inference, and data closer to users and out to the edge. A growing cost-and-repatriation backlash is exposing the real price of hyperscaler lock-in and egress fees. And tightening data-sovereignty and geographic-compliance requirements are forcing teams to control where their traffic and data actually live. Each points the same direction: companies want infrastructure they own and operate on their own terms, with the routing, resilience, and DDoS protection to back it up. NetActuate’s expanded Networking platform is built for that shift.

“The hyperscaler era trained teams to trade control for convenience, and they’re done making that trade,” said Mark Mahle, CEO of NetActuate. “This release gives customers hyperscaler-grade networking primitives with none of the lock-in. They can architect exactly the network they need and run all of it from a single portal, with the transparency and flexibility that independent infrastructure demands.”

What’s New: Products and Platform Capabilities

Cloud Routers
Cloud Routers let customers deploy fully functional, web UI- and API-managed virtual routers, directly within the NetActuate platform. They support multiple VRFs natively, static and BGP routing, full SNAT and DNAT configuration, and WireGuard tunnels, and they integrate with any NetActuate service. That makes them especially powerful paired with VPC for BGP routing into third-party platforms, Internet Exchanges, or enterprise networks.

Magic Mesh
Magic Mesh interconnects two Cloud Routers with a single click, letting customers build their own overlay networks from the portal or API. Teams can stitch together sites across the NetActuate platform, or across other clouds entirely, to create private, multi-site networks without the manual configuration that usually comes with it. Cross-cloud mesh connectivity is supported out of the box.

Stateful Firewall
A fully stateful Layer 3 firewall is now available for NetActuate’s edge IaaS. Customers can define rule sets, assign them to virtual machines, and have firewalls apply automatically at deployment, all through the portal or API. The result is enterprise-grade network security that travels with the workload, without the per-feature billing and lock-in that come with the hyperscalers’ equivalents.

VPC Load Balancing
VPC Load Balancing lets customers deploy load balancers directly onto VPC resources, bringing traffic distribution and resilience to private cloud environments. It’s the first step on a roadmap toward edge balancers, load balancers deployable to any PoP or fronted by Anycast, that will distribute traffic across the full NetActuate platform and third-party infrastructure alike.

Enhanced BGP Features
The release also brings enhanced BYOIP/BGP unicast capabilities for customers on colocation, bare metal, or VM deployments who aren’t using the BGP Anycast platform. New automation includes on-demand IRR/RPKI updates and hundreds of BGP communities, fully automatable through NetActuate’s suite of DevOps tooling.

Visibility and Control in the Customer Portal
Every one of these capabilities is configurable, monitorable, and manageable from the NetActuate Customer Portal. The release reorganizes the Networking section around the expanded suite and adds new layers of observability: customers can pull analytics on any prefix, with group- and prefix-level views of inbound traffic, the busiest data centers and nodes, and full traffic-source detail.

Together, these capabilities give teams a complete, self-service way to stand up and run their own network infrastructure (unicast, BGP, or Anycast) on infrastructure they control. Take a closer look at the Networking platform and view the NetActuate Portal Demo Overview video.

About NetActuate
NetActuate delivers edge infrastructure and network solutions in over 45 locations worldwide, enabling customers to take control of their workloads anywhere, with low latency, resiliency, and security built in. Our Open Network Edge (ONE) IaaS, built on open-source software and standards, provides everything needed to architect cloud environments and extensible infrastructure. Choose between VMs, Kubernetes, cloud, colocation, bare metal, and storage infrastructure, all with Anycast connectivity. We offer 24×7 support, expert consulting, and flexible, open solutions engineered for scalability and performance.

To schedule a call with NetActuate engineers or learn more, visit netactuate.com. For technical insights on improving reliability, reducing latency, and simplifying architecture at the network level, visit anycast.com.

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