Twitter Announces Exclusive Watch Parties for New Halo TV Series, Leaning into Gaming Culture

The initiative is part of Twitter’s new content partnership with ViacomCBS.

Timelapse: Rec Room Paintball Recreated In Horizon Worlds

This minute-long timelapse video shows the ground-up creation of a Horizon World game much like Rec Room paintball.

PianoVision: Practicing Piano On Quest With AR, MIDI And A Real Instrument

PianoVision teaches you piano songs in AR using passthrough on Quest.

When connected to a MIDI keyboard, it can even respond to what you play in real time.

VR RPG Ruinsmagus Finds A Publisher, Coming To Quest & PC This Spring

VR JRPG Ruinsmagus has a new publisher and is back on track for a spring release.

More details here.

10-Member Crew Juggles Human Research, Spacewalk Cleanup, and Robotics

The 10 Expedition 66 crew members aboard the International Space Station wrapped up the workweek exploring ways to adapt to microgravity, cleaning up after a spacewalk, and completing robotics work. The orbital crewmates also prepared a crew ship for departure and checked emergency gear. NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron took turns in …

NASA’s Flight Readiness Review for Axiom Mission 1 Begins

NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX managers are gathered at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, where they have started the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) Flight Readiness Review (FRR). The purpose of the review is for the agency to assess the readiness of the International Space Station to execute the Ax-1 mission, including arrival, …

Station Nears Crew Departure and First Private Astronaut Mission

The Expedition 66 crew is turning its attention to the departure of three crew members late next week following the completion of a pair of spacewalks. The International Space Station is also gearing up to welcome the first private astronaut mission aboard a SpaceX Dragon vehicle in early April. Two astronauts had medical checkups and …

Virbela Celebrates 10 Years with New Digital Campus

Virbela, an immersive technology company designing enterprise and academia-grade virtual worlds, announced on Thursday the grand opening of a new campus to connect classmates and workmates in a community-driven online space. The firm is also holding its first-ever community summit, Hands In 2022, which celebrates the new campus, customers, updates, and honours ten years of […]

ARTISANT, PUMA Drop NFTs at Metaverse Fashion Week

Web3 fashion marketplace ARTISANT has teamed up with sportswear fashion giant PUMA for an exhibition of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) at the Decentraland Metaverse Fashion Week. Kicking off on Thursday, the event is set to run from 24-27 March and will feature the partnerships’ Wedding: Upcycled product lineup, designed and created by Regina Turbina (@digital.fashion.princess). Turbina, […]

Snap Buys ‘Mind-Reader’ Device Firm NextMind

Augmented reality (AR) firm Snap announced on Wednesday it had bought out human-computer interface (HCI) startup NextMind, potentially leading to the next phase of immersive hardware. NextMind, a neurotech startup based in Paris, France, was founded in 2017 and has developed its HCI controller which uses brain signals from individuals to control interactive content on […]