Quest 2 Can Now Label Keyboards With AR In Passthrough

An update to Horizon Workrooms on Oculus Quest adds the ability to overlay AR labels onto your tracked keyboard when using passthrough mode.

Blade And Sorcery: Nomad Review

Application SpaceWarp Can Give Quest Apps 70% More Performance

Quest headsets will get Application SpaceWarp next week, letting apps run at half framerate by generating every other frame synthetically.

Meta says ASW is suitable for most apps, and should effectively give developers 70% more power.

Blade And Sorcery: Nomad Review – VR’s Best Combat Sim Is Still In-Progress

Blade And Sorcery: Nomad’s physics-driven combat is still best-in-class on Quest, but the finished game remains just out of reach.

Here’s our full review.

AWE USA brings back XR physical events

Augmented World Expo (AWE) will start on November, 9th 2021, in Santa Clara, USA. The event, which will run until

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‘Tis the Season to Double Down on Social Customer Care (and Protect Your Community Managers)

Just when we thought we, as social media strategists and community managers, could rest up from the twists and turns of the last 18 months, the holiday season is upon us.  It feels like it could be a doozy.  Global supply chain challenges are causing significant inventory gaps for some.  A tight labor market causes […]

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‘Blade & Sorcery: Nomad’ Review – Fun Physics-based Combat Slimmed Down for Quest 2

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad almost feels like a work of digital wizardry, as it brings a standalone version of the hit physics-based combat sandbox exclusively to Quest 2 for the first time. Although it doesn’t feel as visually visceral as its bigger brother for PC VR headsets, which is notably still in Early Access, it serves […]

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Unpacking Connect 2021 – What it Means for the Metaverse of the Future

We’re just one week past the Connect 2021 event where Meta (formerly Facebook) laid out its grand vision for both XR and the metaverse, including rebranding its entire company around the concept. The event was heavy on vision with a lot of the near-term news being more disparate. I sat down with host Kent Bye […]

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Cas & Chary Present: Hands-on with the Lynx R-1 Mixed Reality Headset

Lynx is a Paris-based startup building the Lynx R-1, a standalone mixed reality headset that’s small and lightweight. The headset’s Kickstarter reached its goal 15 hours after launch and is still ongoing, having recently doubled its funding goal. You can pledge for a unit starting at $500. Cas & Chary Present Cas and Chary VR is […]

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Station Readies for Crew Departure Amid Science and Cargo Work

Four International Space Station astronauts continue packing their U.S. spacecraft as they plan for a return to Earth this month. Meanwhile, the Expedition 66 crew continued its ongoing space research and maintenance aboard the orbital lab. Flight Engineers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, who are also the commander and pilot of NASA’s SpaceX …