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Snapchat Brings Back Phantom House Series With Maybelline, State Farm
The Halloween content series now in its second year will also be leveraged by Hulu to support its Huluween campaign and new original film, “Carved.”
5 Ways Grocers Can Master Shoppable Video, Connected TV
Social media platforms like TikTok put consumers in shopping mode 24/7, so retailers need to know how to create engaging content, said Chris Bruderle, IAB’s VP of industry insights and content strategy.
Snapstick Delivers An Absurdly Funny Premise Let Down By Repetitive Puzzles
Snapstick delivers a heavy dose of absurd comedy that’s let down by repetitive puzzles, and it’s out today on Quest.
Subside In The Works For PlayStation VR2
Subside targets a PlayStation VR2 release before the year’s end, running with no reprojection at 90Hz.
Meta CTO Publicly Apologizes To Palmer Luckey As Zuckerberg Praises Him & Demos Orion
Bosworth apologized to Luckey, while Zuckerberg gave him an Orion demo and said he hopes they “find ways to work together in the future”.
DIG VR Excavates An October Release Date On Quest
DIG VR, the upcoming power-digging sim, arrives later this month on Quest.
Meta’s Head of XR Apologizes to Oculus Founder Regarding His Ousting
Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief, has publicly apologized to Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus who was ousted from the company in 2017 for political reasons. To this day, Meta (ex-Facebook) never publicly confirmed why Luckey was fired, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg even going on record in a U.S. congressional hearing in 2018, […]
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Meta Acquired 9 Leading VR Studios Starting in 2019: Here’s What’s Happened Since
Meta has aggressively expanded its VR game portfolio with the acquisition of nine VR studios since 2019. We take a look what’s come of these deals over the last five years. Acquisition by Meta usually means a few things. Sometimes it means studios get a ton of new resources and the sort of stability that […]
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Meta Quest 3S To Be Manufactured in Vietnam
Meta Platforms is planning to manufacture its Quest mixed reality headsets in Vietnam from 2025. That is according to an announcement made in Hanoi by Meta’s President for Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, a week after his meeting with Vietnam’s President To Lam in New York. Reuters reported on the event and shared the Facebook owner’s […]
Snap’s AR Smart Glasses Edge Closer to Market, Following Lofty CEO Statements
According to a recent Reuters report, Snap is getting closer to securing a trademark registration for the term “Spectacles,” the name of the firm’s upcoming AR smart glasses, bringing the device slightly closer to consumers’ hands following a period of downtime. The news comes after Snap struggled to secure the Spectacles trademark because it is […]
British Ministry of Defence Leverages AI-Powered AR Smart Glasses
As spotted by BusinessLive, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) procurement branch, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), is undergoing a three-month smart glasses trial to leverage AR hardware to help support government employees with hearing difficulties by displaying peer-to-peer conversations as real-time immersive text visualisations for users to read. The MoD chose XRAI Glass to deploy […]
How Corona Found Success With YouTube Shorts
The campaign for one leg of the brand’s Sunsets Festival World Tour saw 5.1 million impressions and utilized several ad formats to drive results.
X Could Prove to Be Worth More Than $44B to Musk and His Companies
Is Elon really throwing away his money, or is there more to his X play?
Simon Taps Influencers To Draw Gen Z to the Mall
A new campaign celebrates mall culture and invites people to be part of the experience, according to Simon’s chief marketing officer.
Tomb Raider 1996 Runs In Quest Mixed Reality With Beef Raider XR Release
Become Lara Croft both in VR and Mixed Reality with Beef Raider XR now in full release on Quest.
Britney Spears Hits Beat Saber With ‘One More Time’, ‘Toxic’ & More Top Songs Next Week
Britney Spears’ ‘…Baby One More Time”, ‘Toxic’ and more top songs arrive in Beat Saber October 8.
PlayStation VR2 Is Now One Of The Top 10 Most Used VR Headsets On Steam
PlayStation VR2 is now one of the top 10 most used VR headsets on Steam, following its PC adapter and driver launching in August.
YouTube Forces Apple Vision Pro App Juno Off The visionOS App Store
YouTube convinced Apple to remove third-party Vision Pro app Juno from the visionOS App Store.
The XR Week Peek (2024.10.01): Meta Connect 2024, Apple Vision Pro refresh, and much more!
The past week was the week of the Meta Connect, with all its amazing announcements that made all of us excited. It was also the week when I returned to Italy, and eating my mother’s pasta again made me excited, too. Next year, I should eat my mother’s pasta while watching the Meta Connect to […]
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Windows 11 No Longer Supports Microsoft’s Windows VR Headsets Following October Update
Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. Now, with the launch of Windows 11 2024 Update yesterday, those VR headsets have essentially been bricked. Initially kicked off in 2017, Microsoft was well positioned to make Windows a home to a fleet of PC VR headsets, which […]
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‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ Studio XR Games Lays Off Majority of Staff
XR Games, the Leeds, UK-based studio known for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever (2021), have laid off a reported 86 percent of its staff. The information was shared by María Fernanda Díez Huerta via LinkedIn, who was Head of Production at XR Games from 2021 – 2023. Huerta reported on Tuesday the […]
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Refurbished Quest 3 on Amazon is the Headset’s Best Deal Yet
In an effort to reposition the price ladder for its flagship headset, Meta is aiming to get the 128GB model of Quest 3 out the door for good. A new refurbished Quest 3 deal on Amazon is the best we’ve seen yet. Amazon US is currently selling a refurbished Quest 3 (128GB) for $380 and the […]
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Dragon Operations and Space Science Fill Station’s Midweek Schedule
Dragon spacecraft operations are underway aboard the International Space Station as a new crew gets up to speed with life in microgravity and another crew turns its attention toward returning to Earth. Amid the crew swap activities, advanced space biology research continued apace on Wednesday exploring unique phenomena impossible to achieve in Earth’s gravity environment. …
7 Reasons to Invest in XR Security and Data Privacy This Year
XR security has long been an overlooked concept in the emerging landscape of immersive technologies. It’s easy to forget just how exposed your data can be when you’re interacting with mixed and augmented reality content or traversing the metaverse. However, as demand for extended reality grows across all industries, so too do associated threats. While […]