Meta Threatens To Pull News Content From Facebook And Instagram In Canada

Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg. Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP. Getty Images. AFP via Getty Images Meta warns the Canadian Government that it may remove links to news on Facebook or Instagram if social…read more

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Social Media Swamped With Photo Blaming Wrong Guy For Mass Shooting At Texas Outlet Mall

Newsmax screenshot with the photo of an individual who is not the Allen, Texas shooter that has killed 8. … [+]On May 6, 2023, people will be able to see the date. Newsmax/Youtube On Saturday…read more

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Elon Musk Plans To Purge Old Twitter Accounts But What About Users Who’ve Died?

Elon Musk, Twitter’s CEO, speaks at “Twitter 2.0 – From conversations to partnerships” marketing event … [+]Photo by CHANDAN KAHANNA/AFP Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk announced a plan…read more

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Discover 13 Radical XR Creations At Tribeca Immersive

The annual VR & AR showcase is back with an amazing lineup of immersive storytelling projects and world premieres. The Tribeca Film Festival is set to kick off next month in New York City, bringing with it an amazing lineup of over a hundred feature films from 127 different filmmakers from 36 different countries. The […]

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How USA Hockey Is Using VR Tech To Train Its Players

VR sports training appears to be on the rise as major organizations begin to see the benefits. Sense Arena, a VR training platform popular among professional sports teams, is now the official VR training tool of USA Hockey. In an official announcement made last month, the company revealed that it has signed a multi-year deal […]

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Mechanical Backpack Makes Jumping In VR More Fun

“Jump up and down and move it all around.” Pedro Lopes, an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago who focuses on integrating interfaces with the human body by exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearables, wants to make jumping in VR a more enjoyable experience. Lopes and his team created a […]

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Meta Horizon Worlds v109 Release Notes: Popular Asset Shelf, Invite Codes, & More

Meta Horizon Worlds v109 is here! We’re introducing new ways for creators to discover popular assets in our Asset Library. And we’re testing invite codes…

USC Launches $1bn XR, Generative AI Initiative

The University of Southern California (USC) announced last week the launch of an over $1 billion USD initiative to grow its university programmes for extended reality (XR), generative artificial intelligence, and ethical technology. The university aims to boost innovative solutions backed by its education and research with the new programme. Speaking on the new Frontiers […]

VRChat to Drop Original Quest Support

Today, VRChat, in a developer update, highlighted how its popular cross-platform Metaverse/immersive service platform VRChat is dropping support for the original Quest VR headset model. VRChat is cancelling support for the legacy device on June 30, 2023, in preparation for Meta dropping support for the device’s SDK, which could make the application unstable. The closing […]

ARway to Integrate Magic Leap 2, Microsoft HoloLens 2 Headsets

Augmented reality (AR) wayfinding firm ARway, recently announced it would partner with Magic Leap to integrate its solution on the latter’s headsets. The company’s no-code platform aims to complete the process in the next 60 days, allowing ARway to provide its products to customers with compatible hardware. This will expand the company’s offerings beyond mobile […]