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HTC Launches Aftermarket Face & Eye-trackers for Vive Focus 3

3 years ago
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HTC today announced it’s releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. The company says its new trackers will offer “more natural and immersive VR experiences, new options for enterprises to measure user responses, and even more accessible interaction methods such as gaze control.” The units are priced at […]
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VR Vet Phaser Lock Announces Co-op Dino Hunting Game ‘Primal Hunt’

3 years ago
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Phaser Lock Interactive, the VR studio behind Final Assault (2019) and Twisted Arrow (2017), announced an upcoming co-op dinosaur hunting game that pits you against a Jurassic Park’s worth of the mighty beasts—even Tyrannosaurus Rex. Called Primal Hunt, the cross-platform co-op game gives you a variety of armor and weapons as you track down and fight the […]
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Designing Enterprise Avatars with HTC VIVE

3 years ago
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Avatars are a way for individuals to represent themselves in virtual, augmented or mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) immersive experiences. Most immersive communication services come with feature-rich, inclusive avatar creation suites, including ENGAGE, Meta Horizons, and HTC’s VIVEVERSE. Creating a Bussiness-Savey Avatar To create a unique enterprise avatar on the HTC VIVE ecosystem, a user must access […]
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IGS Europe 2022 to Rally XR at Madeira’s Savoy Palace

3 years ago
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The ongoing bid to unite the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) sectors requires significant joint efforts to develop novel solutions, technologies, platforms, and standards. Organisations such as the VR/AR Association have responded to the demands of a rapidly changing tech sector since 2015 by providing a platform capable of facilitating such transformative development. […]
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Ready Player Me, Spatial, Polycount Partner for Vogue’s Fashion Metaverse

3 years ago
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Ready Player Me, one of the top global companies for avatar technologies, has recently partnered with immersive spaces platform Spatial and 3D experiences firm Polycount to host Vogue’s New World immersive fashion community. Spatial’s award-winning metaverse hub will allow visitors to attend virtual meetups complete with surreal virtual product lineups backed by blockchain technologies, allowing […]
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Iristick Smart Glasses Continue Global Distribution

3 years ago
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XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Johan De Geyter, CEO, Irisitick. In this session, we discuss the following: 1) Inernational distribution strategies and global expansion goals 2) Further partnerships in other countries? 3) The benefits of Microsoft Teams on Iristick products If you’re looking for more information on this topic, visit Iristick. Thanks for watching, if […]
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Instagram Tests New ‘Add Topics’ Option in the Reels Upload Process

3 years ago
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The option could help you get your Reels in front of a more engaged, interested audience.

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Winning Customer Love: How Small Businesses Earn Loyalty [Infographic]

3 years ago
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Some key tips to help build your brand, and establish a stronger customer community.

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The Key Social Platform Metrics to Track [Infographic]

3 years ago
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Ensure you’re keeping tabs on the right metrics with this overview.

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We Are One: Engaging VR Puzzles With Time Loops & Roomscale Shooter Action

3 years ago
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Combining time loop puzzles with elements of roomscale shooters, We Are One creates an engaging mix of two very popular VR genres.

Our full impressions from Gamescom:

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Hands-On: Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate Is A Promising Anime Adventure

3 years ago
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After a brief hands-on at Gamescom earlier this month, Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate looks quite promising so far.

Read on for our full thoughts.

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Breachers Looks Like Rainbow Six Siege In VR

3 years ago
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Following on from Hyper Dash, Triangle Factory is back once again with Breachers, a tactical 5v5 VR shooter reminiscent of Rainbow Six Siege.

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Pico 4 Pro To Have Automatic IPD, Color Passthrough, HD Controller Haptics

3 years ago
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Pico 4 Pro will have color passthrough, automatic IPD adjustment, and HD controller haptics according to a Bluetooth SIG listing.
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Mark Zuckerberg teases a picture of Cambria, to be launched on October, 11th

3 years ago
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Today Meta has announced the date of the Meta Connect, the upcoming event by Meta in which it will announce its latest advancements for what concerns VR, AR, and the M-word. The event will take place at 10 am PT on October 11, and it will be fully virtual, like last year. You will be […]

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.05): Apple headset to be called Reality, Fortnite may come to Quest, and more!

3 years ago
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September has just arrived! It’s a month that I always find a bit sad because it marks the end of the summer (at least on my hemisphere), but on the tech side, this Autumn and this Winter are going to be pretty hot, so the techie that is in me is actually happy. I can’t […]

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Meta Connect Dev Conference to Be Held Virtually on October 11th

3 years ago
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Meta today announced that its next installment of Connect, the company’s annual XR developer conference, is again going digital this year. The event, which promises to share updates and looks into the “near and far future” of Meta, will be held on October 11th, 2022. Like last year’s all-digital Connect, this year’s dev conference will […]
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‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Sequel Announced for PSVR 2, Trailer Here

3 years ago
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First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind Firewall Zero Hour (2018), announced it’s bringing the “next evolution” of its hit squad-based shooter to PSVR 2, calling it Firewall Ultra. The studio says in a PS blogpost Firewall Ultra will be “the next evolution in the Firewall franchise,” saying the game will incorporate all of the new features the […]
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Meta Acquires Berlin-based Haptic Tech Startup Lofelt

3 years ago
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Meta has acquired Lofelt, a Berlin-based startup developing advanced haptic technologies for VR and other devices. According to The Wall Street Journal, the acquisition took place earlier this summer, however the deal came to light only just last week. “Lofelt is now embarking on a new adventure, and we will sunset our products on July […]
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Full Day of Life Support and Computer Maintenance on Station

3 years ago
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Life support and computer maintenance filled the Expedition 67 crew schedule on Tuesday following a busy Labor Day aboard the International Space Station. The station’s four astronauts focused on a variety of biology and physics research on the U.S. holiday as they photographed growing vegetables and explored how fuel behaves in space. In the orbiting …
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US Army Approves Microsoft’s IVAS Combat Headsets

3 years ago
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The United States Army has officially received its first order of Microsoft’s bespoke Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), Bloomberg reported last week. Following a series of successful field tests, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Douglas Bush, said in a statement he had “cleared the Army to begin accepting” a part of 5,000 headsets, a spokesperson said. […]
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Meta Acquires Haptic Startup Lofelt

3 years ago
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Last Friday, Meta publicly announced the acquisition of Berlin-based haptics developers Lofelt. The purchase enables Meta to leverage technology that simulates user touch and feel feedback from a controller or glove. The Lofelt purchase enables Meta to double down on its haptics research leading into the proposed October release window for the upcoming Quest device. This […]
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Major Report Calls for Standards on XR Metrics

3 years ago
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Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found. Metrics such as attention and navigation were essential for six degrees of freedom (6DoF) immersive experiences, a report from Brighton, UK-based firm spanning 65 enterprises across the […]
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Building a Business Case for XR in Education

3 years ago
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Extended Reality could be the most powerful technology to influence the educational industry in years. Offering unlimited opportunities to immerse students in powerful training experiences, XR could enhance everything from in-person to remote classes. Already, a host of universities and schools have begun implementing VR, AR, and MR solutions into their curriculums. However, the benefits […]
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Interkosmos 2000 Has Landed On Meta Quest 2

3 years ago
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Interkosmos 2000 is a new spacefaring VR adventure, available now on Meta Quest 2. 

More details here.

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The Steam Hardware Survey’s VR Section Has Become Unreliable

3 years ago
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Recent anomalies in the Steam Hardware Survey’s VR section suggest it has become unreliable. Valve hasn’t yet offered an explanation.