Social app Rec Room now has over 3 million monthly active users in VR.
But that’s still a “pretty low percentage” of overall players.
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nDreams To Publish VR Manga Adventure, Sushi Ben
nDreams’ next VR publishing deal is for gorgeous VR manga adventure, Sushi Ben VR.
More details here.
GOLF+ For Quest 2 Gets New Free ‘Alpine’ Course
GOLF+ for Quest 2 just released a new ‘Alpine’ course as a free update.
5 Top Social Auditing and Assessment Tools for 2022
Would you like to generate more traffic and conversions from social media marketing? Do you feel that your social media channels could be doing better? Most business owners will answer “Yes!” to both of these questions. To boost the performance of your social media marketing strategy you need to identify what has worked or failed […]
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Genies Secures $150M Series C to Expand Development on Metaverse Avatars
Genies, a 3D avatar company, announced it’s raised a $150 million Series C investment, something it says will be used to hire more engineering talent and continue development on its non-fungible token (NFT) based “avatar universe.” The round was led by private equity firm Silver Lake, and includes participation from existing investors BOND, NEA, and Tamarack […]
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Virtual Social Platform ‘Rec Room’ Hits 3 Million Monthly Active VR Users
Rec Room a social VR game which also supports non-VR devices like PC, console, and mobile phones, has reached an impressive 3 million monthly active VR users, which the company says is just a fraction of its total monthly active usership. Rec Room has continued its impressive growth, having tripled its monthly active VR user […]
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‘Pokémon Go’ Studio’s New Game, ‘Peridot’, Leans Further into AR Gameplay
‘Pokémon Go’ studio Niantic announced Peridot today, its latest game which the company says leans further into AR than prior projects. When developer Niantic launched Pokémon Go back in 2016, many heralded it as ‘the first major augmented reality game’. But as I argued at the time, it really wasn’t ‘augmented reality’ at all… but merely […]
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‘The Last Clockwinder’ Nabs Publishing & Funding Support, Affirms Summer 2022 Release
Fixing up an old tower without tools sounds tough, but much less so when you have an army of robotic clones at your disposal. That’s the idea at least behind The Last Clockwinder, a VR automation game from Pontoco which is slated to hit Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets sometime in Summer 2022. Update (April 13th, 2022): The […]
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Geenee AR, Ready Player Me Partner for WebAR Avatars
Geenee AR, a WebAR publishing platform for Metaverse services, and virtual reality (VR) avatar designers Ready Player Me announced a partnership to create wearable AR avatars with no code needed. The partnership creates a platform that enables individuals to wear their virtual avatars by overlaying digital accessories in the real world, including NFT support, physical […]
Canadian Media Groups Back Black XR Accelerator
Several Canadian organisations have announced 11 Black-owned content creation firms selected for a major accelerator programme aimed at promoting racial diversity in the immersive filming industry. The OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC), Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), and Dark Slope recently revealed the names of founders selected for the Scale Up Immersive […]
Bytedance Launches AR-Enhanced TikTok Effects
This Monday, Bytedance, Pico Interactive’s parent company, announced new augmented reality (AR) tools for its massively popular social media platform TikTok following a successful beta testing stage late last year. TikTok is introducing Effect House, an in-app creator platform that enables users to design and share AR effects and experiences with others on the platform. […]
What Is the Nakaverse? Here’s What we’ve Found
As the war for building the one true Metaverse heats up, there is another contender that demands our attention: Nakamoto Games, or the Nakaverse. The platform has been in beta testing for a while and its first title ‘Duck Hunter’ launched in an exclusive community in October last year. The following December, the platform went […]
Pinterest Announces New Partnership with WooCommerce to Expand Product Listings
The integration will feed a lot more product listings into the Pinterest ecosystem.
YouTube and TikTok Add New Options for Automated Captions, Improving Accessibility
YouTube’s offering new caption editing capacity, while TikTok’s rolling out auto-captions by default.
Pinterest Launches API V5 to Facilitate New Pin Presentation and Management Tools
Pinterest’s new API will facilitate all new use cases for third-party management apps and tools.
Twitter Acquires OpenBack to Improve the Timeliness and Relevance of Push Notifications
The acquisition will help Twitter alert users to the most relevant content in the app in real-time.
Pico Hints Next Gen Headset Within 12 Months With Discount For Neo 3 Buyers
Pico says it will give Neo 3 Link buyers a 35% discount should it launch a new headset “within 12 months”.
Is this a Neo 4 hint?
Pico Neo 3 Link Supports Uncompressed PC VR Via DisplayPort Cable
Pico Neo 3 Link, the €449 Quest competitor launching in Europe, supports uncompressed PC VR via the included DisplayPort cable.
Pico Neo 3 Link Launch Lineup Includes Superhot VR, Walkabout Mini Golf, Demeo & More
Pico says Neo 3 Link will have Eleven Table Tennis, Walkabout Mini Golf, Superhot VR, Puzzling Places, Demeo, After The Fall, and more.
Pico Neo 3 Link: €449 Standalone VR Headset Launching In Europe
BREAKING: The Pico Neo 3 Link consumer standalone headset is coming to Europe.
More details here.
Pico launches Pico Neo 3 Link: the first true Quest 2 competitor (in Beta)
Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality: Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting
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How to Perform a LinkedIn Audit for Brands
LinkedIn is undoubtedly the best social network for B2B marketing in the last few years, and it keeps growing. With over 80% of leads for B2B businesses coming from LinkedIn compared to 12% from Twitter and around 6% from Facebook – LinkedIn is a powerful social media tool that should not be ignored. However, to […]
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Pico Neo 3 Link is a Standalone Hoping to Compete with Quest 2 in Europe
Pico Interactive primarily targets enterprise users outside of China, however now the company says it’s taking a step into European consumer markets soon. And surprisingly, its new Neo 3 variant is priced to be competitive with Meta Quest 2. Called Neo 3 Link, the headset is aiming to straddle the PC VR and standalone headset segments […]
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PSVR Shooter ‘Fracked’ is Coming to PC VR in May
Fracked (2021), the action adventure game from veteran VR studio nDreams, is set to leave PSVR exclusivity in May, as it’s landing on PC VR headsets via Steam and Viveport. The run-and-gun VR shooter is slated to release on PC VR headsets (including Quest via Link) on May 5th. It will also be available on the Meta […]
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Meta Plans to Take Nearly 50% of Creator’s Earnings in ‘Horizon Worlds’
This week Meta announced that it was beginning to test selling tools so that creators can sell things inside of Horizon Worlds and earn real money. Now the company has offered up more detail about how that will work, including the fees creators will pay on earnings made through the platform. Meta says the goal of its […]
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