Instagram Launches ‘Black Perspectives’ Program to Highlight Black Creators in the UK

The program aims to provide more support for creators from marginalized communities.

Twitter Tests Spaces Audio Clips to Maximize Content Creation and Sharing from Audio Broadcasts

The option will provide another way to get more out of your Spaces broadcasts.

Population: One Metropolis Update Available Now, New Details Revealed

The Metropolis update for Population: One is available now, with an entire new section of the map and a new game mode to highlight it.

Polyarc On What Project Cambria’s Eye And Face-Tracking Could Bring To Moss

We spoke to Polyarc about where eye and face-tracking in headsets like Cambria could take Moss in the future.

Why Brands Believe Their CX is Better Than It Really Is

Five-star reviews. Customer opinion surveys. Testimonials. Net Promoter Scores. We all want to know how much someone likes our brand, product, service, experience, us. ?  Most any organization with a marketing person wants to know how good — or lacking — their customer satisfaction level is. Did the customer’s experience live up to the expectation? […]

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VR’s Most Popular Battle Royale Just Got Its Biggest Map Ever

POPULATION: ONE (2020), VR’s most popular battle royale, just got an update across all supported platforms that includes the game’s largest map to date, which comes along with a few other cyberpunk goodies. Called ‘Metropolis’, the new map promises to let you fight across a neon megacity, replete with a nightclub, fortress, gun store, and […]

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Russian Trio Launches on Express Trip to Station

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov are safely in orbit on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft after launching at 11:55 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (8:55 p.m. Baikonur time). The Soyuz will dock to the station’s Prichal module at 3:05 p.m. About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz …

Russian Crew Launching on Soyuz Rocket Today

NASA TV coverage now is underway for the launch of a crewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:55 a.m. EDT (8:55 p.m. Baikonur time). Launch and docking activities will …

Google Buys Raxium To Boost AR Hardware

Google announced its acquisition of Raxium, a five-year-old startup that manufactures prototyped MicroLEDs and semiconductors for many mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) headsets, for an undisclosed sum, it was reported on Wednesday. The acquisition will enable Google to harness Raxium’s research and development (R&D) into AR/MR MicroLED displays, accelerating Google’s extended reality (XR) journey towards […]

UK Parliament Introduces Internet Online Safety Bill

MPs have introduced an updated draft of an Online Safety Bill, which now includes provisions to target social media and tech firms accused of exposing users to harmful content, it was revealed on Thursday. According to the bill, British online regulator Ofcom could slap tech firms with penalties up to 10 percent of global annual […]

Introducing the XR Awards 2022 Categories

XR Today is proud to host some of the industry’s best and brightest tech companies dedicated to advancing immersive extended, mixed, virtual, and augmented reality (XR/MR/VR/AR) technologies and solutions over the past year. The 2022 XR Awards are just around the corner and is open to all firms, including startups and large enterprises, ready to […]

New Varjo Base v3.5 Eye-Tracking Demos Revealed

Varjo Technologies continues to innovate the virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) markets with new product updates aimed at accommodating users with experimental and essential features. Varjo’s Lasse Tuominen, Account Executive for EMEA and APAC, hosted a webinar on Tuesday with the company’s Ferhat Sen, Software Solution Architect and Oleksii Shtankevych, Senior Computer Vision Developer to discuss […]

TikTok Storytelling: How to Stand Out From the Crowd

Want to reach more of your ideal audience on TikTok? Wondering how to tell an authentic story through short-form video? To find out how to leverage storytelling principles in your content, I interview Michael Sanchez.

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Meta Files New Lawsuit Over the Sale of Fake Customer Reviews on Facebook

Meta is taking action against fake review sellers in a new legal action.

LinkedIn Publishes New Guide on the Importance of Employer Branding in the Post-COVID Landscape

The 11-page guide provides a range of tips on the importance of effective employer branding.

Meta Partners with Zefr to Improve its Advertiser Safety Tools

The partnership will help to improve Meta’s ad placement tools.

Google Launches New ‘Related Search for Content’ Ads to Help Improve On-Site Engagement

The new, privacy-friendly ad option provides another way to increase engagement on your site.

Virtex Stadium Partners With Echo VR, Launching Closed Beta Stadium

Virtex Stadium is partnering with Meta and Echo VR to launch a new virtual stadium that will let audiences watch and attend live matches in VR. 

Next Gen Sword Fighter Altair Breaker Coming This Summer From Swords of Gargantua Devs

Thirdverse is slated to launch its new multiplayer VR sword-fighting game Altair Breaker this summer for Meta Quest 2 and PC VR.

VR Gamescast: Moss 2 Impressions, VR Storytelling Troubles, Snoop Dogg In The Metaverse

The VR Gamescast is back!

This week we’re talking Moss 2 impressions, the troubles with VR storytelling and… Snoop Dogg in the metaverse?

Watch along here.

Ragnarock Gets First DLC Pack, Gloryhammer RAID, Featuring Six Tracks

The first DLC content for Ragnarock is available now.

The Gloryhammer RAID DLC features six new tracks from the titular power metal band for $5.99.

Mark Zuckerberg talks about his vision for Meta at SXSW

In my visit to SXSW, I could not miss the fireside chat with Mark Zuckerberg that took place two days

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Top 10 Obstacles to CX Program Success

User experience is an engine of growth. According to the Forrester report, businesses that excel in user experience increase revenue at twice the rate?of?brands that fail to. However building a successful customer experience case study is not an easy task which comes with lots of obstacles. Here are top 10 obstacles to a CX program […]

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Population: One’s Metropolis Doubles as Battle Royale Map and Social Experience

Population: One’s Metropolis Doubles as Battle Royale Map and Social Experience

Metropolis arrives today in the world of BigBox VR’s Population: One battle royale game and while it’s touted as a new map, it’s much more than that.

Let’s get real for a minute and recognize that despite the huge area of this map, which offers more square footage than the entire map combined, the real beauty of Metropolis is the fact that it’s designed for exploration and social interaction.

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‘Moss: Book II’ is Coming to PSVR This Month, New Gameplay Here

If you’re excited to jump back into the storybook world of Moss, you won’t have to wait much longer. In two weeks, you’ll be able go head-first into another adventure with little Quill in the upcoming sequel, Moss: Book II. Coming to PSVR on March 31st from Polyarc, Moss: Book II promises to bring fans of […]

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