Twitter Launches Updated Tweet Analytics Card, Providing More Specific Performance Insight

The updated Tweet analytics card is more intuitive and displays more insight into tweet performance.

Twitter Provides New Checklist for Small Business Saturday Promotions

The checklist provides some quick pointers to help maximize your Twitter efforts this season.

Facebook Shares New Insights into Emerging Shopping Behaviors and Expectations [Infographic]

With consumers now more accustomed to digital connection in the buying journey, expectations are rising around the same.

TikTok Conducts New Research into Harmful Trends and Challenges with a View to Improving Safety Measures

Based on its research, TikTok will specifically focus on self-harm related trends.

HaptX: Meta’s Glove Tech ‘Substantively Identical’ To Our Patents

Force feedback gloves pioneer HaptX says the microfluidic technologies Meta showed off yesterday “appear to be substantively identical” to its patents.

How To Watch The VR Awards, Streaming Tomorrow

Here’s how to watch the 2021 VR Awards, which launch tomorrow in-VR and on desktop.

VR JRPG Ruinsmagus To Launch English Edition With Kickstarter Help

VR JRPG/visual novel hybrid Ruinsmagus is hoping to release a fully localized English version in 2022, and it’s turning to crowd-funding for it.

Hitman 3, Resident Evil 4 And More Make The Game Awards VR Nominations

Hitman 3, Lone Echo 2, Resident Evil 4 and more are up for Best VR at The Game Awards.

What’s your pick?

Qualcomm: Oculus Quest 2 Shipped 10 Million Units Since Launch

Qualcomm held an investor event yesterday where the company revealed that its partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook) has seen over 10 million Oculus Quest 2 units shipped since the VR headset’s launch in October 2020, an important milestone that Meta said would be an important “threshold” to a content ecosystem set for explosive growth. We’ve […]

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Vive Focus 3 is Getting WiFi 6E Support & More Improvements for VR Arcades

HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. The company recently announced updates to the software experience that will bring a host of improvements, such as support for the new WiFi 6E standard, larger tracking areas, […]

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HIKKY Raises $57m to Develop Global Metaverse

Tokyo-based virtual reality (VR) startup HIKKY Co has raised $57 million USD (6.5 billion yen) in a round of series A funding to strengthen the company’s corporate structure and deploy its Metaverse products, both domestically and abroad, the company announced in a statement on Tuesday. HIKKY’s VR services are based on its ‘Vket’ umbrella of […]

Nextech AR Rebrands as Metaverse Company

Canadian augmented reality (AR) firm Nextech AR Solutions Corp has rebranded as a Metaverse company, following Meta’s shock rebrand from Facebook, in a bid to greater reflect its ambitions, it announced on Tuesday. The enterprise aims to rebrand its product lineup with its ARitize trademark and will roll out the changes progressively, reflecting a major […]

Barbados To Open World-First Metaverse Embassy

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Barbados has inked a historic deal to allow the sale of digital real estate as sovereign land with a Metaverse embassy, reports revealed on Tuesday. The department inked the agreement with Decentraland, the world’s largest cryptocurrency digital real estate firm, to buy virtual land for the […]

Immerse SDK: A Free, Versatile Enterprise XR Solution

The Immerse Platform is a enterprise-grade cloud service for the deployment and management of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications, and the US firm distributes VR training and collaboration tools across many global businesses such as DHL and Shell. Immerse is now debuting a software development kit (SDK) that enables VR developers to create custom […]

Twitter Shares New Insights into Rising Football Discussion in the App [Infographic]

Interest in all sports is on the rise, with football seeing renewed fan enthusiasm in the early part of the season.

New Study Shows That 25% of Twitter Users Produce 97% of All Tweets

The study underlines the ‘dominance of the few’ rule on social media, and its broader impacts.

Instagram Expands Live Stream Badges to All Eligible Creators in the US

It’s the latest in Instagram’s expanding set of creator monetization tools.

Pinterest Launches New Team to Accelerate Product and Feature Development

The team will focus on new projects and experiments, which could help Pinterest accelerate its feature development.

Medal of Honor: Above And Beyond Oculus Quest 2 Review – A Great Port Of A Flawed Game

Medal of Honor makes the jump to Quest 2 surprisingly well, but technical accomplishments don’t absolve persistent gameplay issues.

Here’s our review!

Meta Shows Research Towards Consumer Force Feedback Haptic Gloves

Meta shared details of its research towards affordable haptic VR gloves for consumers with force feedback, referencing a “10 to 15 year” timeframe.

Full details here:

Qualcomm CEO Says Quest 2 Is At ’10 Million Units’

Qualcomm’s CEO told investors Meta’s Quest 2 “was 10 million units”

Medal of Honor VR Graphics Comparison – Oculus Quest 2 vs PC VR

Hands-on: OVR Technology made me smell in VR

At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try a scent emitter for virtual reality and in particular the

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – November 2021

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of November 2021. Some quick qualifications before […]

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Social VR Startup Raises $57 Million Investment Led by Major Japanese Mobile Network

Japanese social VR startup HIKKY announced today that it has raised ¥6.5 billion (~$57 million), led by Japanese mobile network operator NTT Docomo. The startup says it will use the funds to expand its web-based metaverse platform. Founded in 2018, Japan-based Hikky is best known for its series of ‘Vket’ events, virtual marketplaces where exhibitors […]

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