Panasonic Subsidiary Shiftall Unveils Lightweight MicroOLED VR Headset for Consumers

Panasonic subsidiary Shiftall, the makers of SteamVR-compatible body tracking system HaritoraX, announced it’s releasing a lightweight consumer VR headset this year that includes OLED microdisplays and the ability to play SteamVR content. Called MeganeX, the low-profile, high-resolution headset is slated to launch sometime in Spring 2022, priced at around $900. Unveiled at CES 2022, Shiftall’s MeganeX is […]

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Holiday Search Volume for Quest in the US Exceeded PlayStation, Nintendo, & Xbox for the First Time

The 2021 holiday season was very likely the best yet for the Oculus Quest 2. For the first time ever, holiday search volume in the US for the headset exceeded major gaming consoles like PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. The holidays have always been a peak time for VR. As the technology has grown […]

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A Visual Guide to Profile Picture NFTs [Infographic]

Trying to get your head around NFTs and their rising use as profile pictures on social media? This will help.

How to Give Your Instagram the Best First Impression [Infographic]

Ensure you’re ticking all the boxes with your brand Instagram presence.

8 Emerging Visual Trends for 2022 [Infographic]

Ensure your social posts continue to stand out in busy feeds with these visual trend insights.

Steam Sees Huge Growth In Quest 2 Users Over Christmas

Steam saw a huge growth in Quest 2 users over Christmas.

Find out where each headset ranks in the latest Steam Hardware Survey.

The XR Week Peek (2022.01.03): Quest 2 sales spark a debate on kids and VR, Apple hires XR communication rep, and more!

Welcome, 2022! This is the first newsletter of this new year, and I hope it will be a great year

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‘QuestHaven’ to Bring Tabletop Games Like ‘D&D’ to VR, Kickstarter Coming Soon

QuestHaven is an upcoming tabletop simulator that wants to bring VR and PC users all of the tools they need to play tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. The team behind the project says the simulator will let you build environments and import game rules so you can play any essentially any roleplaying tabletop game, […]

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Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars

Wolf3D, the Estonian startup behind web-based avatar creator Ready Player Me, has closed a $13 million funding round. The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D […]

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Crew Kicks off 2022 with Biology, Botany and Spacewalk Preps

The five astronauts and two cosmonauts of Expedition 66 started the first work week of 2022 researching microgravity science, reviewing Crew Dragon emergency procedures and ramping up for a spacewalk. Biology and botany are critical research subjects on the orbiting lab as NASA and its international partners plan human missions to the Moon, Mars and …

Hands-On: Zenith Might Just Be The Quest, PSVR And VR MMO You’re Looking For

We’ve played VR MMO Zenith on Quest and it’s looking… really good?

Hands-on impressions right here.

New VR Games January 2022: All The Biggest Releases

Hitman 3 on PC! Wanderer! A new Zenith beta!

Here’s all the big VR releases heading your way this January.

Resident Evil 2 & 3 VR Mods Now Available

Here’s a big New Year treat – Resident Evil 2 and 3’s VR mods are now available!

Download info and gameplay right here.

Advertising in the Metaverse Explained: It’s a Jungle Out There

In the next ten years, the metaverse is expected to sign on a billion users and eventually earn over $1 trillion in revenues. This presents a massive opportunity for brands, marketers, and advertisers. Investment fund and crypto company, Grayscale, notes that the metaverse will enable new revenue streams via advertising, digital events, e-commerce, and hardware […]

How Will Businesses Trade in the Metaverse?

With a $1 trillion revenue opportunity in less than a decade, businesses must start preparing for a metaverse-dominated future. Following Facebook’s rebrand as Meta and several companies’ serious intentions for the metaverse, Morgan Stanley announced that it would be the “next big investment theme” in a note. 15 years back, software-as-a-service and the cloud had […]

2022 VR Games: 40 Quest 2, PSVR And PC VR Titles To Look Out For

Here’s 35 new VR games to look out for in 2022.

From Among Us VR to GTA: San Andreas, it promises to be a huge year!

Virtual Reality should acknowledge its “kids issue”

We just had our Christmas holidays, and it is common knowledge that Virtual Reality, and especially Quest 2, had its

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Biden-Harris Administration Extends Space Station Operations Through 2030

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced today the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to extend International Space Station (ISS) operations through 2030, and to work with our international partners in Europe (ESA, European Space Agency), Japan (JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Canada (CSA, Canadian Space Agency), and Russia (State Space Corporation Roscosmos) to enable continuation of the groundbreaking research being conducted in this …

Media and Entertainment in the Metaverse: The Future is Already Here

Virtual reality entertainment events with massive crowds of 3D avatars are no longer a futuristic notion. In April 2020, Travis Scott held a concert in Fortnite’s immersive surroundings, opening to an audience of 12.3 million concurrent players. K-pop group BTS also chose Fortnite to debut their new single in September of last year. The trend […]

Metaverse vs Multiverse: Which One Will Come Out on Top?

As Facebook rebrands to Meta, the spotlight is on the many virtual worlds around us and how we inhabit them. While the metaverse may still be a work in progress, the idea of spending our time and engagement efforts in an online-only world isn’t new. The notion of the metaverse was first suggested in the […]

The Metaverse: What Marketers Need to Do to Prepare

Wondering what the Metaverse is and what it could mean for marketers? Are you interested in preparing for the future of business? To discover why marketers should care about this new development, how to prepare, and how it fits into longer-term strategies, I interview Cathy Hackl.

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Developers Share Record VR Player & Sales Numbers Across Christmas

VR developers reported huge upticks in sales and concurrent players over the course of Christmas.

Was this VR’s biggest holiday yet?

Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 – Key Differences You Need to Know

The global internet has come a long way since its inception in the 1980s-90s as a set of catalogued information pages. Today, web access is a crucial part of our work and professional lives and users rely on phones, laptops, PCs, tablets, and even headsets and wearables to fetch information from the web. During the […]

Gaming in the Metaverse: The Next Frontier?

Gaming has always been a prime candidate for virtual reality (VR). Even early immersive games in 2D like Minecraft and Second Life incorporated elements of the now-WIP metaverse – such as 3D avatars, world-building, and observation as gameplay. Now, as companies like Meta and Epic Games attempt to build a connected universe of virtual realities, […]

Vive Pro Eye Review: Next-Level Eye Tracking

Making extended reality technologies like VR more accessible to the masses isn’t just about reducing the price of the technology. For VR to become a common part of our day-to-day lives, it needs to be truly transformational, immersive, and suitable for a host of use cases. This is where tools like the Vive Pro Eye […]