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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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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 Metaverse continues to dominate as a trending topic across the extended reality (XR) landscape, with numerous tech firms setting their sights and broader ‘horizons’ to develop the new platform. Companies such as NVIDIA, ENGAGE XR, Nreal, Nextech AR, T-Mobile, and Qualcomm reached extensive milestones with their company solutions amid the massive push for Metaverse […]

Of all the things Facebook could rebrand as, why has the company selected meta? Ostensibly, the word meta (Greek for beyond or transcending) has little to do with the social media giant’s primary areas of business. One of the key reasons Mark Zuckerberg cited for the change was that there are simply too many brands […]

According to Statista, there were around 0.81 billion AR users as of 2021. By the time we reach 2024, this number is expected to increase to 1.73 billion. Perhaps more than any other platform for extended reality, AR popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. Through Augmented experiences, companies can connect with customers like never before, […]

The acquisition could point to further development of Twitter’s paid features.

Snap continues to expand its audio options, in line with broader social media usage trends.

Facebook’s expanding its ‘Neigborhoods’ community connection platform to 132 US cities.

YouTube’s looking to take its live-stream shopping tools to the next level, with its upcoming holiday streams a testing ground for the next stage.

Hello everyone from Palo Alto, California! I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning

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