Instagram Adds New Data Analytics to Provide More Performance Insight for Marketers

Instagram’s added some more detail to its Insights element, providing more ways for marketers to optimize their content approach.

YouTube Launches New Live Shopping Events, New Updates for CTV Campaigns

Live shopping is set to be a big trend in 2022, and YouTube’s taking its next steps towards broadening its eCommerce offerings.

Facebook Adds new ‘Quick Access’ Links for Your Most Viewed Pages and Profiles

The new option will make it a little easier to get to those Facebook Pages and profiles that you regularly check in on.

26 Predictions for Social Media Marketing in 2022

What’s coming next for social media marketing? Here are some of the key trends that we see taking shape.

Varjo Teases ‘Varjo For All’ Message Ahead Of New Reveal

Varjo’s latest reveal event teaser includes the message ‘Varjo For All’.

What could it mean?

The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

I’m in the middle of this crazy October in which everything is happening in VR and I’m overworking like crazy.

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‘Little Cities’ for Quest Looks Like ‘Cities: Skylines’ in VR, Coming Spring 2022

Little Cities is an upcoming city creation game for Quest that looks to bring much of the same city simulator flair to VR of prolific series such as Cities: Skylines and Sim City. Little Cities is currently under development by UK-based studio Purple Yonder, and is the first game published by nDreams’ recently announced third-party publishing arm. In […]

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Facebook Plans 10,000 Job Hiring Spree in Race to Lead the Metaverse

Facebook, which already employs some 60,000 people, announced a massive expansion of its workforce in an effort to get a head start in building the metaverse. The company says it aims to hire 10,000 new employees, all in the EU. The metaverse is loosely defined as a sort of immersive internet where virtual experiences and worlds […]

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – October 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 October 2021. Some quick qualifications before […]

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Station Gears Up for Russian Resupply Ship Relocation

Tuesday aboard the International Space Station was devoted mainly to orbital maintenance tasks with some light science duties on the schedule. The Expedition 66 crew is also gearing up for a Russian cargo craft backing away from the station and moving to a new docking port this week. Flight Engineers Megan McArthur and Akihiko Hoshide …

Crew Focuses on Exercise, EVA Preparation, and Maintenance

The Expedition 66 crew focused on exercise, EVA preparation, and routine maintenance checks as part of its activities aboard the International Space Station today.   International astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent a portion of the day setting up hardware and completing a session for the Immersive Exercise project. Pesquet was tasked with deploying a wireless virtual reality (VR) headset, which he …

Spain’s ADIF Picks Virtualware for Railway VR Trainer

Virtual reality (VR) firm Virtualware has teamed up with Spanish railway operator Administrator for Railway Infrastructures (ADIF) to design and implement the network’s VR training simulators, it was revealed last week. The ADIF is the public entity tasked with managing Spanish railway networks, and the new VR simulator aims to improve training for building and […]

Facebook Pledges 10,000 EU Hires to Build Metaverse

US tech leader Facebook announced plans on Sunday to hire roughly 10,000 employees from the European Union (EU) to help social media giant firm develop the Metaverse. The news comes after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed in early August Facebook would transform into the global leader of the Metaverse – an online, shared extended reality […]

Big News from Unity, Microsoft, Stage 11, HTC VIVE, and Facebook

Last week saw a wave of product releases, key events, and updates on the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) markets, which have brought renewed anticipation for upcoming solutions in the industry. Major tech firms such as Facebook, Microsoft, Unity, Stage 11, SenseGlove, LG, ThirdEye and others announced new solutions as well as surprises for […]

Prisms of Reality and the Benefits of XR as a Learning Tool

XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Anurupa Ganguly, Founder and CEO, Prisms Of Reality. Watch and subscribe on YouTube. In this session we discuss the following: How Prisms is innovating and redefining STEM learning? Feedback from educational institutions that implemented this VR technology to address the Covid-19 pandemic? The benefits of having a real-time, synchronised eLearning […]

Facebook Plans to Hire 10,000 New Staff to Work on the Metaverse

Facebook’s basing its Metaverse team in Europe, which could be a measure to help it improve relations with EU regulators.

Steam Deck Lists All VR Games As ‘Unsupported’, But You Can Still Try Them

Steam Deck will automatically list every SteamVR game as ‘Unsupported’, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them a try.

Voices of Inspiration Is A New Oculus Quest Experience From Lucas Rizzotto, SpaceX And St. Jude Hospital

A new VR experience features patients at St. Jude Hospital offering up words of encouragement to the crew of the Inspiration4 SpaceX mission.

Update: Pimax To Host Online Conference, Pimax Frontier, On October 25

Pimax revealed plans for a new online conference titled Pimax Frontier taking place on October 20, with registration available now.

VR Dungeon Crawler Ancient Dungeon Gets Early Access SteamVR, App Lab Release Next Month

Promising VR dungeon crawler, Ancient Dungeon, will finally release its early access version next month.

Sony Reveals Top 5 Most Played PSVR Games Ever

It’s been five years since Sony released PlayStation VR on PS4 consoles, and to commemorate the anniversary its creators have released the top five most-played PSVR games to date. Unlike its monthly top-download list, Sony has stacked up all of its 500+ games on the store and ranked them according to playtime hours, showing us […]

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27 Time-Saving Blogging Tools for a Supreme Content Marketing Strategy in 2022 [Infographic]

The right tools can streamline your blogging process – here are some helpful apps to consider.

Facebook Shares Halloween Trends and Tips from Facebook Marketplace [Infographic]

What’s trending for Halloween this year? Here’s a look at what’s selling on Facebook Marketplace.

Pinterest Shares New Insights into Emerging Travel Trends as People Look Beyond the Pandemic

Travel searches are on the rise among Pinners, which could present significant new opportunities for marketers.

Russian Station Veteran, Filmmakers Back on Earth

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Russian actress Yulia Peresild and Russian producer-director Klim Shipenko landed on Earth at 12:35 a.m. EDT Sunday, October 17 in Kazakhstan (10:35 a.m. Kazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan. The trio departed the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft at 9:14 p.m. Novitskiy arrived to …