‘Rec Room’ is Getting a Mario Kart-style Racer on September 29th, Trailer Here

Rec Room, arguably the most successful social VR platform, today announced at its annual Rec Con conference that it’s getting a new go-kart racing mini-game that will let you duke it out against your friends and strangers in six-player online matches. Called ‘Rec Rally’, the new mini-game is set to launch on September 29th, arriving for free […]

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Twitter Launches Live Test of Topics in Spaces to Improve Discovery

Topics will help Twitter highlight relevant Spaces broadcasts to a broader audience.

Twitter Updates Video Playback to Ensure a Higher Quality Viewing Experience

Your Twitter videos will now look better, thanks to a new update in the platform’s playback process.

Twitter’s Testing More Options to Help Users Avoid Negative Interactions in the App

The new options would give users more ways to control their in-app experience, and avoid unwanted interactions. 

Instagram Launches New Global Branding Campaign, Highlighting the Benefits of Community Connection in the App

The campaign aims to highlight the community benefits of Instagram, in connecting people around interests and trends.

Ultrawings 2 Announced For Quest & PC VR With Five Unique Aircraft

Bit Planet Games just revealed Ultrawings 2, the sequel to its 2017 casual VR flight game.

It introduces a biplane, a WW2-style monoplane, a helicopter, and a rocket jet. The islands are 3x larger and gameplay now includes air-to-air and air-to-ground combat.

Redesigned DecaGear Controllers Revealed

DecaGear just revealed redesigned controllers for its upcoming PC VR headset.

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Aftershocks DLC Review

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Review – The Best Zombie Apocalypse To Date (Updated 2021)

The first officially licensed Walking Dead VR game is here and it’s an absolutely thrilling adventure across a flooded New Orleans. Read the review here!

Oculus Quest 2 passthrough now works without boundaries

Today I made two little big discoveries about the Oculus Quest 2 that together mean that you can use this

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Incorporating Interactive Video for Marketing

Interactivity in video is about much more than creating shiny objects or gamification. It’s about meaningful user choice.  Online, on-demand video is roughly half the age of the web itself. In that brief sixteen years, video has become the dominant medium for digital marketing by an overwhelming margin. Interactive video (or IV) is only slightly […]

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Space Biology, Dragon Packing and Station Traffic Fill Crew Schedule

Rodent research, microbe sampling and Dragon packing filled the Expedition 65 crew’s day at the end of the week aboard the International Space Station. Three orbital residents are also preparing their Soyuz crew ship to switch docking ports next week. NASA Flight Engineers Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough started their day observing mice once again …

Twitter Launches New #ExtremeWeather Mini-Site to Help Maximize Climate Change Messaging

The mini-site aims to help raise awareness as to how climate-related discussion evolves via tweet, which could help to improve messaging approaches.

Clubhouse Adds New ‘Wave’ Option to Prompt Spontaneous Group Chats

The option could help Clubhouse facilitate new use cases, and solidify its place in the broader social media landscape.

Twitter Shares New Preview of Coming Spaces Recording Option

Recorded Spaces would provide more functionality for the option, which could help to lure more broadcasters.

TikTok Shares New Research into How Users Respond to Ads on the Platform

The data shows how TikTok users respond to ads in the app, and highlight key notes on mental response and recall.

Report: Apple’s AR-VR Headset To Launch Second Half Of 2022

Taiwanese news outlet DigiTimes claims Apple’s rumored AR-VR headset will enter production Q2 2022 and launch in the second half of the year.

Beat Saber Billie Eilish Music Pack DLC: Hands-On & Impressions

The Billie Eilish music pack is now available for Beat Saber. But will it leave you feeling Happier Than Ever, or more like a bad guy? Here are our impressions.

Unplugged Launches In October On Oculus Quest, PC To Follow

Rock on – Unplugged launches on Oculus Quest next month.

Will Unplugged Work? Saints & Sinners – Aftershocks & Ionia Reviewed! – VR Gamescast

Stageverse Muse concert first impressions

Many people on social media advised me to try The Muse concert inside the new virtual events platform Stageverse… and

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4 Insights on Digital Transformation and The State of MarTech [ Research ]

The backbone of digital transformation is the technology that we use. Technology to find customers, attract customers, engage customers, and make a sale. Everything that happens in marketing and sales includes technology to help us be more efficient and effective in what we do.  Today, marketers have access to endless streams of data and countless […]

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Air Guitar Rhythm Game ‘Unplugged’ Launches on Quest October 21st, on PC VR Later This Year

Unplugged is an upcoming VR rhythm game which makes use of full finger-tracking for a Rock Band-like experience, but with an ‘air guitar’ instead of a plastic peripheral. Today developer Anotherway announced the game’s release date for October 21st on Oculus Quest, and affirmed that a PC VR version will launch later this year. As […]

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One of Quest’s Best Puzzle Games Just Got 30 New Levels

Cubism (2020) is consistently one of the best-rated games on Quest, and it just got a mess of new puzzles in a free update today which arrives to all supported headsets. Called ‘Volume 2’, the free update brings 30 new puzzles to the game, marking the one-year anniversary of its release back in September 2020. This, its creator […]

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‘Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia’ Review – Cinematic Pretense & Little Substance

Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia is a VR adventure that promises to take you to a fantastical world filled with musical flora and fauna. Despite some earnest attempts at worldbuilding, the end result is a thin and superficial theme park ride that bears a fleeting resemblance to its flashy promo trailer. Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia Details: […]

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