The XR Week Peek (2021.06.21): Facebook experiments with VR ads, PSVR 2 to come at the end of 2022, and more!

Happy VR Summer! This is the first day of this sunny season (if you live in my same hemisphere of

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VR Hockey League Season 4 Begins with an Upset

VR Hockey League Season 4 Begins with an Upset

VR Hockey League Season 4 kicked off tonight for the first of almost nightly matchups for the next eight weeks between eight teams divided into A league and B league. VR Hockey League (VRHL) began its inaugural season in April 2020 and features the premier multiplayer VR hockey simulator Pick-Up League Hockey.

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‘Blaston’ Reverses Course on Testing In-game Facebook Ads After Community Backlash

Blaston, the VR dueling shooter from Resolution Games, was the subject of a controversy within in the VR community after agreeing to test a new in-game ad system from Facebook. The company says it has decided no to go forward with testing ads in Blaston, but may do so with its free VR fishing game, Bait! (2016), […]

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‘Larcenauts’ is Broken on Steam for Non-Oculus Headsets, Impulse Gear Working to Fix

Larcenauts, the new VR hero shooter from Impulse Gear, launched last week on Quest, Rift, and Steam. However, the studio says it ran into a last minute issue which meant the SteamVR version was only compatible with Oculus headsets out of the gate, leading to confusion among buyers who attempted to play the game with […]

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‘Blaston’ Gets Single-player Campaign & Social Features in New ‘Crackdown’ Update

Blaston (2020), the online duel-shooter from Resolution Games, released an update today called ‘Crackdown’ which brings a host of new content and social features to the game, which includes a single-player campaign. Resolution says the new single-player campaign not only acts as a way to enhance the game’s overall appeal (there’s a boss fight), but […]

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‘Steel Crew’ Puts 3 Players in a Tank for Realistic Co-op Combat, Releasing on Steam in 2021

Steel Crew is an upcoming VR-compatible PC game that puts up to three players in a tank and tasks them with out-maneuvering and firing the realistic vehicle for some explosive tank vs. tank online combat. Aiming for launch sometime this year, Steel Crew lets you team up as a Driver, Gunner or Commander so you […]

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Astronauts Look to Friday Spacewalk after Roll Out Solar Array Installation

The International Space Station has a new solar array that was installed during Sunday’s spacewalk by Expedition 65 astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet. The duo will conduct a third spacewalk on Friday to install a second solar array. The first ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) was successfully installed and deployed during a spacewalk on …

25 Ways to Use Social Proof on Your eCommerce Website to Increase Sales [Infographic]

Customer endorsements can play a big role in maximizing sales performance.

9 Key Internet Safety Tips and Notes [Infographic]

With eCommerce on the rise, it’s worth taking note of these tips.

Cubism: How An Architectural Mindset Spawned An Intuitive VR Puzzle Game

In 2016, Thomas Van Bouwel was working as an architect with no experience in VR. Now he’s the sole developer behind the intuitive VR puzzle game Cubism.

Editorial: Facebook, its DNA, and the VR ads

Some days ago, Facebook has announced that it will start experimenting with VR ads inside some selected applications (and Blaston

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Spacewalkers Complete First Roll Out Solar Array Installation

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 2:10 p.m. EDT, after 6 hours and 28 minutes. In the eighth spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts completed the deployment of a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the far end …

Spacewalkers Successfully Deploy Solar Arrays

Working together outside the International Space Station, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough successfully connected and deployed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA). It is the first of six total new iROSAs that will be installed in the coming years to upgrade the station’s power supply and is the …

Astronauts Begin Spacewalk to Complete Solar Array Installation

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install and deploy the first new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA). The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7:42 a.m. EDT to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about …

NASA TV is Live as Astronauts Get Ready for Spacewalk

NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. LIVE SPACEWALK: @Astro_Kimbrough of @NASA_Astronauts and @Thom_Astro of @ESA work outside the @Space_Station to install new solar arrays. https://t.co/usLAy7mEXh — NASA …

Larcenauts’ Loot Boxes Will Not Turn Into Microtransactions – Impulse Gear

Larcenauts’ in-game loot boxes will not be turned into a form of microtransactions in the future, Impulse Gear says.

Hands-On: I Expect You To Die 2 Feels Like An Expansion, Not A Revolution, And That’s Okay

So far I Expect You To Die 2 feels more like an expansion to the first game than a full sequel, but is that such a bad thing?

NASA TV Broadcasts Solar Array Spacewalk on Sunday

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to exit the International Space Station’s Quest airlock Sunday for a spacewalk to continue installation and deployment of the first of six total new solar arrays to help power the orbiting laboratory. The duo installed the solar array into its mounting …

Facebook Announces Education and Insights Sessions as Part of Cannes LIONS 2021

The sessions could offer new insight into how to make best use of Facebook’s evolving ad and creator tools.

Facebook Tests Public Comments Display on Facebook Stories

This could be a new way to spark a different kind of engagement with the format.

Facebook Highlights Black-Owned Businesses for Juneteenth, Provides Tools to Increase Awareness

Facebook’s also providing a range of ways for brands to show their support for the event.

Blaston Review Bombed After Facebook Ad Announcement

Dozens of user-generated reviews this week gave 1-star to dueling shooter Blaston to critique Facebook’s upcoming virtual reality advertising test.

Larcenauts Review In Progress – VR Gamescast

Larcenauts Sprint Fix Already Live, SteamVR Compatibility Being Worked On

Larcenauts’ sprint feature is fixed in a new update, and SteamVR compatibility issues are being worked on, too.

Flight Sim’s Nordics World Update Tackles Iceland And The Lego House

Flight Sim’s stunning Nordic update brings The Lego House to VR.