Snapchat held its India AR Day in Mumbai this week.
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Meta Boosts Warnings About Romance Scams Ahead of Valentine’s Day
Now is the time to be aware of scammers looking to prey on lonely hearts.
Google’s Testing New Age Detection Processes to Protect Young Users
Google’s developing improved age detection techniques.
TikTok Highlights Rising Stars in 2025 ‘Discover List’
The listing highlights some of the top emerging creators in the app.
Skydance’s Behemoth Gets Hundreds Of Fixes In Second Major Patch
The second major patch for Skydance’s Behemoth is now live across all platforms with “over 700” fixes.
Ready At Dawn Was Working On A “Revolutionary” VR Game When Meta Shut It Down
Ready At Dawn was working on one of the “most revolutionary VR games ever” when Meta shut it, the studio’s co-founder claims.
Atari’s Psychedelic I, Robot Remake Features Optional PS VR2 Support
Jeff Minter and Atari are remaking ’80s classic arcade shooter I, Robot with optional PlayStation VR2 support.
Alien: Rogue Incursion Quest Graphics Comparison – Why You Want PlayStation VR2 Or PC
Alien: Rogue Incursion arrives on Quest 3 tomorrow, and we found it’s visuals to be vastly inferior to PlayStation VR2 and PC VR, with unpleasant shimmering and barely readable text.
PSVR 2 Holiday Sales Volume Grew Massively Year-over-year on Amazon
A big sale on PSVR 2 pushed the headset’s holiday sales volume on Amazon US higher than might have been expected, selling nearly five times more than last year. PSVR 2’s Black Friday and holiday sale brought a huge 42% discount on the Horizon bundle of the headset, dropping the US price from $550 to […]
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Oculus Founder’s Defense Company is Taking Over Microsoft’s Military AR Headset Project
Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril is taking over Microsoft’s beleaguered Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, which seeks to produce battlefield AR headsets for the United States Army. Although couched as a “partnership” of sorts, Anduril says the deal—still pending Department of Defense approval—includes assuming oversight of production of IVAS, including future development of hardware and software, and […]
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Keeping Crews Healthy Farther Away from Earth Key Station Research Topic
The Expedition 72 crew continued its research on Wednesday to better understand space-caused eye pressure changes and ensure crew members stay healthy on future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The orbital residents also kept up the continuous operations of critical science gear and life support systems on the International Space Station.
XR All-Stars: Challenges for the Immersive Enterprise Industry in 2025
The XR world is a growing space of opportunity. While headset news dominates and steals headlines, the ways in which immersive RT3D technology is used today reach many users in manufacturing, industrial, factory operations, and more. As use cases emerge, grander deployments of immersive solutions will follow. But with this comes challenges. For its second […]
Qualcomm AI Research to Boost Virtual and Augmented Reality Gesture Understanding
Recently, Qualcomm AI Research made several strides in promoting the evolution of XR by promoting new AI data sets to improve human-computing understanding in various business use cases. Specifically, the Qualcomm AI subgroup published various research datasets on common emerging technology use cases for businesses, including virtual and augmented reality applications. Moreover, these VR/AR AI […]
Meta Launches Digital Safety Program for Middle Schoolers
A new safety education initiative, which aims to raise awareness of online threats.
YouTube Expands Text-to-Speech for Shorts, Announces New Teen Safety Initiative
The latest feature update from YouTube.
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Is Taking Over The US Army IVAS Program, Replacing HoloLens
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril is taking over the US Army’s IVAS HMD program, replacing Microsoft’s customized HoloLens solution.
Stupid Cars Is Delightfully Frantic Traffic-Directing
Stupid Cars is a great starter game for Quest and a natural fit for VR.
Our full impressions.
John Carmack Offered A $1 Million Guarantee To Bring Team Beef’s Ports To The Quest Store
“I tried”
John Carmack says he offered id Software a $1 million sales guarantee to allow Team Beef to sell its VR ports on the Quest store.
Android XR Will Let Apps Access The Passthrough Camera View, Google Confirms
Android XR will let apps access the passthrough camera view to, for example, run custom computer vision models, Google confirmed.
PSVR 2 Gets Its First Game with Controller-less Hand-Tracking
Sony introduced hand-tracking support for PSVR 2 back in December, offering up the ability for developers to update their games and let players go hands-on thanks to the headset’s on-board tracking cameras. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the Wizard (2019) is the first to implement hand-tracking on PSVR 2. Waltz of the Wizard has grown […]
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John Carmack Pushed Microsoft to Make VR Fan Ports of ‘Quake’ & ‘DOOM’ Official, But Was Denied
Team Beef’s unofficial VR ports of classic Id Software games are undoubtedly fan favorites, letting you go head-first into a rash of ’90s retro titles like the original DOOM. Now, Id Software co-founder and former Oculus CTO John Carmack says he tried lobbying the Microsoft-owned studio for the chance to get those ports offered as official […]
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Crew Studies Space Agriculture, Biotechnology to Promote Future Missions
Tuesday’s International Space Station research objectives included learning how to grow crops on spacecraft and produce vitamins and nutrients in space to sustain crews farther away from Earth. The Expedition 72 crewmates also explored how the human body orients itself in weightlessness and serviced a pair of docked spacecraft.702
Biotechnology to Sustain Crews on Long Missions Tops Research Schedule
Biotechnology kicked off the work week aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 72 crew members explored ways to counter the effects of microgravity and produce vitamins and nutrients during long-term space missions.