In our last XR News Round-Up for 2024, we’re taking a look at stories like By Grit Alone’s Xmas update and Undead Citadel’s Quest 3 update.
Category: News from the web
News from various tech sites, space, animals and more!
Project Astra: Google Smart Glasses Could Be on The Way
In May 2024, the Google I/O event revealed a few interesting insights into the tech giant’s future product roadmap. The company mainly highlighted AI, introducing new versions of Google Gemini, tools for building AI assistants, and more. With Project Astra, Google introduced its vision for the future of smart assistants. According to the company, Astra […]
What is Android XR? Google’s Revolutionary XR Ecosystem
Google is diving head-first back into the world of extended reality – and this time, the company is going big. While it might not be ready to show off any physical products just yet, Google has officially laid out its vision for a brand-new unified Android XR ecosystem. Google isn’t just bringing a reimagined pair […]
LinkedIn’s Giving Users a Summary of Their Games Performance
LinkedIn will give you an overview of how good (or bad) you’ve been at its in-stream games.
Social Media Ad Spend by Platform [Infographic]
An overview of the top earning social platforms, and how they compare.
Meta’s Experimenting With ‘Avatar Quests’ as It Builds Towards the Metaverse
Meta’s looking to add more ways to use avatars within its evolving experiences.
UploadVR’s Best of VR 2024 Awards – Game Of The Year & Most Anticipated Of 2025
With the year coming to a close, here are
UploadVR’s Best of VR 2024 Awards, including our pick for Game of the Year.
UploadVR’s Best of VR 2024 Awards, including our pick for Game of the Year.
Find out all the winners here:
Christmas 2024: Festive VR Games & Updates On Quest, Steam & More
With Christmas less than a week away, we’re rounding up the VR games celebrating the holidays with festive updates.
Contractors Showdown Goes Looting In New Exfil Zone Mode On Quest & Steam
The Exfil Zone alpha is now live in Contractors Showdown, adding a new gameplay mode on Quest and Steam.
Subside Reaches PlayStation VR2 Today With PS5 Pro Enhancements
Aquatic VR experience Subside is now available on PlayStation VR2, featuring PS5 Pro upgrades like dynamic shadows.
Meta CTO on Wireless Compute Pucks for Quest: They Don’t Solve the Problem
Reducing weight and increasing performance are two of the most important factors in pushing standalone XR headsets forward. While Meta has shown off its own Orion AR glasses prototype using a wireless compute unit, Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth doesn’t think a similar setup is the magic bullet for standalone VR gaming. Bosworth, who is also head […]
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Station Crew Works Science Installs and Spacewalk Cleanup Before Holidays
Science hardware installations wrapped up the week for the Expedition 72 crew members aboard the International Space Station. The cosmonauts also slept in on Friday following a spacewalk the day before. NASA Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Nick Hague finalized the installation of the European Enhanced Exploration Exercise Device that provides advanced bicycling, rowing, and …
Roscosmos Spacewalkers Finish External Science Work
Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner concluded their spacewalk Dec. 19 at 5:53 p.m. EST after seven hours and 17 minutes. Ovchinin and Vagner completed all of their major objectives, which included installing an experiment package designed to monitor celestial x-ray sources and new electrical connector patch panels and removing several experiments for disposal. …
Top XR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2025
Ready to dive into a new era of extended reality? Then it’s time to start marking your calendar with the top XR events worth attending in 2025. Throughout 2024, the extended reality market exploded, introducing us to new AI-powered tools, metaverse-as-a-service platforms, and headsets. Countless companies have begun embracing the XR space in new ways […]
Instagram Previews Coming AI Video Elements
Soon, you’ll be able to generate AI elements for your IG video uploads.
Meta Launches Updated Affiliate Link Displays in Posts and Comments
More prominent affiliate links should encourage more sales.
X Touts Business Success in 2024, and Rising Opportunities
X claims to be seeing big success, which is not exactly true.
What Happens on the Internet Every Minute (2024 Version)
The latest overview of the crazy amount of online activity happening every day.
Alien: Rogue Incursion Review – A Promising Yet Imperfect Entry
Alien: Rogue Incursion delivers tense, atmospheric narrative-focused VR action horror that falters in its repetition. Here’s our full review.
Interstellar VR Rhythm Game Starwave Gets First DLC Pack Today On Quest
Starwave adds six new songs to the interstellar VR rhythm game with its first DLC pack today on Quest.
VR Soulslike Grimlord Enters Full Release Today On Quest & Steam
Soulslike-inspired VR action RPG Grimlord enters full release today on Quest and Steam.
Skydance’s Behemoth Review: Great Boss Fights Deliver Decent VR Action
Skydance’s Behemoth is at its best when facing the titular creatures, though it’s not a completely clean sweep through the Forsaken Lands.
Should you attend XR events? Pros and cons of going to exhibitions
It’s the end of the year, and like every December, it is the time to make a balance about how the past year went. There is a particular aspect of my professional year I want to tell you about and it is the attendance at XR events. This year, since my main job vanished and […]
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New Trailer Reveals Release Date for ‘SUPERHOT’ Spiritual Successor ‘COLD VR’
COLD VR, a spiritual successor to long-time hit SUPERHOT VR (2016), is officially headed to Quest and PC VR headsets next month, with its PSVR 2 version slated to arrive later. Superhot VR is old, but gold. And it’s a wonder more studios haven’t tried to replicate its game’s unique time-stopping movement mechanic. Cold VR has to a certain […]
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‘Alien: Rogue Incursion: Part 2’ is Already in Development, Survios Confirms
Alien: Rogue Incursion releases today on PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets, while the Quest version of the the Xenomorph-flavored horror-shooter is slated to arrive February next year. Now developer Survios announced its already in full swing crafting ‘Part Two’. We’ve already had a chance to play through Part One in our full review, where we […]
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