Population: One Metropolis Update Available Now, New Details Revealed

The Metropolis update for Population: One is available now, with an entire new section of the map and a new game mode to highlight it.

Polyarc On What Project Cambria’s Eye And Face-Tracking Could Bring To Moss

We spoke to Polyarc about where eye and face-tracking in headsets like Cambria could take Moss in the future.

Why Brands Believe Their CX is Better Than It Really Is

Five-star reviews. Customer opinion surveys. Testimonials. Net Promoter Scores. We all want to know how much someone likes our brand, product, service, experience, us. ?  Most any organization with a marketing person wants to know how good — or lacking — their customer satisfaction level is. Did the customer’s experience live up to the expectation? […]

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VR’s Most Popular Battle Royale Just Got Its Biggest Map Ever

POPULATION: ONE (2020), VR’s most popular battle royale, just got an update across all supported platforms that includes the game’s largest map to date, which comes along with a few other cyberpunk goodies. Called ‘Metropolis’, the new map promises to let you fight across a neon megacity, replete with a nightclub, fortress, gun store, and […]

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Russian Trio Launches on Express Trip to Station

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov are safely in orbit on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft after launching at 11:55 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (8:55 p.m. Baikonur time). The Soyuz will dock to the station’s Prichal module at 3:05 p.m. About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz …

Russian Crew Launching on Soyuz Rocket Today

NASA TV coverage now is underway for the launch of a crewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:55 a.m. EDT (8:55 p.m. Baikonur time). Launch and docking activities will …

Google Buys Raxium To Boost AR Hardware

Google announced its acquisition of Raxium, a five-year-old startup that manufactures prototyped MicroLEDs and semiconductors for many mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) headsets, for an undisclosed sum, it was reported on Wednesday. The acquisition will enable Google to harness Raxium’s research and development (R&D) into AR/MR MicroLED displays, accelerating Google’s extended reality (XR) journey towards […]

UK Parliament Introduces Internet Online Safety Bill

MPs have introduced an updated draft of an Online Safety Bill, which now includes provisions to target social media and tech firms accused of exposing users to harmful content, it was revealed on Thursday. According to the bill, British online regulator Ofcom could slap tech firms with penalties up to 10 percent of global annual […]

Introducing the XR Awards 2022 Categories

XR Today is proud to host some of the industry’s best and brightest tech companies dedicated to advancing immersive extended, mixed, virtual, and augmented reality (XR/MR/VR/AR) technologies and solutions over the past year. The 2022 XR Awards are just around the corner and is open to all firms, including startups and large enterprises, ready to […]

New Varjo Base v3.5 Eye-Tracking Demos Revealed

Varjo Technologies continues to innovate the virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) markets with new product updates aimed at accommodating users with experimental and essential features. Varjo’s Lasse Tuominen, Account Executive for EMEA and APAC, hosted a webinar on Tuesday with the company’s Ferhat Sen, Software Solution Architect and Oleksii Shtankevych, Senior Computer Vision Developer to discuss […]