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Twitter Announces New, Exclusive Video Content Partnerships at NewFronts 2022
The deals will provide new opportunities for Twitter’s ad partners to reach engaged audiences in the app.
Requisition VR Delayed As Ukrainian & Russian Staff Relocate
Requisition VR has been delayed as developer Arcadia VR seeks to relocate staff from Russia and Ukraine.
More details here.
Zuckerberg Meets With Luxottica Chairman To Plan ‘New Smart Glasses’
Mark Zuckerberg met with the Italian billionaire behind Ray-Ban & Oakley to plan “new smart glasses” and demo Meta’s neural wristband.
Fitness App Liteboxer Adds Free Subscription Tier On Meta Quest
Liteboxer has added a free tier to its subscription model, giving users unlimited access to a selection of workouts without committing to the premium paid tier.
Meta Shows Off Wrist-worn XR Controller Prototype to Ray-Ban Parent EssilorLuxottica
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a prototype of the company’s wrist-worn XR controller this week to EssilorLuxottica, the Italian parent company behind the Ray-Ban Stories camera glasses and a host of other conventional luxury eyewear brands. Although outwardly it appears to be similar to what the company revealed last year, it’s a definitely vote […]
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NVIDIA Researchers Demonstrate Ultra-thin Holographic VR Glasses That Could Reach 120° Field-of-view
A team of researchers from NVIDIA Research and Stanford published a new paper demonstrating a pair of thin holographic VR glasses. The displays can show true holographic content, solving for the vergence-accommodation issue. Though the research prototypes demonstrating the principles were much smaller in field-of-view, the researchers claim it would be straightforward to achieve a […]
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Niantic to Launch City-scale Visual Positioning System for AR Devices Later This Month
Niantic says it plans to launch its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its developer summit later this month. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that all devices can share the same frame of reference even on massive scales. Many AR devices today are capable of localizing themselves within […]
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Station Crew Gets Back to Work After Crew-3 Mission Ends
The Expedition 67 crew was back to normal on Friday following the departure of four commercial crew astronauts early Thursday morning. The seven International Space Station astronauts and cosmonauts will live and work in space together until late summer. The SpaceX Crew-3 mission ended at 12:43 a.m. EDT on Friday when the Dragon Endurance crew …
Crew-3 Astronauts Splashdown Ending Six-Month Mission
NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endurance in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 12:43 a.m. EDT after 177 days in space. Teams on the Shannon recovery ship, including two …