Accenture Orders Record 60,000 Oculus Headsets

Multinational IT consultancy firm Accenture has shattered records after it ordered 60,000 Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headsets for training and onboarding procedures. The record-breaking sale will secure VR training opportunities for the company’s vast remote workforce and provide an engaging on-boarding process for up to 125,000 new hires. After the news broke yesterday about […]

EPFL Debuts 360 Film for New VR Graphics Engine

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) are working at the institute’s Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) to launch a beta version of VIRUP, an open-source virtual reality (VR) graphics engine, the institution revealed last week. To mark the occasion, EPFL researchers released ‘Archaeology of Light,’ a short VR movie that […]

China Hosts 2021 World Conference on VR Industry

China has kicked off the 2021 World Conference on the Virtual Reality (VR) Industry on Tuesday, Xinhua News reported. The conference, which is taking place in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, will cover some of the nation’s top achievements in the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) industry and promote use cases for the implementation and development […]

Instagram Adds New Data Analytics to Provide More Performance Insight for Marketers

Instagram’s added some more detail to its Insights element, providing more ways for marketers to optimize their content approach.

YouTube Launches New Live Shopping Events, New Updates for CTV Campaigns

Live shopping is set to be a big trend in 2022, and YouTube’s taking its next steps towards broadening its eCommerce offerings.

Facebook Adds new ‘Quick Access’ Links for Your Most Viewed Pages and Profiles

The new option will make it a little easier to get to those Facebook Pages and profiles that you regularly check in on.

26 Predictions for Social Media Marketing in 2022

What’s coming next for social media marketing? Here are some of the key trends that we see taking shape.

Varjo Teases ‘Varjo For All’ Message Ahead Of New Reveal

Varjo’s latest reveal event teaser includes the message ‘Varjo For All’.

What could it mean?

The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

I’m in the middle of this crazy October in which everything is happening in VR and I’m overworking like crazy.

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‘Little Cities’ for Quest Looks Like ‘Cities: Skylines’ in VR, Coming Spring 2022

Little Cities is an upcoming city creation game for Quest that looks to bring much of the same city simulator flair to VR of prolific series such as Cities: Skylines and Sim City. Little Cities is currently under development by UK-based studio Purple Yonder, and is the first game published by nDreams’ recently announced third-party publishing arm. In […]

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