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Meta (formerly Facebook) created quite a stir in the VR industry when it announced last year that it planned to require Facebook account logins for new users. The move didn’t go over well in the VR space or among critics at large. This week the company said it plans to roll-out a non-Facebook option for […]

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Meta Buys Dev Behind VR Fitness App ‘Supernatural’, Its Sixth VR Studio Acquisition in Two Years

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Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it’s Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural. Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be run under Meta Reality Labs, the company’s XR organization. The price of the acquisition was not […]

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Russian Cargo Ship Docks to Station with Food, Fuel and Supplies

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An uncrewed Russian Progress 79 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station’s Zvezda module at 9:31 p.m. EDT, two days after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Carrying almost three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 66 crew, the Progress 79 resupply spacecraft will spend about seven months at the station. Learn more …

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Meta Introduces New Metaverse Communication Tools

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US tech giant Facebook revealed on Thursday it had rebranded as Meta to reflect its shift from building social media apps to developing its upcoming virtual reality (VR) ‘Horizon’ Metaverse platform. During the Facebook Connect 2021 event, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO and Founder, announced the major refocus as well as new product lineups and software […]

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Vault Hill To Open Doors to New Metaverse City

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British tech startup Vault Hill announced on Friday the launch of a new website ahead of its Initial Land Offering for its Metaverse platform and a further pre-sale of the firm’s Vault Hill City (VHC) token. The London-based enterprise’s Metaverse platform revealed its ambitious plans to reshape human interactions with the digital world with a […]

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Zuckerberg Teases Project Cambria, Naraze VR/AR Kit

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US tech giant Facebook, now known as ‘Meta’ in a major company rebranding, livestreamed its ‘Facebook Connect 2021’ event on Thursday, where Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO and Founder, revealed the company’s new Oculus virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices. During the virtual event, Zuckerberg unveiled Project Cambria and Project Nazare, a pair of wearables […]

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Facebook Reveals ‘Meta’ Rebrand, Explores Metaverse

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Facebook revealed on Thursday it would change its name to Meta to encompass the work it wished to achieve in the next phase of the social media giant’s development. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Chief Executive and Founder, explored the possible use cases for Meta’s future extended reality (XR) goals at the Facebook Connect event. The Metaverse, […]

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