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Quest’s Home Environment May Soon Get The Social Capabilities We’ve Been Waiting For
Back in October, Meta announced that it would eventually transition its home environment to ‘Horizon Home’, giving it a fuller set of social features like being able to invite party members to visit, hang out, or launch into VR apps together. It seems we’re getting a step closer to the release of those features, as […]
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Historical Cooking Sim ‘Lost Recipes’ Coming to Quest January 27th
Schell Games today announced that Lost Recipes, its upcoming historical cooking sim, is set to release January 27th on the Quest platform, bringing with it the chance to cook ancient recipes in period accurate kitchens from around the world. Arriving from the VR veterans known for I Expect You to Die, Until You Fall, and the upcoming VR adaptation […]
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Meta Plans to Fuse Its ‘Horizon’ Apps & Make Them More Accessible… Eventually
Though Meta is steadily building up three social VR apps—Horizon Worlds, Horizon Venues, and Horizon Workrooms—the trio still exist as separate apps and hardly constitute a seamless experience. In the future the company hopes to change that and open the door to non-VR devices. But how long will it take? Meta is undoubtedly bullish about […]
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Biology, Agriculture Studies as Astronaut Begins Record-Breaking Spree
Biology and agriculture were the dominant research themes aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. Also, an Expedition 66 Flight Engineer is beginning a set of record-breaking milestones before returning to Earth at the end March. NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron started work Thursday morning inside the Kibo laboratory module examining mice for …
Vuzix Launches M400-C AR Smart Glasses
Vuzix Corporation revealed on Tuesday ahead of the CES 2022 event it had launched its M400-C augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. The Rochester, New York-based AR technology provider also unveiled it had shipped limited units to a Windows mobile computer manufacturer. Priced at $1,199 USD, Vuzix plans to ship the head-mounted displays (HMDs) in the […]
Everything You Need to Know About Sony’s PSVR 2
This week at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022, Japanese tech firm Sony Interactive Entertainment fully unveiled the PlayStation virtual reality 2 (PSVR 2) headset with its controllers. The announcement at the CES event in Las Vegas revealed the next generation of Sony’s VR efforts with a series of hardware and software announcements. During […]
Qualcomm, Microsoft to Build AR Metaverse Chip
Qualcomm has partnered with Microsoft to build a custom Snapdragon processor for future augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, the company unveiled in a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 on Tuesday. Speaking at the massive electronics event, Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm Chief Executive, said that his company was developing the new chip for […]
VR Case study in focus: Galderma Embraces HTC VIVE
Extended reality opportunities are quickly capturing the attention of the healthcare industry. Over the last couple of years, the strain of the pandemic has placed significant pressure on the healthcare space. Everything from staff training strategies, to patient care has evolved to suit an increasingly digitized space. One of the most exciting new technologies in […]
Facebook Encourages More Developers to Integrate Facebook Stories Sharing into their Apps [Infographic]
Facebook’s looking to get more app developers to integrate Facebook Stories sharing into their apps.