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

4 years ago
InternetNews
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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Facebook Plans 10,000 Job Hiring Spree in Race to Lead the Metaverse

4 years ago
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Facebook, which already employs some 60,000 people, announced a massive expansion of its workforce in an effort to get a head start in building the metaverse. The company says it aims to hire 10,000 new employees, all in the EU. The metaverse is loosely defined as a sort of immersive internet where virtual experiences and worlds […]

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – October 2021

4 years ago
InternetNews
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of October 2021. Some quick qualifications before […]

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Station Gears Up for Russian Resupply Ship Relocation

4 years ago
InternetNews
Tuesday aboard the International Space Station was devoted mainly to orbital maintenance tasks with some light science duties on the schedule. The Expedition 66 crew is also gearing up for a Russian cargo craft backing away from the station and moving to a new docking port this week. Flight Engineers Megan McArthur and Akihiko Hoshide …
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Crew Focuses on Exercise, EVA Preparation, and Maintenance

4 years ago
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The Expedition 66 crew focused on exercise, EVA preparation, and routine maintenance checks as part of its activities aboard the International Space Station today.   International astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent a portion of the day setting up hardware and completing a session for the Immersive Exercise project. Pesquet was tasked with deploying a wireless virtual reality (VR) headset, which he …
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Spain’s ADIF Picks Virtualware for Railway VR Trainer

4 years ago
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Virtual reality (VR) firm Virtualware has teamed up with Spanish railway operator Administrator for Railway Infrastructures (ADIF) to design and implement the network’s VR training simulators, it was revealed last week. The ADIF is the public entity tasked with managing Spanish railway networks, and the new VR simulator aims to improve training for building and […]
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Facebook Pledges 10,000 EU Hires to Build Metaverse

4 years ago
InternetNews
US tech leader Facebook announced plans on Sunday to hire roughly 10,000 employees from the European Union (EU) to help social media giant firm develop the Metaverse. The news comes after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed in early August Facebook would transform into the global leader of the Metaverse – an online, shared extended reality […]
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Big News from Unity, Microsoft, Stage 11, HTC VIVE, and Facebook

4 years ago
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Last week saw a wave of product releases, key events, and updates on the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) markets, which have brought renewed anticipation for upcoming solutions in the industry. Major tech firms such as Facebook, Microsoft, Unity, Stage 11, SenseGlove, LG, ThirdEye and others announced new solutions as well as surprises for […]
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Prisms of Reality and the Benefits of XR as a Learning Tool

4 years ago
InternetNews
XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Anurupa Ganguly, Founder and CEO, Prisms Of Reality. Watch and subscribe on YouTube. In this session we discuss the following: How Prisms is innovating and redefining STEM learning? Feedback from educational institutions that implemented this VR technology to address the Covid-19 pandemic? The benefits of having a real-time, synchronised eLearning […]
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Facebook Plans to Hire 10,000 New Staff to Work on the Metaverse

4 years ago
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Facebook’s basing its Metaverse team in Europe, which could be a measure to help it improve relations with EU regulators.