Flappy Experience Is A Flappy Bird Clone For Apple Vision Pro

Flappy Experience is a VR Flappy Bird clone with first-person gameplay, and it’s free on Apple Vision Pro.

Meta Orion Glasses Hands-On: Viewing AR’s Future As A VR Developer

Experienced VR developer Alex Coulombe was invited to check out the Orion AR glasses prototype at Meta Connect 2024.

Quest Developers Will Finally Get Access to Cameras, Promising New Wave of “cutting-edge” Mixed Reality

One of the biggest gripes developers have with creating mixed reality content for Quest has been the lack of access to the headset’s cameras. That’s about to change. At Connect this week, Meta VP of VR/AR Mark Rabkin announced that developers will soon be able to access a new camera Passthrough API, which is slated […]

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The Biggest Thing We Didn’t See at Connect: Partner Headsets

Meta Connect again saw its usual torrent of announcements this year, this time including the official unveiling of Quest 3S, as well as its new prototype AR glasses, Orion. Notably missing however was company’s three partner headsets from Asus, Lenovo and Xbox. Where are they? Back in April, Meta revealed plans to open its Android-based […]

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Newly Reduced Quest 3 Price and Quest 3S Pre-orders Now Available on Amazon

The newly discounted Meta Quest 3 (512GB) is now available on Amazon, along with pre-orders of the new Quest 3S (128GB) and (256GB), with that sweet, speedy Prime shipping. All now include the promised bundle that includes Batman: Arkham Shadow and a three month subscription to Meta Quest+. It wasn’t initially clear exactly when the newly […]

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New Spatial SDK Reflects Meta’s Push to Bring ‘Spatial Computing’ to Quest

Quest headsets have long been great for playing immersive games, but not so great for the kind of basic ‘desktop productivity’ that Apple’s Vision Pro excels at. Now Meta is hoping to bring more ‘spatial computing’ into the fold with the Meta Spatial SDK, which aims to make it easier for Android developers to port […]

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NASA Hosts Crew-9 Space Station 101 Social Panel

NASA will host an International Space Station 101 panel livestream at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Sept 27. Agency experts will provide an overview about the space station, operations, science, living and working in space, and take questions from reporters and social media. Participants in the livestream panel include: NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free Robyn Gatens, director, …

SpaceX Crew-9 Nears Launch During Station Upkeep Duties

Two SpaceX Crew-9 crewmates are counting down to a Saturday launch, weather permitting, and beginning a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Meanwhile, crew departure preparations and lab maintenance duties were ongoing for the Expedition 72 orbital residents on Thursday. Commander Nick Hague of NASA and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos are at …

Meta CTO Discusses Project Orion, AR Smart Glasses, Neural Interfaces, and Developmental Hurdles

At Meta Connect 2024, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Meta, unveiled a prototype for the much-hyped Orion device, a pair of breakthrough AR smart glasses. During the event, Zuckerberg called the device “the most advanced glasses in the world and our first prototype of full holographic AR.” Zuckerberg also unveiled a significant breakthrough: neural […]

Logitech Debut Meta Quest 3S Accessory for Virtual Productivity

Today, hot on the heels of Meta Connect 2024, Logitech debuted the general availability of its MX Ink product, an MR stylus accessory the firm explicitly made for the Meta Quest headset portfolio.   Namely, the MX Ink product works with the recently introduced Meta Quest 3S, which Meta is shipping on October 15th. Allowing […]