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Eye Of The Temple Gets Quest 3 Upgrade With Improved Graphics & Refresh Rate
Room-scale VR platformer Eye of the Temple got a Quest 3 update with increased refresh rate, real-time shadows, and more.
visionOS 2 Is Reportedly Coming This Year – Will It Bring 3D Spatial Personas?
visionOS 2 for Apple Vision Pro will release this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. It might bring the highly anticipated ‘Spatial Personas’.
Escape Simulator VR Arrives Next Week As A Free Update To The Flat Game
Escape Simulator VR arrives next week as a free update for the flatscreen edition on Steam.
Quest 3 Has Higher Retention Than Previous Headsets, Meta Confirms
Quest 3 has higher retention than any previous Meta headset, the company confirmed at GDC.
Soyuz Hatches Open, Expedition 70 Welcomes Crew Aboard Station
The hatches between the International Space Station and the newly arrived Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft officially opened at 1:26 p.m. EDT. The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 70 temporarily increases the station’s population to 10. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight …
Soyuz Spacecraft Docks to Station With Three Crew Members Aboard
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station at 11:03 a.m. EDT. Coverage of hatch opening will air live at 1:15 p.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how …
Three Crew Members Arriving to Station Soon Live on NASA TV
NASA+, NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app now are providing live coverage of the docking of Soyuz MS-25 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz is scheduled to dock at approximately 11:09 a.m. EDT. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus launched safely …
Toy Monsters Brings MR Tower Defence To Quest Next Month
Toy Monsters promises Plants vs Zombies inspired tower defense in mixed reality next month on the main Quest Store.
Meta AI Research: Making Headsets And Glasses Understand Your Room Layout & Furniture
Meta’s latest AI research makes headsets and glasses understand your room layout and furniture.
VRIDER Hands-On: Promising VR Superbike Racing
VRIDER is an officially licensed Superbike World Championship VR game coming to Quest and Steam this year.
Here’s our impressions from GDC 2024.
ALVR For Apple Vision Pro Is Now Available To Download & Forwards Hand Tracking To SteamVR
ALVR for Apple Vision Pro is now available to install without the need to compile the source code, and it forwards hand tracking to SteamVR.
Crewed Soyuz Spacecraft Launches to Station
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus are safely in orbit on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after launching at 8:36 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (5:36 p.m. Baikonur time). The Soyuz will dock to the space station’s Prichal module about 11:09 a.m. Monday, …
Three Crew Members Launching to Station Aboard Soyuz Spacecraft Live on NASA TV
NASA coverage now is underway for the launch of a crewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:36 a.m. EDT (5:36 p.m. Baikonur time). …
Dragon Spacecraft Docks to Station With New Science, Supplies
While the International Space Station was traveling more than 262 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to station’s Harmony module at 7:19 a.m. EDT, with NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Michael Barratt monitoring operations from the station. The Dragon launched on SpaceX’s 30th contracted commercial resupply mission for NASA at …
Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Arriving to Station Soon Live on NASA TV
A SpaceX Dragon is on track to arrive at the International Space Station today, Saturday, March 23, with an expected docking of the cargo spacecraft about 7:16 a.m. EDT. Live coverage is underway on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. When it arrives to the space station, Dragon will dock to …
IDC Predicts Surge in AR and VR Headset Shipments
IDC has predicted the number of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headset shipments to rocket upwards due to the rise of mixed reality (MR). Despite shipments for AR and VR headset declining by 23.5 percent last year, new IDC data points to shipments in 2024 rising by 44.2 to 9.7 million units. The […]
Big XR News from NVIDIA GTC, Apple, LG, and HTC VIVE
What a massive week for spatial computing. At GTC, NVIDIA wowed the world with robotics, digital twins, automatic vehicles, AI processors, and countless more innovations, and behind many, many, many of these innovations, spatial data. With XR/spatial computing data, whether 3D environmental data or user tracking data, 3D services are working hard behind the scenes […]
NHS Hospital Uses VR to Reduce Pain and Anxiety During Procedures
The Medway Maritime NHS Hospital offers therapeutic virtual reality (TVR) to reduce feelings of pain and anxiety for patients undergoing Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures under local anaesthetic. It is understood to be the only NHS hospital in the UK currently offering TVR for IR treatments like angioplasty, stent changes, and inserting feeding tubes. Research shows […]
Apple Vision Pro Now Supports Browser-Based XR Content
This week, Apple Vision Pro introduced support for WebXR browser-based Safari immersive applications, following a series of hurdles in bringing the platform’s support to the device. Firstly, it was difficult for WebXR’s integration into Vision Pro due to the service requiring controllers and the Vision Pro only using hand tracking. However, now Vision Pro users […]
TikTok Publishes Guide on Lead Generation Best Practices
Some tips for your TikTok marketing approach.
X Tests New Search Filters for Hiring
X Hiring has been one of the most successful new additions to the app.
Instagram Updates Hashtag Search To Broaden Discovery
The update will make it easier to find related content from all elements of the app.
Laser Dance Hands-On: Room-Scale Mixed Reality’s Best Demo
Laser Dance is an incredible demonstration of mixed reality’s potential on Quest 3. Read on for our full impressions: