From LEGO Bricktales to Stranger Things, Meta Connect showcased numerous VR and MR games. Here’s everything we saw.
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The main takeaways from the Meta Connect keynote 2023
The keynote of Meta Connect 2023 finished a few instants ago, and if you follow me on social media, you know that I’ve not been enthusiastic about it, to say the least. But let’s anyway analyze together what have been the most important pieces of news we got from it! Meta AI was the real […]
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Schell Games is Creating a ‘Kurzgesagt’ Educational Game for Quest, Trailer Here
Popular YouTube edutainment channel Kurzgesagt is teaming up with VR developers Schell Games (I Expect You To Die, Among Us VR) to make an exploration adventure game for Quest. Called Out of Scale: A Kurzgesagt Adventure, the fully immersive educational game is said to transform “the iconic look and feel of [Kurzgesagt’s] 2D videos for users […]
Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming to Quest 3 in December
Meta announced at Connect 2023 that Xbox Cloud Gaming is heading to Quest in December, meaning you’ll be able to play all of your favorite flatscreen games on offer through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Meta’s full unveiling of Quest 3 yesterday came with a fair bit of news, including specs, price, pre-orders and shipping dates; […]
Hands-on: ‘Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR’ Has an Interesting Take on VR Parkour Mechanics
Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR has been in the works seemingly for ages, but one major question has gone unanswered until now: just how does the game’s parkour work? If you’ve played pretty much any existing Assassin’s Creed game, you’ll know that doing parkour is largely a matter of holding down a button, then pointing in the […]
Hands-on: Quest 3 is an Impressive Leap That’s Still Held Back by Software Struggles
Quest 3 is an impressive leap in hardware, especially in the visual department, but it continues Meta’s tradition of building great hardware that feels held back by its software. Update (September 27th, 2023): Fixed the link to the second page at the bottom of this page. After months of teasing and leaks, Quest 3 is finally, […]
Expedition 70 Underway; Crew Performs Maintenance
Expedition 70 is well underway aboard the International Space Station after yesterday’s departure of three long-serving station residents, including NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, who returned to Houston this morning. The seven crew members who are still living and working in microgravity completed an array of maintenance activities today. NASA Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli, who arrived …
Meta Connect 2023: Quest 3, AI Advances, Next-Gen Smart Glasses, & the Road to the Metaverse
Today, on the 10th anniversary of Connect, Meta CEO & Founder Mark Zuckerberg shared how the rise of AI and metaverse technologies are reshaping the…
Meta Quest 3: Pre-Orders Now Open for the First Mass-Market Mixed Reality Headset
Big news from the Connect stage: Meta Quest 3 hits shelves October 10, and pre-orders are open now! The world’s first mass-market mixed reality headset…
Introducing the Next-Generation Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses Collection
Since we launched our first-generation smart glasses, millions of moments have been captured and shared. Today at Meta Connect, in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, we announced…