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Fast Travel Games, the developer and publisher behind a host of VR games, announced it’s closed a new investment of $4 million, something the company says will help it further develop its own IP for VR platforms as well as support ongoing publishing initiatives. The latest round was led by Handelsbanken Fonder, with existing owners […]

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I Tried to Play VR With Friends on Quest and it was a Nightmare (Again)

7 months ago

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It feels like every time I try to get friends to have some fun in VR with me, the experience is somehow horribly painful. This time I kept a journal of the entire experience to catalogue the struggles seen by real Quest users every day. The advent of Quest was supposed to streamline the usage […]

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NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest

7 months ago

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NASA and its industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are planning for the next set of missions to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Crew-8 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the orbiting laboratory is targeted to launch no earlier than mid-February. The mission will carry NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, …

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Fearing Hamas Executions, Schools Urge Deletion of TikTok, Instagram

7 months ago

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Hamas’s promise to broadcast the murder of hostages on its social media sites has school leaders and psychologists concerned about students’ safety. Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights Reserved. American and Israeli schools encourage…read more

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RealWear, NHS Deploy Navigator 500 for Surgical Training

7 months ago

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Immersive wearables firm RealWear announced on Wednesday that the North Tees and Hartlepool National Health Services (NHS) Foundation Trust had deployed the company’s head-mounted solutions. With the new wearable tablets and software, students can boost their learning retention rates and practice critical skills to secure their operating theatre training. According to the recent use case, […]

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Microsoft Patents Hot-Swappable Battery for AR Smart Glasses

7 months ago

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Microsoft has recently been awarded a patent to install hot-swappable battery functionality into a future pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, reports revealed. According to MSPowerUser, Microsoft published the patents on 5 October, revealing a potentially strong competitor to current smart glass providers with its modular design. The tech giant’s patent shows that the […]

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Unity’s John Riccitiello Resigns over Pricing Structure Row

7 months ago

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John Riccitiello, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman, Unity Technologies, has immediately stepped down from his position at the firm. The executive decided to resign from his post after the ongoing debacle with Unity’s pricing structure change last month. Unity has appointed James Whitehurst as the interim CEO of the San Francisco-based, real-time 3D (RT3D) […]

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Can the Industrial Metaverse, XR Build Future Smart Cities?

7 months ago

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After the conclusion of the Creativity Conference, many experts from across the immersive technology landscape have continued to share their insights on the future of the industrial metaverse. Amid the rise of emerging technologies, many companies have turned to virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions to initiate next-generational city planning. To discuss this further, […]

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