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r/AMA Mods Stop Running Celebrity Interviews, as Reddit’s API Pricing Protest Drags On
Reddit’s volunteer moderators continue to protest the app’s actions.
Twitter Announces New Version of TweetDeck, Which Will Soon Become a Twitter Blue Exclusive
This could be another option for Twitter to drive more subscription revenue.
Have Twitter’s Latest Issues Opened the Door for a Challenger to Take Over?
Rate limits, hate speech, and other concerns could be pushing more users away from the app.
John Carmack Reviewed Bigscreen Beyond – Here’s What He Thinks
John Carmack reviewed the Bigscreen Beyond ultra-compact SteamVR headset.
Here’s what he thinks of it:
Try Apple Vision Pro’s Gaze Interface On Your Quest Pro With This Recreation
Try Apple Vision Pro’s eye tracking interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation:
10 Tips for Accelerating Operational Efficiency in Marketing
“It depends!” This is the best answer to any marketing question. And it’s true. Everything in marketing can work—Instagram reels, podcasting, omnichannel marketing, embracing emerging social platforms like BeReal, authority content, authenticity, it all works. But should your brand focus on every shiny trend? It depends! You don’t want to spread your budget too thin, […]
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This Quest Pro Game Recreates Sword Art Online’s Lovably Bad User Interface
Looking to immerse yourself into Sword Art Online (SAO)? While there are plenty of VR games that offer the sort of massive multiplayer immersion fans of the manga and anime series have craved over the years, a game built for Quest Pro and Quest 2 has recreated probably the best/worst part of the series: its […]
China’s Largest Telecom Forms Metaverse Industry Alliance, Including Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC & Unity
China Mobile, that country’s largest wireless carier with over 940 million subscribers, has formed a metaverse industry alliance including some of the biggest names in China-based tech. As reported by Shanghai Securities News (Chinese), China Mobile announced during Mobile World Congress Shanghai what it calls the ‘China Mobile Metaverse Industry Alliance’, something the company says […]
Meta’s Twisted Pixel Studio is Building an Unannounced VR Title with Unreal Engine
Following the studio’s acquisition by Meta late last year, we haven’t heard much about Twisted Pixel, a veteran VR game studio which made several exclusive titles for Meta. Now we’ve learned of the first details of the studio’s next project. Following the launch of several non-VR games, Twisted Pixel Games in recent years has become […]
Station Reboost, Food Physiology, and Hearing Assessments for Crew Mid-Week
Three Expedition 69 crew members spent their day on the International Space Station performing work in the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, while other crew members completed a variety of Food Physiology experiments and hearing assessments. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi performed maintenance …
Meta’s Twitter Rival Threads Will Launch Thursday As Chaos Continues On Elon Musk’s Platform
Topline Facebook and WhatsApp parent Meta will launch the firm’s long awaited competitor to Twitter, Instagram Threads, on Thursday, escalating the personal rivalry between feuding billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and firmly throwing down…read more
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Twitter Plans To Make Tweetdeck Subscription-Only In August
Elon Musk attends Viva Technology, a conference that focuses on innovation and startups. … [+] de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images Getty Images Twitter’s Tweetdeck has…read more
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Meta’s Twitter Competitor Threads Gets July 6 Launch Date
Meta has released the first Images of Threads App on 7th July. Meta / Apple After months of rumors, it looks like Meta’s Twitter competitor finally has a launch date. Beginning July 6, users of…read more
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This 18K Gold Apple Vision Pro Costs Almost $40K
According to the manufacturer, only 24 of these extravagant headsets will be made available. During Apple’s 2023 WWDC, the company finally unveiled Vision Pro, a high-end mixed reality headset that could provide a big consumerism boost for augmented reality (AR) and VR technology. That said, the device comes with an expensive price tag of $3,500. […]
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SenseGlove Debut Nova 2 Haptic Glove
SenseGlove, an innovator in immersive haptic feedback hardware, opened pre-orders for its Nova 2 product, a glove which directs pressure-based feedback to the palm and hands of a headset operator. The firm is debuting the product with enterprise customers in mind, boasting to increase immersion in training, research, and multi-player use cases. The wireless product […]
NVIDIA CEO Touts Role of Digital Twins in Advancing Climate Research
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has highlighted the transformative potential of digital twin technology in advancing climate research. During his keynote address to 180 attendees at the Berlin Summit for the Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE) initiative, Huang emphasized the pivotal role of digital twins and NVIDIA’s contributions in this field. “Richard Feynman once said that ‘what […]
Enterprise XR: The Gamification Trap
XR is still a new tool for enterprise end-users. While the emerging technology space is gaining ground in the popular hive-mind thanks to the marketing efforts of Meta, Apple, and others, it is still underrepresented in the workplace. Before bringing XR hardware into the workplace, enterprise XR champions must help their co-workers, clients, leaders, and […]
Digital Twins, Automation Crucial to Realise Industrial Metaverse, Siemens Says
German manufacturing giant Siemens has begun exploring numerous Web3 technologies to improve processes for its operations and clients in recent years. The Munich and Berlin-based firm has opened a new accelerator programme aimed at building an ecosystem with partnered companies, with it most recent joint venture involving Maeve Aerospace. The latter firm has leveraged Siemens’ […]
r/AMA Mods Stop Running Celebrity Interviews, as Reddit’s API Pricing Protest Drags On
Reddit’s volunteer moderators continue to protest the app’s actions.
Twitter Announces New Version of TweetDeck, Which Will Soon Become a Twitter Blue Exclusive
This could be another option for Twitter to drive more subscription revenue.
Have Twitter’s Latest Issues Opened the Door for a Challenger to Take Over?
Rate limits, hate speech, and other concerns could be pushing more users away from the app.
The XR Week Peek (2023.07.03): Google shuts down Project Iris, Meta launches gaming subscription service, and more!
Welcome to a new episode of the XR Week Peek! Today there will be a new list of curated XR news, and I’m sure you will love some of them… and one of them will even make you say “what the fuuuuu…”! You read all this post and then write to me and let me […]
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Apple Reportedly Has No Plans to Make or Support VR Controllers for Vision Pro
If a recent Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman holds true, not only is Apple not planning to release a motion controller for Vision Pro in the future, but it may not even support third-party VR controllers at all. When the Cupertino tech giant unveiled Vision Pro last month, it didn’t emphasize the headset’s ability to […]
Former Oculus CTO Reviews Bigscreen Beyond: “like a prop for a futuristic movie”
John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, is known for giving his unfiltered thoughts on almost every aspect of the XR industry. While he departed Meta in December, concluding his “decade in VR,” Carmack is still very interested in the medium, as he recently went hands-on with one of the latest PC VR […]