The Wildest VR & AR Experiences From SXSW 2023

XR creators brought their A-game to this year’s festivities. Last year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) event was an absolute party. This year, the Austin-based festival felt noticeably more focused, with a number of amazing technologies being showcased. Not to say we didn’t attend our fair share of parties, which we certainly did.  SXSW 2023 was […]

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VR Fitness App Lets You Workout With Real Dumbbells

A virtual workout with real results. Litesport is a subscription-based fitness app for VR headsets designed to immerse you in a variety of virtual workouts. Formerly Liteboxer, the company recently expanded its digital fitness platform beyond boxing and total body workouts to include Strength Training. This new game mode utilizes various technologies—from passthrough and hand […]

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‘The Last Worker’—How it All Started on Meta Quest 2

The Last Worker combines a first-person narrative with a dystopian work simulator. You play as Kurt, a loyal Jüngle Corporation employee who must come to…

‘Beat Saber’ Adds Six New Songs to the Panic! At The Disco Music Pack

Beat Games is more than doubling the size of the existing Panic! At The Disco Music Pack for Beat Saber today, adding sick tracks from…

Which Brands are Collaborating with Top NFT Groups? 

Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, have been gaining much attention in recent years. Bursting into the spotlight in the age of the metaverse and Web 3.0, NFTs have given consumers and companies alike access to a brand-new digital economy, as well as some unique opportunities.   Like many new innovations in the digital world, NFTs are […]

Mocap for Content Creators: The Top 5 Solutions 

As extended reality experiences continue to gain popularity in virtually every industry, solutions are constantly emerging to help developers and companies design their own immersive experiences. Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls.   Mocap solutions are primarily used […]

How to Use Avatars for Microsoft Teams

This Monday, Microsoft introduced Avatar for Teams, an immersive service for joining meetings as a virtual human. The avatar system is currently under a public preview period, meaning that Teams users must jump through several simple hoops to leverage the early-stage enterprise-grade avatar solution. While Microsoft has not yet distributed the avatar framework across Teams […]

Building a Marketing Plan That Works

Want to grow your business? Wondering how to set up a marketing system that delivers consistent results? To discover how to build a five-stage marketing plan that works, I interview Adam Erhart.

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Twitter Announces New API Access Tiers, Which Could Price Many Third Party Apps Out of the Market

The new API costs could have impacts for all third-party Twitter apps.

Meta Could Ban Certain Ads in Europe to Adhere with Evolving Data Usage Laws

Evolving EU data privacy laws have forced tMeta to reassess its options.

Microsoft’s Developing New Revenue Share and Traffic Generation Elements for Bing Chat

Generative AI could change Search – which will also have big implications for publishers.

Google Removed 5.2 Billion Ads for Content Violations in 2022

Google’s 2022 Ad Safety Report highlights the scale of moderation activity required at large platforms. 

Beat Saber Adds Six New Songs To Panic! At The Disco Music Pack

Beat Saber adds six new songs to the Panic! at the Disco music pack today, while also updating the beatmaps, environments and lighting for the four existing Panic! tracks. 

More info and tracklist here:

Yupitergrad 2 Preview: A Strong Start With Tighter Controls & Aerial Skirmishes

We’ve gone hands-on with a preview build of Yupitergrad 2!

Here’s what we think:

The Last Worker Review: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

The Last Worker brings a satirical narrative adventure to Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR today, mixing strong humor with tense stealth action.

Here’s our full review:

Sky Strikers Mixes Rocket League And Gorilla Tag On Quest 2 & PC VR

Sky Strikers VR mixes Gorilla Tag and Rocket League into a new VR experience, and it’s out now on Quest 2 and Steam. Read more here:

The Fatboy Slim’s concert on ENGAGE was a good moment of fun

On Tuesday I had the pleasure of participating in a preview of the concert that Fatboy Slim held inside the VR platform ENGAGE. Could I avoid writing a review for you? Of course not! Fatboy Slim concert ENGAGE is one of the best VR platforms for enterprise usage, and I’ve used it myself a few […]

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Report: Apple Mixed Reality Headset Delayed to Late 2023 Amid Decreased Confidence in Market Appeal

Ming-Chi Kuo, a respected supply chain analyst, reports that Apple is tamping down enthusiasm for its upcoming mixed reality headset, which was rumored to see its big announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. In a tweet, Kuo reports Apple is delaying release of its MR headset due to decreased optimism in recreating […]

Hands-on: Bigscreen Beyond – A Little Headset That Could be a Big Deal

Custom-made Bigscreen is building something unique, quite literally—every Beyond headset comes with a custom-made facepad. And this isn’t a ‘choose one of three options’ situation, Bigscreen has a sleek app that walks buyers through the process of capturing a 3D scan of their face so the company can create a completely unique facepad that conforms […]

Cargo, Research Work Ongoing as Commercial Crew Missions Announced

The Expedition 69 crew members continue unpacking the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship in the midst of human research and pharmaceutical studies aboard the International Space Station. NASA and its commercial crew partners have also announced upcoming missions to the station. Flight Engineers Frank Rubio of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) took …

AR Brings Dungeons & Dragons To Life IRL

Craft authentic maps and embark on official 5e campaigns with ARcana. It’s been a turbulent year so far for Dungeons & Dragons fans. This past January, several proposed changes to the Open Game License leaked online and the outcry by the community was so loud that publisher Wizards of the Coast was forced to rescind […]

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Rokid’s Latest AR Glasses Promise BIG Entertainment

Rokid adds yet another addition to its lineup of portable AR hardware. Rokid, a human-computer interaction technology company, is back with yet another pair of advanced augmented reality (AR) glasses that could replace your current home theater setup. Rokid Max offers a 50% larger display area than the Rokid Air, the company’s previous AR glasses […]

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Which Tech Firms are Leveraging Enterprise Generative AI Tools? 

The world of “Generative AI” is having a moment. Right now, it seems as though everyone is talking about Generative solutions such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and of course, ChatGPT.   While Generative AI isn’t necessarily a new concept, it’s one gaining increasing attention in recent years thanks to the development of new technologies, methodologies, […]

Meta, Colorintech Partner to Support UK Immersive Businesses

Today Colorintech, a non-profit organisation promoting diversity and inclusion in technology industries, launched a Metaverse program to support UK immersive firms. With leading XR firm Meta, the program will nurture over 200 UK businesses to scale the region’s immersive products, tools and services. The partnership’s ‘100 Worlds in 100 Days‘ Metaverse program seeks applicants for […]

XR Awards 2023 Deadline: March 31st

Attention readers! The XR Awards deadline is coming up this Friday, the 31 March.    The deadline for the sophomore XR Awards is fast approaching. So, apply as soon as possible to participate and join the Awards’ illustrious line-up of winners.   Applications for the XR Awards 2023 close on 31 March. To enter, refer to the […]