Instagram Scales Back In-Stream Shopping Elements as it Re-Examines its Approach

IG users haven’t been overly excited about the opportunity to shop in the app.

LinkedIn Announces ‘Talent Connect’ 2022 Conference

The event will explore the latest trends and insights into the HR and recruitment sector.

Meta Launches ‘Creators of Tomorrow’ Initiative to Highlight Emerging Digital Artists

Meta’s looking to establish stronger bods with the next generation of digital artists.

Vive Focus 3 Gets Face & Eye Tracking Add-Ons Ahead Of Quest Pro Launch

HTC now sells eye and face tracking add-ons for Vive Focus 3, a month before Quest Pro’s launch.

First Contact Reveals Firewall Ultra, A Zero Hour Follow-Up For PSVR 2

First Contact announced Firewall Ultra today, a follow-up and evolution of Firewall Zero Hour, releasing exclusively for PSVR 2.

More details here.

Quest 2’s 120Hz Refresh Rate Will Soon No Longer Be An Experimental Option

Quest 2’s 120Hz refresh rate mode will soon no longer be experimental.

How to Assess Your Content Performance: 5 Tools You Haven’t Tried

Content analysis is a marketing task that’s never really complete. You need to come back to your old content again and again to see what should be updated, which new visibility opportunities can be pursued and how to better optimize it for more conversions. With that in mind, there’s no set list of content analysis […]

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HTC Launches Aftermarket Face & Eye-trackers for Vive Focus 3

HTC today announced it’s releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. The company says its new trackers will offer “more natural and immersive VR experiences, new options for enterprises to measure user responses, and even more accessible interaction methods such as gaze control.” The units are priced at […]

VR Vet Phaser Lock Announces Co-op Dino Hunting Game ‘Primal Hunt’

Phaser Lock Interactive, the VR studio behind Final Assault (2019) and Twisted Arrow (2017), announced an upcoming co-op dinosaur hunting game that pits you against a Jurassic Park’s worth of the mighty beasts—even Tyrannosaurus Rex. Called Primal Hunt, the cross-platform co-op game gives you a variety of armor and weapons as you track down and fight the […]

Designing Enterprise Avatars with HTC VIVE

Avatars are a way for individuals to represent themselves in virtual, augmented or mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) immersive experiences. Most immersive communication services come with feature-rich, inclusive avatar creation suites, including ENGAGE, Meta Horizons, and HTC’s VIVEVERSE. Creating a Bussiness-Savey Avatar To create a unique enterprise avatar on the HTC VIVE ecosystem, a user must access […]

IGS Europe 2022 to Rally XR at Madeira’s Savoy Palace

The ongoing bid to unite the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) sectors requires significant joint efforts to develop novel solutions, technologies, platforms, and standards. Organisations such as the VR/AR Association have responded to the demands of a rapidly changing tech sector since 2015 by providing a platform capable of facilitating such transformative development. […]

Ready Player Me, Spatial, Polycount Partner for Vogue’s Fashion Metaverse

Ready Player Me, one of the top global companies for avatar technologies, has recently partnered with immersive spaces platform Spatial and 3D experiences firm Polycount to host Vogue’s New World immersive fashion community. Spatial’s award-winning metaverse hub will allow visitors to attend virtual meetups complete with surreal virtual product lineups backed by blockchain technologies, allowing […]

Iristick Smart Glasses Continue Global Distribution

XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Johan De Geyter, CEO, Irisitick. In this session, we discuss the following: 1) Inernational distribution strategies and global expansion goals 2) Further partnerships in other countries? 3) The benefits of Microsoft Teams on Iristick products If you’re looking for more information on this topic, visit Iristick. Thanks for watching, if […]

Instagram Tests New ‘Add Topics’ Option in the Reels Upload Process

The option could help you get your Reels in front of a more engaged, interested audience.

Winning Customer Love: How Small Businesses Earn Loyalty [Infographic]

Some key tips to help build your brand, and establish a stronger customer community.

The Key Social Platform Metrics to Track [Infographic]

Ensure you’re keeping tabs on the right metrics with this overview.

We Are One: Engaging VR Puzzles With Time Loops & Roomscale Shooter Action

Combining time loop puzzles with elements of roomscale shooters, We Are One creates an engaging mix of two very popular VR genres.

Our full impressions from Gamescom:

Hands-On: Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate Is A Promising Anime Adventure

After a brief hands-on at Gamescom earlier this month, Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate looks quite promising so far.

Read on for our full thoughts.

Breachers Looks Like Rainbow Six Siege In VR

Following on from Hyper Dash, Triangle Factory is back once again with Breachers, a tactical 5v5 VR shooter reminiscent of Rainbow Six Siege.

More details here:

Pico 4 Pro To Have Automatic IPD, Color Passthrough, HD Controller Haptics

Pico 4 Pro will have color passthrough, automatic IPD adjustment, and HD controller haptics according to a Bluetooth SIG listing.

Mark Zuckerberg teases a picture of Cambria, to be launched on October, 11th

Today Meta has announced the date of the Meta Connect, the upcoming event by Meta in which it will announce its latest advancements for what concerns VR, AR, and the M-word. The event will take place at 10 am PT on October 11, and it will be fully virtual, like last year. You will be […]

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.05): Apple headset to be called Reality, Fortnite may come to Quest, and more!

September has just arrived! It’s a month that I always find a bit sad because it marks the end of the summer (at least on my hemisphere), but on the tech side, this Autumn and this Winter are going to be pretty hot, so the techie that is in me is actually happy. I can’t […]

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Meta Connect Dev Conference to Be Held Virtually on October 11th

Meta today announced that its next installment of Connect, the company’s annual XR developer conference, is again going digital this year. The event, which promises to share updates and looks into the “near and far future” of Meta, will be held on October 11th, 2022. Like last year’s all-digital Connect, this year’s dev conference will […]

‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Sequel Announced for PSVR 2, Trailer Here

First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind Firewall Zero Hour (2018), announced it’s bringing the “next evolution” of its hit squad-based shooter to PSVR 2, calling it Firewall Ultra. The studio says in a PS blogpost Firewall Ultra will be “the next evolution in the Firewall franchise,” saying the game will incorporate all of the new features the […]

Meta Acquires Berlin-based Haptic Tech Startup Lofelt

Meta has acquired Lofelt, a Berlin-based startup developing advanced haptic technologies for VR and other devices. According to The Wall Street Journal, the acquisition took place earlier this summer, however the deal came to light only just last week. “Lofelt is now embarking on a new adventure, and we will sunset our products on July […]