FaceCake and Company.com formed a strategic partnership on Wednesday to scale an augmented reality (AR) self-service digital checkout system to prepare for a global launch in the fourth quarter of 2022. The “first-to-market” solution provides small to medium businesses, influencers, and content creators with an AI-driven, automated onboarding system that reduces digital checkout time with […]
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Half Of Shoppers Want More XR Experiences, Study Finds
Immersive technologies, including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), gamification, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were set to influence the next generation of shoppers, a new research survey has learned. Findings from a Bazaarvoice survey 98 percent of those surveyed in the UK responded they would shop based on their customer experiences over prices. The survey […]
What is BCI and How Will it Impact Enterprises?
NextMind, a Human-Computer Interface (HCI) startup that recently acquired by Snap, produces technologies that allow users to communicate with machines without spoken or written commands. Beyond HCI, the next epoch of development will see the rise of brain computer interface (BCI) technologies where no gestures are required. NextMind’s latest innovations include a controller that can […]
Instagram Seeks Data on Users’ Ethnicity to Improve User Experience
The survey will prompt users to share info about their race/ethnicity.
Snapchat Launches New ‘Sounds Creator Fund’ to Encourage Unsigned Musicians to Share Their Music
The program will offer cash incentives for musicians that see the most engagement with their tracks.
YouTube’s Added a New Option to Cut Your Long Form Videos into Shorts
The process will make it much easier for more YouTubers to move into Shorts.
YouTube Launches Commercial Music Program for Creators, Expands Test of Disappearing Community Posts
The new program will enable creators to add popular tracks to their clips.
Half-Life: Incursion Brings New Waved-Based Combat Campaign To Alyx
Half-Life: Incursion is a new mod for Half-Life: Alyx that adds a one-hour campaign with wave-based combat and randomized enemy spawns.
Myst Update Adds Hand Tracking Support And More On Quest
A new update is available for Myst, which adds hand tracking support and other requested features.
Hands-on Quest 2 hands tracking v2 (and comparison with Ultraleap)
Finally, after waiting for it for weeks, I have received the update to Hands Tracking v2 on my Quest. Do
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Microsoft’s Battlefield AR Headset in Jeopardy After Deep Budget Cuts
Microsoft’s big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn’t going so well. As first reported by Bloomberg, the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army’s fiscal 2023 procurement request for the device. Microsoft announced last year it had won a US Army defense […]
Crew Wraps Week with Maintenance Work, Exercise, and Air Sampling Test
The Expedition-67 crew members focused on maintenance checks, exercise, and space research as part of their activities aboard the International Space Station today. NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren concluded a busy work week by transferring cargo from the SpaceX CRS-25 Dragon spacecraft and completing a fitness test on the exercise cycle. He attached sensors to his chest and pedaled …
Sony’s PSVR 2 to Offer VR Passthrough, Streaming Updates
This Tuesday, Sony, the firm behind the Playstation line-up of console gaming devices, announced new details for its upcoming PlayStation Virtual Reality 2 (PSVR 2) headset. In an official blog post, Sony introduced several new features to improve the PSVR 2 user experience. According to industry analysts like Ming-Chi Kuo, rumours find the sophomore device […]
Metaverse, DAOs to Change Future of Work, WEF Reports
This Monday, World Economic Forum (WEF) advisors Ravin Jesuthasan, Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services, Mercer, and George Zarkadakis, Senior Fellow, GeoTech Centre of the Atlantic Council, posted a report exploring the role of extended reality (XR) technologies in the future of the work. The WEF representatives spoke positively of immersive technologies such […]
Qualcomm, Samsung Extend Snapdragon XR Partnership
Qualcomm Technologies announced on Thursday that it had boosted its partnership with Samsung Electronics to expand collaboration on the former’s Snapdragon XR platform. The strategic deal will allow the Santa Clara-based firm to expand collaboration for future Samsung products, namely in extended reality (XR), smartphones, laptops, tablets, and others. It will also extend patent licence […]
Most Popular XR Hand and Eye Tracking Reviews 2022
As XR technologies become more accessible for companies and consumers alike, the demand for immersive hand and eye tracking solutions is growing. With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the […]
LinkedIn Content Creation Success Tips
Want more people to respond to your LinkedIn posts? Wondering how to ideate and create LinkedIn content people will engage with? To discover a LinkedIn engagement marketing strategy that will improve your content creation process and help you interact with more prospects, I interview Daniel Kading.
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Zuckerberg Says that Meta Plans to Double the Amount of AI-Recommended Content in User Feeds
Don’t like all those recommended posts? You’re going to hate this.
Twitter Adds New Elements to its ‘Notes’ Long-Form Content Option
A month in, Twitter is adding some new tweaks based on initial lessons learned about its Notes feature.
Google Expands Deadline for Phasing Out Tracking Cookies to 2024
The extension will give marketers more time to adjust their data tracking processes.
TikTok Will Provide More Insight into Content Trends and Moderation via New Research Initiative
The new initiative will provide more data on exactly why TikTok is so popular, and how people are using the app.
Walkabout Mini Golf Adds Fully Explorable Labyrinth With New DLC
Walkabout Mini Golf now offers paid downloadable content that adds an 18 hole course and full size maze inspired by the 1986 movie Labyrinth.
Top 4 AI Writing Assistants for Smart Writers to Use in 2022
Are you a freelance writer who wants to speed up your writing process? Or are you a marketer trying to make your content production processes more efficient? If so, you will find AI writing assistants helpful. An AI writing assistant is an application that uses artificial intelligence technology to help writers create and proofread content […]
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‘COMPOUND’ Review – A Retro Roguelite Shooter That’s An Instant Classic
COMPOUND is a roguelite shooter fresh out of Steam Early Access that unabashedly owes a lot of its DNA to classic first-person shooters like Wolfenstein 3D (1992) and Doom (1993). Far from being just a version of those old school games translated to VR, Compound brings its own stylish take to the genre and integrates VR-native mechanics at its core, which […]
Crew Studies Fire in Microgravity, Tests a Medical Device, and Transfers Cargo from Dragon
The seven-member Expedition-67 crew split their time studying burning in microgravity, space manufacturing, testing an ultrasound device, and more, in addition to conducting some maintenance work aboard the International Space Station. NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins focused on setting up the Combustion Integrated Rack inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module to support the operations for the SoFIE-GEL, or Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction – Growth …