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More innovations made headways in the global extended reality (XR) market last week, all of which demonstrated fresh use cases for the emerging technologies and their influence on the lives of users. If you would like to keep up to date with the top stories across the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR), please […]

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. According to research from Emergen Research last year, the Metaverse was valued at $47.69 billion in 2020 and would reach $829 billion by 2028. US social media giant Facebook is transforming […]

Last Thursday, online tourism aggregator Travelzoo revealed plans to debut a Metaverse Software as a Service (SaaS) eCommerce platform, with an estimated September release date. The firm introduced TravelZoo: Meta during its Second Quarter 2022 Performance presentation. The SaaS will debut as a browser-based platform, allowing users to interact with digital immersive travel experiences. TravelZoo: […]

Last Tuesday, Vuzix entered a distribution deal with Westbase.io to scale its smart glasses product availability for the UK and northern EU customers. Westbase is a proven industry distributor of extended reality (XR) products, including 4G, 5G, and internet of things (IoT) solutions. The firm is now distributing Vuzix’s augmented reality (AR) products, and as […]

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Reddit has presented its case for marketers looking to maximize their Back to School campaigns.

PostBeyond looked at the most commonly listed skills in social media manager job ads on Indeed.

Bonelab will ask for your height and t-shirt size for a better avatar fit, with more fine-tuning available.

Codemasters says it has “no plans” for F1 on Quest or PSVR 2 right now.

Last week, we were able to discover more info about the upcoming Pico headset thanks to the FCC filings of the “Pico 4” spotted by Janko Roettgers. Since I’m pretty interested in what Pico is doing, when I reported the news on my weekly roundup, I asked for any one of you in the community […]

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YouTube has answered some common questions about its algorithms, and how it ranks Shorts content.

Twitter’s upping the price of its subscription service, without adding any new features.

In the Season 5 Finale of Between Realties, Alex and Skeeva invited members of the live show audience to join the conversation for a special extended broadcast.

The latest update for the VR FPS Zero Caliber is now available, adding a full multiplayer PvP mode to the game on Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2.

You can enter for a chance to win a BRAND NEW standalone Quest 2 VR headset right here sponsored by @greenhellVR developer @incuvogames.

Startup XRAI Glass has launched software that turns audio into text on augmented reality (AR) glasses, with the prime use case to improve conversation quality for deaf people. The programme, which runs on Nreal glasses, lets people “see” the conversation they’re having in real-time through closed captions via a screen in the glasses. Speaking to […]

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 […]

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 […]