Investigation Finds Twitter is Approving Bot Profiles for Verified Checkmarks

Battling bots was one of Elon Musk’s key aims in buying the app.

TikTok Shares Tips for Brands Looking to Tap into Super Bowl Discussion in the App

TikTok could provide another pathway to tap into viral moments around the game.

Crumbling Looks Like A Big Nostalgia Trip On Quest and PC VR

Crumbling aims to recreate your childhood nostalgia of playing with action figures through a hack ’n’ slash VR roguelike, and it’s coming to Quest and PC VR this Summer. Read more here:

Guest Editorial: Echo VR’s Loss Reverberates In Reality

When a server goes offline in the metaverse, does it make a sound?

Read long-time Echo VR player Hasko7’s editorial about the shutdown of Echo Arena:

Silhouette Review: Hand Tracking Shadows Leave A Puzzling Mark

Hand tracking puzzle game Silhouette is available now for Quest 2 and Quest Pro.

Here’s our full review:

Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye Arrives On ‘Major VR Platforms’ This Year

Peanut Button confirms Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye is in development, bringing a new point-and-click adventure to “major VR platforms” later this year.

More details here:

Convince and Convert’s Take on ChatGPT & AI

While AI has certainly been around for many years, ChatGPT has only been available since November 2022. It’s blown up in the marketing community really since the new year of 2023 and is taking over conversations in every industry like wildfire.  This genie isn’t going back in the bottle and we need to continue to […]

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Meta Optimizes Quest Developer Tool for Apple’s Mac M-series Chips

Last week Meta released the latest version of the Meta Quest Developer Hub tool which has been optimized to work natively on Apple’s M-series chips for better performance. The Meta Quest Developer Hub (MQDH) is a collection of tools to make VR development easier for Quest developers. In addition to giving devs an easy way […]

Mil-Sim Shooter ‘Onward’ to Drop Quest 1 Support Later This Year

Meta-owned developer Downpour Interactive announced it’s pulling Quest 1 support for Onward, the hit team-based mil-sim shooter. First launched on PC VR headsets in Early Access back in 2016, Onward managed to garner a hardcore following over the years thanks to its realistic squad-based gameplay and unrelentingly faithful reproduction of real-world weaponry. In mid-2020, Downpour decidedly slimmed […]

Meta Plans to Shut Down One of Its Most Popular and Long-standing Multiplayer VR Games

Meta and its child-studio Ready at Dawn today announced plans to shut down the popular free-to-play multiplayer game Echo VR, with plans to turn off severs come August 1st. Echo VR has had a storied journey, having originally launched as an Oculus Rift exclusive title all the way back in 2017. In 2020 the game made the […]