In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host rising VR YouTuber Beardo Benjo, who’s celebrating surpassing 50k subscribers.
Category: News from the web
News from various tech sites, space, animals and more!
My experience at SXSW 2022: expect the unexpected
Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of
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Twitter Continues to Evolve Communities and Other Topic-Based Engagement Options in the App
As it looks to grow its user base, facilitating new tweet uses is a key focus.
Zenith Dev Raises $35 Million, Studio To Double
Ramen VR, developers of VR MMO Zenith, raised $35 million as part of a recently-closed Series B funding round, with plans to double the size of the studio.
Zombie Apocalypses And Virtual Lumberjacking – VR Games & Updates On Our Radar This Week
Another zombie apocalypse and a chance to become a virtual lumberjack are just some of the VR titles on our radar this week.
Soyuz Trio Docks to Station, NASA Astronaut Nears Departure
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station at 3:12 p.m. EDT while the station was traveling 260 miles over eastern Kazakhstan. Coverage of hatch opening will air at 5:15 p.m. on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. Once on …
Immersed Launches Fresh Passthrough Features
VR firm Immersed announced on Friday it had released a wave of new features for its platform, providing enhanced capabilities for users navigating their digital workplaces. The Metaverse platform, which debuted on the Meta Quest in late-July 2020, is available on the Oculus Store for download across the Menlo Park-based firm’s Quest and Quest 2 […]
Arvizio Announces AR Medical Instructor Tool
This week, Arvizio, known for developing enterprise-grade augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) solutions for onsite construction and industrial workflows, announced new features for its AR Instructor tool for equipment training, operation, and maintenance workflows specifically for medical institutions. The latest updates to AR Instructor include digital AR/MR overlays for associated 3D objects, images, documentation, and […]
Accenture Introduces Metaverse Continuum Group
Accenture has reportedly developed a ‘Metaverse Continuum’ hosting numerous virtual worlds and experiences to reshape how people work and interact, the company announced this week. Paul Daughtery, Group CEO of Technology and CTO of Accenture and David Droga, CEO and Creative Chairman of Accenture Interactive will lead the firm’s Metaverse Continuum business group. Welcome to […]
What Is Metaverse as a Service (MaaS)?
Software as a Service or SaaS refers to a subscription-based model for using software platforms rather than purchasing a lifetime or perpetual license. The term first appeared in a 1985 United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing and became popular in the cloud era. Today, nearly everything can be deployed on an ‘as-a-Service’ model, […]
Facebook’s Developing Reactions for Reels
The option would provide more capacity to respond to short-form videos in the app.
YouTube Adds New Live Stream Features, Including Live Guests, Full-Screen Mode and More
The new features are similar to those in other live-stream options.
Instagram Launches ‘Black Perspectives’ Program to Highlight Black Creators in the UK
The program aims to provide more support for creators from marginalized communities.
Twitter Tests Spaces Audio Clips to Maximize Content Creation and Sharing from Audio Broadcasts
The option will provide another way to get more out of your Spaces broadcasts.
Population: One Metropolis Update Available Now, New Details Revealed
The Metropolis update for Population: One is available now, with an entire new section of the map and a new game mode to highlight it.
Polyarc On What Project Cambria’s Eye And Face-Tracking Could Bring To Moss
We spoke to Polyarc about where eye and face-tracking in headsets like Cambria could take Moss in the future.
Why Brands Believe Their CX is Better Than It Really Is
Five-star reviews. Customer opinion surveys. Testimonials. Net Promoter Scores. We all want to know how much someone likes our brand, product, service, experience, us. ? Most any organization with a marketing person wants to know how good — or lacking — their customer satisfaction level is. Did the customer’s experience live up to the expectation? […]
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VR’s Most Popular Battle Royale Just Got Its Biggest Map Ever
POPULATION: ONE (2020), VR’s most popular battle royale, just got an update across all supported platforms that includes the game’s largest map to date, which comes along with a few other cyberpunk goodies. Called ‘Metropolis’, the new map promises to let you fight across a neon megacity, replete with a nightclub, fortress, gun store, and […]
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Russian Trio Launches on Express Trip to Station
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov are safely in orbit on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft after launching at 11:55 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (8:55 p.m. Baikonur time). The Soyuz will dock to the station’s Prichal module at 3:05 p.m. About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz …
Russian Crew Launching on Soyuz Rocket Today
NASA TV coverage now is underway for the launch of a crewed Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:55 a.m. EDT (8:55 p.m. Baikonur time). Launch and docking activities will …
Google Buys Raxium To Boost AR Hardware
Google announced its acquisition of Raxium, a five-year-old startup that manufactures prototyped MicroLEDs and semiconductors for many mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) headsets, for an undisclosed sum, it was reported on Wednesday. The acquisition will enable Google to harness Raxium’s research and development (R&D) into AR/MR MicroLED displays, accelerating Google’s extended reality (XR) journey towards […]
UK Parliament Introduces Internet Online Safety Bill
MPs have introduced an updated draft of an Online Safety Bill, which now includes provisions to target social media and tech firms accused of exposing users to harmful content, it was revealed on Thursday. According to the bill, British online regulator Ofcom could slap tech firms with penalties up to 10 percent of global annual […]
Introducing the XR Awards 2022 Categories
XR Today is proud to host some of the industry’s best and brightest tech companies dedicated to advancing immersive extended, mixed, virtual, and augmented reality (XR/MR/VR/AR) technologies and solutions over the past year. The 2022 XR Awards are just around the corner and is open to all firms, including startups and large enterprises, ready to […]
New Varjo Base v3.5 Eye-Tracking Demos Revealed
Varjo Technologies continues to innovate the virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) markets with new product updates aimed at accommodating users with experimental and essential features. Varjo’s Lasse Tuominen, Account Executive for EMEA and APAC, hosted a webinar on Tuesday with the company’s Ferhat Sen, Software Solution Architect and Oleksii Shtankevych, Senior Computer Vision Developer to discuss […]
TikTok Storytelling: How to Stand Out From the Crowd
Want to reach more of your ideal audience on TikTok? Wondering how to tell an authentic story through short-form video? To find out how to leverage storytelling principles in your content, I interview Michael Sanchez.
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