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VR JRPG Ruinsmagus To Launch English Edition With Kickstarter Help
VR JRPG/visual novel hybrid Ruinsmagus is hoping to release a fully localized English version in 2022, and it’s turning to crowd-funding for it.
Hitman 3, Resident Evil 4 And More Make The Game Awards VR Nominations
Hitman 3, Lone Echo 2, Resident Evil 4 and more are up for Best VR at The Game Awards.
What’s your pick?
Qualcomm: Oculus Quest 2 Shipped 10 Million Units Since Launch
Qualcomm held an investor event yesterday where the company revealed that its partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook) has seen over 10 million Oculus Quest 2 units shipped since the VR headset’s launch in October 2020, an important milestone that Meta said would be an important “threshold” to a content ecosystem set for explosive growth. We’ve […]
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Vive Focus 3 is Getting WiFi 6E Support & More Improvements for VR Arcades
HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. The company recently announced updates to the software experience that will bring a host of improvements, such as support for the new WiFi 6E standard, larger tracking areas, […]
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HIKKY Raises $57m to Develop Global Metaverse
Tokyo-based virtual reality (VR) startup HIKKY Co has raised $57 million USD (6.5 billion yen) in a round of series A funding to strengthen the company’s corporate structure and deploy its Metaverse products, both domestically and abroad, the company announced in a statement on Tuesday. HIKKY’s VR services are based on its ‘Vket’ umbrella of […]
Nextech AR Rebrands as Metaverse Company
Canadian augmented reality (AR) firm Nextech AR Solutions Corp has rebranded as a Metaverse company, following Meta’s shock rebrand from Facebook, in a bid to greater reflect its ambitions, it announced on Tuesday. The enterprise aims to rebrand its product lineup with its ARitize trademark and will roll out the changes progressively, reflecting a major […]
Barbados To Open World-First Metaverse Embassy
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Barbados has inked a historic deal to allow the sale of digital real estate as sovereign land with a Metaverse embassy, reports revealed on Tuesday. The department inked the agreement with Decentraland, the world’s largest cryptocurrency digital real estate firm, to buy virtual land for the […]
Immerse SDK: A Free, Versatile Enterprise XR Solution
The Immerse Platform is a enterprise-grade cloud service for the deployment and management of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications, and the US firm distributes VR training and collaboration tools across many global businesses such as DHL and Shell. Immerse is now debuting a software development kit (SDK) that enables VR developers to create custom […]
Twitter Shares New Insights into Rising Football Discussion in the App [Infographic]
Interest in all sports is on the rise, with football seeing renewed fan enthusiasm in the early part of the season.
New Study Shows That 25% of Twitter Users Produce 97% of All Tweets
The study underlines the ‘dominance of the few’ rule on social media, and its broader impacts.
Instagram Expands Live Stream Badges to All Eligible Creators in the US
It’s the latest in Instagram’s expanding set of creator monetization tools.
Pinterest Launches New Team to Accelerate Product and Feature Development
The team will focus on new projects and experiments, which could help Pinterest accelerate its feature development.
Medal of Honor: Above And Beyond Oculus Quest 2 Review – A Great Port Of A Flawed Game
Medal of Honor makes the jump to Quest 2 surprisingly well, but technical accomplishments don’t absolve persistent gameplay issues.
Here’s our review!
Meta Shows Research Towards Consumer Force Feedback Haptic Gloves
Meta shared details of its research towards affordable haptic VR gloves for consumers with force feedback, referencing a “10 to 15 year” timeframe.
Full details here:
Qualcomm CEO Says Quest 2 Is At ’10 Million Units’
Qualcomm’s CEO told investors Meta’s Quest 2 “was 10 million units”
Hands-on: OVR Technology made me smell in VR
At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try a scent emitter for virtual reality and in particular the
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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – November 2021
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of November 2021. Some quick qualifications before […]
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Social VR Startup Raises $57 Million Investment Led by Major Japanese Mobile Network
Japanese social VR startup HIKKY announced today that it has raised ¥6.5 billion (~$57 million), led by Japanese mobile network operator NTT Docomo. The startup says it will use the funds to expand its web-based metaverse platform. Founded in 2018, Japan-based Hikky is best known for its series of ‘Vket’ events, virtual marketplaces where exhibitors […]
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Apple Scores XR Spatial Audio Patent
Recent news has revealed the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially granted US tech giant Apple with a patent for real-time 3D spatial audio for use in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) environments. Apple defines the technology patent as ‘Auralization,’ which refers to Geometrical Acoustics (GA) technology that simulates the behaviours of […]
Big News from NVIDIA, ENGAGE, Nreal, Unity, T-Mobile, Weta Digital, and Qualcomm
The Metaverse continues to dominate as a trending topic across the extended reality (XR) landscape, with numerous tech firms setting their sights and broader ‘horizons’ to develop the new platform. Companies such as NVIDIA, ENGAGE XR, Nreal, Nextech AR, T-Mobile, and Qualcomm reached extensive milestones with their company solutions amid the massive push for Metaverse […]
Redefining Facebook: The Meaning Behind Meta
Of all the things Facebook could rebrand as, why has the company selected meta? Ostensibly, the word meta (Greek for beyond or transcending) has little to do with the social media giant’s primary areas of business. One of the key reasons Mark Zuckerberg cited for the change was that there are simply too many brands […]
Vuforia Engine Review: AR Experience Building
According to Statista, there were around 0.81 billion AR users as of 2021. By the time we reach 2024, this number is expected to increase to 1.73 billion. Perhaps more than any other platform for extended reality, AR popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. Through Augmented experiences, companies can connect with customers like never before, […]
Twitter Acquires Threader App Which Compiles Tweet Threads into Readable Text
The acquisition could point to further development of Twitter’s paid features.