At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try the Lynx-R1 headset and meet its creator Stan Larroque. Lynx-R1
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Watch: 7 Minutes Of Warhammer Tempestfall PC VR Gameplay Debuts
Here’s 7 minutes of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall gameplay ahead of next week’s PC VR launch.
Iceland Tourism Video Mocks Meta’s Connect Keynote With ‘The Icelandverse’
Are you ready to enter the Icelandverse?
Iceland mocks Meta’s Connect keynote with this hilarious video.
DecaGear To ‘Pivot’, Warning Of $700 Viable Price & Late 2022 Shipping
The startup behind DecaGear announced a “pivot”, cautioning its headset would cost $700 and admitting preorders won’t be fulfilled until Q4 2022.
Specific details of the new strategy will be revealed next week.
Hands-on: Varjo’s Unique Masking Tool Lets You Bring the Real World into VR
Varjo’s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual objects into the real world) Varjo has developed a new tool to do […]
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ENGAGE XR Selected for ‘World-First’ VR School
ENGAGE XR announced on Friday it had struck a massive deal with classical curriculum development firm Optima Domi to provide solutions for a world-first virtual reality (VR) charter school in Florida. The facility will open classes in Autumn 2022 and plans to host up to 1,500 teachers and scholars for grades 3 to 8, with […]
Integrating Meta Quest into Enterprise Workflows
Oculus parent company Meta is the market leader in virtual reality (VR) solutions due partly to the massively-popular Quest lineup of standalone headsets. Meta shook up the VR landscape after it acquired Oculus in 2016 and once again by rebranding itself as ‘Meta’ in late October this year. The change reflects the firm’s new vision […]
Holo-Light Debuts XRnow Service at AWE 2021
German tech firm Holo-Light revealed its latest immersive Streaming-as-a-Service platform for visualising augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications at the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California this week. Holo-Light’s ‘XRnow’ solution will allow mobile XR devices to use cloud-based streaming for rapid processing and on-demand global access for VR/AR immersive experiences. The new platform […]
T-Mobile, Qualcomm Build Snapdragon Content Ecosystem
US manufacturer of chipsets and wireless communications technology Qualcomm announced a partnership with telecoms firm T-Mobile to launch the “Snapdragon Spaces extended reality (XR) Developer Platform,” a software development kit (SDK) to support augmented reality (AR) content creation for Qualcomm hardware. The openXR SDK gives AR developers the freedom to accelerate and refine the production […]
TikTok Adds Disney Character Voices to its Text-to-Speech Feature
The announcement comes a day after Instagram added text to speech to Reels.
TikTok Launches New Digital Magazine to Highlight Effective Marketing Approaches in the App
The 8-page overview includes a range of case studies, insights and tips.
Facebook Adds Shops in Groups, New Product Recommendation and Display Options Tied to Group Engagement
The option will provide new ways to display product listings to Facebook users aligned with dedicated interests.
Twitter’s Coming NFT Profile Images will be Displayed in a Different Shape to Signify Ownership
The alternative display shape will make it harder for people to use NFTs that they don’t own on the platform.
HTC Vive Focus 3 Updates: Larger Play Space, Co-Location Mode, Wi-Fi 6E Coming Soon
HTC’s Vive Focus 3 is getting some major updates: support for a much larger play area, a multi-headset colocation mode, and soon 6 GHz Wi-Fi 6E.
Standalone colocation significantly reduces the cost of location based VR.
Tea For God Is Coming To SteamVR In 2022
Impressive impossible spaces-based shooter, Tea For God, will arrive on SteamVR in 2022.
Watch: Against Hits PC VR This Winter, Closed Beta Sign-Ups Launch
Brutally stylish rhythm combat game, Against, is coming to PC VR this winter.
New trailer and info on closed beta sign-ups right here!
Blade And Sorcery PC Update Adds Improved Stealth, Quest Incoming
A new update to the PC VR version of Blade And Sorcery improves the stealth features in the game’s Dungeon mode.
AWE 2021: Hands-on with Holoride and its automotive VR fun
Yesterday was my last day at AWE. One of the coolest things that I’ve tried has been Holoride, a system
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How to Use Sales Demos to Strengthen Your Online Reputation
Digitalization has had a huge impact on everyone’s life. In most aspects it has influenced businesses in a good way: They can now go global, discover new marketing channels and broaden their customer base. But there’s one negative to being online as well: Fragile reputation. In the world when anyone can complain about any […]
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Watch 7 Minutes of ‘Warhammer: Tempestfall’ Gameplay Ahead of PC VR Launch Next Week
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, Carbon Studio’s upcoming action-adventure game, just got an extended gameplay video to show off some of its combat, puzzles, and rich environments before its November 17th release on PC VR headsets. Carbon Studio says the video is taken from early in Tempestfall’s campaign, giving you a look at the realm of […]
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Google’s New ‘Labs’ Team Brings AR/VR, Project Starline & Area 120 Under a Single Roof
Google is shaking things up with the reorganization of its AR/VR efforts, Project Starline, and Area 120 in-house incubator, dubbing the internal team ‘Google Labs’. As first reported by TechCrunch, Google is shifting a few of its notable forward-looking projects into a single team and bringing them under the leadership of Google veteran Clay Bavor. […]
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Resolution Games Estimates VR Has 5 Million Active Users
Resolution Games, which has been making VR games since 2016, estimates that the VR industry currently has around 5 million active VR users. In the VR industry it’s hard to find good data on the number of headsets sold, and even harder to find data on the number of actual active users. This week Resolution […]
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The Station Crew Welcomed Four New Members
Running more than 30 minutes ahead of schedule, the SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts docked to the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 11, less than 24 hours after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer opened the hatch …
Crew Dragon Endurance Docked to the Space Station
NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer arrived at the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 11. Crew Dragon Endurance docked to the orbital complex while the spacecrafts were flying 260 miles above the eastern Caribbean Sea. Following Crew Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, …
Watch SpaceX Crew-3 Arrival Live on NASA TV
NASA Television and the agency’s website are providing live continuous coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on their way to the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, began the final phase of its approach to the station at 5:02 p.m. EST Thursday …