The updated rules will institute more limits on users who regularly push the limits of platform rules with their posts.
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Facebook Adds New Features to Messenger for Halloween, New Prompts to Promote Word Effects
The new, interactive options could provide another talking point for your Messenger chats.
Pinterest Announces New Features at its Creators’ Festival, Including a ‘Watch’ Tab, ‘Takes’ and More
Pinterest has announced a range of new features and updates as part of its annual Creators’ Festival event.
Little Cities Brings City Creation To Oculus Quest In 2022
The city simulator genre is making its way to VR, with Little Cities arriving on the Oculus Quest platform in spring 2022.
Resident Evil 4 VR Review: An Incredible Way To Revisit A Classic
Resident Evil 4 VR is a fantastic way to revisit an all-time classic. Here’s our full review!
No Man’s Sky’s Emergence Expedition Arrives In-Time For Dune And Halloween
No Man’s Sky’s latest update adds ridable sandworms just in time for Dune.
Resident Evil 4 VR Doesn’t Include Mercenaries Or Bonus Campaigns
If you’re wondering, Resident Evil 4 VR doesn’t include the bonus Mercenaries or Ada campaigns.
Three Tricks to Get the Most Awesome Influencers to Collaborate with You
Influencer collaboration offers some absolutely incredible benefits and, when done right, it can actually turn your business around and help you find a new exciting direction. Neil Patrick Harris is launching a lifestyle newsletter, so what did he do? Influence Marketing! i.e. Found a source of influence (https://t.co/7x5fEapQ4H) that already reached the target audience […]
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‘Resident Evil 4’ for Quest 2 Review – Reanimating a Piece of Gaming History
Resident Evil 4 for Oculus Quest 2 definitely shows its age—it would be impossible not to given its lineage as a groundbreaking survival horror game initially launched on GameCube in 2005. Despite leaning on what have now become well-worn gaming tropes, RE4 for Quest proves to be an expert VR port that still manages to deliver a […]
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Crew Works Maintenance, Botany Before Resupply Ship Relocation
Life support, spacesuits and botany work filled Wednesday’s schedule for the Expedition 66 crew aboard the International Space Station. The orbital residents are also gearing up for a Russian resupply ship backing away from the station tonight and switching docking ports just over a day later. Astronauts Megan McArthur of NASA and Akihiko Hoshide of …
Snap Opens Arcadia AR Advert Studio
Snap Inc announced on Tuesday it has launched a studio to build augmented reality (AR) advertisements and experiences for major brands as it aims to expand use cases of the new technology. The Snapchat owner’s social media platform allows people to use AR filters to modify real-time video and images and aims to launch a […]
Accenture Orders Record 60,000 Oculus Headsets
Multinational IT consultancy firm Accenture has shattered records after it ordered 60,000 Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headsets for training and onboarding procedures. The record-breaking sale will secure VR training opportunities for the company’s vast remote workforce and provide an engaging on-boarding process for up to 125,000 new hires. After the news broke yesterday about […]
EPFL Debuts 360 Film for New VR Graphics Engine
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) are working at the institute’s Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) to launch a beta version of VIRUP, an open-source virtual reality (VR) graphics engine, the institution revealed last week. To mark the occasion, EPFL researchers released ‘Archaeology of Light,’ a short VR movie that […]
China Hosts 2021 World Conference on VR Industry
China has kicked off the 2021 World Conference on the Virtual Reality (VR) Industry on Tuesday, Xinhua News reported. The conference, which is taking place in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, will cover some of the nation’s top achievements in the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) industry and promote use cases for the implementation and development […]
Instagram Adds New Data Analytics to Provide More Performance Insight for Marketers
Instagram’s added some more detail to its Insights element, providing more ways for marketers to optimize their content approach.
YouTube Launches New Live Shopping Events, New Updates for CTV Campaigns
Live shopping is set to be a big trend in 2022, and YouTube’s taking its next steps towards broadening its eCommerce offerings.
Facebook Adds new ‘Quick Access’ Links for Your Most Viewed Pages and Profiles
The new option will make it a little easier to get to those Facebook Pages and profiles that you regularly check in on.
26 Predictions for Social Media Marketing in 2022
What’s coming next for social media marketing? Here are some of the key trends that we see taking shape.
Varjo Teases ‘Varjo For All’ Message Ahead Of New Reveal
Varjo’s latest reveal event teaser includes the message ‘Varjo For All’.
What could it mean?
The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!
I’m in the middle of this crazy October in which everything is happening in VR and I’m overworking like crazy.
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‘Little Cities’ for Quest Looks Like ‘Cities: Skylines’ in VR, Coming Spring 2022
Little Cities is an upcoming city creation game for Quest that looks to bring much of the same city simulator flair to VR of prolific series such as Cities: Skylines and Sim City. Little Cities is currently under development by UK-based studio Purple Yonder, and is the first game published by nDreams’ recently announced third-party publishing arm. In […]
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Facebook Plans 10,000 Job Hiring Spree in Race to Lead the Metaverse
Facebook, which already employs some 60,000 people, announced a massive expansion of its workforce in an effort to get a head start in building the metaverse. The company says it aims to hire 10,000 new employees, all in the EU. The metaverse is loosely defined as a sort of immersive internet where virtual experiences and worlds […]
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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – October 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 October 2021. Some quick qualifications before […]
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Station Gears Up for Russian Resupply Ship Relocation
Tuesday aboard the International Space Station was devoted mainly to orbital maintenance tasks with some light science duties on the schedule. The Expedition 66 crew is also gearing up for a Russian cargo craft backing away from the station and moving to a new docking port this week. Flight Engineers Megan McArthur and Akihiko Hoshide …
Crew Focuses on Exercise, EVA Preparation, and Maintenance
The Expedition 66 crew focused on exercise, EVA preparation, and routine maintenance checks as part of its activities aboard the International Space Station today. International astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent a portion of the day setting up hardware and completing a session for the Immersive Exercise project. Pesquet was tasked with deploying a wireless virtual reality (VR) headset, which he …