Facebook Offers up $10 Million to Draw Creators to ‘Horizon’

Horizon, Facebook’s social VR space built around user-generated content, was announced more than two years ago, but the company still isn’t quite ready to send it out the door. Instead, Facebook this week announced it is rebranding the project as Horizon Worlds, while also announcing a $10 million fund to support creators building content within. […]

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High-end Headset Maker Teases ‘most anticipated product reveal’ Just Days Before Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect is certainly the marquee VR event this month, but it looks like other companies are hoping to steal a bit of the spotlight. First HTC teased an upcoming product to be revealed next week, and now high-end headset marker Varjo says it plans to unveil its “most highly anticipated product release yet” on […]

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Advanced Housekeeping Keeps Station in Tip-Top Shape

The Expedition 65 crew focused on a variety of advanced housekeeping activities today aboard the International Space Station. There was also time for robotics research, crew departure preparations, and filmmaking activities. Five station astronauts had their hands full on Friday working on everything from electronics, cleaning, plumbing, and setting up temporary crew quarters. Some of …

Bank of America Rolls Out Global VR Employee Trainer

Bank of America (BoA) has become the first global financial services company to adopt virtual reality (VR) training for its nearly 4,300 financial centres across the globe, it announced on Thursday. The novel training course will facilitate training for numerous routine and complex tasks for over 50,000 workers, and allow employees to practice simulated client […]

VRARA Global Summit Europe Concludes Online Event

The VR/AR Association’s (VRARA) Global European Summit took place September 29th to October 1st, uniting over 300 speakers across numerous sessions, keynotes and virtual booths for attendees. The summit featured presentations by representatives sharing ideas on extended, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (XR/AR/VR/MR) solutions and practices across verticals such as eCommerce, healthcare, entertainment, and tourism. […]

Delta Reality Opens NFT Sale of MoDaL Metaverse Platform

Croatian extended reality (XR) developers Delta Reality recently listed its Museum of Digital Life (MoDaL) Metaverse platform as a single non-refundable token (NFT). The starting bid for MoDaL currently sits at 8.88 ETH (roughly 31,591.22 USD) and the top bidder will own the entire MoDaL Metaverse platform. MoDaL is a virtual reality (VR) digital gallery […]

NVIDIA AI Proposes Novel Mixed Reality Framework

Researchers have found new methods to detect 3D spatial lighting, shapes, and reflections for 3D content creation using a novel rendering process, it was revealed in a recent report. Academics and researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and US tech giant NVIDIA proposed in a report in mid-September a new Volumetric Spherical Gaussian […]

How to Design a Data Driven Marketing Strategy

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Facebook Adds New Assistance and Awareness Resources for World Mental Health Day

Facebook’s added a range of new resources to provide support and assistance.

Google Shifts AdSense to First-Price Auction to Better Align with Other Ad Exchanges

The change will add more transparency to the AdSense process, and better enable Google to compete with other exchanges.

Pinterest Launches ‘Pinterest Havens’ Mental Health Support Project

The project aims to provide Pinners with tips and tactics to reduce mental stress.

Clubhouse Expands Clips Access to All Users on iOS, Adds New Link-Sharing Option for Rooms

Clubhouse has added some new features to help maximize discovery and broadcast awareness.

Espire 1: VR Operative Invictus Update Available Now For Oculus Quest

The Invictus Update for Espire 1, available on Oculus Quest now, adds a new map and support for Oculus Challenges.

Facebook Rebrands Social VR Platform ‘Horizon Worlds’, Offers $10M To Makers

Facebook removed its brand from social VR platform Horizon and plans to focus the effort around VR-based building tools with a $10 million fund to encourage creators.

Lone Echo II Launch Trailer Debuts Ahead Of Next Week’s Release

Facebook debuted a new trailer for Lone Echo II a few days out from its release on October 12.

Loco Dojo Unleashed Review: VR’s Logical, Enjoyable Answer To Mario Party

Loco Dojo’s likable, well-paced take on Mario Party in VR hides some brilliant VR interactions. More in our Loco Dojo review!

How to publish an update to your Oculus app when Production Channel is missing in ODH

Today I publish a very specific post to help Oculus developers in a particular situation I’ve been myself in: how

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2021 Social Media Benchmark Report: 4 Takeaways for Your Social Refresh

Take a peek into the Convince & Convert team messaging threads and you’ll find us sharing all sorts of research and new data. In fact, when the Rival IQ 2021 Social Media Benchmark report was first released, Corynn shared it with the note,  “TL;DR–everyone needs more carousels.”  You can stop reading now if that’s all […]

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‘Lone Echo II’ Launch Trailer Debuts Ahead of Next Week’s Release

It’s been more than four years since the release of the lauded Lone Echo, but its sequel is finally just around the corner. Ahead of Lone Echo II’s release date on October 12th, Facebook’s VR studio Ready at Dawn has revealed a launch trailer teasing some of the action players can expect from the game. Lone Echo II is […]

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‘Song in the Smoke’ Review – Thrilling Primeval Danger & Satisfying Crafting

Song in the Smoke is a prehistoric-flavored survival game that puts a clever, but not incredibly deep crafting system at its core. Far from damning, this introduces the sort of gameplay friction that will always leave you with just enough useable resources to move forward, but never enough to be comfortable as you explore the game’s […]

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More Than Two Years After Launch, Valve Index is Now the Second Most Used Headset on Steam

Canon Introduces 180° Stereoscopic Lens to Support a “bright future for VR content creation”

Canon, one of the world’s leading camera makers, today introduced a new dual-optic lens which captures 180° stereoscopic views through a single sensor on the company’s high-end EOS R5 camera. Canon today announced what it calls the EOS VR System which includes its new dual-optic camera lens, new firmware for its EOS R5 camera to […]

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Eye Checks, Science Work and Departure Preps Keeping Crew Busy

The Expedition 65 crew had a busy day on Thursday with eye checks, space science, and Soyuz crew departure preparations on the schedule. The 10 residents aboard the International Space Station also joined each other in the afternoon to review emergency procedures. NASA Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Shane Kimbrough swapped roles as crew …

Glasgow University, EON Partner for XR Campus

Students and faculty at the University of Glasgow will have access to top-tier XR technologies, the university announced on Friday last week. The institution partnered with EON Reality to build an EON-XR Centre on the campus explore learning experiences for students in emerging technologies such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). The facility will provide […]

Echo3D Raises $4M for XR Cloud Content Solution

US extended reality (XR) cloud delivery service Echo3D has finished a funding round valued at roughly $4 million. Konvoy Ventures led the funding round with participation from Space Capital, Remagine Ventures, Datadog, GitHub, and US tech giant Facebook. With the capital, Echo3D can extend its XR cloud service for smartphones and now expanded immersive experience […]