North Dakota School Districts Sign Multi-Million Dollar VR Learning Contract

This week, CareerViewXR continued its year of education deployment success in North Dakota; the immersive education firm entered a $9.9 million contract via a partnership with Bismarck State College (BSC) and the U.S. Department of Education’s Disability Innovation Fund (DIF) to deploy XR learning solutions for youth and adults with disabilities.  The partnership is ongoing […]

No, You Can’t Stop Meta Using Your Data via IG Story

Those “attorney advised” posts are back, but they do nothing to protect your info.

Snapchat Brings Back Phantom House Series With Maybelline, State Farm

The Halloween content series now in its second year will also be leveraged by Hulu to support its Huluween campaign and new original film, “Carved.”

5 Ways Grocers Can Master Shoppable Video, Connected TV

Social media platforms like TikTok put consumers in shopping mode 24/7, so retailers need to know how to create engaging content, said Chris Bruderle, IAB’s VP of industry insights and content strategy.

Snapstick Delivers An Absurdly Funny Premise Let Down By Repetitive Puzzles

Snapstick delivers a heavy dose of absurd comedy that’s let down by repetitive puzzles, and it’s out today on Quest.

Subside In The Works For PlayStation VR2

Subside targets a PlayStation VR2 release before the year’s end, running with no reprojection at 90Hz.

Meta CTO Publicly Apologizes To Palmer Luckey As Zuckerberg Praises Him & Demos Orion

Bosworth apologized to Luckey, while Zuckerberg gave him an Orion demo and said he hopes they “find ways to work together in the future”.

DIG VR Excavates An October Release Date On Quest

DIG VR, the upcoming power-digging sim, arrives later this month on Quest.

Meta’s Head of XR Apologizes to Oculus Founder Regarding His Ousting

Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief, has publicly apologized to Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus who was ousted from the company in 2017 for political reasons. To this day, Meta (ex-Facebook) never publicly confirmed why Luckey was fired, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg even going on record in a U.S. congressional hearing in 2018, […]

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Meta Acquired 9 Leading VR Studios Starting in 2019: Here’s What’s Happened Since

Meta has aggressively expanded its VR game portfolio with the acquisition of nine VR studios since 2019. We take a look what’s come of these deals over the last five years. Acquisition by Meta usually means a few things. Sometimes it means studios get a ton of new resources and the sort of stability that […]

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