The XR Week Peek (2023.03.07): Meta roadmap unveiled, Xiaomi shows its AR glasses, and more!

This week is going to be great because I’m going to attend the SXSW (I will write a dedicated post about it). Before traveling, I’m trying to finish a few tasks for my job and I was hoping that this week there wasn’t much to write in this roundup so that I could write this […]

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Pimax Aims to Attract VR Devs with 100% Revenue Share & $100K Game Fund

Users of Pimax’s wide field-of-view (FOV) PC VR headsets have always relied upon third-party stores like Steam for VR content. Now the company is looking to incentivize VR developers to publish their games on the new Pimax Store. Pimax quietly launched its PC VR content store in September 2022, ostensibly in preparation for the yet-to-release […]

Crew of 11 Staying Focused on Advanced Space Research

The International Space Station’s 11 residents are comprised of three individual crews that arrived at the orbital outpost on three different crew ships. The most recent crew to arrive was SpaceX Crew-6 docking on Friday at 1:40 a.m. EST in the Crew Dragon Endeavour vehicle. The four Crew-6 members are now Expedition 68 flight engineers …

Expanded Station Crew Works Together Before Quartet Departure

The newly-expanded International Space Station crew of 11 members kicked off a busy work week today conducting a variety of research and visiting vehicle activities. Meanwhile, four Expedition 68 crew members are also getting ready to complete their mission and return to Earth. New station residents Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, who commanded …

The workers the mass Twitter layoffs left behind

These workers were left behind after the mass Twitter layoffs SME interviewed three ex-Twitter employees, their lawyer and about their last days with the company following Elon Musk’s takeover. They also discussed their life after…read more

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She was weeks away from maternity leave at Twitter. Then Elon Musk took over

New York SME  —  Bim Ali became pregnant early during her first child when Elon Musk, a billionaire, agreed to purchase Twitter. She worked on Redbird’s core technology team as an engineer. Ali stayed with…read more

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Twitter Still Littered With Crypto Scammers Buying Ads Featuring Elon Musk’s Face

Elon Musk in a file photo at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. … [+](Photo by Trevor Cokley of the U.S. Air Force) U.S. Air Force Academy Have you noticed a deluge of…read more

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Big XR News from Qualcomm, NTT DOCOMO, Varjo, Morpheus, GigXR, and CoSo Cloud,

The extended reality (XR) industry continues to build its technological renaissance by developing fresh virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions. The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, provided a premier backdrop for the immersive and emerging technologies industry. Numerous firms showcased their latest creations amid the event, which took place from 27 […]

How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has debuted its Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, leading to the company’s first-ever wireless augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023, the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among […]

Twitter’s Planning to Extend Long-Form Tweets to 10k Characters

Long, long tweets coming soon.