This Tuesday, Nextech AR Solutions Corporation, a firm providing augmented reality (AR) metaverse services, announced a fresh update to its spatial mapping platform ARWay. Since Nextetch bought ARWay last year, the firm has been building up to the debut of ARWay as a standalone company. ARWay will become a publicly traded group in 2022, with […]
Apple to Slow Hiring, R&D amid Market Crisis, Report Says
Apple has reportedly planned to restrict hiring and budgeting growth for 2023 across some departments as it struggles with the looming economic crisis, experts familiar with the matter told Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Monday. The sources in the report added executives would not apply the priority shift across all departments and the tech giant still […]
Meta Tests New Option to Create Avatar-Aligned Cover Images for Your Facebook Profile
Meta really wants you to start aligning yourself with your avatar depiction.
LinkedIn Looks to Make ‘Repost’ a Default Post Engagement Option
LinkedIn’s looking to put more emphasis on re-posting, as opposed to sharing with your own comments.
TikTok’s Defending Itself on Several Fronts as Pressure Rises on the Chinese-Owned App
With challenges mounting, TikTok has changed its PR approach of late, which could be a precursor to coming issues.
YouTube Adds New Creative Options for Shorts, Expands Shorts Drafts on iOS
YouTube is expanding its creative options for Shorts, while it’s also provided some insight into its Shorts algorithm.
VR Download: Meta Accounts, Quest Pro & The Path To Hundreds Of Millions Of VR Users
How long until VR headsets number in the hundreds of millions?
Check out the discussion in our latest VR Download:
‘Blacktop Hoops’ is Like ‘NBA Street’ in VR, Coming to Quest 2 & PC VR Next Year
Blacktop Hoops is an upcoming multiplayer streetball game that puts you on realistic amateur courts where you chain together epic moves that all look straight out of NBA Street (2001). Developed by indie studio Vinci Games, Blacktop Hoops’ open alpha has been highly-rated ever since it released for free on on Quest 2 and on SteamVR headsets in April. And for good reason: […]
Astronauts Pursue New Research to Benefit Humans on Earth, Space
A variety of new space science is under way aboard the International Space Station following Saturday’s delivery aboard the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship. The Expedition 67 crew members are helping researchers on the ground take advantage of weightlessness to reveal new phenomena potentially benefitting humans on Earth and in space. NASA Flight Engineer Bob Hines …
Big XR News from Meta Unity, Shanghai, and Magic Leap
The extended reality (XR) industry unveiled news on multiple fronts, from shocking shakeups to big reveals in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) hardware and software. If you would like to keep up to date with the top stories across the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR), please sign up here at https://www.xrtoday.com/sign-up/ for more! Facebook […]