FaceCake, Company.com to Scale AR Digital Checkouts

FaceCake and Company.com formed a strategic partnership on Wednesday to scale an augmented reality (AR) self-service digital checkout system to prepare for a global launch in the fourth quarter of 2022. The “first-to-market” solution provides small to medium businesses, influencers, and content creators with an AI-driven, automated onboarding system that reduces digital checkout time with […]

Half Of Shoppers Want More XR Experiences, Study Finds

Immersive technologies, including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), gamification, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were set to influence the next generation of shoppers, a new research survey has learned. Findings from a Bazaarvoice survey 98 percent of those surveyed in the UK responded they would shop based on their customer experiences over prices. The survey […]

What is BCI and How Will it Impact Enterprises?

NextMind, a Human-Computer Interface (HCI) startup that recently acquired by Snap, produces technologies that allow users to communicate with machines without spoken or written commands. Beyond HCI, the next epoch of development will see the rise of brain computer interface (BCI) technologies where no gestures are required. NextMind’s latest innovations include a controller that can […]

Instagram Seeks Data on Users’ Ethnicity to Improve User Experience

The survey will prompt users to share info about their race/ethnicity.

Snapchat Launches New ‘Sounds Creator Fund’ to Encourage Unsigned Musicians to Share Their Music

The program will offer cash incentives for musicians that see the most engagement with their tracks.

YouTube’s Added a New Option to Cut Your Long Form Videos into Shorts

The process will make it much easier for more YouTubers to move into Shorts.

YouTube Launches Commercial Music Program for Creators, Expands Test of Disappearing Community Posts

The new program will enable creators to add popular tracks to their clips.

Half-Life: Incursion Brings New Waved-Based Combat Campaign To Alyx

Half-Life: Incursion is a new mod for Half-Life: Alyx that adds a one-hour campaign with wave-based combat and randomized enemy spawns.

Myst Update Adds Hand Tracking Support And More On Quest

A new update is available for Myst, which adds hand tracking support and other requested features.

Hands-on Quest 2 hands tracking v2 (and comparison with Ultraleap)

Finally, after waiting for it for weeks, I have received the update to Hands Tracking v2 on my Quest. Do

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