Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned

Varjo today announced the launch of Varjo Reality Cloud, the company’s XR cloud streaming platform that’s aimed at making XR more scalable in enterprise settings by doing the heavy lifting of rendering in the cloud. At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for […]

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Zuckerberg Warns Shareholders: Metaverse Investments May Not Flourish Until 2030s

Today during Meta’s Q1 2022 earnings call CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that they should buckle up for the long haul because the company’s steep investments in XR and metaverse technologies aren’t expected to flourish until the next decade. Today Meta gave its shareholders a quarterly update, in which the company overviewed its latest earnings […]

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Spacewalkers Exit Station to Activate New Robotic Arm

Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos began Russian spacewalk 53 at 10:58 a.m. EDT to continue to activating the new European robotic arm – a 37-foot-long manipulator system mounted to the recently arrived Nauka module. Coverage of the spacewalk continues on NASA Television,?the?NASA app,?and the agency’s?website. During the spacewalk, the …

NASA TV Broadcasting Fifth Spacewalk of the Year Today

NASA Television coverage is underway as two Russian cosmonauts prepare to venture outside the International Space Station to continue activating the new European robotic arm – a 37-foot-long manipulator system mounted to the recently arrived Nauka module. Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos will conduct the second in a series spacewalk that …

Crew-4 Now Aboard the Space Station

NASA astronauts Mission Commander Kjell Lindgren, Pilot Bob Hines, and Mission Specialist Jessica Watkins, and Mission Specialist Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) now are aboard the International Space Station following Crew Dragon’s hatch opening about 9:15 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 27. Crew-4 joins Expedition 67 crew of Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, …

The Crew-4 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, April 27, as the SpaceX Dragon Freedom docked to the complex at 7:37 p.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying about 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Following Crew Dragon’s link …

NFTs and the Global Metaverse Marketplace with Luna Market

In this session, we discuss the following: The role and value of NFTs in monetising the Metaverse How the blockchain, cloud computing, cryptocurrencies, and other emerging technologies promote interoperability for Metaverse infrastructure How the gaming industry is instrumental in developing Metaverse platforms and technologies If you’re looking for more information on this topic, kindly visit […]

Taqtile Establishes Chicago Training Site

On Tuesday, Taqtile entered a strategic partnership with Oracle to establish a Chicago-based facility that provides hands-on augmented reality (AR) simulation training for trainee frontline workers, customers, and enterprise partners. The Oracle Industry Lab opened for attendees to experiment with immersive collaboration products from the Seattle, Washington-based firm. The lab provides multiple technologies from Taqtile […]

Meta to Debut Hands-On Experience Store

Meta Platforms, formerly branded as Facebook, has launched a major campaign to promote its inaugural physical store, where customers can experience its mixed reality (MR) headsets in person. The Menlo Park-based firm announced in a blog post on Tuesday it will open its 1,550-square-feet Meta Store for business on 9 May, complete with in-house experiences […]

Dell to Debut Laptops for XR, RT3D Design

This Tuesday, Dell officially announced Precision, its most recent lineup of powerful consumer laptops built for heavy-duty design applications to create digital content such as extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), computer-assisted design (CAD), and real-time 3D (RT3D) solutions. Currently, the Precision lineup comprises three new laptops, including Precision 7770, Precision 7670, and the 5470 […]