Facebook Tests New Animations When Sharing a Post in the News Feed

The animations are displayed when a user scrolls by your share in their News Feed.

YouTube’s Making a Change to Unlisted Videos, Adding New Detailed Info for Policy Violations

Creators with Unlisted videos will need to decide how they want to respond to the update.

Snapchat Adds New Product Integration for Pride Week, Enabling Users to Create Physical Pride Flags

The option enables users to have a real flag printed based on their in-app creation.

Green Hell VR May Get Original Game’s Extra Content In The Future

Green Hell VR developer Incuvo may add additional content to the game in the future.

Adobe Productizing Oculus Medium Acquisition As ‘Substance 3D Modeler’

Adobe just launched a new ‘Substance 3D’ suite of creation tools.

The Oculus Medium VR sculpting app it acquired from Facebook will evolve to become a new product called Substance 3D Modeler.

‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Finally Set to Launch on Steam July 15th with Cross-play, New Course Included

After launching on Quest back in September of 2020 and “coming soon” to Steam ever since, the well rated VR mini golf game Walkabout Mini Golf finally has a July 15th release date on Steam, supporting all PC VR headsets and cross-play with the Quest and Oculus PC versions. The game was recently updated with its seventh […]

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‘STRIDE’ Multiplayer Alpha Launches With ‘Infection Mode’ Tag

Developer Joy Way today launched a surprise multiplayer alpha for its STRIDE VR parkour action game. The new mode, called ‘STRIDE.net’ is available free to current owners of the game and offers up an ‘infection mode’ which works like a high stakes game of tag. The original Stride launched on Steam in early access last year […]

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Oculus Removes ‘Go Live’ Facebook Livestreaming on Quest v30 Update

Though Oculus has added plenty of new features to Quest since its launch, in the latest update its removing one: the ‘Go Live’ feature was the only direct method for livestreaming the headset’s view to the web (via Facebook), but it’s gone as of the v30 update. Users can still cast from Quest to a […]

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Moth+Flame Raises $2.5M to Expand Its Immersive VR Work Training Tech

Moth+Flame, a creator of VR training software, today announced it’s garnered $2.5 million in seed funding to expand the scale of its workplace VR training technology. The New York-based company’s latest funding round was led by Bee Partners with additional investment from First In, Meeting Street Capital, Service Provider Capital, Spacecadet, and Dan Farah, producer […]

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Afternoon of Spacewalk Preps during Full Day of Physics, Biology

Wednesday was a light duty day for the five Expedition 65 astronauts, two of whom will go on their third spacewalk this month. The two Russian flight engineers aboard the International Space Station stayed  focused on cardiac research and plasma crystal physics throughout the day. Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet joined NASA Flight Engineers …