Built on ‘Medium’, Adobe’s New Substance 3D Modeler Aims to Bring VR Modeling to Pro Workflows

This week Adobe revealed its new Substance 3D software suite which is designed to give creative professionals a comprehensive set of tools for modeling, texturing, and lighting 3D objects and scenes. Built on the foundation of the VR sculpting tool Oculus Medium (which Adobe acquired back in 2019), the Substance 3D Modeler tool aims to […]

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LIV Mobile App Lets You Record Quest Mixed Reality Video with Just Your iPhone, Now in Beta

LIV develops software for mixed reality video capture, and over the years it’s become the de facto method for streamers showing themselves immersed in VR from a third-person perspective. For best results though, using LIV invariably means you’ll need some extra equipment, which isn’t ideal for everyone. Now LIV has released its newly unveiled mobile iOS […]

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JUMP Opens Pre-sales for Tickets to Its Virtual Skydiving Attraction

JUMP, the destination-based entertainment company, exited stealth late last year and teased a unique attraction that would combine real-world wing suits, wind effects, body harnesses and VR headsets for a fully immersive skydiving experience. The company is now taking pre-orders for tickets to its debut locations, which for now are in Utah and New Jersey.  JUMP […]

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VR Education Platform ‘ENGAGE’ Raises $10.7M to Build ‘Oasis’ Metaverse for Business

VR Education Holdings, the company behind the social VR platform ENGAGE, announced it’s raised €9 million (~$10.7 million) which will help it expand beyond the realm of immersive education & training and into a new product called ENGAGE Oasis. It’s billing the upcoming social VR platform as an enterprise offering comparable to a “fully featured […]

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NASA TV Goes Live on Friday for Third Spacewalk in June

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to exit the International Space Station’s Quest airlock Friday for a spacewalk to install and deploy the second of six new solar arrays to help power the orbiting laboratory. Live coverage of the spacewalk will air on NASA Television, the agency’s website, …

Astronauts Get Ready for Spacewalk While Science Continues

Four Expedition 65 crew members spent Thursday preparing for the third spacewalk to continue new roll-out solar array installation work. The other three International Space Station crew members continued with variety of space research. Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to exit the space station shortly after they set their U.S. spacesuits to …

Twitter Announces Full iOS Launch of Tweet Sharing to Instagram Stories

Now all iOS users can easily share tweets to their Instagram Stories frames.

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.