A look at the next wave of AR glasses and which will win out with consumers.
New brands jump at endorsement deals with influencers, celebrities: study
Cosmetics and skincare brands are the leading category for endorsement deals, followed closely by non-athletic apparel and footwear.
Niantic And Meta Plan Playdates For Hello, Dot On Quest Headsets
Niantic is planning to expand its Hello, Dot experience on Quest 3 headsets.
XR Games Face 72 Layoffs With Large-Scale Restructuring
XR Games is undergoing a large-scale restructuring with 72 employees facing redundancy.
Vive Ultimate Trackers Now Support Any VR Headset On PC
Vive Ultimate Trackers now work with any VR headset on PC, adding body tracking without base stations.
New VR Games & Releases October 2024: Quest, SteamVR, PSVR 2 & More
Between Batman, Just Dance and more, October is easily this year’s busiest month for new VR games. Here are our monthly upcoming highlights.
The Best Shotguns in VR (and what makes them feel great) – Inside XR Design
Our series Inside XR Design highlights examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at shotguns in several different VR games to learn what makes them feel great in the player’s hand. In doing so, we’ll uncover the secret to making anything feel great in VR. You can find the complete video below, or continue […]
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Dragon Suit, Seat Checks During Crew Departure Preps and Space Science
Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore, both NASA astronauts, tried on their SpaceX Dragon pressure suits for the first time on Tuesday with assistance from new crewmate Nick Hague of NASA. The NASA trio checked out their pressurized suits, tested the suits’ audio configurations, and conducted seat fit checks inside the …
Snap Spectacles 5 Review: The Latest Snap AR Glasses
The latest Snap Spectacles 5 have arrived, introducing a new era of augmented reality hardware design for the social media giant. Introduced at the same time as a brand-new Snap OS, these AR specs go beyond anything Snap has previously accomplished in the smart glasses space. While Snap has technically been experimenting with smart glasses […]
7 Extended Reality Security Trends to Watch This Year
Extended reality security and data governance are becoming crucial concerns for today’s enterprises. Thanks to more advanced technologies and new use cases, demand for XR solutions is growing, forcing companies to rethink how they protect their data. After all, extended reality devices, software, and systems rely on huge volumes of data to create immersive, hyper-realistic, […]
Instagram Chief Says ‘Following’ Feed Option Won’t Work
IG boss Adam Mosseri says that people don’t actually want a ’following’ feed option.
Snapchat Influencers Are More Likely To Drive Purchase Results, Report Finds
New data shows Snap influencers have a big impact on shoppers.
X Needs To Pay $5M in Fines Before Brazil Reinstatement
X is facing significant fines before Brazil will lift its block on the app.
YouTube Pulls Music by Big Name Artists in Latest Licensing Dispute
The Google company is currently in negotiations with SESAC.
You Can’t Scare Me Wants You To Make Other Players Scream On Quest
You Can’t Scare Me is a VR co-op horror game that scores you for making other players scream, and it’s coming to Quest next month.
Starship Troopers: Continuum Heads For VR Soon With New Co-Op Shooter
Starship Troopers: Continuum brings the hit sci-fi franchise to VR with a co-op shooter, arriving next month on Quest and PSVR 2.
Quest’s Horizon OS Now Works Better Offline
The Horizon OS of Quest headsets now works better offline.
Voter Registration Rally Held In Horizon Worlds
Here’s a look at how a voting rally went recently inside Horizon Worlds.
A strategical analysis of the news from Meta Connect 2024
Every year I like to write a detailed report about all the major news from Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect. This year I want to do something a bit different: instead of reporting a list of all the announcements from there, I want to give you a detailed commentary about the event from a technical strategy standpoint. This […]
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Co-op Shooter ‘Starship Troopers: Continuum’ is Coming to Quest and PSVR 2 in October, Trailer Here
Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and XR Games, the studio behind Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and upcoming shooter Zombie Army VR, today announced Starship Troopers: Continuum, an online multiplayer shooter that brings you back to the Arachnid infested wasteland. Teased last week by the ’90s film actor Casper Van Dien, today we learned just what VR plans Sony has […]
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Apple Reportedly Rethinking XR Headset Approach Amid Reveal of Meta’s AR Glasses
Despite Vision Pro’s $3,500 price tag, which is nearly 12 times more expensive than the $300 Quest 3S, Apple and Meta are destined to be direct competitors in the XR space at some point in the near future. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple may be rethinking its XR strategy moving forward though following […]
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Twisted Claymation VR Adventure ‘The Midnight Walk’ Coming to PSVR 2 & PC VR in Spring 2025, Trailer Here
MoonHood, a studio founded by developers behind Lost in Random (2021) and Ghost Giant (2019), finally unveiled their long-teased VR project, The Midnight Walk. MoonHood first announced last year it was collaborating with VR veteran Fast Travel Games as a publisher on a mysterious new title, showing off a number of dark and twisted clay objects that, […]
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Quest’s POV Video Casting Feature May Get WhatsApp Support Soon
Quest users can cast their in-game view to a TV, a mobile phone, and even to their friends and family on Facebook Messenger now. According to a recent marketing image uncovered by serial leaker and data miner Luna, it may soon also include support for WhatsApp too. An update earlier this month allowed Quest users […]
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Expedition 72 Welcomes New Crew, Crew-8 Departing Soon
The seven astronauts and four cosmonauts representing the Expedition 72 crew slept in on Monday working half-a-day during the afternoon following Sunday’s arrival of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission. The International Space Station’s two newest crew members, Nick Hague of NASA and Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos, launched to the orbital outpost aboard the SpaceX Dragon at …
Expedition 72 Welcomes Crew-9 Duo Aboard Station
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov entered the International Space Station after opening the hatch between the space station and the pressurized mating adapter at 7:04 p.m. EDT before opening the hatch to Dragon. Hague and Gorbunov were welcomed by the space station’s Expedition 72 crew, including NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael …