Pimax Crystal Eye Tracking Enabled, Bringing Foveated Rendering & Automatic IPD

Pimax released a firmware update for Crystal, enabling the missing eye tracking feature and standalone mode.

The eye tracking supports foveated rendering and automatic IPD.

Meta Offered All In-Person Roblox Developers Conference Attendees A Free Quest Pro

Meta gave all in-person Roblox Developers Conference who wanted one a free Quest Pro headset to encourage them to add VR support to their experiences.

Warplanes: Air Corp Returns To VR Battlefields On Quest App Lab

Warplanes: Air Corp takes VR aerial combat to the modern battlefield on Quest App Lab.

Quest 3 Specs may have all already been leaked

In two weeks, Meta will launch the Meta Quest 3, and everyone in the community is excited about that. The problem is that there’s no space left for surprises because we already know everything about it. Meta already teased some details in June before the Apple Event, and over these weeks we had all the […]

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How to Monitor Your Competitors to Increase Conversions

Competition exists in any niche. It’s an unavoidable challenge for any business. But there’s one positive thing about having competitors: You can learn a huge deal from them. And that is how you evolve and innovate your business, by having to constantly learn from and keep up with your competitors. This article outlines one specific […]

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New Quest Update Reimagines the Landing Page, Once Again Sequestering Your App Library

Instead of taking you right to your library of installed apps, Meta is making yet another perplexing change to the Quest landing page in v57. Since the earliest days of Meta’s VR platform, the company has been seemingly obsessed with not putting your library of VR apps front-and-center. Instead the first thing you see when you […]

Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. The rumor is still unconfirmed, but when the world’s oldest extant gaming company finally thinks it’s time to make a dedicated XR device, you know it’s going to be something special. Having seen how far the technology has come […]

Crew Relaxes, Rubio Breaks NASA Record as New Trio Preps for Launch

The seven Expedition 69 crew members enjoyed an off-duty day on Monday aboard the International Space Station. They will be welcoming three new crewmates at the end of the week when they launch and dock to the orbital outpost. Three future station crew members are at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan counting down to their …

Expiring Visitor Badges and Their Benefits

Welcome the concept of Visitor Management with attention-grabbing expiring visitor badges. These user-friendly credentials offer an enhanced layer of security across various locations. Providing guests with visitor badges is a straightforward yet widely embraced approach…read more

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A Week In Italy: Everything We Saw At Venice Immersive 2023

UploadVR attended Venice Immersive last week.

Here’s our summary of the VR/AR projects we saw and our talk with the curators:

TikTok Expands its ‘Creativity Program’ Funding Initiative to More Regions

TikTok’s giving more creators the chance to make money from their clips.

X Faces Potential FTC Scrutiny Over Missing Ad Labels, While Creators Complain of Ad Revenue Share Errors

The challenges keep coming for the X team. 

Hands-On: Gargoyle Doyle Merges Mixed Reality Museums With VR Comedy

Gargoyle Doyle crosses mixed reality museums with VR comedy.

Our full impressions:

401k Plans: 6 Things You Should Know

We’ve all heard of 401(k) plans and many of us are already contributing to one in some form or another. But the number of people who truly understand how 401(k)s work is a much smaller…read more

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Understanding Data Recovery from Damaged Portable Drives

External hard drives find widespread application in creating backups and increasing the storage capacity of computers equipped with internal hard drives that are insufficiently spacious. Given their portable design, typical external hard drives endure significant…read more

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‘Citadel’ Delivers Rogue-Lite Action and Adventure in Meta Horizon Worlds

It’s been six weeks since we launched Super Rumble in Meta Horizon Worlds. It’s the first of many experiences to come that leverage improved graphics,…

Metaverse AI: The Rise of AI in the Metaverse

Metaverse AI innovations could be the answer to the problems innovators are facing today. Hype for the metaverse peaked last year after Facebook rebranded to “Meta”. Analysts even began predicting a lucrative future for metaverse technologies. According to Grandview Research, the global metaverse market will grow by around 41.6% CAGR up to 2030. Yet despite […]

The Rise of the Full Body Avatar: The Benefits of Realistic Avatars

For Metaverse and XR fans, the full-body avatar has long seemed like a distant dream. Through the years, even the most innovative metaverse companies have struggled to provide users with fully realistic avatars. For the most part, your digital identity on channels like Microsoft Teams and Zoom is likely to consist of a face and […]

Big XR News: Meta, ARuVR, Apple, Wildix, and Metaverse Taxation

Connect is the news of the month. As September moves along, Meta is prepping its immersive product portfolio for a refresh showcase during the event later this month. Meta is moving towards MR headsets instead of purely VR devices. This year saw massive interest in MR headsets following Apple’s Vision Pro debut, and Meta looks […]

TikTok Tests New In-Stream Shopping Push in the US

TikTok’s determined to get users shopping in the app.

TikTok Announces New Partnership to Facilitate Multi-Touch Attribution

A new way to better measure the results of your TikTok campaigns.

YouTube Announces Updated Ad Placement Controls, Experiments with New Ad Formats for CTV

YouTube’s reducing your control options for ad placement.

Snapchat Adds More Safety Features for Teen Users

New pop-up warnings and safety resources for parents and teens. 

Action Platformer Toss! Leaps Onto Quest, PSVR 2 & PC VR Today

Toss! is available now on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR – keep an eye out for our full review next week.

‘Tokyo Chronos’ Studio Announces VR Team Shooter ‘Brazen Blaze’, Coming in 2024

MyDearest, the Japan-based studio behind the Tokyo Chronos VR series, revealed it’s next VR game, a team shooter called Brazen Blaze. The studio describes Brazen Blaze as a “3v3 smack & shoot VR action with a heavy focus on close quarter melee combat.” You’ll be able to “choose from a variety of characters with unique skills to destroy […]