Threads Won’t Promote Political Or Hard News Content — A Contrast From Twitter

Topline Instagram lead Adam Mosseri said in two Threads posts Friday that the new app would not encourage “politics and hard news” on its platform, a far cry from the promoted political content found on…read more

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Releases Recap: July 2 – 7

It was a quiet week on the Meta Quest Platform. But there’s a clucking good update we just had to share….

Reddit Shares New Insights into How People are Seeking Home Insurance Information in the App [Infographic]

A growing number of people are conducting home insurance research on Reddit.

Twitter Tests Voice and Video Calls in DMs

Another step in expanding Twitter’s utility.

Quantaar Review: A VR Brawler That’s Not Quite Ready For Primetime

Quantaar is a free-to-play VR brawler available now on PC VR, Pico and Quest via App Lab.

Does the game successfully bring Smash Bros-like action into VR? Here’s our review:

SteamVR Now Supports Automatic Controller Binding, Making Weird VR Controllers a Little Less Weird

Valve released its 1.26 update to SteamVR, which ought to make it easier to play any VR game using any type of motion controller thanks to automatic controller binding. The company initially released a Compatibility Mode in its 1.24 update back in August 2022 which let games initially targeted towards specific controller types essentially be […]

Lithium-Ion: Powering Our Social Lives

Did you know that lithium powers many of the tools that we use each and every day? From the phones we talk on to the cars we drive, lithium-ion batteries are in demand more than…read more

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Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s ‘Copycat’ Threads App, Report Says

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Semafor, Thursday, reported that Twitter’s attorney accused Meta, in a lawsuit, of misusing “trade secret and intellectual property of Twitter” to build its Threads rival app. The company claimed to…read more

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AR Murals Bring Bruce Lee To Life In NY & LA

After long last, season three of the popular martial arts crime drama Warrior has finally begun airing on Max (formerly HBO Max). To help promote the new episodes, Max teamed up with a handful of multicultural artists to create a series of interactive murals powered by augmented reality (AR) technology. Each mural features a QR […]

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The Minnesota Twins Add AR Statistics To Their Stadium

New shared AR games have also been announced. The Minnesota Twins baseball team is expanding its collaboration with smartphone-based augmented reality (AR) platform ARound to bring AR-powered statistics and new AR mini-games to Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to an official release. The partnership was originally announced back in 2022. This second iteration will introduce […]

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