How Will Twitter Change Under a New CEO?

Twitter’s incoming CEO could spark a shift in strategic focus for the app.

Meta Begins Testing Generative AI Elements for Facebook and Instagram Ads

Meta’s looking to further align its tools with the generative AI shift.

Elon Musk Announces that He’s Hired a New CEO to Replace Him at Twitter

It’s a big job, which will put a heap of pressure on the incoming chief.

LinkedIn Will No Longer Count Inactive or Restricted Accounts in Connection and Follower Stats

Your LinkedIn audience counts may see a dip this week.

VR Skater Preview: Practice Makes Perfect On PSVR 2

VR Skater arrives on PSVR 2 next month, and we went hands-on with a preview build.

Here are our impressions:

Hello Neighbor Confirmed For Quest & PC VR Release This Month Alongside PSVR 2

Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue is now confirmed for release on Quest and PC VR alongside PSVR 2 on May 25.

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A Fisherman’s Tale Catches A PSVR 2 Port Later This Year

A Fisherman’s Tale will receive a PSVR 2 port later this year.

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PlayStation VR2 Is Now Available At Retailers

PlayStation VR2 is now available at retailers, ending PlayStation Direct exclusivity.

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Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk to Deploy Radiator

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin began a spacewalk at 11:47 a.m. EDT to deploy a radiator on the International Space Station’s Nauka science module. Coverage of the spacewalk continues on NASA Television,?the?NASA app,?and the agency’s?website. Prokopyev is wearing an Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, while Petelin is wearing the suit with blue stripes. …

Cosmonaut Spacewalkers Exiting Station Soon Live on NASA TV

NASA Television coverage is underway for today’s spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. The duo will deploy a radiator on the on the International Space Station’s Nauka science module, connect electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic lines, and fill a pair of colling loops on the radiator with coolant. Coverage of the spacewalk is on …

VR Party Brawler Quantaar Launches Next Month

Square off against other players in a variety of challenges in this Super Smash Bros-like third-person competitive fighting game. QUANTAAR, a new VR party brawling game from developer PumpkinVR, will finally launch on June 7th on SteamVR, Pico 4, and Meta Quest headsets after being in beta since 2022. The cross-platform battle royale pits players […]

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Watching TV While Flying A VR Spaceship Looks Rad

Now that’s what I call in-flight entertainment. A little entertainment can go a long way during a lengthy commute, as shown by Reddit user manicmastiff81 who this week shared a video of them watching YouTube from the cockpit of a VR spaceship in the popular open-world science-fiction game No Man’s Sky. In the video, we […]

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Amazon Goes Virtual: Shop For Products In VR & AR

Shopping for real products in the virtual world just became a little easier. Earlier this week, the popular online retailer Amazon launched “Amazon Anywhere,” a new shopping experience that enables customers to purchase physical products from the Amazon store without having to leave their favorite games and apps. This includes VR experiences as well as […]

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Pre-Order ‘Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue’ on Meta Quest 2 to Save 10%

The creepy Mr. Peterson has been scaring Hello Neighbor fans for years across a number of games, books, and cartoons. And now, the Neighbor and…

Give Yourself A Hand: ‘Another Fisherman’s Tale’ is Out Now on Meta Quest 2 + Pro

Another Fisherman’s Tale is out now on Meta Quest 2 + Pro. A follow-up to Vertigo Games and Innerspace VR’s beloved 2019 puzzle game A…

Uniting the Global XR Industry with The Metaverse Standards Forum

Metaverse to Contribute 2.8% to Global GDP in 10 Years, says Meta

This Tuesday, a report from leading immersive firm Meta Platforms, produced by Deloitte, analysed the economic forecast of Metaverse services across the US, Canada, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, and Asia. The report predicted that Metaverse solutions, active across various markets such as retail and manufacturing, could generate up to $402 billion […]

Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website. Users can select locations, retrieve 3D geometry of the […]

Targeting Website Visitors With Emails: How to Use Email Retargeting

Need a way to re-engage people who don’t purchase your products or services? Looking for a strategy that doesn’t involve ads? To discover how to target visitors to your website organically with emails, I interview Steve Chou.

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Pinterest Launches Simplified Pin Creation Flow, Adds Links in All Pins

Links in all Pin types is a big update

25 Ways to Promote Your Business for Free [Infographic]

Some tips to help you maximize your marketing outreach efforts.

Twitter Continues to Reform Verification, Bringing it More into Line with the Previous Process

For all the talk of change at the app, Twitter is slowly reverting back to its previous processes.

New Report Highlights the Best Times to Post to Social Platforms in 2023

Sprout Social has published its annual overview of the most engaging times to post.

Dungeon Full Dive Brings DnD 5e To PC VR Later This Year

Dungeon Full Dive brings tabletop adventures to PC VR this year, and you can sign up now for an alpha test.

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Meta ‘Avatars Grow Legs’ Research Shows Realtime AI-Powered Body Pose Estimation

Meta AI researchers are getting closer to delivering realistic avatar legs without extra tracking hardware.

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