Unity, Capgemini Partner for Metaverse Consulting

Unity Technologies has formed a strategic partnership with Capgemini to offer consultations to firms seeking metaverse solutions, the latter revealed on Wednesday. According to the agreement, both companies will collaborate on “sector-specific solutions” in the multi-year partnership. Capgemini will also offer its Metaverse Lab featuring senior technology experts from its Group Executive Committee. The Lab […]

Biden to Sign CHIPS Act for Semiconductors, XR Tech

US President Joe Biden is set to sign off on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America (CHIPS) Act to back semiconductors and emerging technologies, media reported on Thursday. The CHIPS Act provides $52 billion in government funding for semiconductor research and development (R&D) along with tax credits to build new chip fab […]

Top 6 Use Cases for XR in Gaming

It’s no secret Extended Reality has taken the world by storm. Particularly in the last couple of years, we’ve seen the rapid adoption of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences across various environments. The gaming landscape was one of the first arenas where developers and creators really began putting XR to the test. From the […]

Making Real Instagram Connections

Trying to grow a following on Instagram? Could chasing new followers be negatively impacting your connection to current followers? To discover a strategy for growing and sustaining an engaged and responsive community on Instagram, I interview Jonny Keeley.

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Twitter Continues to Test New Topic-Based Listings for Spaces, Which Could Improve Discovery

Twitter’s still working on improving Spaces discovery, which is a key step in maximizing Spaces take-up.

New Study Highlights the Usage of Social Media Platforms for News Content Around the World

The report looks at how many people in each region now rely on social platforms for news content.

Facebook Shuts Down its Live Commerce Push, Which May Reflect Broader Disinterest in Live Shopping

Live commerce has been a key growth lever for Chinese apps – but western audiences seem less enthused by the option.

YouTube Launches Updated Editing UI to Help Creators Move into Shorts, New Analytics Features

The new option will provide another way to lean into the short-form content trend.

VR Headset Usage On Steam Once Again Jumps To Anomalous All Time High

The Steam Hardware Survey shows a near quadrupling of VR users in July – but as with May, this data is almost certainly erroneous.

Requisition Devs Talk Release Date, Home Alone, Quest Port

We sat down with the developers of Requsition VR to get an update on the upcoming VR zombie game!

First Hand Offers Gravity Gloves With Quest Hand Tracking

If you’ve got Quest 2, you’ll want to check out the new First Hand free hand tracking demo from Meta.

Quest’s Most Popular Basketball Game on App Lab ‘Gym Class’ Secures $8M

IRL Studios announced that Gym Class, its popular VR basketball game on Meta Quest App Lab, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Y Combinator. Other participants include Founders Inc., Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, Zaza Pachulia, and a number of other angel investors. Named […]

Crew Readies Free-Flying Robots, Prepares Sample Returns, and Transfers Cargo

The Expedition 67 crew kept busy aboard the International Space Station today readying free-flying robots, preparing sample returns, and transferring cargo. NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren set up Astrobee’s free-flying robots for a student robotics competition. For the competition, students write software to control one of the station’s Astrobee free-flying robots. Finalists have their code downloaded …

Keppel O&M, IMDA Trial Smart Glasses for Remote Inspections

Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has begun trialling augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) smart glasses with Keppel Operations and Maintenance (O&M), the latter announced on Wednesday. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions to numerous offshore operations have forced companies to leverage extended reality (XR) solutions. Workers will use the devices to receive real-time […]

Doctors Leverage VR to Separate Conjoined Twins

London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has assisted Brazilian surgeons in separating conjoined twins using virtual reality (VR) digital twins of the patients, it was this week. Doctors used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computerised tomography (CT) scans of Bernando and Arthur Lima, aged three, and uploaded the visuals to VR in a three-month trial of […]

LinkedIn Publishes New ‘Framework’ for Events to Help Businesses Map Out their Events Strategy

Planning on running an event? You need to check out LinkedIn’s new guide.

Instagram’s Chief is Heading to London to Spark New EU Growth for the App

The Instagram boss will temporarily relocate to London to help maximize its push in Europe.

LinkedIn Makes its 20 Most Popular LinkedIn Learning Courses Freely Available Throughout August

Looking to up your skills in the second half of the year?

TikTok Publishes New Guide on How Advertisers Can Navigate New Data Privacy Restrictions on iOS

The guide looks at how advertisers can navigate the new data tracking framework, as a result of Apple’s ATT update.

New Quest 2 & PC VR Games August 2022: All The Biggest Releases

Looking for a list of new VR games coming in August 2022? We’ve got you covered — here’s our full rundown.

Backseat VR Developer: Walkabout Mini Golf With Mighty Coconut’s Lucas Martell

Today Alex and Skeeva are playing Walkabout Mini Golf joined by developer Lucas Martell from Mighty Coconut.

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Rumored and Confirmed AR & VR Headset Releases – 2022 And Beyond: Apple, PSVR 2 & More

There’s a lot of hardware on the horizon – here’s our list of upcoming rumored and confirmed VR/AR headsets.

How Codemasters Brought F1 Racing To VR

We spoke to Codemasters about the process of finally bringing F1 to VR!

RP1 may have created the networking layer of the metaverse

We all know that these days the metaverse, the infamous M-word, is one of the hot topics in the tech world. We also know that this dream is very far away, and the estimates talk about between 5 and 15 years from now. There are many problems to be solved, technological and social to begin […]

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SEO: How to Generate More Clicks from Your Current Rankings

For as long as it has existed, search engine optimization has been about getting found in search. And yet, most people (and even many SEO experts themselves) tend to think about this as a result as one and only strategy: Increasing your site’s organic rankings. When Google started, this may have been the only method […]

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