VR Skater Receives Full Release On Steam This February

VR Skater leaves Steam Early Access for full release next month:

New VR Games & Releases January 2024: PSVR 2, Quest, SteamVR & More

2024 is here and January’s packing more VR games. Here’s the highlights coming to Quest, PC VR, PSVR 2 and Pico:

Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Is A Higher End Chip For The Samsung-Google Headset & More

Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Quest 3.

Why Trend-Hopping Can Lead to Brand Failure on Social

What should you consider before hopping on a social trend? There’s an estimated 4.9 billion users on social media right now with most users spread out across 5-6 platforms. It’s no surprise that these social media platforms are requiring us to develop independent strategies for our brand. What most brands want is to reach as […]

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[Industry Direct] Revolutionizing Fitness Apps with Snapdragon Technologies

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Studio Behind One of PSVR 2’s Most Popular Multiplayer Games is Shutting Down

First Contact Entertainment, developers behind the tactical team shooter franchise Firewall, is shuttering the studio, citing the “lack of support for VR within the industry.” Founded in 2016, First Contact has developed two of the PSVR platform’s most visible exclusives: Firewall Zero Hour (2018) and the recently released sequel Firewall Ultra (2023), which landed solely […]

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Exploring XR User Interface Interactions in ‘Idea Engine’

Idea Engine allows you to create and share VR and mixed reality experiences. Building such a general-purpose tool requires complex user interfaces. In this Guest Article, developer Brett Jackson shares his approaches to UI interaction. Guest Article by Brett Jackson Brett Jackson has been developing VR projects since 2015 and is the director of the […]

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Qualcomm Announces More Powerful Version of Quest 3’s XR Chip

Qualcomm today announced its latest Snapdragon XR chip, the XR2+ Gen 2, a more capable variant of the chip that powers Quest 3. The company also hints that it will be used in the upcoming Samsung-Google headset. Qualcomm is at this point the world’s leading provider of mobile processors for XR headsets. The company’s Snapdragon […]

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Spacesuit Loop Scrubs and Routine Station Maintenance for Crew on Thursday

Another day of station upkeep is underway aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The Expedition 70 crew spent most of the day on spacesuit and station maintenance, auditing equipment, and wrapping up experiments started earlier this week. In the morning, NASA Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli was joined by ESA (European Space Agency) Commander Andreas …

Will Microsoft Claim the Metaverse Crown in 2024?

Microsoft spent the second half of 2023 championing what it coined as the industrial Metaverse, specifically an umbrella of multi-user XR services covering enterprise use cases such as collaboration, design procedures, and employee training. However, the new year is upon us, as is Microsoft’s industrial Metaverse roadmap, with the first of its products coming this […]