The Expedition 67 crew is heading into a busy period next week that begins with a Russian spacewalk, followed by the departure of four private astronauts and the launch of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission. Meanwhile, the residents aboard the International Space Station continued a broad array of research to understand what happens to the human …
Station Ramps Up for Crew Swap and Spacewalk Preps
NASA and SpaceX are preparing for a Commercial Crew swap taking place this month at the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) astronauts are staying busy as two cosmonauts gear up for a pair of spacewalks outside the orbiting lab’s Russian segment. Two Commercial Crew missions are getting ready to trade places …
GigXR, ANIMA RES Scale Healthcare eLearning
GigXR, a global provider of extended reality (XR) healthcare eLearning solutions, partnered with medical XR visualisations experts ANIMA RES on Thursday to scale its hyper-realistic 3D anatomy training tools for global medical schools. The partnership enables GigXR to provide its user base with a selection of new eLearning opportunities previously unavailable on the platform. Rodrigo […]
HBAR Foundation Launches $250m Blockchain Fund
Last Thursday, The HBAR Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to accelerate Hedera network use cases, debuted a Metaverse fund worth $250 million USD to encourage immersive experience developers to design solutions for its blockchain ecosystem. The HBAR foundation is creating the Metaverse fund to target business-to-customer (B2C) and business-to-business-to-customer (B2B2C) use cases that introduce users […]
Izumi World Leverages AR For Mass P2E Adoption
Izumi World, an augmented reality (AR)-based gaming platform, revealed on Thursday its first-ever geolocation ‘Web3 meets real-world’ bundle of games, which are expected to launch in the first quarter (Q1) next year. Users can catch, collect, train, and battle Izumi, or mythical creatures wandering the game’s imaginative Metaverse, across real-world geolocated regions worldwide, promoting an […]
Unity Releases 2021 LTS with Added Features
Unity Technologies, arguably the largest platform for producing real-time 3D content, released its 2021 Long-Term Support (LTS) for download, the company revealed on Tuesday. The firm states its new version offers over a year of tweaks and improvements to the Unity Editor and additional features of the platform in a bid to increase product stability, […]
Why Your YouTube Videos Are Failing
Are your YouTube videos underperforming? Wondering how to boost your views? To discover the keys to attracting more viewers to your videos, I interview Jake Thomas.
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Elon Musk Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Twitter
In a move that few could have predicted, Elon Musk is now looking to buy Twitter outright.
YouTube Adds New CTV Campaign Measurement Verification Through Expanded Nielsen Partnership
CTV viewing is on the rise, and YouTube is evolving its CTV ad offerings in-step.
YouTube Launches New ‘Search Insights’ for All Creators
The new Search Insights tab will provide data on what people are searching for in the app, and on your channel specifically.
TikTok Shares New Tips on How to Maximize Content Performance in the App
The tips could provide some valuable guidance for your TikTok marketing approach.
Lindsey Stirling Music Pack Launches Today For Synth Riders
Synth Riders adds music from violinist Lindsey Stirling as DLC today.
Trailer and details here.
Rec Room Passes 3 Million Monthly Active VR Users, Mostly Quest 2
Social app Rec Room now has over 3 million monthly active users in VR.
But that’s still a “pretty low percentage” of overall players.
nDreams To Publish VR Manga Adventure, Sushi Ben
nDreams’ next VR publishing deal is for gorgeous VR manga adventure, Sushi Ben VR.
More details here.
GOLF+ For Quest 2 Gets New Free ‘Alpine’ Course
GOLF+ for Quest 2 just released a new ‘Alpine’ course as a free update.
5 Top Social Auditing and Assessment Tools for 2022
Would you like to generate more traffic and conversions from social media marketing? Do you feel that your social media channels could be doing better? Most business owners will answer “Yes!” to both of these questions. To boost the performance of your social media marketing strategy you need to identify what has worked or failed […]
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Genies Secures $150M Series C to Expand Development on Metaverse Avatars
Genies, a 3D avatar company, announced it’s raised a $150 million Series C investment, something it says will be used to hire more engineering talent and continue development on its non-fungible token (NFT) based “avatar universe.” The round was led by private equity firm Silver Lake, and includes participation from existing investors BOND, NEA, and Tamarack […]
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Virtual Social Platform ‘Rec Room’ Hits 3 Million Monthly Active VR Users
Rec Room a social VR game which also supports non-VR devices like PC, console, and mobile phones, has reached an impressive 3 million monthly active VR users, which the company says is just a fraction of its total monthly active usership. Rec Room has continued its impressive growth, having tripled its monthly active VR user […]
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‘Pokémon Go’ Studio’s New Game, ‘Peridot’, Leans Further into AR Gameplay
‘Pokémon Go’ studio Niantic announced Peridot today, its latest game which the company says leans further into AR than prior projects. When developer Niantic launched Pokémon Go back in 2016, many heralded it as ‘the first major augmented reality game’. But as I argued at the time, it really wasn’t ‘augmented reality’ at all… but merely […]
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‘The Last Clockwinder’ Nabs Publishing & Funding Support, Affirms Summer 2022 Release
Fixing up an old tower without tools sounds tough, but much less so when you have an army of robotic clones at your disposal. That’s the idea at least behind The Last Clockwinder, a VR automation game from Pontoco which is slated to hit Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets sometime in Summer 2022. Update (April 13th, 2022): The […]
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Geenee AR, Ready Player Me Partner for WebAR Avatars
Geenee AR, a WebAR publishing platform for Metaverse services, and virtual reality (VR) avatar designers Ready Player Me announced a partnership to create wearable AR avatars with no code needed. The partnership creates a platform that enables individuals to wear their virtual avatars by overlaying digital accessories in the real world, including NFT support, physical […]
Canadian Media Groups Back Black XR Accelerator
Several Canadian organisations have announced 11 Black-owned content creation firms selected for a major accelerator programme aimed at promoting racial diversity in the immersive filming industry. The OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC), Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), and Dark Slope recently revealed the names of founders selected for the Scale Up Immersive […]
Bytedance Launches AR-Enhanced TikTok Effects
This Monday, Bytedance, Pico Interactive’s parent company, announced new augmented reality (AR) tools for its massively popular social media platform TikTok following a successful beta testing stage late last year. TikTok is introducing Effect House, an in-app creator platform that enables users to design and share AR effects and experiences with others on the platform. […]
What Is the Nakaverse? Here’s What we’ve Found
As the war for building the one true Metaverse heats up, there is another contender that demands our attention: Nakamoto Games, or the Nakaverse. The platform has been in beta testing for a while and its first title ‘Duck Hunter’ launched in an exclusive community in October last year. The following December, the platform went […]
Pinterest Announces New Partnership with WooCommerce to Expand Product Listings
The integration will feed a lot more product listings into the Pinterest ecosystem.