Today I’m writing a post about one of the best haptics devices I have tried at AWE 2021: Senseglove Nova,
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Rift Launch Title ‘Lucky’s Tale’ Surprise Releases on Quest 2 Today
Lucky’s Tale (2016) was a launch title for the original Oculus Rift, and now the plucky little 3D platformer has surprise released exclusively on Oculus Quest 2 today. Playful Studios (formerly Playful Corp) developed the original Lucky’s Tale for Rift, pitching it not only as a launch title for the early consumer VR headset, but making […]
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Crew Packs Cargo Ship for Departure and Preps for Spacewalk
The Expedition 66 crew is turning its attention to the U.S. Cygnus space freighter as it nears departure this weekend after 100 days berthed to the station’s Unity module. The astronauts are also preparing for a spacewalk to replace a faulty antenna system on the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and …
Crew Operations Aboard Space Station Return to Normal
NASA and U.S. Space Command continue to monitor the debris cloud created by a recent Russian anti-satellite test. The International Space Station and crew members are safe and have resumed normal operations. The largest risk from the debris was in the first 24 hours and telemetry from the space station indicates no issues during that …
STYLY Debuts Creative Platform on HTC VIVE Flow
Last week, Psychic VR Lab Ltd announced the debut of its virtual reality (VR) creative platform STYLY for HTC VIVE’s Flow virtual reality (VR) headset. STYLY is a cloud-based application that gives extended reality (XR) content creators a place to showcase their work and collaborate with other artists in a online VR space. Users can […]
Epic Games CEO Lauds Metaverse, Slams Apple, Google
Tim Sweeney, Chief Executive Officer of Epic Games Inc, said at a recent event this week the Metaverse could offer massive potential to the global economy. Sweeney, whose company has created hit games as Fortnite, Gears of War, and Unreal Tournament, currently holds a huge online community for users as well as virtual concerts, Bloomberg […]
Meta Updates on Metaverse Haptic Gloves Plans
Meta, Inc has updated the public on its research and development (R&D) progress on an upcoming haptic glove solution aimed at realising Metaverse-based technologies, it revealed on Tuesday. The company’s Reality Labs Research divisison stated in a blog post its teams were focused on “inventing the future of interaction in augmented and virtual reality”, adding, […]
ArborXR, Axon Partner for Public Safety Training
ArborXR is an enterprise-grade platform for the management and secure distribution of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) content across businesses. The global firm will partner with Axon, a global leader public safety training, to remotely deploy VR training content and software updates to US public safety workers. ArborXR is currently employing the recently-debuted HTC VIVE […]
Twitter Launches Updated Tweet Analytics Card, Providing More Specific Performance Insight
The updated Tweet analytics card is more intuitive and displays more insight into tweet performance.
Twitter Provides New Checklist for Small Business Saturday Promotions
The checklist provides some quick pointers to help maximize your Twitter efforts this season.
Facebook Shares New Insights into Emerging Shopping Behaviors and Expectations [Infographic]
With consumers now more accustomed to digital connection in the buying journey, expectations are rising around the same.
TikTok Conducts New Research into Harmful Trends and Challenges with a View to Improving Safety Measures
Based on its research, TikTok will specifically focus on self-harm related trends.
HaptX: Meta’s Glove Tech ‘Substantively Identical’ To Our Patents
Force feedback gloves pioneer HaptX says the microfluidic technologies Meta showed off yesterday “appear to be substantively identical” to its patents.
How To Watch The VR Awards, Streaming Tomorrow
Here’s how to watch the 2021 VR Awards, which launch tomorrow in-VR and on desktop.
VR JRPG Ruinsmagus To Launch English Edition With Kickstarter Help
VR JRPG/visual novel hybrid Ruinsmagus is hoping to release a fully localized English version in 2022, and it’s turning to crowd-funding for it.
Hitman 3, Resident Evil 4 And More Make The Game Awards VR Nominations
Hitman 3, Lone Echo 2, Resident Evil 4 and more are up for Best VR at The Game Awards.
What’s your pick?
Qualcomm: Oculus Quest 2 Shipped 10 Million Units Since Launch
Qualcomm held an investor event yesterday where the company revealed that its partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook) has seen over 10 million Oculus Quest 2 units shipped since the VR headset’s launch in October 2020, an important milestone that Meta said would be an important “threshold” to a content ecosystem set for explosive growth. We’ve […]
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Vive Focus 3 is Getting WiFi 6E Support & More Improvements for VR Arcades
HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. The company recently announced updates to the software experience that will bring a host of improvements, such as support for the new WiFi 6E standard, larger tracking areas, […]
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HIKKY Raises $57m to Develop Global Metaverse
Tokyo-based virtual reality (VR) startup HIKKY Co has raised $57 million USD (6.5 billion yen) in a round of series A funding to strengthen the company’s corporate structure and deploy its Metaverse products, both domestically and abroad, the company announced in a statement on Tuesday. HIKKY’s VR services are based on its ‘Vket’ umbrella of […]
Nextech AR Rebrands as Metaverse Company
Canadian augmented reality (AR) firm Nextech AR Solutions Corp has rebranded as a Metaverse company, following Meta’s shock rebrand from Facebook, in a bid to greater reflect its ambitions, it announced on Tuesday. The enterprise aims to rebrand its product lineup with its ARitize trademark and will roll out the changes progressively, reflecting a major […]
Barbados To Open World-First Metaverse Embassy
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Barbados has inked a historic deal to allow the sale of digital real estate as sovereign land with a Metaverse embassy, reports revealed on Tuesday. The department inked the agreement with Decentraland, the world’s largest cryptocurrency digital real estate firm, to buy virtual land for the […]
Immerse SDK: A Free, Versatile Enterprise XR Solution
The Immerse Platform is a enterprise-grade cloud service for the deployment and management of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications, and the US firm distributes VR training and collaboration tools across many global businesses such as DHL and Shell. Immerse is now debuting a software development kit (SDK) that enables VR developers to create custom […]
Twitter Shares New Insights into Rising Football Discussion in the App [Infographic]
Interest in all sports is on the rise, with football seeing renewed fan enthusiasm in the early part of the season.
New Study Shows That 25% of Twitter Users Produce 97% of All Tweets
The study underlines the ‘dominance of the few’ rule on social media, and its broader impacts.
Instagram Expands Live Stream Badges to All Eligible Creators in the US
It’s the latest in Instagram’s expanding set of creator monetization tools.