VR’s Favorite Mini-Golf Game is Coming to PSVR 2 Soon

Indie VR studio Mighty Coconut announced its smash success VR mini-golfing game Walkabout Mini Golf is making its way to PSVR 2. Arguably one of VR’s most favorite social gaming experiences, Walkabout Mini Golf is said to arrive on PSVR 2 “soon”, which is set to include cross-play with all supported versions of the game; this includes versions […]

Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans

TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly laying off what South China Morning Post maintains will be “hundreds of employees” working at its VR headset manufacturing subsidiary, Pico Interactive. A separate report from Reuters also maintains Chinese tech giant Tencent is scrapping its plans to release a VR headset. According to two people with knowledge of the […]

Biology and Robotics Research Occupy Crew

A multitude of advanced microgravity research benefitting humans and robotics took precedence aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. Two Expedition 68 astronauts investigated how living in space affects the way a crew member reaches for and grasps objects. NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada has been working in the Columbus laboratory module all week exploring …

Musk Says He Wants To ‘Stabilize’ Twitter Before Finding A New CEO By The End Of 2023

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Elon Musk, Twitter CEO, said Wednesday that he plans to hire someone to run the social media giant by 2023. That’s nearly two years after Twitter users cast their vote…read more

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Snapchat’s AR Lenses Are About To Get Even Better

It’s getting even harder to distinguish AR from reality. This week Snap Inc. introduced Ray Tracing support for its Lens Studio app, allowing developers to craft more realistic augmented reality (AR) Lenses. Ray Tracing is a rendering technique used to reflect light on digital objects. The result is more immersive AR experiences powered by the […]

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VR App Teaches Students How To Navigate The Ocean

The program was developed using star images from NASA. An educational VR experience called Kilo H?k? (Navigating the Stars) is being used as part of Punahou School’s “Voyaging at Punahou” program to teach students how to navigate open waters using practical star navigation methods. “The VR program puts students out at sea,” said Taryn Loveman, […]

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Hunt Spiders In This Skin-Crawling VR Experience

Step into the shoes of an expert exterminator later this year. There’s no shortage of terrifying VR games available on headsets at the moment, and while I wouldn’t classify developer tinyBuild’s Kill It With Fire VR as a horror experience per se, the upcoming first-person VR game is sure to make some players’ skin crawl. […]

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Take on the Zombie Horde in ‘Drop Dead: The Cabin,’ Out Now on Meta Quest 2

Whether you’ve been immersed in the Drop Dead universe since VR’s drop-in mobile phone days or this is your first foray into this world of…

Blasting to the Beat: Rhythm Shooter ‘GUN JAM VR’ is Out Today on Meta Quest 2

Don’t let the colorful environments of Mubel fool you: This is a city where music is used as a means of controlling the population. But…

Spotselfie Opens Web3-Powered AR Meta Store

Real-world social metaverse platform Spotselfie announced on Thursday it is launching its Meta Store feature. University students can leverage the platform’s advertising portal to earn money and open Web3 businesses at campus locations. The Spotselfie Meta Store provides users with digital land on their university campuses. It includes digital stores, spatially-linked adverts, and others for […]