Meta Faces Fresh Rumours after Media Layoff Reports

Meta reportedly plans to lay off thousands of workers in a second round of redundancies, a Bloomberg report alleged on Monday. The publication stated that employees of the Menlo Park-based company could face the cuts this week. This follows the initial round of 11,000 employees, or 13 percent of its workforce, that lost jobs in […]

Google Rolls Out Automated Performance Max Campaigns for Hotels

Performance Max campaigns automate the campaign creation process, based on your existing listings.

Google Expands Local Service Ads to Five More Categories

Local Services Ads provide another way to reach local searchers with your offerings.

Facebook Chief Outlines Plans to Re-Integrate Messaging into the Main App

Seven years after separating the two elements, messaging is coming back to the main Facebook app.

Meta Plans to Cut Thousands of Jobs in a New Round of Layoffs

Meta continues to re-shape its corporate structure.

Quest Pass: Screenshot Suggests VR Games Subscription In The Works

It looks like Meta is considering a new ‘Quest Pass’ subscription service for the Quest platform, which could include two games or apps per month that users can redeem for free and keep while subscribed.

The XR Week Peek (2023.03.07): Meta roadmap unveiled, Xiaomi shows its AR glasses, and more!

This week is going to be great because I’m going to attend the SXSW (I will write a dedicated post about it). Before traveling, I’m trying to finish a few tasks for my job and I was hoping that this week there wasn’t much to write in this roundup so that I could write this […]

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Pimax Aims to Attract VR Devs with 100% Revenue Share & $100K Game Fund

Users of Pimax’s wide field-of-view (FOV) PC VR headsets have always relied upon third-party stores like Steam for VR content. Now the company is looking to incentivize VR developers to publish their games on the new Pimax Store. Pimax quietly launched its PC VR content store in September 2022, ostensibly in preparation for the yet-to-release […]

Crew of 11 Staying Focused on Advanced Space Research

The International Space Station’s 11 residents are comprised of three individual crews that arrived at the orbital outpost on three different crew ships. The most recent crew to arrive was SpaceX Crew-6 docking on Friday at 1:40 a.m. EST in the Crew Dragon Endeavour vehicle. The four Crew-6 members are now Expedition 68 flight engineers …

Expanded Station Crew Works Together Before Quartet Departure

The newly-expanded International Space Station crew of 11 members kicked off a busy work week today conducting a variety of research and visiting vehicle activities. Meanwhile, four Expedition 68 crew members are also getting ready to complete their mission and return to Earth. New station residents Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, who commanded …