VIVE Reveals Its First Self-Tracking VR Tracker

Full-body VR tracking just got a whole lot easier. HTC VIVE today unveiled the latest addition to its growing lineup of VR tracking devices, a yet-to-be-named self-tracking tracker. The device features two high field-of-view cameras, an onboard processor, and the same high-precision positional tracking algorithm used in the HTC VIVE Focus 3 and HTC VIVE […]

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This Basketball App Uses AR To Improve Your Ball Skills

All you need is a smart device and an ordinary basketball. You may have seen a video floating around the web recently of a skilled basketball player practicing their dribbling skills using a unique interactive experience. What you’re looking at is HomeCourt, a personal basketball trainer powered by augmented reality (AR) technology. The app gamifies […]

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Meta Horizon Worlds v102 Release Notes

Meta Horizon Worlds V102 is here! This week, we fixed a few bugs that were impacting world editing and collaborators, as well as started to…

‘This Is Not a Ceremony’ Shares the Stories of Modern First Nations People in Cinematic VR

Meta’s VR for Good initiative funds, fosters, and promotes immersive storytelling focused on social impact and we’re announcing This Is Not a Ceremony, a cinematic…

‘JFK Memento’ and ‘MLK: Now Is The Time’ Win XR Audience Awards at SXSW 2023

Last month we announced that five Meta-funded projects had been selected to appear at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Today, with SXSW 2023…

XR to Solve Real World Problems, Warpin CEO Says

Despite ongoing turmoil in the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) markets, device makers are remaining strategic to realise the future dream of the Metaverse. Numerous headsets from Apple, Meta Platforms, Magic Leap, and others have faced setbacks over the last few years but remain persistent. Apple’s venture into MR hardware has proved challenging […]

Why Are Museums Curating Their Content in the Metaverse? 

When people imagine environments custom-made for the metaverse, they think about social media platforms, video games, and similar modern concepts.   As a relatively old-fashioned element of the Arts and Entertainment landscape, museums don’t immediately seem like the most natural fit for something as futuristic as the metaverse. However, in a world where consumers have […]

NVIDIA’s Updated Omniverse: A Cloud-Based Industrial Metaverse Hub

Today, at NVIDIA’s GTC online event between March 20-23, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced core updates to its Omniverse real-time 3D (RT3D) content creation suite, which brings extra considerations to industrial Metaverse services, immersive content, and AI-driven developer pipelines. The updated Omniverse platform provides a wealth of professional visualization tools to promote XR […]

Top Mixed Reality Events for 2023

Mixed Reality combines elements of virtual and augmented reality with the real world, to produce unique immersive experiences. Innovators in the MR space have already begun exploring ways to use state-of-the-art technology to power digital teleportation, holograms, and more.   While somewhat less commonplace in the current world than VR or AR, Mixed Reality (MR) is […]

TikTok reaches 150 Million US Users, Calls for Support to Avoid US Ban

With TikTok’s CEO set to appear before congress this week, it’s making a big push for support.