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Horizon Workrooms Now Provides a Solo Personal Office That Allows 3 Displays from Your PC
Meta’s HorizonWorkrooms, a metaverse remote work solution, has added major updates including multiple displays for a linked PC or Mac, sticky notes and a lot more. The Meta Horizon Workrooms…
Horizon Worlds Still Facing the Challenge of Attracting and Retaining Users
Internal documents show the Horizon Worlds social VR platform is still struggling to keep users. According to the documents, Meta is now lowering the target of hitting 500,000 monthly active…
The Quest Pro Headset Supports Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering
The Quest Pro headset has an Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering feature. What are the performance improvements from this? Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering (ETFR) refers to the rendering technique where only…
Panasonic’s Meganex VR Headset Now Has SteamVR Support
An upgrade adds support for Index Controllers and Steam VR to the Panasonic MeganeX VR headset. The slim and lightweight MeganeX PC VR headset was launched by Shiftall, a Panasonic…
Valve Job Listing Confirms a New Virtual Reality Headset
Valve has published a new job listing that talks of a “prototype, ship, and support” for a virtual reality headset that has advanced tracking features. The listing says the company…
What are the New Features in the Magic Leap 2 Mixed Reality Headset?
The Magic Leap 2 augmented reality headset finally made its commercial debut last week. Priced at a steep $3,299, the headset mainly targets the commercial or enterprise market segment. This…
Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX Enterprise XR Headset Could be a Gamechanger
Lenovo has had a number of VR offerings over the past few years. In 2018, it was the first hardware manufacturer to launch a standalone virtual reality headset with the…
Brands are Increasingly Embracing 3D Content Creation
Gradually, the metaverse is coming into the orbit of some of the serious brands. Many leading brands are now joining the metaverse land rush while also creating metaverse and blockchain-based…
Internal Memo Shows Horizon Worlds Too Buggy and Not Being Used by Employees
Meta’s flagship metaverse social network Horizon Worlds is reportedly grappling with various quality issues and isn’t being used even by the team building it according to an internal memo from…
Can Brands Capitalize on the $1 Trillion Metaverse Opportunity?
A recent JP Morgan report describes the metaverse as a $1 trillion yearly opportunity. JP Morgan is one of the first major financial corporations to embrace Web 3; the financier…