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Project Cambria Will be Officially Named ‘Meta Quest Pro’
Meta is planning to call its upcoming high-end Project Cambria virtual reality headset Meta Quest Pro, according to code findings unearthed by developer Steve Moser, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg’ Mark Gurman…
Meta Headsets Will No Longer Require Facebook Accounts from August 2022
In a major about turn to its usage policy, Meta has today announced the scrapping of the requirement for a Facebook account to log into a Quest headset. The requirement…
Epic’s MetaHuman Creator Tool Now Imports Scans of Real People
Epic Games has recently provided a major update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which can now import scans for real people for subsequent use in real-time applications. The substantial…
Resolution Games Reports Record Growth in AR/VR Downloads
Stockholm-based XR game developer Resolution Games is reporting that it attained a number of growth of milestones in 2021. The year also saw the studio acquire another Sweden-based VR company…
Japanese Virtual IP Firm Raises $10 Million for Metaverse Play
Japan-based virtual IP firm Brave Group Inc raised $10 million in fresh capital as it looks to expand its business into the metaverse and web3 domains. The latest funding round…
Nreal Light Now Streaming Steam Games onto a Large Digital Screen
The Nreal Light and Nreal Air mixed reality glasses will soon be streaming Steam games onto a large digital screen. These two mixed reality glasses are both connected to an…
Meta Shares a New Concept Video of a Vision of the Metaverse and a Futuristic Headset Design
Meta has just released a concept video that showcases a vision of the metaverse along with images of a futuristic headset design and a fingertip input device. The video is…
TikTok Parent Company Investing in Virtual Reality
The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, is investing more into the virtual reality space based on a Protocol report. Citing a close source, the report says ByteDance is planning to…
Alleged Leaked Schematics for Project Cambria Headset Provide Fresh Tech Details
Meta has been pretty tight-lipped when it comes to its upcoming high-end Project Cambria headset which has a color AR passthrough feature. In the few demos it has provided so…
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Spaces XR Platform for AR Developers
Qualcomm has launched Snapdragon Spaces, an XR developer platform for both app and game developers building head-worn AR apps. The platform software is now freely available for download by developers.…