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Tencent Has Formed an “Extended Reality” Division With an Eye on the Metaverse
Chinese multinational Tencent, known for brands like WeChat and , has reportedly divulged to its staff that it is creating an extended reality division that will focus on developing the…
Apple Released an Awesome 3D Room Mapping Tool for Mobile AR
Buried among the slew of announcements at the recently concluded WWDC 2022 was a new impressive AR room-mapping tool released by Apple earlier this month. The tool is known as…
Top 10 New Jobs Being Created in the Metaverse in 2022
The metaverse economy is already taking shape with thousands of players including startups, entrepreneurs, millions of users, and a virtual economy that is already worth billions of dollars. Metaverse companies…
Horizon Worlds New Voice Mode Feature Garbles Voice Chat from Non-Friends
Meta has added a new “voice mode” feature to its social VR platform Horizon Worlds which garbles strangers’ speech, transforming it into “pleasant gibberish”. The new “voice mode” in Horizon…
McKinsey Predicts Metaverse Will Be Valued at $5 Trillion by 2030
The global consulting firm McKinsey has released a new report predicting that the metaverse market will be valued at $5 trillion by 2030. The McKinsey report found that global metaverse…
You Can Now Generate Meta’s Photoreal Avatars With an iPhone Scan
You can now generate Meta’s new prototype photoreal avatars with an iPhone scan. The ‘Codec Avatars’ were first showcased by the then Facebook in March 2019. The avatars are powered…
Meta Adds New Parental Controls Options for Quest 2
As virtual reality adoption continues to expand into the mainstream market, loud concerns have been voiced that the same kind of abuses that we have become familiar with on the…
Iconic Game Dark Souls Getting a VR Mod
You can now play Dark Souls Remastered in virtual reality thanks to the efforts of the PC VR modder Luke Ross. The VR YouTuber Beardo Benjo was the first to…
Major Updates for the Top VR Games Released
Major updates were released Friday, June 17, 2022, for some of the most successful virtual reality games. Here is a sneak peek at a few of them. Pistol Whip –…
Meta Launches a Designer Avatar Fashion Store
You can now purchase fashionable outfits for your avatars in Meta’s digital fashion store. Meta Avatars Store Zuckerberg announced the launch of a digital designer clothing store for avatars yesterday,…