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VR Shooter Shock Troops Coming to Quest 2 This Week
Garage Collective’s new virtual reality shooter Shock Troops is arriving on Quest 2 this week. Shock Troops was first announced in September 2021 and is inspired by classics such as…
Polycam 3D Scans Preserve Ukraine’s Heritage Amidst Atrocious War
The war in Ukraine is grinding on into its fifth month and has been accompanied by the wanton destruction of Ukraine’s heritage and material culture including landmarks, cultural sites, monuments,…
Microsoft Shifts to a Software-Led Metaverse Strategy
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has confirmed that the company is pivoting from hardware to a software-led metaverse strategy. This shift may not bode well for the company’s hardware projects such…
Dubai to Create 40,000 Metaverse Jobs Within 5 Years
Dubai is ramping up its metaverse efforts with the launch of the Dubai Metaverse Strategy which aims to create 40,000 metaverse jobs in the next five years and catapult the…
Meta Codec Avatars Now Have Very Photorealistic Clothing
Meta’s Codec Avatars already have very convincing faces. Now they are about to get very photorealistic VR clothing thanks to new research work. Meta has shared details of its new…
This Startup Transforms Your Car into a VR Driving Simulator
A Vienna-based startup has developed simulators that transform any car into an immersive XR driving simulator. The startup, Nekonata XR Technologies (NXRT) develops mixed reality simulators that convert any ride…
Israeli Company Elbit Systems Unveils X-Sight Helicopter Pilot Helmet
Technology company Elbit Systems unveiled its helicopter vision suite for military helicopters last week. The technology uses a mix of machine learning, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence to give pilots…
A New VR App Highlights Stolen Works of Art
A new virtual reality art gallery called The Stolen Art Gallery showcases famous stolen works of art by legendary artists like Cezanne, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and other greats. Users with…
Meta Releases AI-Driven Open-Source Acoustics for VR and AR
Sound plays an important role in virtual reality and mixed reality experiences. Meta has been working on research focusing on the use of Artificial Intelligence in delivering sound quality that…
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…