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New SideQuest App Streamlines Installation of Custom Home Environments and VR Ports
With SideQuest’s new in-headset app for Quest and Quest 2, it is now even easier to install custom home environments and some of the popular community-made virtual reality ports of…
Rec Room Has Now Amassed Over 75 Million Lifetime Users
The social VR world Rec Room has now reached 75 million lifetime users since 2016. The platform also paid out over $1 million in the first quarter of this year.…
Bella Hadid Launches Her Own NFT Collection Called CY-B3LLA
US model Bella Hadid is just the latest celebrity to take on the NFT craze. Bella Hadid has launched a new NFT platform known as CY-B3LLA where she appears as…
Zuckerberg Showcased a Bevy of VR Headset Prototypes Last Week
Zuckerberg showed a number of virtual reality headset prototypes this week that have been developed by Meta’s Reality Labs division. The showcase demonstrates Meta’s roadmap towards the creation of lightweight…
Open Metaverse: Metaverse Standards Forum Founded by Leading Tech Players
Leading tech players have come together to found an open metaverse standards group called the Metaverse Standards Forum. Involved in the initiative are Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games, along with 33…
IKEA Virtual Design Tool Erases Your Furniture and Replaces it With New Furniture
The tool helps you visualize how new furniture, IKEA’s, would look in your rooms. IKEA launched a new virtual design tool that deletes the existing furniture in your room and…
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…