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New Horizon Workrooms Feature Adds Sticky Notes
The latest Horizon Workrooms update adds new virtual office features, including a brainstorming feature. Horizon Workrooms has had the fourth update that enables you and your virtual coworking teams to…
New 8th Wall Subscription Tiers Come With New Tools and Features
Niantic has taken a full plunge into the metaverse, providing subscription plans, monetization tools along with discovery functions in its 8th Wall Platform. 8th Wall was acquired by Niantic in…
Niantic Unveils Campfire, A Social App for Mobile AR Gamers
Following Niantic’s launch of Pokemon Go in 2016, meetups in the games, in-game raids, and the battles have been coordinated on platforms like Discord and Reddit. This week, Niantic unveiled…
Niantic Launches City-Scale AR Location Mapping Software
Niantic is releasing an Augmented Reality map for other apps along with a location-based social network known as Campfire. Niantic’s AR mode is far from perfect. It still needs some…
Niantic Does a Major Pokémon Go Upgrade with the Visual Positioning System
Through its Visual Positioning System (VPS), Niantic aims to beam its Augmented Reality Experiences onto the real world with high-level precision. Niantic Visual Positioning System Niantic says its VPS location…
Korea’s RECON Labs Raises $4.4 Million for 3D-AR Shopping Visualization
South Korean Augmented Reality startup RECON Labs has raised $ million for a 3D product visualization platform that enables shoppers buying products online to preview products via 3D models before…
Report Explains Apple Mixed Reality Headset Development Challenges
Apple’s quest to build a mixed reality headset began in 2015 but the project has been plagued by a series of challenges that have occasioned the endless delays and consistently…
Survey: Metaverse Marketers Tilting More Towards Virtual Reality than NFTs
A new survey shows that marketers who have the metaverse in their sights tend to tilt more towards virtual reality while still giving NFTs a shot. The study was done…
Cannes XR to Showcases 18 Free VR Films and Experiences
The Cannes Film Festival is entering its second week and this year, like last year, there is a big metaverse play with the Cannes XR 2022 festival, a metaverse film…
CannesNFT Summit: Cannes Brings the Metaverse to the Film Industry
The Cannes Film Festival is going all-in in its dalliance with the metaverse. The festival is set to host its first NFT summit bringing together media, the film industry, and…