Don’t Wait On Meta To Deliver The Metaverse It’s Here In This App And Available On Your Phone

The promise of the metaverse is very complex. How can our immersion across a virtual world change we way we think about our physical world and interactions, and visa-versa. Simple games like Pokemon G...

Mayo Clinic Backs Healium, Pico’s VR Layoffs, Roblox Stock Pops

The $390 Pico 4 stand alone headset. Pico Disappointing sales of Pico’s well-reviewed VR headset caused Byte Dance to lay off staff. The company is reportedly planning to lay-off a third of its VR sta...

This Week In AI: Too Much Like Us?

These days I find myself waking to the feeling that we are on the cusp of a sudden dramatic change, the kind of disruption we lived through at the dawn of the Internet and the advent of the smartphone...

AI Supplants Metaverse, Web3, Bigscreen Unveils Sleek VR Headset

The Gartner Hype Cycle, used to describe the development trajectory of new technology. Gartner Group Whatever happened to the metaverse? Asked the Financial Times yesterday. Indeed, the question could...

Meta’s Stock Soars, Samsung’s New XR Partnership, Prisms VR Math App Raises $12 Million

Meta Stock Soars After Earnings on Zuck Statements and Stock buy-back. “Our management theme for 2023 is the ‘Year of Efficiency,’ ” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a call after his company’s fourth-...

$18 Million For Gemba VR Training, Dreamscape Learn Spins Off With $20 Million

Significant investments in early-stage XR and Metaverse companies continue in spite of the cautious economic environment, which is causing Meta, Microsoft, Google and others to shed high-cost, low or ...

CES 2023: M. Night Shyamalan Treats Fans To Terrifying ‘Knock At The Cabin’ Immersive Experience

M. Night Shyamalan and Canon Americas President and CEO Kevin Ogawa on the set of the “Knock at the … [+] Cabin” CES immersive experience Canon One of the biggest surprises at CES ha...

CES 2023: What Should You Expect?

(Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Key Takeaways The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off in Las vegas tomorrow, the first time it’s returned to ‘normal’ in two years...

New Year’s Eve In VR, What To Expect At CES

VR Chat dancers. TFM Jonny Tom Faber, who covers nightlife for the NY Times, spent some time finding community, and freedom, on the virtual dance floor in VR Chat. He says “there are dozens of parties...

Software Companies Pushing To Raise The Scope Of Virtual Reality

Two people working on virtual 3d building by using AR glasses. getty At the turn of the century, the concept and initiation of virtual reality (VR) were limited to just the film and TV industry. The a...

10 Tech Gifts That Can’t Miss

I never know what to get them. I’m like a deer in the headlights. Then it starts to be late. Choices dwindle. So this year, I made a list and checked it thrice. The $399 Oculus Quest 2. Oculus (1) Que...

Ten Tech Gifts That Can’t Miss

I never know what to get them. I’m like a deer in the headlights. Then it starts to be late. Choices dwindle. So this year, I made a list and checked it thrice. The $399 Oculus Quest 2. Oculus (1) Que...

Real Calamity Far Outpaces Virtual Reality At Struggling Social Media Pioneer Meta Networks

Fetishizing a company is easy to do when you consider Zuckerberg made himself and early shareholders … [+]s fabulously rich through a series of brilliant maneuvers during the growth phase of Fac...

Sony Intros Smartphone Mo Cap, Mocopi, Acquires Beyond Sports

Visitors play the retro game “Pong” at the Video games trade fair Gamescom in Cologne, western … [+] Germany, on August 21, 2019. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo credit should...

Is The Future Of Cinema Fully Immersive And Multi-Sensory?

A Positron VR Voyager Motion Chair For Viewing VR films with haptics and scent Positron The VR Voyager Motion Chair from LA-based Positron is ushering in a new, fully immersive way to experience films...

Snapdragon AR2 Chip Set To Accelerate AR Glasses

November 16, 2022 – Qualcomm unveiled its new Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 Platform at Snapdragon Summit 2022 in Hawaii today. The new chipset will enable distributed processing, which mixes data processed lo...

The Development In Ethics Across VR And AR In The Media

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 24: Elton John And Vodafone Wow Hyde Park Crowd With Augmented Reality … [+] Concert on June 24, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Miles Willis/Getty Images for Fus...

COD’s $800 Million Weekend, Leia Raises Debt, Google Buys Facemoji

Activision’s Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare II grossed $800 M in its opening weekend. The blockbuster opening outgrossed all of the biggest worldwide movie openings of 2022, surpassing Top Gun: Maveric...

How The Billion Pound Concept Plans To Make Its Mark

Marco Brambilla’s Heaven’s Gate in the vast Now Building at the Outernet. Outernet Post-lockdown, city life is a different beast. Amid greater demand for the delights of accentuated physic...

Amazon’s ‘Rings Of Power’ Replacement, ‘The Peripheral,’ Is Worth Your Time

The Peripheral Amazon Rings of Power is no more, having ended on a Sauron-laden note last week. Amazon is committed to the show for the long haul, so it will be back soon enough, but in the meantime, ...

Stability AI Raises $101 Million, VITURE Raises $10 Million For Wearable Hi Def Video

The Pico 4 Enterprise Edition was unveiled at AWE Europe this week. Pico The post-Connect skewering of Meta continues unabated. The press was not impressed with the kind of Metaverse Meta showed us la...

The Quest Pro And Everything In Meta’s Metaverse

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a photorealistic Codec avatar. Meta Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Connect developer conference keynote on Tuesday introduced the new $1,499 Meta Quest Pro, which is fo...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Is Solving No Problems

Zuckerberg Meta Mark Zuckerberg laid out Tuesday how Meta is diving deeper and deeper into the black mines of the metaverse, attempting to extract digital gold. Zuckerberg revealed a $1,500 headset Oc...

New Headware From NReal And Lenovo

The Lenovo ThinkReality VRX standalone can go anywhere, and be used by anyone with minimal skill or … [+] instruction. Lenovo The VRX standalone from Lenovo is a brand new device from a company ...

Breylon Raises $15 Million For Immersive Monitors, Taqtile $5 Million For Enterprise AR, Pico 4 VR Launch

Now Bytednace wants Meta’s Metaverse business, too. Having taken on the social media empire formerly known as Facebook in social media, ByteDance purchased VR company Pico last year to go after their ...

HaptX Grabs $23 Million Funding, Be An NFL QB

This week marks the beginning of the long-awaited merger of Etherium with the Beacon blockchain. ETH, the basis of many game economies, is transitioning to a “proof to stake” vs. “proof of work” metho...

Martina Navratilova-Backed Virtual Reality Platform May Be A Game-Changer For Cognitive Training In Tennis

After a strong debut in hockey, Sense Arena is turning to tennis Sense Arena Reputed as the greatest serve-and-volleyer in Women’s tennis history, Martina Navratilova attacked the net with a lethal co...

Layoffs At Snap, The Open Metaverse, Fortnite VR

We may or may not be entering a recession, but it’s definitely arrived at once high flying social media stocks that depend on advertising. This week Snap laid off 1200 employees, 20% of its workforce....

Modulate Raises $30 Million To ID Bad Actors In The Metaverse, Meta Horizon VR Launches In Europe

Modulate AI Raises $30M To Bring Order To The Chaos Of Video Games. The Cambridge, MA AI company hopes to solve the problem of toxicity in online communities (Gaming, VR, Metaverse) with its ToxMod, p...

FundamentalVR Series B, Roomba Household Spy

The really big news in tech world this week is Amazon’s acquisition of Roomba. This has raised an interesting issue because dust is not the only thing the household robot collects. It also vacuums up ...

Walmart Acquires Bolt Systems To Advance Omnichannel Capabilities

Walmart Inc. continues to lean into technology with the acquisition of Volt. Courtesy of Walmart Wesley Hitt 2019 WalmartWMT has acquired Volt Systems, a technology company that provides suppliers wit...

Medical Miracles With VR, Gym Class B-Ball Funded, New AR Smartglasses

Surgeons using VR and hologram modern virtual screen interface Respiratory System in the operating … [+] room, innovative and future of medical and healthcare technology getty Conjoined twins se...