The Metaverse And Web3 To Take Center Stage In Central Hall

CES 2023 is happening next week. Getty Images Every year, tech professionals from around the globe make the pilgrimage to Las Vegas to test the latest technology and to learn about the newest tech inn...

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...

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...

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....

Meta’s No Good Very Bad Week

FILE – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, Thursday, Oct. … [+] 17, 2019. Federal regulators, Wednesday, July 27, 2022, took legal action to block F...

The Metaverse, And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, By Matthew Ball

I read my preview copy of Matthew Ball’s new book about The Metaverse with great relish. It is an instant classic in the burgeoning field of Metverse Studies. Ball has set himself a monumental task. I...

Mona Metaverse Raises $14.6 Million, Niantic Teams With NBA For AR Game, Immerse Language Learning In VR

A wave of layoffs is hitting tech companies. It was reported this week that Unity has laid off hundreds of workers and Niantic cancels projects amidst layoffs. It’s possible this is related to recent ...

The 9 Biggest Trends Manufacturers Need To Be Ready For

Manufacturing organizations have enormous opportunities to leverage smart factories and new technology trends to boost revenue, increase safety, and improve processes. In this article, we’ll look at t...

Blippar Partners With Microsoft Teams, Tik Tok To Battle Meta In VR

If you’re a reader of this column, you won’t be surprised when I say sometimes things get weird around here. Immersive media can be a box within a box. Like using AR inside a VR experience. This week ...

AWE 2022 Wrap Up

The 13th Augmented World Expo and Conference took place June 1 -3, 2022, in Santa Clara, CA AWE The 13th annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara wrapped Friday, June 3. The conference and exp...

Tripp Mindfully Raises $11.2 Million, X-Platform Playkins, The Shiba Inu Metaverse

Splashy promotion for WWDC 22, which begins on Monday. Apple Will Apple Tease Its New XR Headset at its Worldwide Developer Conference tomorrow? It’s been hotly debated all week. A recent board presen...

Nreal AR Raises $60 Million From AliBaba, Mojo Vision AR Contacts Demo, Liv Raises $8.5 For VR Streaming

Nreal Light AR Smartglasses. Note the smart phone is the controller. Nreal Nreal Raises $60 Million from Alibaba. The funding will help China’s Nreal AR Smartglasses launch in its home country followi...

New XR Experiences Shine At SXSW

SXSW 22 bravely soldiered on in the face of the Omicron surge to plan this year’s festival. Attendance at the first IRL SXSW since 2019 seemed anemic. Local media is saying sales are down 20%, but Hyp...

$35 Million To Expand VR Game World Zenith, $9.9 Million For Mediview AR Surgery

The hot nightlife ticket was the Sandbox party, where Paris Hilton DJ’d a set. Sandbox SXSW felt half empty this year, like no-one thought they were going to Austin six weeks earlier. Nonetheles...