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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

VRScout

Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. Snapchat’s Spectacles.

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

Do you have a passion for ancient history and virtual reality? Lately, this incredible work has been ported to virtual reality and so you are able to live the ancient Rome as if you were there. Rome Reborn aims at reconstructing the whole Ancient Rome in Virtual Reality (Image by Flyover Zone Productions).