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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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14 of the best time travel movies you can watch right now

Mashable VR

When I first saw this 2004 film, I finished it without the faintest idea of what I'd just watched, and it was only after viewing a 23-minute animated YouTube explainer that I came even close to understanding how it all worked. How to watch: Primer is now available to rent or buy on Prime Video , Apple TV , or Google Play.

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VR’s Killer App May Be Full-Body Codec Avatars

Upload VR

In film, you feel comfortably immersed in the story looking at something like the cute Baymax robot but constantly distracted looking at more human-like faces in heavily motion captured works like the 2004 film The Polar Express.

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Editorial: How the Crypto Crash—and Meta’s Missteps—Are Souring the General Public on the Metaverse

Ryan Schultz

That’s the barrier of entry to the space you need to be able to target… if that old guy at your office struggles with getting their mic to work on MS Teams for a video call every day, as the manager he is not going to order $100,000 worth of gear for your department that is hard to setup and use to meet in the metaverse.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

Rome Reborn® VR is a series of apps and videos that present individual tours of the city, including, for example, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the imperial fora, the imperial palace, the Pantheon, and the entire city seen from the air. Think of each app or video as a chapter in a guidebook about ancient Rome.

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Every movie name-dropped in 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,' and where to watch them

Mashable VR

How to watch: Con Air is now streaming on Prime Video. How to watch: Face/Off is available for rent on Prime Video. How to watch: Raising Arizona is available for rent on Prime Video. How to watch: The Rock is streaming on Prime Video. How to watch: Captain Corelli's Mandolin is for rent on Apple TV+. Moonstruck.

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

The Ghost Howls

Mark Zuckerberg and the other Facebook executives have spent around 80 minutes explaining with many words, images, and videos what is the “metaverse” , why it is our future, why Facebook should invest in it, what could be Facebook’s business model in it, and how Facebook is already working on it. Project Cambria.

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