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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Xtadium will also host all announced 52 games on its platform, with Horizon Worlds also hosting the events in 180-degree cinematography. A Whole New (Virtual) World NBA Arena is set to return to Horizon Worlds on 17 November, with tonnes of new features for building online communities for sports brands.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It has just selected Spain as one of the main worldwide hubs for working on the metaverse, and it plans to hire 2,000 people there. It is working on some form of virtual currency, that has been internally named “Zuck Buck” (I love this name, actually). Image by Apple). Apple WWDC is back in June. News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.22): Zuck’s selfie gets viral, Meta accounts are arriving, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It all started because Horizon Worlds has finally landed in Europe, launching in France and Spain. This is good because it means that slowly Meta’s social VR experience is arriving in all the countries of the Western world. Apple releases new interesting research on Nerf.

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XR Advertising Case Study in Focus: Meta and MADE.com

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

So far, MADE.com has achieved phenomenal success across the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, and Belgium. With the potential to unlock the creative side of customers, by allowing the combination of the real and virtual worlds, AR felt like a natural solution for MADE.com and its advertising strategy.

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Big XR News from Qualcomm, NTT DOCOMO, Varjo, Morpheus, GigXR, and CoSo Cloud,

XR Today - Big XR News tag

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, provided a premier backdrop for the immersive and emerging technologies industry. Many revealed new use cases for XR technologies, impressive virtual worlds, and upcoming enterprise solutions. The following recaps highlight the top news articles from last week.

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

Ryan Schultz

As somebody who writes about social VR and flatscreen virtual worlds on this blog, with a popular Discord server packed with metaverse fanatics and a front-row seat on pretty much everything that has been happening in this space, let me tell you, the past twelve months have been a wild ride. and the U.K.