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The Glimpse Group IPO, the Metaverse ETF, and a Market Coming of Age

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In recent weeks, some big news has been coming down the pipes but it isn’t the kind of news that you can put on your face or download onto your phone. Between the Metaverse ETF, the Glimpse Group IPO (initial public offering), and other big trends, XR might be finally coming of age. Glimpse Group Goes Public.

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The Top 5 VR Mods To Download Right Now

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Gunman Contracts – Chapter 1 – The Extraction , puts you in the shoes of a highly-trained gun-for-hire tasked with saving an innocent woman from the clutches of a ruthless human trafficking group. Be sure you download all of the necessary files. The post The Top 5 VR Mods To Download Right Now appeared first on VRScout.

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The ‘Beat Saber’ Music Pack That Always Needed to Happen… is Finally Happening

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Beat Saber’s next music pack will bring one of the most influential names in electronic music to the game’s library of downloadable content: Daft Punk. Go back to some of Daft Punk’s earliest albums and you might find yourself saying “this doesn’t sound so special, I hear stuff like this all the time.”

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Group Behind JPEG Unveils New ‘visually lossless’ Compression Standard for VR/AR and More

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This week at NAB Show in Las Vegas, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the international committee behind the titular image compression standard, unveiled JPEG XS, a new format that is touted as a lower energy compression solution that provides higher quality images at low latency over broadband networks such as 5G.

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WhatsApp increases group size to 512 people and file size to 2GB

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On Thursday, the company announced that groups are getting twice as big as before, going from 256 people to 512 people. Last month, WhatsApp announced Communities , which are another way to expand group chats by knitting Groups together into a Community (yeah, just like Slack).

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The VR Esports Community Rallies To Save Echo VR

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A group called Fight for Echo has purchased a sky banner in support of the ill-fated VR game. The news hit hard among players, so much so that one group, Fight for Echo , took it upon itself to purchase a sky banner encouraging Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg not to shut down the beloved VR game.

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‘Beat Saber’ Mod Group Hosts ‘Golden Ticket’ Scavenger Hunt, Win a Vive Pro & More

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The Beat Saber Modding Group is putting on a special event starting today that could net you a new HTC Vive Pro or thousands of dollars in prizes just by playing custom songs on Beat Saber. To enter, just download and install the Custom Beat Saber mod installer and start completing maps.

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