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New Report Says Chewing Gum Reduces VR Motion Sickness

VRScout

This includes everything from hardware to software-based solutions. As part of the study, 77 participants were split up into three groups—a control group with no gum, an experimental group chewing peppermint gum, and a second experimental group chewing ginger gum—and immersed in a 15-minute VR helicopter flight.

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Facebook brings software subscriptions to the Oculus Quest

TechCrunch VR

Subscription pricing is an unsurprising development but signals that some developers believe they have a loyal enough group of subscribers to bring in sizable bits of recurring revenue. New Quest 2 software brings wireless PC streaming, updated ‘office’ mode.

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Mental Health Awareness Month in XR

ARPost

We kind of thought about a mashup of futuristic exercises and a mid-century style gym.”. Modeled after a physical gym for your body, the Mind Gym is composed of over 60 different mental exercises, arranged from warm-ups, to “special equipment,” to cool-downs. Explore Group Therapy in XRHealth. Tend to Mind and Body With VZfit.

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Facebook Says It Just Can't Keep Up With Oversight Board's Recommendations

GizModo VR

Facebook’s Oversight Board, a group of supposedly independent experts that has the power to intervene and hand down decisions when they feel Facebook has misjudged, is either a nominal check on the social media company’s unending excesses or a feckless exercise in corporate blame-shifting. Either way, Facebook claims… Read more.

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Vive Immersive Labs experiment demonstrates that VR can really help in learning a new language

The Ghost Howls

The experimental subjects were randomly divided into two groups , one using the VR version and one using the PC version of the learning software for learning. VR group and PC group were cross-ordered to reduce sequence effect and time effect. What have been the main results? VR can let us do everything (Image by HTC).

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How to sort your Nintendo Switch games into folders

Mashable VR

On March 21, Nintendo issued an update to the Switch with Version 14.0.0 , and as part of this, the company added a "Groups" feature to the menu. You can only access the Groups feature if you have over 12 games, and you can make up to 100 groups with a max of 200 games per group. Your Group liiiives.

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Rendever Releases Fitness Package and Expands Research

ARPost

MultiBrush is a multiplayer version of Tilt Brush that Neumann created after Google open-sourced the original software. The ideas of exercise and fitness in senior living are a little dated,” said Rand. In one of the company’s biggest outreach moves to date, CTO and co-founder Tom Neumann created MultiBrush in January.