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Meta Launches ‘Horizon Worlds’ Closed Beta on Smartphones

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You won’t find Horizon Worlds on Google Play. There’s no word when the company plans to roll out access on browsers either, which the beta’s FAQ says will broaden availability of the platform to iOS devices on Safari, and Google Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge on laptops and desktops.

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Report: Meta to Open ‘Horizon Worlds’ to Younger Teens Amid Renewed Retention Push

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Horizon Worlds on the other hand has been limited to users 18+ since it was launched in 2021, and only to those in US, Canada, UK, France, Iceland, Ireland and Spain. Meta’s Quest 2 headset is technically only available to users aged 13 and up. At the same time, Meta has slashed some XR projects , including first-party title Echo VR.

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Hands-on: Dell Mobile Connect Brings Your Smartphone into VR With a Few Caveats

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While blowing the screen up to an impossibly large size and playing the mobile version of Fruit Ninja sitting in a photogrammetry scene of the Icelandic countryside , it struck me just how much I’d missed the sheer capability of my phone in VR. Image courtesy Dell. .”

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The Road Ahead in VR and AR Will Have Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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It’s a complex market with winners and losers for a technology that could change the world and many industries beyond gaming. John Riccitiello (left), CEO of Unity Technologies, and Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games. Google just launched its Daydream mobile VR headset, and it is getting behind VR and AR in major ways.

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