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After 6 Years in Person & 3 Remote, Why is Meta Connect Still Not Held in VR?

Road to VR

Engineers, designers, and creatives from around the world made pilgrimage to the California-based event, becoming one of the premier venues for the VR developer community to rub elbows, pitch projects, and grok new hardware. While undoubtedly challenging, some things can’t be virtually replicated at all though: new hardware.

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Russia Bans Facebook & Instagram, Quest Sees Ripple Effects

Road to VR

Hitting the F5 button resulted in multiple minute-long waits to refresh your feed, something which ultimately was designed to stymy the user’s ability to view and share video and images. The year-long slowdown is over though. Twitter is also now blocked.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR. A traveling showcase of digital and video works, Björk Digital started in Australia and it just debuted at London’s Somerset house.

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VR Cybertruck – Amusement Equipment of Choice for Big Venues

Steki Amusement

As a new generation of 6DoF VR all-in-one machine using Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform, PICO Neo 3 has powerful data processing capabilities and hardware driver capabilities. Whether playing games or watching videos, users’ VR experience is taken to the next level.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

Jules Verne-inspired space tourism is now a thing, video calls are de rigueur, and we all walk around with powerful computers in our pockets that connect to an infinite web of data and information — and yet we use this incredible computing power to play diverting games like Candy Crush and Wordle.

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VR Flight Theater: The Ultimate NEW Flying Entertainment Experience!

Steki Amusement

As a new generation of 6DoF VR all-in-one machine using Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform, PICO Neo 3 has powerful data processing capabilities and hardware driver capabilities. Whether playing games or watching videos, users’ VR experience is taken to the next level.

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The Last Worker Interview: Bringing Satirical Factory Work To VR

Upload VR

Warehouse work isn’t the most exciting premise for a video game but The Last Worker makes this monotonous surprisingly enjoyable, incentivizing you to do better through a ranking system. So it’s great that the hardware companies have kind of agreed to a design standard, which is great for us as developers.