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Quest Digital Gift Cards Now Available In UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, And Japan

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Quest Store digital gift cards are now available in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, and Japan. This value can only be used for content, not hardware. Meta launched digital gift cards in the US back in October. The ability to gift specific titles was added to the platform in November 2020, a month after Quest 2 launched.

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Meta’s Social VR App is Coming to Web & Mobile Soon, Alpha Begins for Members-only Rooms

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For now, the company says it allows creators to earn revenue from purchases people make in their worlds, which includes hardware platform fees and a Horizon Worlds fee, which Meta says is 25 percent. It was too good to be true.

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Intel Takes Us Inside to Reveal How HoloLens 2 Is Transforming Computer Chip Production

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The enterprise applications powering the adoption of the HoloLens 2 are only just ramping up as developers continue to work with the still relatively new hardware. But one tech giant, namely Intel, is showing off how it's already harnessing the features of the HoloLens 2 to transform its internal operations.

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Russia Bans Facebook & Instagram, Quest Sees Ripple Effects

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Countries not included in Meta’s list of supported regions can’t buy VR headsets directly from Meta, although residents can import hardware from elsewhere and access the digital side of the platform without issue; supported regions include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, (..)

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Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

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HoloLens is currently only officially available in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft.

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Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR2 Launch Partners

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This Wednesday, Qualcomm debuted Snapdragon AR2, an augmented reality (AR) development solution that helps immersive hardware and software designers overcome common hurdles. The product solves the common workplace problem of repurposing consumer-grade hardware for business usage and distributing poorly optimised headsets across a business.

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Westbase.io Expands Vuzix Smart Glasses to UK, EU Markets

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Customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, the UK, and Ireland will receive access to Vuzix products as part of Westbase’s XR investment goals. The deal provides the nation’s healthcare professionals with XR remote guidance tools for frontline workers through Ohana One’s borderless healthcare network and Vuzix AR hardware.