I have still a lot of things to tell you about my experience at CES. In this post, I want to describe three interesting pieces of hardware that I’ve tried: it’s going to be all about visual displays, each one with its own peculiarity! Optix optical system I went to check out Optix because my […]
As part of the v57 software update for Meta Quest headsets, the company announced Monday a bevy of new features — including more avatar customization options, an unsend message feature, group links, free-form locomotion ability in Horizon Home and a rebranded Explore feed. Meta also made improvements to video recording, multitasking and more. Starting today, […]
Meta today announced a $50 million fund to incentivize the creation of new and improved content in Horizon Worlds, the company’s first-party social gaming platform. The move comes as many seasoned studios that build self-contained VR apps for the Quest platform are struggling to sustain themselves due to what Meta says is a shifting demographic […]
As companies like Amazon, JPMorgan, and Walmart implement return-to-office (RTO) mandates, one business is sweetening the deal by giving its employees a $10,000 annual raise for showing up to the office more often. Cameo, a startup that allows users to purchase and receive personalized video messages from celebrities, began a new RTO policy this week […]
Meta is now using “mixed reality” as an umbrella term to mean both MR and VR. Direct confirmation of this was given earlier this month on X by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, and we’ve already started seeing this new terminology usage across Meta marketing and communications. Bosworth provided the public clarification in response to John […]
I’m back in Italy, tired but happy. I hope you had a good Valentine’s Day with your special ones and that in general, you are happy, too. Do you want to know one of the reasons for my happiness? My article about Android XR granting permissions for the camera frames has earned me mentions in important […]
When Meta rebranded from Facebook two years ago, the word “metaverse” went mainstream. Even people outside the tech world wondered if we would soon start to socialize via virtual reality headsets. But at least according to public opinion and the stock market, the metaverse proved itself to be pretty mid. Propelled by founder and CEO […]
Meta announced its annual Connect developer conference is returning this year on September 17th-18th. While it’s probably still too early to speculate, there are a few things we’re hoping to hear about. Meta typically fills out its speaker schedule closer to Connect, which may give us a better idea of what to expect come September. […]
xAI, the startup led by Elon Musk that raised $6 billion in December, has a new AI model that it claims is better than AI created by DeepSeek and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. In a live-streamed event on X on Monday that has been viewed over six million times at the time of writing, Musk and three […]
Not everyone has been able to access NVIDIA’s latest RTX 5000 graphics card series. I’m one of the few who bought one, given that I live close to the Micro Center in Tustin, California, and this brick-and-mortar location seemed to be one of a handful of places to stock a decent number of the new […]