#VR News, Headlines and Posts

America’s trustbusters wage war on Apple

economist.com Hardly a month goes by without antitrust regulators taking another swipe at big-tech firms. On March 21st, it was Apple’s turn. America’s Department of Justice (DoJ) along…

Healthy Returns: Biotech IPOs ramped up to start 2024, but the market hasn't fully recovered just yet

cnbc.com Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up. Good morning! After a two-year dry spell, initial public offerings by…

Immersive Holocaust Doc ‘Letters From Drancy’ Uses New Media to Honor Survivors

variety.com In many ways, “Letters From Drancy” has hewed a prestigious if unremarkable path. The VR doc premiered at last year’s Venice Immersive before additional festival slots at…

Meta Aims to Ignite Enterprise Productivity With Open Metaverse OS

pymnts.com Teamwork makes the dream work. And when the dream is an interoperable virtual reality (VR) world based on a proprietary operating system (OS), you are going to need a big…

Meta Opens Up Its VR Operating System to Third Party Hardware Makers

socialmediatoday.com If Meta really wants its metaverse to take off, it needs to facilitate broad access, similar to the approach that it’s taken with its social apps. For Meta, the real money…

Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Millie Bobby Brown in Cannes Immersive Lineup

hollywoodreporter.com The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the inaugural lineup for its Immersive Competition section, the first-ever selection of augmented and virtual reality works to screen…

AR and VR Have Potential to Reshape Wearable Tech Landscape

pymnts.com Frequently integrated into wearable devices such as smart glasses and headsets, extended reality (XR) technology — encompassing augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR)…

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will offer its virtual reality OS to hardware companies, creating iPhone versus Android dynamic

cnbc.com Meta will partner with external hardware companies, including Lenovo, Microsoft and Asus, to build virtual reality headsets using the company's Meta Horizon operating…

Meta opens Quest OS to third-party headset makers, taps Lenovo and Xbox as partners

techcrunch.com Meta Horizon OS, the mixed reality operating system that powers Meta Quest headsets can now be used by third-party device makers, the company announced on Monday. The…

I gave up meat and gained so much more

vox.com Christine Mi for Vox The delightful abundance of going vegan. Marina Bolotnikova is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. Before joining Vox, she reported on…

Apple’s Vision Pro Stumbles: Time to Dump These 3 VR Stocks?

investorplace.com Apple (NASDAQ: ) may be losing momentum among VR stocks, even as tech advancements continue elevating the burgeoning sector into public consciousness. More than half of…

If You Can Only Buy One Metaverse Stock in April, It Better Be One of These 3 Names

investorplace.com Invest in these top metaverse stocks to buy, tapping into a future where virtual and real-life experiences merge Though artificial intelligence ( ) continues to captivate…

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3, buying H100 GPUs for Reels, AGI, energy constraints, dangers of open source, the metaverse, Meta's custom silicon, and more

dwarkeshpatel.com Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Human edited transcript with helpful links here. (00:33:20) - Is AI the most important…

Meta gives the Quest 2 its second permanent price cut in four months

engadget.com For the second time this year, Meta has given the Quest 2 a permanent price cut. The company has dropped the price of the base headset with 128GB of storage to $199, down…

Snap Plays Catch Up to Apple, Meta with Spatial Audio AR Filing

thedailyupside.com Snap wants to sync up sight and sound. The social media firm is seeking to patent a system for “augmented reality spatial audio.” Snap’s patent details a system that…

Bitcoin Ordinals Game Boy inspired gaming handheld and hardware wallet sells out instantly

cryptoslate.com Ordz Games sold out of its latest product, the BitBoy One, a GameFi DePIN handheld gaming device, with all 1,000 units gone in just two minutes during the April 17 public…

TD Bank taps virtual reality to help tellers learn to navigate tense scenarios

financialpost.com You’re a bank teller standing behind the counter at a local branch. You can tell it’s Toronto-Dominion Bank from the green branding in your surroundings. A customer, who you…

Digital Tools Go for Gold at Paris Summer Olympics

pymnts.com As the 100-day countdown to the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games begins, anticipation is not just limited to the athletic feats but also the digital innovations…

Wall Street Favorites: 3 Metaverse Stocks With Strong Buy Ratings for April 2024

investorplace.com These strong buy metaverse stocks may be impressive growers through the next decade I think it’s safe to say the metaverse hasn’t really delivered quite yet, at least as…

Tesla's awful 2024 is getting much worse

businessinsider.com Smith Collection/Gado; Maja Hitij/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily…

Best Crypto Presales To Buy During The Dip As Price Crash Rocks Market

watcher.guru The recent crypto dip has presented massive opportunities ahead of the next leg up. However, new presale projects could outperform the market due to their early-stage,…

Meta Who? 3 Under-the-Radar VR Stock Plays to Buy Instead

investorplace.com Meta boosts VR stocks with significant ad recovery. Diversify with Matterport and WiMi, leading in digital twins and AR This year, VR stocks are becoming more popular. But…

From Mirrors to Bathrooms, Options for Connected Devices Grow

pymnts.com As PYMNTS recently reported, it may not be long before today’s self-guided household vacuum cleaners are replaced by advanced, AI-driven robots that make Roombas look like…

Bad news for Apple, and Meta: Kids are bored with VR goggles

businessinsider.com Many young people aren't using the VR headsets they own, according to a new Piper Sandler survey. DAVID SWANSON Virtual-reality headsets still are trying to prove their use…

Meta’s Bringing VR to the Classroom as Part of Its Expanding Metaverse Push

socialmediatoday.com Meta’s planning to launch a new program to help educators make use of VR within the classroom, as part of its next push steps towards making the metaverse a bigger part of…

A former Facebook exec said he regrets not defending ousted Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey from a 'witch hunt.' Drama ensued

aol.com None A key former Facebook exec has reignited discussion of Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's 2016 firing. • None Former Oculus CTO and ex-Meta VR exec John Carmack said on X…

The Metaverse: Coming to a School Near You

thedailyupside.com Teachers are trying everything to keep students off their phones, but now Zuckerberg wants to plug them into a VR headset for pedagogical reasons. Meta announced a subtle…

New Education Product for Quest Devices Will Help Teachers Bring Subjects to Life in New Ways

about.fb.com Of all the ways in which metaverse technologies like virtual, mixed and augmented reality could prove to be transformative, the potential they have for education is one of…

Meta thinks it’s a good idea for students to wear Quest headsets in class

techcrunch.com Meta continues to field criticism over how it handles younger consumers using its platforms, but the company is also planning new products that will cater to them. On…

Pimax reveals two new high-end VR headsets at its Frontier event

benzinga.com SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2024 /CNW/ -- Pimax, a leading innovator in the Virtual Reality industry, announced two new high-end VR headsets at its Frontier 2024 event, held…

TechCrunch Minute: Where the Apple Vision Pro stands now the launch day hype has dropped off

techcrunch.com A few months after its launch, how is Apple’s Vision Pro faring? The company’s ambitious bet on computers that nestle on your face instead of sit on your desk made a huge…

How Mark Zuckerberg is reimagining the classroom

aol.com Imagine hopping on a school bus and being transported to an immersive, educational tour of the inside of the human body — and no, not on a fictional episode of “The Magic…

Pepe Price Prediction as PEPE Falls 30% Before Bouncing

cryptonews.com The PEPE price has risen by 1% in the past 24 hours, creeping to $0.000005576 on a day when the crypto market has rebounded by 4%. This slight recovery doesn’t do enough to…

Meta wants to put students and teachers in Quest VR headsets

axios.com If Meta has its way, students will tour faraway museums, walk among dinosaurs and view human intestines up close — all from the comfort of their classroom, using Quest…

If You Can Only Buy One Cathie Wood Stock in April, It Better Be One of These 3 Names

investorplace.com Backed by Cathie Wood's prowess, these stocks are your ticket to thriving in the tech-led future These Cathie Wood stocks to buy can make investing much easier. Though her…

5th Scape ICO Hits $5M Milestone

cryptopotato.com A new cryptocurrency project focused on virtual reality (VR) and gaming experiences is turning heads in the market. Called 5th Scape (5SCAPE), this Ethereum-based platform…

Floki Inu Price Prediction as $170 Million Trading Volume Comes In

cryptonews.com Despite $170 million in trading volumes coming in on Thursday, the Floki (FLOKI) price has declined 3% to below $0.00020, with some concerned that the meme coin could soon…

Intel Patent Takes on Privacy at Eye Level

thedailyupside.com Intel wants to keep your artificial reality experience your own business. The company is seeking to patent “privacy-preserving augmented and virtual reality” relying on…

Osso Health Medical Training App Launches for Apple Vision Pro

benzinga.com SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- , the leader in immersive procedural training, announces the launch of Osso Health, a medical training app on Apple Vision Pro.…

How NASA astronauts are visiting Lunar Gateway station before it exists

newsweek.com Astronauts are already practicing living aboard the first space station around the moon by using virtual reality. NASA's budding moon-dwellers are exploring the…

Smart Hong Kong Pavilion at the InnoEX 2024 will showcase over 100 I&T solutions benefitting citizens’ daily lives, demonstrating Hong Kong’s accomplishments…

scmp.com The Pavilion, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), will feature six smart areas, namely, “Smart Living”, “Smart Mobility”, “Smart Environment”, “Smart People”, “Smart…

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