Apple names insider John Ternus as CEO, Tim Cook to become executive chairmanApple on Monday named long-time executive John Ternus as its next chief executive officer, marking a leadership change as the company prepa...
Meta to raise Quest VR headset prices in US on rising component costsMeta Platforms is raising prices for its virtual reality headsets starting April 19 in the United States. This move is driven by increasing...
VR Global Media launches $250 million capital programme, begins $120 million raiseVR Global Media has launched a $250 million capital programme to build a global entertainment platform, with an initial $120 million fundra...
ETtech Explainer: How Meta's Muse Spark fares against Anthropic's Opus, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini modelsMuse Spark is the first model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs. It is a natively multimodal, reasoning-focussed AI model, designed to p...
Unity, Meta extend multi‑year partnership to power next‑generation VR experiencesUnity Software Inc to continue support for Meta’s VR platform under extended partnership
Rec Room, the $3.5B social gaming platform, to shut down after failing to find path to profitabilitySocial gaming platform Rec Room will cease operations on June 1, citing persistent challenges in achieving profitability despite its popula...
Why Mark Zuckerberg is shutting down Meta's Horizon World five years after calling it next big thing and $80 billion investmentMeta is ending its Horizon Worlds virtual reality platform for Quest headsets. After a massive investment of $80 billion, the company is re...
Netflix announces new 'Stranger Things' VR game. See when it may be releasedNetflix has stated that a new 'Stranger Things' VR game will be released in the latter part of 2023, where the players will get to be Vecna.
Facebook-owner Meta to open first physical store in metaverse betThe 1,550-square feet Meta Store at the company's Burlingame campus in California opens on May 9, and will feature demos for its Quest 2 VR...
Meta to open first physical store in Metaverse betThe 1,550-square feet Meta Store at the company's Burlingame campus in California opens on May 9
Facebook owner Meta adds tool to guard against harassment in metaverseThe company said in a blog post that this new default setting would make it easier to avoid unwanted interactions. The change comes as user...
SmartVizX clocks Rs 10 crore in pre-series A roundThe company also announced the launch of Trezi, which it said is India’s first VR-based platform for architecture and interior design colla...
Angels shower funds on Chymera VR for more adsSan Francisco-and Bengaluru-based Chymera will use these funds to ramp up product development in Bengaluru and expand publisher-base and, p...
Augmented & virtual reality startup Imaginate raises funding from SRI CapitalWith this funding round, Sashi Reddi, managing director of SRI Capital has joined the company's board and its early seed investor IIIT Hyde...
Daydream controller emulator for new Android VR platformSimple & clean in its design, the remote only contains two buttons & a clickable touchpad (the large concave surface near the top).
The practical applications of virtual realityVR is becoming popular and once the initial excitement of 360 videos and photos wears off, you’ll realize that there can be many more appli...
Virtual reality headsets will become a set of sunglasses: Oculus CEO Brendan IribeExperiencing virtual reality through the Rift can be difficult to describe, but it's vastly different than seeing a 3D movie.