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Reach is Not Participation: Ask a Brand with 875 Million Followers
Most immersive marketing, such as AR lenses and other playable brand experiences, achieves the wrong goal. For brands that already have reach that we can’t bring them, it’s all about a deeper engagement they can’t get on their own.
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This App Lets You Actually Experience Meta VR Glasses’ Field of View Before You Upgrade
Meta announced its VR Glasses at Connect last month, which is looking to appeal more to productivity and casual content by virtue of its high pixel density micro-OLED displays. They do however serve up a noticeably lower field of view (FOV), but how noticeable? As someone who’s gone hands-on with Meta VR Glasses, there’s really […]
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PSVR Exclusive ‘Astro Bot Rescue Mission’ Running on Quest 3 is the Latest in VR Mod Explosion
AI vibecoding has caused a veritable explosion in the VR modding scene. The latest to benefit: PSVR exclusive and critically acclaimed platformer Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018). The News VR modder ‘Bigmak94’ has released another mod, this time bringing Astro Bot Rescue Mission to Quest 3 and PC VR. Also known for their Super Mario […]
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‘Titanfall 2’ VR Mod Brings the Legendary Movement Shooter to VR—for Those Who Can Handle it
Legendary movement shooter Titanfall 2 is now available in VR thanks to mod maker CircuitLord who has created a full VR conversion mod that adds head tracking, weapon aiming, mech weapon controls, and even manual reloading to the game’s entire roster of weapons. Among non-players, Titanfall 2 (2016) is probably best known for its mechs, […]
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‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ VR Hands-on: Hand-Tracked Combat That Actually Works
EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS is the upcoming XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Find out why I’m excited to play when it arrives next year. I went hands-on with an early build of both the game’s ‘Story Mode’ and ‘Battle Mode’, which proved to be an exciting look at […]
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AI/XR Beats: Super Intelligence, ChatGPT Dots & VR Cuts
AI gets a rebrand and toothless safety pledge, ChatGPT’s agentic play gets a cuddly makeover, and the struggle intensifies for VR studios. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds through the lens of Charlie Fink.
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Sunny & Spatial: Hands-on with Specs
We go hands-on with Snap Specs, including a device review and analysis of its differentiators and market opportunity. Following our full written review, this latest hands-on take records our video analysis.
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Samsung FCC Approval Signals Gentle Monster & Warby Parker Smart Glasses Nearing Release
Samsung’s long-awaited smart glasses have cleared FCC testing, suggesting their release is right around the corner. The News Two distinct SM-O200P and SM-O200J have appeared in FCC filings, which is typically one of the last steps before commercialization. Those two product codes indicate Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames, respectively, as they’ve been seen on […]
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Engineering the Future of Immersive Computing, Part 3
Lak Vijayaraghavan is an XR systems engineer whose career spans Magic Leap to TikTok Effect House. What are his biggest learnings and insights from that journey so far, and where does he see spatial computing moving next?
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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Studio Announces Another Round of Layoffs Following DLC Price Hike
Mighty Coconut, indie studio behind hit VR game Walkabout Mini Golf (2020), announced another round of layoffs affecting ~35% of staff. “This is an incredibly hard message to write, but I want to continue to be transparent with the Walkabout community,” writes Mighty Coconut CEO Lucas Martell in a company blog post. “Due to the […]
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