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Google’s ‘Genie 3’ Interactive Generative Video Model Takes Us One Step Closer to the Holodeck

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced the release of Genie 3, a new AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time—and bringing us one step closer to the Holodeck. Google says in a DeepMind update that with a simple text prompt, Genie 3 can create dynamic, navigable scenes that run at 24 frames per second in […]

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6. August 2025

Meta Releases New AI Features to Make ‘Horizon Worlds’ Development Easier

Meta just released a few new generative AI features for its Horizon Worlds desktop editor, which the company says will streamline the development of user-generated environments on its metaverse platform. As mentioned in a Meta blog post, the latest Horizon Worlds developer update includes two major tools that should help boost content on the platform: ‘Creator […]

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5. August 2025

‘Oasis’ WMR Driver Expected to Later This Month, Bringing New Life to Microsoft’s PC VR Headsets

The first wave of WMR headsets launched in 2017 | Image courtesy Microsoft

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Red Bull’s ‘Touching the Sky’ is an Hour-long Immersive Documentary on Wingsuit Flying and More, Now on Quest

Image courtesy Jonathan Griffith Productions, Red Bull

Red Bull and Jonathan Griffith Productions have released Touching the Sky on Quest, now letting you follow wingsuit base jumpers in the European Alps and a paragliding team across the Himalayas in Pakistan in an hour-long immersive documentary. Captured using custom-built 3D, 360 cameras, the documentary lets you accompany wingsuit and base jump athletes Fred […]

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4. August 2025

Samsung Confirms ‘Project Moohan’ XR Headset is Still Coming This Year

Samsung Project Moohan | Image courtesy Google

Samsung didn’t highlight its upcoming mixed reality headset at Unpacked last month, nor at Google I/O the month prior—but no fear, the South Korean tech giant confirmed its Android XR-based headset is still coming this year. In a recent earnings call, Samsung says its upcoming XR headset, tentatively named ‘Project Moohan’, is still coming. Small […]

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1. August 2025

Brilliant Labs Unveils All-day Smart Glasses with Color Display, Pre-orders Launch at $300

Brilliant Labs unveiled Halo, its next-gen smart glasses that pack in a full-color micro OLED display, bone conduction speakers, and real-time voice-based AI assistant—priced at a surprisingly reasonable $300. Weighing in at just over 40 grams, Halo builds on the company’s earlier experiments in heads-up displays, including Monocle, a clip-on developer kit released in 2023, […]

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‘Star Citizen’ Claims Testing of VR Support Will Begin Soon, More Than 10 Years After Promising It

Image courtesy Roberts Space Industries, Cloud Imperium Games

Star Citizen promised to include VR support as a core feature more than a decade ago—long before it scope-creeped its way into becoming the MMO of today. Now, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) says they’re actually going to put VR support to the test, but you still probably shouldn’t hold your breath. As first reported by UploadVR, […]

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31. Juli 2025

Meta Avatars Get a Major Makeover With New Body Types, Poses & AI-driven Clothing Styles

Meta is giving its Avatars another big upgrade, offering users finer control over things like face shape, body part sizes, hair, makeup and more. Avatars are integrated across the gamut of Meta’s platforms, including Horizon Worlds, Home and Workrooms on Quest and mobile, and across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Now, users in the US […]

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‘Spotify’ Finally Comes to Quest, Letting You Listen to Music in the Background

Spotify finally has its own Quest web app, letting you listen to music in the background as you go about your virtual ways. The new Spotify app for Quest isn’t an app in the traditional sense, but rather a progressive web app (PWA) that essentially opens up its own browser window. While that means you […]

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30. Juli 2025

Meta & Stanford Reveal Ultra-Thin Holographic XR Display the Size of Glasses

Researchers at Meta Reality Labs and Stanford University have unveiled a new holographic display that could deliver virtual and mixed reality experiences in a form factor the size of standard glasses. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, Stanford electrical engineering professor Gordon Wetzstein and colleagues from Meta and Stanford outline a prototype device that […]

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