Category: Virtual Reality

Meta is fairly tight-lipped when it comes to detailing just how many headsets it sells, although there are a few ways to gauge the platform’s popularity, one of which is fresh downloads of its required companion app, Meta Horizon, available on Android and iOS devices. Citing data obtained by independent analyst Omdia, Game Developer (via Forbes) notes…

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New year, new raise? Resume Genius released its 2025 Wage Growth Report this week identifying jobs that can expect to receive pay increases in the coming year. The career site’s researchers used three years of wage data (2021-2023) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics database to formulate the report. Related: These Are the 10…

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I’m back in Italy after my very positive experience at CES! I still can’t believe that I’ve been to this huge event… I came back home that everything in my body was hurting, but I was happy nonetheless. It’s been great going there from all points of view: as a blogger, enthusiast, and entrepreneur… all…

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PowerWash Simulator garnered viral success when it launched on Steam Early Access in 2021, prompting developer FuturLab to not only add a mountain of DLC to the game, but also port the flatscreen hit to a standalone VR title. Now, the studio says it’s shelving PowerWash Simulator VR (2023) only 14 months since its launch on Quest….

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It’s really hard to find a job right now, and the prevalence of “ghost jobs” is not helping. According to an internal review of data by hiring platform Greenhouse, 18% to 22% of job posts are ghost listings, or roles that companies aren’t actually trying to fill. Greenhouse has more than 7,500 clients, including Major…

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Yesterday at CES, in a Meta Showroom, I was finally able to try the Ray-Ban Meta glasses and especially their experimental AI features! Let me tell you everything about this experience. (As usual, let me remind you that since I had just a few minutes to try the device, this can’t be considered an exhaustive…

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Wait, Apple Vision Pro doesn’t come in black, does it? Nope, but Play For Dream MR does. And with what some are calling the ‘Android Vision Pro’, owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned some heads at CES 2025 this past week. Initially launched in Asia last year, China-based headset…

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Zillow released an analysis this week predicting the nation’s hottest housing markets of 2025, where sellers have the greatest advantage. The heat ranking takes local home value growth into account as well as how quickly homes are selling and job growth per new home. Buffalo, New York was at the top of the list, for…

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Today I want to tell you about two companies that I met at CES that made me think about the future of immersive realities: Attention Labs, which lets people focus on a specific conversation in mixed reality, and 2Pi Optics, which builds very small metalenses. Let me tell you why I think these two companies…

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Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company’s “vision for the next generation of the internet.” Not only is this a huge fundraising round, such an investment coming from a single private investor is…

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