This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Charles Eide, 40, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based founder and CEO of corporate events company EideCom. As a teenager, Eide side-hustled as a DJ, then began to produce major events at the University of St. Thomas. Read more about his journey here. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Image…
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Yesterday, German startup Gixel came out of stealth mode to announce it is working on a new type of optical engine for AR glasses and smartglasses. It also announced a €5M funding round led by several business angels, including the Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe. Ah, and I also had a secret meeting with them at…
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Varjo announced that starting next year, it’s no longer supporting its fleet of third generation XR headsets, which includes XR-3, VR-3, and Varjo Aero. As first spotted by XT Today, Varjo says it’s now “focusing our manufacturing efforts on the XR-4 Series headsets,” which released in late 2023. The Finland-based company notes in a support…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Before there were lines out the door, Alexandra Lourdes and Steve Jerome were just trying to solve different problems. Lourdes, then a Ph.D. student at UNLV, had started collaborating on campus events with her friend Lin Smith Jerome, who was married to Jerome and would soon become…
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Welcome to another amazing roundup of AR/VR news of the week! This week has definitely been more interesting than the previous one. And I’ve also got a little key giveaway! There are a lot of good reasons to keep reading… (By the way, if you lost my interview with the team behind Animal Company, you are…
Ahead of an upcoming technical conference, researchers from Meta’s Reality Labs Research group published details on their work toward creating ultra-wide field-of-view VR & MR headsets that use novel optics to maintain a compact goggles-style form-factor. Published in advance of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Emerging Technologies conference, the research article details two headsets, each achieving a…
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It was the Coldplay kiss cam moment that caused cringes around the world. The CEO of a unicorn tech company and his head of human resources were caught on camera in a not-so-work-appropriate moment that has since gone viral. Now the two executives, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot, are facing…
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Today, I publish one of the most beautiful interviews I have done in these (almost) nine years as a blogger. I spoke with Tera Nguyen and Felipe Cartin from Wooster Games, the team behind the most successful Quest game: Animal Company. During the interview, we covered many insightful topics: for instance, we spoke about how…
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Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024) is pretty amazing on its own, offering up enough frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at across its Crashloop story mode. Coming July 27th, Clone Drone is getting a fresh injection of content with its new ‘Skyscrapper’ endless mode, letting you scrap through increasingly difficult challenges until your very last clone…
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