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While many people are taking a keen interest in this year’s Meta Connect Conference to learn more about the upcoming Quest 3 launch, the two-day event that ran from the 27th to the 28th of September has seen some exciting announcements about lots of great upcoming innovations.  While not all of the announcements fit into … Continue reading Meta Connect 2023: All the News You Need To Know →

On September 27th and 28th, Meta will host its annual Connect XR developer conference. The annual event always attracts considerable attention; however, the last three events have all been digital.  Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Meta’s Connect conference has not had an in-person presence. But this year, the company will take their virtual event back … Continue reading Meta Connect 2023: What to Expect →

Just before Apple unveiled its long-awaited XR headset to the world this summer, Meta quickly stole some of the limelight by announcing the launch of the Quest 3 this autumn.  The news of the Quest 3 followed several months of speculation, and the headset is the latest in Meta’s best-selling consumer range. The Quest 2 … Continue reading Meta Quest 3: What Do We Know So Far? →

With a population of 1.4 billion people, China represents a large percentage of the potential VR market. However, as Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009, Meta is yet to tap into this financially lucrative corner of the planet.  Now, Wall Street Journal reports suggest that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to re-enter China … Continue reading Could Meta Release Quests In China? →

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that 11,000 jobs are to go at the tech giant. This represents close to 13% of the company’s workforce.  In an internal memo, Zuckerberg blamed online commerce’s return to pre-covid trends, increases in competition, reduced advertising revenue, and a macroeconomic downturn. He went on to say that he takes … Continue reading Meta Lays Off 11,000 Employees: What Does This Mean for the Metaverse? →

At the upcoming Meta Connect conference, the company looks set to tell us how it plans to connect Horizon Worlds, its flagship VR platform, with Crayta, a platform bought by Meta a year ago.  Since Mark Zuckerberg first started discussing the metaverse, he talked about how in the new online world, there would be interoperability … Continue reading Meta’s Plan for Connecting Horizon Worlds With Crayta →

It seems that the last week of August is the ideal week for announcing new VR headset launches. Just days after Sony teased the early 2023 launch of its much anticipated PSVR 2, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has revealed plans to release its new headset in October.  Oddly, the news was announced on the Joe … Continue reading Zuckerberg Confirms October Release for Next Meta VR Headset →

As we recently wrote, Facebook is pushing forward with tests to see how people would react to advertising in their VR application. As we also noted in that article, the first developer to opt-in to the experiment quickly backtracked once users got wind of the idea. It seems that the negativity towards this new move … Continue reading Facebook Reality Labs VP Responds to Quest Ads Backlash →