It’s the buzzword that’s leading the discourse in every tech boardroom from Shenzhen to Silicon Valley; the metaverse. The race is on for web 3.0 dominance. Will we live in a digitopia driven by social media, or will our experience of this new frontier be gamified to the hilt? One thing that needs to be … Continue reading How Will the Metaverse Shape Cybersecurity?
Last week, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Quest store content sales have passed the $1 billion mark. The platform, which was launched in 2019, is home to a range of VR apps and games for use with Meta Quest headsets. This represents a quadrupling in their average monthly revenue with sales skyrocketing … Continue reading Quest Store Sales Surpass $1 Billion
VR has been knocking around for long enough now that it’s probably fair to say most of the world is familiar with the concept behind it. But with the buzz surrounding the development of the metaverse, we’re starting to hear a lot more talk about AR (augmented reality), MR (mixed reality), and XR (extended reality). … Continue reading Reality Check: VR, AR, MR, and XR…What’s the Difference?
Newcomers to the world of VR often experience one of the least-fun elements of the immersive technology quite early on: motion sickness. VR motion sickness occurs because your eyes and brain think they’re moving inside an expansive VR world, but your body is doing nothing of the kind. This disconnect between your brain, body and … Continue reading How to Overcome VR Motion Sickness
Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are all the rage these days and barely a week goes by without some new story breaking about how a metaverse-dwelling artist has launched a new gallery in their digital realm of choice with walls adorned with staggeringly expensive NFT art. If you’ve been asleep for the last few months, you’d … Continue reading Art, NFTs, and the Metaverse
The new year has started with a great deal of buzz around the purchase of ‘Call of Duty’ makers, Activision Blizzard, by Microsoft. The deal has set new records and brought a wave of speculation about what Microsoft plans on doing next. With much of the tech world focused on the new iteration of the … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Acquisition
The internet is about to undergo a major change. Over the next few years, the industry leaders in social media, video gaming, virtual reality, and cryptocurrency will usher in the “web 3,0”, better known as the metaverse. In a recent post, we discussed what you can expect from the metaverse; how you can work, play, … Continue reading Which Are the Best Metaverse Cryptocurrencies to Watch?
Recently, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus rebranded to become Meta Platforms with a new logo, a version of the infinity symbol. On the face of it, this may be seen by many as an opportunity to draw focus away from the problems currently faced by their flagship social media platform, Facebook. … Continue reading What Is the Metaverse?
The Quest 2 represented huge specifications leap from the original Quest, but managed to keep the price tag low enough to push it into impulse-purchase territory for a lot of people. That was the right move since sales of Quest 2 units remain strong, but we know VR headsets can really blow the budget on … Continue reading What Could the Quest Pro Be?
Both Oculus Quest devices are festooned with cameras that allow the headsets to track the world around you for accurate positioning. If you’re a Quest user, you know that you can actually see the world as those cameras see them by switching to “passthrough” mode. This is a key safety feature so you can quickly … Continue reading Oculus is Opening Up Experimental Mixed Reality Access on Quest
