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Meta To Shut Down Horizon Worlds Virtual Reality Platform By June
Meta will discontinue Horizon Worlds VR on June 15, 2026, shifting focus to mobile and AI amid low VR user numbers and heavy losses.
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AI In Classrooms Starts With Teachers. Here's Why Training Them Is Crucial
AI Appreciation Day 2025: Educators must be able to foster critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and decision-making skills in students using these innovations.
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Zoom, Meta Join Forces To Roll Out Standalone App for Its VR Headsets
Meta announced the roll out of Zoom’s standalone app on Tuesday. The app will allow users to be present during video conferences as their virtual avatars. According to the app’s listing on Meta’s website, Zoom’s standalone app will function with any paid or free Zoom license. This is in line with Zoom’s recent push to expand its presence ...
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IIT Madras Pravartak Invites Applications For Virtual Reality, Online Business Courses
IIT Madras Pravartak New Courses: The Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) course, developed in partnership with VyVoxel, an international player in AR/VR/MR, is a 60-hour online training scheduled to begin on June 14.
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Scientists Develop 'E-Tongue' That Lets You Taste Cake In Virtual Reality
Researchers at Ohio State University, led by Yizhen Jia, have developed e-Taste, a system designed to analyse food samples.
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Mice VR Headsets Revolutionise Brain Activity Studies and Behavioural Research
Mice are now being equipped with specially designed virtual reality headsets, allowing researchers to study brain activity in immersive environments. Developed using affordable components, the "MouseGoggles" enable scientists to observe the mice's neural responses as they interact with virtual environments. The study opens new doors for understandi...
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Virtual Reality Could Hold The Key To Beating Cocaine Addiction, UK Study Finds
A UK-based trial is using virtual reality technology to combat cocaine addiction by placing users in real-life scenarios to better manage cravings.
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Apple Smart Glasses, Cheaper Vision Pro Reportedly in Apple’s Roadmap
Apple Smart Glasses and a more affordable Vision Pro device are reportedly in the company’s product roadmap and could arrive some time in the future. As per a report, the company might introduce a cheaper version of the Apple Vision Pro as soon as next year. The device might get less features than the existing mixed-reality headset.
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Meta Quest 3 Gets New Layout App With the Ability to Measure Real-World Objects
Meta Quest 3 is getting a new app that will allow users to measure real-world objects. Dubbed Layout, the utility app was released by the company as a part of the Meta Quest v68 update for the mixed-reality device. The new app can both measure real objects as well as place virtual objects with a given size specification.
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Kashi Vishwanath Temple In UP Introduces Virtual Reality Darshan
The devotees coming to Kashi Vishwanath Temple here in Uttar Pradesh will now get not only physical darshan, they will also get 'virtual' darshan. The temple administration has introduced 11 minutes and 50 seconds of virtual reality Darshan.
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Metaverse Experience Centre With VR, AR and Immersive Technologies Launched in Noida
Indian metaverse research and advisory firm Metaverse911 has launched its Metaverse Experience Centre in Noida. Here visitors will be able to indulge in immersive technologies that include AR and VR that make for essential metaverse components.
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Watch: PM Modi Interacts With India's Top Gamers, Tries Virtual Reality Games
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with some top Indian gamers on a host of issues relating to the gaming industry, BJP IT department head Amit Malviya said on Thursday.
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Mark Zuckerberg Criticises Apple Vision Pro Again, Says Meta Quest 3 Is 'Better'
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has criticised the Apple Vision Pro for a second time since the iPhone maker's first mixed reality headset was launched in February. The social networking giant's co-founder and CEO said that the Quest 3 headset is more advanced than the Vision Pro and that Apple made too many compromises for higher resolution.
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Meta Rebuffs Google's Virtual Reality Tie-Up Proposal: Report
Meta Platforms decided against a partnership with Alphabet to use Google's Android XR platform for its virtual and mixed-reality Quest headsets, The Information reported on Friday.
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LG, Meta Announce Collaboration to Develop Next-Generation XR Technologies
Meta and LG announced a strategic collaboration on Wednesday which is focused on extended reality (XR) devices and technologies. Meta has been working in this space has has launched multiple Meta Quest headsets, which offer virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences. Similarly, at the end of 2023, LG created an XR business unit wit...
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Meta To Shut Down Horizon Worlds Virtual Reality Platform By June
Meta will discontinue Horizon Worlds VR on June 15, 2026, shifting focus to mobile and AI amid low VR user numbers and heavy losses.
-
AI In Classrooms Starts With Teachers. Here's Why Training Them Is Crucial
AI Appreciation Day 2025: Educators must be able to foster critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and decision-making skills in students using these innovations.
-
Zoom, Meta Join Forces To Roll Out Standalone App for Its VR Headsets
Meta announced the roll out of Zoom’s standalone app on Tuesday. The app will allow users to be present during video conferences as their virtual avatars. According to the app’s listing on Meta’s website, Zoom’s standalone app will function with any paid or free Zoom license. This is in line with Zoom’s recent push to expand its presence ...
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IIT Madras Pravartak Invites Applications For Virtual Reality, Online Business Courses
IIT Madras Pravartak New Courses: The Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) course, developed in partnership with VyVoxel, an international player in AR/VR/MR, is a 60-hour online training scheduled to begin on June 14.
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Scientists Develop 'E-Tongue' That Lets You Taste Cake In Virtual Reality
Researchers at Ohio State University, led by Yizhen Jia, have developed e-Taste, a system designed to analyse food samples.
-
Mice VR Headsets Revolutionise Brain Activity Studies and Behavioural Research
Mice are now being equipped with specially designed virtual reality headsets, allowing researchers to study brain activity in immersive environments. Developed using affordable components, the "MouseGoggles" enable scientists to observe the mice's neural responses as they interact with virtual environments. The study opens new doors for understandi...
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Virtual Reality Could Hold The Key To Beating Cocaine Addiction, UK Study Finds
A UK-based trial is using virtual reality technology to combat cocaine addiction by placing users in real-life scenarios to better manage cravings.
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Apple Smart Glasses, Cheaper Vision Pro Reportedly in Apple’s Roadmap
Apple Smart Glasses and a more affordable Vision Pro device are reportedly in the company’s product roadmap and could arrive some time in the future. As per a report, the company might introduce a cheaper version of the Apple Vision Pro as soon as next year. The device might get less features than the existing mixed-reality headset.
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Meta Quest 3 Gets New Layout App With the Ability to Measure Real-World Objects
Meta Quest 3 is getting a new app that will allow users to measure real-world objects. Dubbed Layout, the utility app was released by the company as a part of the Meta Quest v68 update for the mixed-reality device. The new app can both measure real objects as well as place virtual objects with a given size specification.
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Kashi Vishwanath Temple In UP Introduces Virtual Reality Darshan
The devotees coming to Kashi Vishwanath Temple here in Uttar Pradesh will now get not only physical darshan, they will also get 'virtual' darshan. The temple administration has introduced 11 minutes and 50 seconds of virtual reality Darshan.
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Metaverse Experience Centre With VR, AR and Immersive Technologies Launched in Noida
Indian metaverse research and advisory firm Metaverse911 has launched its Metaverse Experience Centre in Noida. Here visitors will be able to indulge in immersive technologies that include AR and VR that make for essential metaverse components.
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Watch: PM Modi Interacts With India's Top Gamers, Tries Virtual Reality Games
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with some top Indian gamers on a host of issues relating to the gaming industry, BJP IT department head Amit Malviya said on Thursday.
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Mark Zuckerberg Criticises Apple Vision Pro Again, Says Meta Quest 3 Is 'Better'
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has criticised the Apple Vision Pro for a second time since the iPhone maker's first mixed reality headset was launched in February. The social networking giant's co-founder and CEO said that the Quest 3 headset is more advanced than the Vision Pro and that Apple made too many compromises for higher resolution.
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Meta Rebuffs Google's Virtual Reality Tie-Up Proposal: Report
Meta Platforms decided against a partnership with Alphabet to use Google's Android XR platform for its virtual and mixed-reality Quest headsets, The Information reported on Friday.
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LG, Meta Announce Collaboration to Develop Next-Generation XR Technologies
Meta and LG announced a strategic collaboration on Wednesday which is focused on extended reality (XR) devices and technologies. Meta has been working in this space has has launched multiple Meta Quest headsets, which offer virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences. Similarly, at the end of 2023, LG created an XR business unit wit...
