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Facebook Messenger Introduces AR Group Effects

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Group Effects is a new feature available now on Facebook Messenger and Messenger Rooms that allows Facebook users to interact with a variety of AR experiences during group video calls. Yes, Group Effects offer far more than your standard face filters, though there are plenty of those as well. Image Credit: Facebook.

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CES 25: Attention Labs and 2Pi showed me the future of VR for audio and video

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When the demo started, our two small groups of people began speaking independently the one from the others, me just being interested in speaking with the Ghost, and Tyriel with the other engineer. The voice of the people in the other group was very attenuated , and I could only slightly hear it as if it was background noise.

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Does This Meta Focus Group Listing Suggest Quest 4 Will Have Face & Eye Tracking?

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A request for focus group testers for a new Meta device might reveal Quest 4 features. Of course, this focus group testing doesn't in any way guarantee that either Quest 4 model will actually have face or eye tracking.

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Oculus Introduces Group Game Launching & Switching To Stay With Your Party

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Oculus has introduced new party features which allow groups of players to launch into the same app together and to move from one app to another. Accessed from the headset’s dashboard, the existing Party system allows up to four players to join a group voice chat even if they’re in different apps. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Pimax Raises Another $13.6M to Accelerate the Development of Its VR Headset Business

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Pimax saysits latest funding round will allow it to further expand its R&D group in the US, and establish a new R&D group in Europe. This brings to company’s overall outside investment to $82.7 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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Big ‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Update Will Expand Multiplayer Lobbies, Add New Course Later This Month

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Walkabout Mini Golf , one of Quest’s top multiplayer games will get its next update come July 28th, a release date which was revealed alongside a new trailer for the next DLC course. The release date comes alongside a new trailer showing off the course for the first time. Image courtesy Mighty Coconut.

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Meet XR Terra, the Company Teaching XR Technology

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This can be done through a four-week “XR Foundations” course, or through two twelve-week “Bootcamps” focused on either design or development. The $1499 XR Foundations: Developer course is a four-week program consisting of 24 total hours of session time designed to be taken in preparation for the bootcamps.