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Waymo Rolls Out Its Driverless Robo-Taxi Service to More Riders in Phoenix

GizModo VR

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, said Thursday that it’s offering its fully driverless robo-taxis to all customers of its ride-hailing service in Phoenix, Arizona. Previously, the company only afforded its fleet of unmanned cars to a select few hundred people as part of its early rider program beginning in… Read more.

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Multiplayer VR Art App MultiBrush Adds Passthrough & Avatars

VRScout

In January 2021, Google officially ended support for its popular VR painting app Tilt Brush , much to the dismay of the digital art community. And so, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, MultiBrush was born. That said, it wasn’t all bad news.

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Upcoming AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 Processor Leaked By ASUS?

Anand Tech

While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen 7040 series), it seems as though AMD is once again changing things around where their naming scheme for processors is concerned. Which, based on its specificiations, is certainly not part of the current Hawk Point (Phoenix/Phoenix 2) platform.

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Google’s Inside Music Experiment Lets You Remix in VR

VRScout

Whether dancing in this latest collaborative music experience by LCD Soundsystem or dining at the center of six different storylines in an immersive film , it’s clear that Google is fully embracing WebVR. Google has also made its code public on GitHub, so any musician can create their own interactive music experience.

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Meta Shutters Echo Arena & Lone Echo Creator Ready At Dawn

Upload VR

As Google tries to take Meta's Ray-Ban partnership and fork Android XR, Zuckerberg's $23 billion spent for WhatsApp and Oculus VR back in 2014 w as merely an entry fee to get Horizon OS to where it is today with the Quest 3 as a market-leading VR headset in a still-nascent space.

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ByteDance Files Pico 4 Patent Amid FCC Scandal

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In its FCC request, the Pico Parent firm filed two versions of its VR headset codename “Phoenix,” including a Pro model. and Google, Sundar Pichai , Carr’s letter describes TikTok as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” due to the firm alleged data farming operations.

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NUVIA Phoenix Targets +40-50% ST Performance Over Zen 2 for Only 33% the Power

Anand Tech

In November 2019, the company NUVIA broke out of stealth mode.

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