Facebook unveils Horizon Workrooms for remote coworking in VR
Facebook is launching its open beta for Horizon Workrooms, a way for people to work together remotely in groups with Oculus Quest 2 virtual...
Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021
Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the second quarter ended June 30 were $665.5 million, up 35% from the...
Roblox acquires game chat startup Guilded
Roblox, the maker of user-generated games and other content, said it has acquired the startup Guilded, a maker of platform for connecting gaming communities....
Kalam Labs raises $450K for its livestreaming platform for educational games
Kalam Labs has raised a preseed round of $450,000 in funding for its livestreaming platform for educational games. The platform from Kalam Labs is...
Nvidia opens its ‘metaverse for engineers’ by adding millions of Blender users to Omniverse
Nvidia’s Omniverse, billed as a “metaverse for engineers,” has grown to more than 50,000 users. But Nvidia now hopes to dramatically expand this base...
Thirdverse raises $20M and names Gumi founder Hironao Kunimitsu as CEO
Thirdverse raised $20 million and named Gumi founder Hironao Kunimitsu as its CEO as he trades mobile gaming for virtual reality and the metaverse....
Roblox will host music launch party for hip-hop artist KSI
Roblox will host a launch party for YouTuber and hip-hop musician KSI as the latest performance on Roblox’s music experience platform. Since concerts can’t...
Sensorium demos AI-driven avatars as latest virtual beings
Sensorium Galaxy is an upcoming virtual world that will blend human and AI characters so that people can have unscripted conversations with virtual beings....
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups through its Inception AI startup program. Those companies have raised more than $60 billion in funding...
5 ways to build the mobile gaming metaverse
It’s pretty hard to move anywhere in the world of games without bumping into someone talking about the metaverse. Supposing you’re not familiar with...