The DeanBeat: Consumer VR is making snail-like — but steady — progress
We are all waiting for the predictions of Mike Abrash to come true. The head of Facebook’s Reality Lab believes virtual reality has the...
Facebook Horizon is Oculus VR’s Roblox-like social space
Facebook introduced its latest social platform at its Oculus Connect 6 developer conference today. Horizon is a shared VR world for Oculus Quest and...
Oculus confirms multiple prototype AR glasses, development of live maps
During today’s Oculus Connect 6 event, Facebook hardware lead Andrew Bosworth confirmed today that the company is working on AR glasses — but in...
AppsFlyer: Google overtakes Facebook in app marketing installs
For the very first time, Google has surpassed Facebook in the total number of attributed installs for mobile apps after the search giant increased...
Facebook will bring AR ads to the News Feed fall 2019
Would you interact with a digital ad featuring polls, games, augmented reality (AR), or some Frankensteinian combination of the three? Facebook seems to think...
Facebook’s Portal TV lets you watch shows during video calls
The Portal team at Facebook is today introducing its latest generation of devices for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger video calls, augmented reality experiences, and...
How Zynga looks for the right game companies to acquire
When Zynga sold its San Francisco headquarters for $600 million in May, the social mobile game company received a lot of fresh gunpower for...
Facebook ‘evaluating options’ for out-of-warranty Rift CV1 cables
UploadVR has heard from a number of concerned owners of the Oculus Rift CV1 — Facebook’s first consumer-oriented PC-based VR headset released in 2016...
Nick Berry interview — A data scientist confronts his own mortality
Nick Berry has stage IV cancer. He is a first-class data scientist, but even he is not certain how much time he has left....
How Paymentwall’s Terminal3 lets game developers create their own online shops
Paymentwall built a business as a global payments platform, with much of its focus on games. Last year, the company spun out its Terminal3...