If the last 24 hours has proven anything it’s that interest in Facebook’s next possible virtual reality (VR) headset is not only high but that…
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Oculus Quest Developers Will Find Apps Easier to Distribute in 2021
By all accounts, the Oculus Quest has been a big success for Facebook and the developers currently selling their titles through the Oculus Store. But…
Facebook Gaming won’t be part of the Xbox dashboard like Mixer says Microsoft
Xbox fans worried that Facebook is going to be forced upon them have been assured that integration won’t work like Mixer. Microsoft shutting down Mixer…
Facebook buys The Order: 1886 developer Ready At Dawn
Not only has Facebook teamed up with Microsoft for streaming but they’ve also bought one of the most acclaimed VR developers to work on Oculus.…
Ready At Dawn: Facebook Buys Lone Echo And Echo Arena Developer
Ready At Dawn Studios is the latest VR developer to be acquired by Oculus maker Facebook. The social networking giant purchased the California-based studio for…
Facebook creates shopping data sets to make more humanlike chatbots
Facebook researchers this week introduced Situated Interactive MultiModal Conversations (SIMMC), a novel research direction aimed at training AI chatbots that take actions like showing an…
Facebook AI Research applies Transformer architecture to streamline object detection models
A team of 6 members of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) tapped the popular Transformer neural network architecture to create end-to-end object detection AI, an approach…
Hand Tracking on Oculus Quest: Grasping the Basics
Last week was Oculus Quest’s first birthday and as part of the celebrations, Facebook officially brought hand tracking out of the ‘Experimental Features’ section as…
Facebook Shows Prototype AR/VR Interface Designed to Replace Your Laptop – Road to VR
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email,…
Facebook: VR Fitness, Social Apps Seeing 'The Bulk' Of Increased Usage In Lockdown
According to Facebook’s VP of consumer hardware, Andrew Bosworth, VR fitness and social apps are seeking “the bulk” of increased usage during the ongoing COVID-19…