Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook this morning announced ReSkin, an open source touch-sensing synthetic “skin” created by researchers at the company in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. Leveraging machine learning and magnetic sensing, ReSkin is designed to offer an inexpensive, versatile, […]
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Facebook stops just short of rebranding to ‘The Web’
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta today. Facebook.com is still Facebook.com, though. This is a move to embrace the metaverse, which is a concept that many tech-industry executives and investors view as the future of the […]
Facebook envisions future VR/AR hardware with Cambria and Azeray projects
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on futurist virtual reality and augmented reality projects, dubbed respectively Project Cambria and Project Azeray. Cambria is a VR headset that is still a ways from shipping, […]
Facebook's 2021 XR Investments to Total $10B, Even More in 2022
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, delivered directly to your inbox. In the company’s Q3 2021 earnings call Facebook today said it expects its XR investments this year to top $10 billion, and advised investors that […]
Tutorial Videos Leak Possible New Oculus Headset Ahead of Facebook Connect
It happened a couple of weeks ago just before the reveal of HTC’s Vive Flow headset and now it looks like Facebook’s big reveal for Connect may have been leaked. Several videos have been unearthed showcasing what looks to be a new virtual reality (VR) headset, new controllers and a possible charging station. Four tutorial […]
Andrew Bosworth Will Be Facebook’s New CTO in 2022
This week marks Facebook’s next big step towards its metaverse future as current Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mike Schroepfer has announced he’ll be stepping down next year after 13 years at the company. Taking his place will be head of Facebook Reality Lab (FRL) Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, continuing Facebook’s work in virtual reality (VR) and […]
Ray-Ban and Facebook’s Smart Glasses Have Reportedly Leaked
Today was supposed to be the day that Ray-Ban and Facebook make their big smart glasses reveal but it seems a leak has beaten them to it. Several images have appeared on Twitter showcasing the new product for the first time, indicating functionality close to Snap’s Spectacles. Over on the prolific @evleaks Twitter account, a […]
Facebook contributes Ent project to the Linux Foundation
Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. In 2019, Facebook open-sourced Ent, an entity framework for the programming language Go that’s designed to make it easier to build apps with large data models. After roughly two years of development, Ent will move under the governance of the Linux Foundation, it was […]
Oculus Quest 2 128GB is Now Available
Several weeks ago Facebook made the shock announcement that sales of the popular Oculus Quest 2 would be halted as the company looked to address the irritation issue some users found with the facial interface. And also because a new model with a higher storage capacity would be released. Today, the standalone headset is now […]
Facebook Launches Horizon Workrooms To Power Remote Work
Facebook is moving to power remote work with a collaborative platform called Horizon Workrooms. The new service launches as an open beta testing release today free to use on the Web over video call or embodied in Oculus Quest 2, with the latter being the only entry point requiring a Facebook account at launch. The […]