Meta today announced it's expanding the company's VR developer programs to include training on how to build games and experiences inside Horizon Worlds, Meta's growing social VR platform. Devs can also nab some cash too—a strong incentive to help Meta...

Meta announced it's bringing some new parental tools to Quest headsets in the next few months which are aimed at giving parents more control over what their teens see and do in VR. Meta's VR headsets, which are only intended...

Meta opened its Horizon Worlds social VR platform in December, rolling out its proto-metaverse project to Quest users in the US and Canada. During an all-hands company call this past week—where CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed Meta employees 'metamates'—the company announced...

Back in October, Meta announced that it would eventually transition its home environment to 'Horizon Home', giving it a fuller set of social features like being able to invite party members to visit, hang out, or launch into VR...

Though Meta is steadily building up three social VR apps—Horizon Worlds, Horizon Venues, and Horizon Workrooms—the trio still exist as separate apps and hardly constitute a seamless experience. In the future the company hopes to change that and open...

Meta today announced it's updating a bug bounty program for its hardware products, something intended to reward anyone outside of the company who reports security vulnerabilities. With some new payout guidelines in place, Meta is ostensibly aiming to highlight...

It's the beginning of the end for Oculus Quest and the start of the beginning for Meta Quest, as Meta (formerly Facebook) moves to erase the Oculus brand in order to bring its XR division more in line with...

Qualcomm held an investor event earlier this week where the company claimed that its partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook) had seen over 10 million Oculus Quest 2 units shipped since its launch in October 2020. Not so fast though:...

Meta (formerly Facebook) is not only building its next generation of AR and VR headsets, but it's looking to jumpstart a sort of immersive internet the company believes will one day be the future of human interaction—that's the 'metaverse' everyone's...

Meta (formerly Facebook) is offering up $700,000 in cash prizes this month in an XR hackathon aimed at developers and creators from all over the world. The objective: choose between Spark AR and Presence Platform and build something cool...

We're just one week past the Connect 2021 event where Meta (formerly Facebook) laid out its grand vision for both XR and the metaverse, including rebranding its entire company around the concept. The event was heavy on vision with...

Meta (formerly Facebook) announced a mixed reality headset at its Connect 2021 dev conference last week—code named Project Cambria. The company's official teaser video is supposed to leave a little something to the imagination, however leaked 3D models have...

Meta (formerly Facebook) created quite a stir in the VR industry when it announced last year that it planned to require Facebook account logins for new users. The move didn't go over well in the VR space or among...

Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced its sixth VR studio acquisition. This time it's Within, the studio behind the popular Quest exclusive VR fitness app Supernatural. Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be...

Facebook today announced that it's changing its name to Meta. The rebrand comes as the the company shifts its primary focus toward building the metaverse and the XR products that will support it. The Oculus brand will be phased...