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Meta winds down metaverse business with VR studio closures, job cuts

More than four years after changing its company name from Facebook to Meta, the tech giant is pulling back from its virtual ...
Blockonomi

Meta Stock: Company Dumps 1,500 Metaverse Jobs After $70B Loss

Company cutting 1,500 Reality Labs jobs as it shifts from metaverse to AI after accumulating $70B in losses since 2020.
Colorado Public Radio

Palestinian student creates virtual reality project that allows people to explore Gaza before and after the war

When 29-year-old Naim Aburaddi got started on his PhD project in media studies at CU Boulder a few years ago, he decided to capture images of the good times people had in his native Gaza: kids doing ...
techtimes

Virtual-Reality Tech Is Quickly Becoming More Real Under EU-Backed Projects

The "extended reality" realm is proving to be more than just a futuristic concept, with projects funded by the EU having sought to demonstrate its enormous potential. According to TechXplore, EU ...
The Hollywood Reporter

SXSW: Rosario Dawson to Narrate Immersive Virtual Reality Project ‘Soul Paint’ (Exclusive)

The projects allows users to embark on an immersive journey, led by Dawson, in which emotions and bodily sensations can be conveyed by making them visible in a virtual space By Damiano D’Agostino ...
Newsday

Holocaust survivor recalls 'Night of Broken Glass' horrors in interactive, virtual reality project

BERLIN — Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Venice Immersive Project ‘Tulpamancer’ Brings Dreams to Life Via AI

The art installation from Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser uses open-source AI to reconstruct users' memories and dreams through virtual reality. By Damiano D’Agostino A new art installation at ...