The tech press, having watched Meta’s latest restoration with a gimlet eye, piled again on this week with the NY Occasions headline Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta. The Washington Publish piled on, reporting Meta paid VR developers salaries of up to $1 million. Facebook’s owner is now in financial trouble. You’d by no means realize it for those who observe monetary information. Meta inventory has doubled prior to now 4 months. Regardless of the dangerous press, buyers appear to have remembered that Meta’s AI – its algorithms – generate tens of billions of {dollars} in income with people there not contributing a complete lot. The mere suggestion Meta’s dropping people in favor of code, and that they’ve stopped speaking in regards to the metaverse, has despatched the inventory hovering, and refilled our favourite new part, “This Week in Schadenfreude” beneath.
Utilizing a Snap Lens on Zoom with Chapman VRAR120 in 2020.
Microsoft Teams adds Snapchat AR Lenses to video chats. Along with the avatars Groups is rolling out this month, the corporate partnered with Snap to carry a small set of 26 curated Snapchat Lenses to Groups. Snap Digicam, which comprises all of Snaps’ filters, has been built-in into Zoom since 2020.
Coachella 2023 Announces ‘Fortnite’ Metaverse Activation. At this time (Thursday April 13), the pageant introduced “Coachella Island,” a partnership with Fortnite that presents the pageant within the metaverse. Launching Friday (April 14) at 3 p.m. PT to coincide with the primary day of the IRL fest, Coachella Island is impressed by Coachella’s dreamy desert panorama, with digitally rendered mountains, polo fields, palm bushes and day-to-night options.
The Star-Wars VR expertise “Vader Immortal” is obtainable within the Oculus retailer for 40% by June … [+]
My Top Ten VR Experiences. I make the identical suggestions to individuals so for enjoyable I wrote it down. The record doesn’t embody video games. The factors is solely that it made me go “wow.”
This Week in XR is also a podcast hosted by the writer of this column, Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, Paramount World, and Rony Abovitz, founding father of Magic Leap. This week our visitor is Sid Odedra, Head of UI/UX Design at AUDI. We may be discovered on Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube.
What We’re Studying
Mom, Dad, I Want To Be A Prompt Engineer (Craig S. Smith/Forbes)
This Week in Schadenfreude
Whatever Happened to the Metaverse? (Parmy Olsen/Bloomburg)
It Sounds Like Faebook Is Completely Falling apart (Futurism/Maggie Harrison)
Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse As Shiny New Toy Appears (Futurism/Maggie Harrison)
Bobbing for Apples
Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset Can’t Defy the Laws of Physics (Karl Guttag/Show Day by day)
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