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Meta is making its Meta Lab NYC location a permanent fixture, signing a 10-year lease at 697 Fifth Avenue with Vornado Realty Trust. The move turns what began as a pop-up into a long-term flagship
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Meta announced it is explicitly separating its Quest VR platform from its Worlds platform. The company said it is doubling down on the VR developer ecosystem while shifting Worlds to focus almost exclusively on mobile.
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Virtuix Inc. announced it has joined the Made for Meta program of Meta Platforms, Inc., with plans to make its Omni One 360-degree treadmill compatible with Meta Quest headsets and content.
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Meta’s latest Quest update brings the biggest improvements to hand tracking since the feature launched in 2019. With the release of Hands 2.4, hand input gains better performance in high-speed movement, more stability, and a more natural feel overall.
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Immersive video is rising again. Light Sail VR’s Matthew Celia discusses the medium’s new momentum, better tools, funding challenges and why this moment feels different after years of slow growth.
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Meta has opened its latest retail space in New York. Like its other locations, the Meta Lab NYC is a retail space where visitors can experience its latest AI glasses and VR headsets, access demos, get in-person product fittings and shop for exclusive hardware.
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XR Studio, Odders Lab, has secured new funding from CaixaBank’s DayOne and Axon Partners Group. While the amount was not disclosed, the company said the investment will support a new strategic focus on augmented reality and smartglasses development in the next few years.
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Meta has opened early access to the Immersive Web SDK (IWSDK), a new toolkit for building WebXR experiences in the browser. First revealed at Meta Connect, the SDK allows developers to create spatial apps that run directly in-browser with support for native hand tracking and interaction.
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At Connect 2025, Meta emphasized growth in its VR ecosystem, announcing that over 300 apps on the Meta Horizon Store have each earned more than $1 million, with 10 apps exceeding $50 million in revenue.
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At Connect 2025, Meta doubled down on its vision for AI-powered worldbuilding in VR. The company highlighted a stack of tools, including an AI-driven editor, a new game engine, and a capture tool, aimed at making immersive creation as simple as describing a scene or scanning a space.
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Meta made some major announcements today as part of Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at its largest annual event, Connect. Zuckerberg framed his keynote around the three technologies Meta is focusing on as it reinvents itself for the era of spatial computing, including glasses, AI, and virtual reality.
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Meta Horizon v81 introduces major changes to the home experience on Meta Quest. Called the Immersive Home, it includes a new visual look and an expanded layout with more areas to navigate, interact with, and customize. Meta cautions that previous home environments will no longer be supported.