Beat Saber Releases Upgraded Imagine Dragons Pack, Including New Songs & Maps
Beat Saber just released an upgraded version of its Imagine Dragons DLC Music Pack, featuring two new songs and redesigned maps for the existing tracks. The...
Population: One Going Free-To-Play On Quest 2 From March 9
Population: One developers BigBox VR announced that the game will be going free-to-play on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro from March 9. [embedded content]...
Open-Source Project Bringing Hand Tracking To Valve Index And Reverb G2
An open-source project is bringing controller-free hand tracking to PC VR headsets. The open-source Linux-based OpenXR platform Monado just added hand tracking. Hand tracking is a...
These Open-Source Demos Prove WebXR Could Be Used For Full VR Games
Two open-source demos show WebXR could be used to make full-fledged games. WebXR is an open standard API that enables webpages to display immersive content on...
The Mountain Village in the Path of India’s Electric Dreams
“The government is really obsessed with electrifying India. And that’s rooted in its net-zero targets. If you see the direction, that’s very, very clear,” he says....
Video Games Are a New Propaganda Machine for Iran
One figure in particular emerged as the leader of propaganda games development—Mahdi Jafari Jozani, a high-ranking member of the Basij. Jozani’s first major title, Safir-e Eshgh, was...
An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform
The percentage of US workers represented by a union has fallen for decades, down to 10 percent last year. But unions have recently scored wins in...
Uber and Lyft Are More Likely to Fire Drivers of Color, Report Says
James Jordan had worked as an Uber driver in Los Angeles for five and a half years by the spring of 2022. But in late March,...
India’s YouTube Vigilante Is Wanted for Murder
In December 2022, an investigation by The Caravan found dozens of Hindu nationalist YouTube channels that were broadcasting extremist content, with viewing figures in the hundreds of...
Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong
The proposed Maryland bills were developed with input from a working group that saw state lawmakers meet with prosecutors and public defenders, law enforcement agencies, and...