#virtual-reality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #virtual-reality, aggregated by home.social.
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ICYMI: Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Coaches: MAN Lion's Coach Gameplay Preview
#BestCommunityEver #BusSim #ETS2 #EuroTruckSimulator2 #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenXR #PCGaming #TruckSim #VirtualReality #VR #Vulkan
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/227300/view/705524237917490100
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Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze
The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.
But wait, there was more: I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Tuesday about the business calculations I’m working through as I decide if going to Berlin for the IFA tech trade show can pencil out for me.
6/29/2026: Supreme Court Gives Trump the Green Light to Fire Heads of FTC, Other Agencies, PCMag
Since I’ve been following President Trump’s attempts to expel the Democratic minority on the Federal Trade Commission, commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, since first writing about this story last March, I felt obliged to cover the Court’s conclusion of this case.
6/30/2026: Supreme Court: Fourth Amendment Protects Your Phone’s Location History, PCMag
I felt just as obliged to cover the Court ruling that Google’s Location History tool incurs Fourth Amendment protections–and to note that the majority opinion describes this as if Google hadn’t since turned Location History into an on-device, end-to-end-encrypted feature that Google can no longer access if presented with a “geofence warrant.”
6/30/2026: The State With the Most Data Centers Will Now Tax Their Energy Use, PCMag
I had been meaning to write about how Virginia has begun to change its approach to the data centers that now sprawl across Loudoun and Prince William counties. But until the General Assembly reached a belated budget compromise in the closing days of June, I didn’t know what sort of change we’d get.
7/1/2026: Blue Origin: Here’s How We’ll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected, PCMag
Blue Origin posted an update Tuesday about its plans to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket. But in addition to having my hands full Tuesday, I needed part of Wednesday to take notes from videos of recent discussions–a panel with Blue founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp, another panel led by Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger, and a NASA press conference featuring administrator Jared Isaacman–that yielded some insight into the company’s situation.
7/2/2026: FAA Moves to Allow Civil Supersonic Flights Over Land, If They’re Quiet Enough, PCMag
This was my longest story published this week, because it had to cover not only the Federal Aviation Administration’s opening of a rulemaking process to legalize commercial supersonic flights over land but also the current state of affairs at Boom Supersonic and NASA’s debut of flight tests of its “low-boom” X-59 aircraft. That was a lot of detail to pack in, and I missed one error in my copy until a few hours after the story posted–I had described Boom’s XB-1 testbed aircraft as a single-engine plane when I meant single-seat.
7/3/2026: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR, Ars Technica
Earlier in June, I spent a fascinating 40 minutes with a computer strapped to my face in a windowless room in downtown D.C., enjoying a VR tour of some of the universe’s more interesting places. I thought that would be a good fit for a site that routinely covers both technology and astronomy, and that’s how I’ve now had two pieces run at Ars this year after going three years since my previous contribution to one of my daily tech-news reads.
7/3/2026: Backblaze: Backup May Be a ‘Declining’ Business, But We’re Not Backing Away
This post was originally going to start with my talking to an exec with this computer-backup and cloud-storage firm at the TechEx North America conference in the middle of May, but my having the appointment on my calendar did not prevent me from completely spacing about it. We then punted to having the conversation over video but next had to reschedule the call multiple times. And now that the piece is finally published, we need to correct a few small items in it.
#AlvaroBedoya #BlueOrigin #BoomSupersonic #boomlessCruise #ChatrieVUnitedStates #dataCenterTax #dataCenters #FTC #MachCutoff #nasa #NewGlenn #RebeccaKellySlaughter #SCOTUS #Smithsonian #Starstruck #supersonicTravel #SupremeCourt #TrumpVSlaughter #VirginiaPolitics #virtualReality #VR #X59 -
Weekly output: not-so-independent agencies, location privacy, Virginia’s data-center tax, Blue Origin’s return-to-flight plans, civil supersonic flight, astronomy in VR, Backblaze
The list below would be a lot of published work for a five-workday week, and yet I didn’t write any of those things or deal with edits to them on Friday. The Supreme Court bears much of the responsibility for this pace, the aerospace-industry news cycle did its own part, and then I had two pieces that I’d started weeks before finally get published on the one day that I gave this keyboard a decent rest.
But wait, there was more: I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Tuesday about the business calculations I’m working through as I decide if going to Berlin for the IFA tech trade show can pencil out for me.
6/29/2026: Supreme Court Gives Trump the Green Light to Fire Heads of FTC, Other Agencies, PCMag
Since I’ve been following President Trump’s attempts to expel the Democratic minority on the Federal Trade Commission, commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, since first writing about this story last March, I felt obliged to cover the Court’s conclusion of this case.
6/30/2026: Supreme Court: Fourth Amendment Protects Your Phone’s Location History, PCMag
I felt just as obliged to cover the Court ruling that Google’s Location History tool incurs Fourth Amendment protections–and to note that the majority opinion describes this as if Google hadn’t since turned Location History into an on-device, end-to-end-encrypted feature that Google can no longer access if presented with a “geofence warrant.”
6/30/2026: The State With the Most Data Centers Will Now Tax Their Energy Use, PCMag
I had been meaning to write about how Virginia has begun to change its approach to the data centers that now sprawl across Loudoun and Prince William counties. But until the General Assembly reached a belated budget compromise in the closing days of June, I didn’t know what sort of change we’d get.
7/1/2026: Blue Origin: Here’s How We’ll Return New Glenn to Flight Faster Than Expected, PCMag
Blue Origin posted an update Tuesday about its plans to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket. But in addition to having my hands full Tuesday, I needed part of Wednesday to take notes from videos of recent discussions–a panel with Blue founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Dave Limp, another panel led by Ars Technica space reporter Eric Berger, and a NASA press conference featuring administrator Jared Isaacman–that yielded some insight into the company’s situation.
7/2/2026: FAA Moves to Allow Civil Supersonic Flights Over Land, If They’re Quiet Enough, PCMag
This was my longest story published this week, because it had to cover not only the Federal Aviation Administration’s opening of a rulemaking process to legalize commercial supersonic flights over land but also the current state of affairs at Boom Supersonic and NASA’s debut of flight tests of its “low-boom” X-59 aircraft. That was a lot of detail to pack in, and I missed one error in my copy until a few hours after the story posted–I had described Boom’s XB-1 testbed aircraft as a single-engine plane when I meant single-seat.
7/3/2026: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR, Ars Technica
Earlier in June, I spent a fascinating 40 minutes with a computer strapped to my face in a windowless room in downtown D.C., enjoying a VR tour of some of the universe’s more interesting places. I thought that would be a good fit for a site that routinely covers both technology and astronomy, and that’s how I’ve now had two pieces run at Ars this year after going three years since my previous contribution to one of my daily tech-news reads.
7/3/2026: Backblaze: Backup May Be a ‘Declining’ Business, But We’re Not Backing Away
This post was originally going to start with my talking to an exec with this computer-backup and cloud-storage firm at the TechEx North America conference in the middle of May, but my having the appointment on my calendar did not prevent me from completely spacing about it. We then punted to having the conversation over video but next had to reschedule the call multiple times. And now that the piece is finally published, we need to correct a few small items in it.
#AlvaroBedoya #BlueOrigin #BoomSupersonic #boomlessCruise #ChatrieVUnitedStates #dataCenterTax #dataCenters #FTC #MachCutoff #nasa #NewGlenn #RebeccaKellySlaughter #SCOTUS #Smithsonian #Starstruck #supersonicTravel #SupremeCourt #TrumpVSlaughter #VirginiaPolitics #virtualReality #VR #X59 -
Entdecke den Kölner Dom in einer interaktiven Tour mit 360°-Panoramen und außergewöhnlichen Perspektiven.
Entdecke den Kölner Dom in 3D, mit 360°-Rundumschau und in Virtual Reality – immersiv mit VR-Brille oder direkt im Browser.#immersiv #360° #360Grad #VR #virtuell #VirtualReality #3D-Modell #Weltkulturerbe #stereoskopisch #360-Grad-Videos #Photogrammmetrie-ExperienceSteam #browserbasiert
Der Kölner Dom kostenlos in 360° – in Virtual Reality -
Entdecke den Kölner Dom in einer interaktiven Tour mit 360°-Panoramen und außergewöhnlichen Perspektiven.
Entdecke den Kölner Dom in 3D, mit 360°-Rundumschau und in Virtual Reality – immersiv mit VR-Brille oder direkt im Browser.#immersiv #360° #360Grad #VR #virtuell #VirtualReality #3D-Modell #Weltkulturerbe #stereoskopisch #360-Grad-Videos #Photogrammmetrie-ExperienceSteam #browserbasiert
Der Kölner Dom kostenlos in 360° – in Virtual Reality -
Reality Composer Pro 3: Clues of game project hidden within
The creators behind the large-scale game "The Machinery" seem to have landed at Apple – and are now helping with work for the Vision Pro.
#Apple #AppleVisionPro #Entertainment #Spiele #IT #MixedReality #Mobiles #VirtualReality #news
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Reality Composer Pro 3: Clues of game project hidden within
The creators behind the large-scale game "The Machinery" seem to have landed at Apple – and are now helping with work for the Vision Pro.
#Apple #AppleVisionPro #Entertainment #Spiele #IT #MixedReality #Mobiles #VirtualReality #news
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Reality Composer Pro 3: Indizien für Spieleprojekt darin versteckt
Die Macher hinter dem großangelegten Game „The Machinery“ scheinen bei Apple gelandet zu sein – und helfen nun bei der Arbeit für die Vision Pro.
#Apple #AppleVisionPro #Entertainment #Spiele #IT #MixedReality #Mobiles #VirtualReality #news
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Reality Composer Pro 3: Indizien für Spieleprojekt darin versteckt
Die Macher hinter dem großangelegten Game „The Machinery“ scheinen bei Apple gelandet zu sein – und helfen nun bei der Arbeit für die Vision Pro.
#Apple #AppleVisionPro #Entertainment #Spiele #IT #MixedReality #Mobiles #VirtualReality #news
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Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Meta's AI Glasses golf integration is so in-depth that it has me looking for clubs
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Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Meta's AI Glasses golf integration is so in-depth that it has me looking for clubs
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Discord on the Meta Quest brings your friends within an arm's reach in VR
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Discord on the Meta Quest brings your friends within an arm's reach in VR
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Discord is now available on Meta Quest
Meta is bringing the popular communication app Discord with all important functions to Quest headsets. However, not everything is running smoothly yet.
#Entertainment #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #Spiele #news
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Discord is now available on Meta Quest
Meta is bringing the popular communication app Discord with all important functions to Quest headsets. However, not everything is running smoothly yet.
#Entertainment #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #Spiele #news
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Discord ist ab sofort auf Meta Quest verfügbar
Meta bringt die beliebte Kommunikations-App Discord mit allen wichtigen Funktionen auf Quest-Headsets. Noch läuft aber nicht alles rund.
#Entertainment #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #Spiele #news
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Discord ist ab sofort auf Meta Quest verfügbar
Meta bringt die beliebte Kommunikations-App Discord mit allen wichtigen Funktionen auf Quest-Headsets. Noch läuft aber nicht alles rund.
#Entertainment #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #Spiele #news
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The best VR games in July 2026: “Fixer Undercover” and “Puzzles of the World”
A spy adventure, 3D puzzles of famous landmarks, and spatial physics puzzles – July requires brainpower from VR players.
#Entertainment #Spiele #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #news
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The best VR games in July 2026: “Fixer Undercover” and “Puzzles of the World”
A spy adventure, 3D puzzles of famous landmarks, and spatial physics puzzles – July requires brainpower from VR players.
#Entertainment #Spiele #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #news
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Die besten VR-Spiele im Juli 2026: „Fixer Undercover“ und „Puzzles of the World“
Ein Spionage-Adventure, 3D-Puzzles berühmter Wahrzeichen und räumliche Physik-Rätsel – im Juli ist bei VR-Spielern Köpfchen gefragt.
#Entertainment #Spiele #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #news
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Die besten VR-Spiele im Juli 2026: „Fixer Undercover“ und „Puzzles of the World“
Ein Spionage-Adventure, 3D-Puzzles berühmter Wahrzeichen und räumliche Physik-Rätsel – im Juli ist bei VR-Spielern Köpfchen gefragt.
#Entertainment #Spiele #MetaQuest #MixedReality #VirtualReality #news
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LIVnyan 1.3a2 + OnAirTap 0.6 being used with OpenBrush. This is a 3D art package and is not VRChat. There is no avatar support at all.
What we're doing is putting an external camera in the world and effectively slicing the world down the middle, then inserting the spout feed from #VNyan into it.
The big differences doing this with OnAirTap instead of LIV:
Spout2 output for all the layers - much easier to composite in OBS
Dynamic positioning of the foreground clip plane (i.e. the slice point) based on tracking data from VNyan (recommended: hip bone - 0.15m).
This means you can walk in a circle around a tree in the world and you'll correctly pass in front or behind it
No need for LIV or another external application, loads as a BepInEx or BSIPA mod)
Works in Linux as well as Windows! -
LIVnyan 1.3a2 + OnAirTap 0.6 being used with OpenBrush. This is a 3D art package and is not VRChat. There is no avatar support at all.
What we're doing is putting an external camera in the world and effectively slicing the world down the middle, then inserting the spout feed from #VNyan into it.
The big differences doing this with OnAirTap instead of LIV:
Spout2 output for all the layers - much easier to composite in OBS
Dynamic positioning of the foreground clip plane (i.e. the slice point) based on tracking data from VNyan (recommended: hip bone - 0.15m).
This means you can walk in a circle around a tree in the world and you'll correctly pass in front or behind it
No need for LIV or another external application, loads as a BepInEx or BSIPA mod)
Works in Linux as well as Windows! -
ICYMI: ATS & ETS2 - 1.61 Experimental Beta
#AmericanTruckSimulator #ATS #BestCommunityEver #ETS2 #EuroTruckSimulator2 #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenXR #PCGaming #TruckSim #VirtualReality #VR #Vulkan
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/270880/view/671746950739001757
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ICYMI: ATS & ETS2 - 1.61 Experimental Beta
#AmericanTruckSimulator #ATS #BestCommunityEver #ETS2 #EuroTruckSimulator2 #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenXR #PCGaming #TruckSim #VirtualReality #VR #Vulkan
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/270880/view/671746950739001757
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Phasmophobia delays highly-anticipated 1.0 launch to 2027 as it "prioritises quality over speed"
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/phasmophobia-version-1-launch-delayed
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Phasmophobia delays highly-anticipated 1.0 launch to 2027 as it "prioritises quality over speed"
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/phasmophobia-version-1-launch-delayed
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ICYMI: Aerofly FS 4 - Scenery Update (May & June 2026)
#Aerofly #AeroflyFS #FlightSim #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenXR #PCGaming #VirtualReality #VR #Vulkan
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1995890/view/713405247292178698
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ICYMI: Aerofly FS 4 - Scenery Update (May & June 2026)
#Aerofly #AeroflyFS #FlightSim #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenXR #PCGaming #VirtualReality #VR #Vulkan
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1995890/view/713405247292178698
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Explore Stonehenge via a free online virtual experience.
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/the-virtual-world-of-stonehenge-experience-is-now-available-online-for-free/
#GoodNews #History #Stonehenge #VirtualReality #Education #Discovery
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Explore Stonehenge via a free online virtual experience.
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/the-virtual-world-of-stonehenge-experience-is-now-available-online-for-free/
#GoodNews #History #Stonehenge #VirtualReality #Education #Discovery
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You’re likely familiar with a range of browsers, but what about browsers on screens strapped to your head?
Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality devices often have web browsers, and they’re a deeply interesting topic.
Read about them in my latest: https://vale.rocks/posts/extended-reality-browsers
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You’re likely familiar with a range of browsers, but what about browsers on screens strapped to your head?
Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality devices often have web browsers, and they’re a deeply interesting topic.
Read about them in my latest: https://vale.rocks/posts/extended-reality-browsers
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How can VR tell the story of genocide?
https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-can-vr-tell-the-story-of-genocide/
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How can VR tell the story of genocide?
https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-can-vr-tell-the-story-of-genocide/
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Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
I've never used a more brilliant Quest 3 face pad (seriously), and this Prime Day deal makes it a no-brainer purchase
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Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
I've never used a more brilliant Quest 3 face pad (seriously), and this Prime Day deal makes it a no-brainer purchase
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ICYMI: American Truck Simulator - South Dakota: Badlands
#AmericanTruckSimulator #ATS #BestCommunityEver #Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenXR #PCGaming #TruckSim #VirtualReality #VR #Vulkan
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/270880/view/696516113724347177
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heise+ | Pimax Dream Air im Test: VR-Brille mit scharfem Bild und Schönheitsfehlern
Pimax verspricht mit der Dream Air ein PC-VR-Leichtgewicht mit Spitzenoptik. Wir testen, ob endlich die Balance aus Komfort und Bildqualität gelingt.
#Entertainment #IT #MixedReality #Test #VirtualReality #VRBrillen #news
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heise+ | Pimax Dream Air im Test: VR-Brille mit scharfem Bild und Schönheitsfehlern
Pimax verspricht mit der Dream Air ein PC-VR-Leichtgewicht mit Spitzenoptik. Wir testen, ob endlich die Balance aus Komfort und Bildqualität gelingt.
#Entertainment #IT #MixedReality #Test #VirtualReality #VRBrillen #news
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Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
The VR Games Showcase Summer 2026 just gave me fresh reasons to pick up HEAVILY discounted Meta Quest gift cards on Prime Day
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Apparently there's a relatively new #VirtualReality youTuber making videos about #Resonite now.
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Mittwoch: Funkstörung legte Bahnverkehr lahm, Meta pausiert Mitarbeiter-Tracking
Deutsche Bahn mit Digitalfunk-Problem + Datenschutzproblem bei Meta + Effizienzvorgaben für Rechenzentren + Stellenkürzungen bei Oracle + Spiele-Neuheiten in VR
#Arbeitswelt #DeutscheBahn #Energiewende #GSM #hoDaily #Journal #MetaPlatforms #Oracle #Rechenzentrum #Spiele #Überwachung #Umweltschutz #VirtualReality #news
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The screen door effect is the name given to the undesirable visual artefact produced by tiny lines separating pixels and/or subpixels in displays. It is particularly an issue for displays on head-mounted devices, as they are positioned close to the viewer and magnified by lenses. The effect is named for being similar to looking through a screen door, as presented in the below image.
Not only does the screen door effect harm image quality, but it also harms colour, reducing brightness and vibrance by masking the image with darkness.
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Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
What the! This Meta Quest gift card deal is like a money duplication glitch in real life!