The hero shooter’s next addition is one of the most elaborate characters in the game

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KYY portable monitor is easy to travel with, and offers multiple viewing modes.

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Meta and Ray-Ban owner EssilorLuxottica are discussing doubling or even tripling their smart glasses production capacity, Bloomberg reports.

Just under a year ago, when revealing that 2 million units of Ray-Ban Meta glasses had been sold so far, EssilorLuxottica told investors that it planned to increase annual production capacity to 10 million units by the end of 2026, citing the “great success” of the product.

Then, in its Q3 investor call in October, EssilorLuxottica said that its smart glasses business was doing “exceptionally well”, to the point where it now accounted for more than a third of its revenue growth, telling investors that it was accelerating the timeline for the 10 million annual production capacity.

Now, Bloomberg reports that Meta and EssilorLuxottica are discussing doubling this production target to 20 million annual units, with the possibility of tripling it to 30 million if future demand justifies it.

According to Bloomberg, Meta is hoping to build on its lead in the smart glasses market and expand its footprint before competition from Apple and Google arrives.

Google has repeatedly teased smart glasses with a HUD at events like TED and I/O, and announced last year that it’s working with the eyewear companies Gentle Monster and Warby Parker on Gemini smart glasses, and will work with Kering Eyewear in the future. Multiple South Korean news outlets have reported that Samsung plans to launch a Meta Ray-Ban Display competitor this year, powered by Google software, a similar strategy to the Galaxy XR headset.

Meanwhile, in October Bloomberg reported that Apple moved staff off the cheaper and lighter Vision headset project to prioritize shipping smart glasses sooner. Apple’s first glasses could be revealed as soon as this year ahead of a release in 2027, the report claimed.

Meta Closes Deadpool VR, Asgard’s Wrath & Resident Evil 4 VR Studios

Meta has shut down Twisted Pixel Games (Deadpool VR), Sanzaru Games (Asgard’s Wrath), and Armature Studio (Resident Evil 4 VR), UploadVR can confirm.

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Meta and EssilorLuxottica’s reported discussions come as Meta laid off over 10% of Reality Labs, its smart glasses, VR, and “metaverse” division, including the entirety of three of its VR game studios. The company previously confirmed “shifting some of our investment from Metaverse toward AI glasses and Wearables”, and reducing spending on VR content to increase investment in smart glasses production capacity seems to be this strategy in action.

Some bundles sell for as much as a PS5

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The next entry in Xbox and Playground’s popular racing series is set to launch later this spring

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Rockstar claims this tiny detail about GTA Online‘s successor is highly confidential

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Because everyone deserves a great pair of earbuds.

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The Switch 2 version isn’t live yet, though

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Fans allege the Duffer Brothers used the chatbot to write the finale without any substantial proof

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If you need to get your devices back up to speed, you can do it quickly and easily.

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Also: what’s the ‘AAAA’ game Eidos Montreal has spent seven years working on?

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Mark Darrah has released a lengthy postmortem on the loot shooter that’s worth watching

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The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 card is a gaming beast that’s small form factor friendly to give your build serious power in a small package.

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Save $70 on the Shokz OpenRun Pro bone conduction headphones for a limited time at Amazon.

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In 2023, Meta evicted some of their most engaged users from their highly customized Oculus Homes in PC VR systems.

Overnight, users found themselves losing years of effort and love they poured into those places in VR. That same year Meta shut down beloved zero-g sport Echo VR and closed the studio behind the game, Ready At Dawn.

Players flew a plane over the offices at Meta with the message “Don’t Kill VR Esports” but they still found themselves booted from the place on Meta’s servers where they made friends and weathered the early days of the pandemic.

While we reported Armature, Twisted Pixel and Sanzaru Games joining the list of studios shut down by Meta, another product acquired by Mark Zuckerberg’s team “will no longer receive new content or feature updates”, according to a note posted to the official Supernatural group on Facebook.

That’s a very corporate way of saying that the coaches who defined the fitness service Supernatural – humans like Leanne Pedante credited by some of the service’s users for saving their lives – are now also no longer welcome on Meta’s servers.

Supernatural users can still log in and interact with the ghosts of their fitness coaches, like the laugh track on an old TV show, but the coaches that helped so many will not be making new appearances in headset.

“What the fuck,” wrote one user on the official Supernatural Community group with 60 upvotes. “I am so sorry for all the amazing coaches who are losing jobs and the people in the background. And so upset that the only thing I’ve consistently loved for exercise is ending. What happens when song license is over?”

Another comment with more than 600 upvotes: “If you’re no longer updating the content, there should no longer be a yearly fee. If content is and will remain static, there should be a one time charge.”

“As a user since the beginning, I feel like my heart’s been ripped out!” wrote another.

Meta directed subscribers with questions to email support.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Wasteland snail disguised as Bethesda’s legendary designer

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Smash Drums’ new campaign mode, “God of Drums,” is now available on PlayStation VR2 after previously releasing on Quest in early access.

First launched last November for Meta Quest in early access, the new Smash Drums campaign mode is rocking its way to PlayStation VR2 today. The free campaign update, dubbed ‘God of Drums,’ adds more than 100 missions, along with new legendary skins for the drummer’s head and drumsticks. The gameplay unfolds in new areas, unlike the sprawling stadiums the base modes feature. As I mentioned in my impressions that “a career mode would be welcome,” this update is a nice surprise for more goal-oriented rhythm players.

Accessible through the Arcade Mode in the Main Menu, players start as a lowly novice, making their way through a path akin to a lightning strike, all the way to becoming a God of Drums in an RPG-style progression system. Depending on the performance of every song played, new missions will be unlocked based on the number of stars obtained. To unlock the new level players gesture into the air like a real rockstar.

Each mission rotates among the Arcade, Fusion, and Classic modes. These styles change how to hit the notes: from a classic drum kit to seeing the cymbal or snare arrive from a distance to a more Rock Band-inspired style, with notes descending to respective colors to hit at a precise time. As suggested by PotamWorks, the new mode should last anywhere between three and six hours.

Smash Drums’ new campaign mode, God of Drums, is available now on Quest and PlayStation VR2.

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Shift Up’s CEO thinks it’s the only way to compete with studios from China

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The director’s final game, Masters of Albion, releases this year

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