It’s a “small” test, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said on his Instagram broadcast channel, which included the below picture. In his own post on his own broadcast channel, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the polls will be rolling out to everyone “soon.”
In partial response to articles documenting people wearing their Meta Quest 3s in the real world (like ours), VR YouTuber Brad Lynch published a video about the experience of using the Quest 3 at Disney World.
Just to be clear: I think that using the headset’s mixed reality features outside still feels like a strange thing to do. But Lynch has some thoughtful perspective on where the Quest 3 falls short as an out-in-the-world mixed reality device.
In this blog post about how the platform connects people, Roblox said that:
😀 You’ll be able to customize the names you see for your Roblox friends “in the next month.”
📱The company will make it easier to share in-Roblox captures, using a GIF to show what that might look like.
📞 “Eventually,” you’ll be able to use Roblox’s new Roblox Connect video call feature to call people from within a Roblox experience.
The platform is going to roll out “Collectible Expressions,” which let you slot in your Collectible Avatars into “a library of expressions created by Reddit” to use in post comments, starting October 26th. Here’s a GIF of what they look like, and I included a screenshot below. They still don’t make me want to get one of the avatars.
Reddit is announcing this just after saying that its blockchain-based Community Points will be going away.
The project is estimated to take five years, according to a press release (you can read the release from this link, but you should know that the link will download a PDF). The museum is digitizing the collection following recent thefts that were apparently an “inside job.”
You can try Diablo IV and its newest season for 10 hours between now and Monday at 2:59AM ET, according to an Xbox Wire blog post. There are a few other games you can play for free over the weekend, too, including NBA 2K24.
[Xbox Wire]
It’s out on Thursday on PC, Xbox, iOS, and Android, according to a press email I just received, but “coming soon” on Switch because of a platform approval issue.
In a post about the update on Steam, developer Poncle also detailed the forthcoming “Adventures” mode, which will “remix content of the base game” and add new stage progression. The developer is also planning to bring a cross-save feature into beta — I really hope this is rolled out widely soon!
Update October 19th, 11:35AM ET: Added new details about platform availability.
