HTC Vive’s metaverse vision includes safeguards for children

HTC Vive’s metaverse vision includes safeguards for children

HTC’s VR strategy will extend well beyond using car rides as theme parks. The company has outlined Viverse, its vision for a metaverse, and it’s promising to protect children from virtual dangers in the process. Viverse itself isn’t so much a holistic space so much as an “open ecosystem” joining multiple platforms together. You could…

Buy Samsung’s Galaxy S22 and Amazon will give you a $100 credit

Buy Samsung’s Galaxy S22 and Amazon will give you a $100 credit

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Sony’s answer to Game Pass on PlayStation could cost up to $16 a month

Sony’s answer to Game Pass on PlayStation could cost up to $16 a month

The Xbox Game Pass rival that Sony is cooking up for the PlayStation will have three tiers that cost $10, $13 and $16 a month, according to VentureBeat’s GamesBeat. Bloomberg first reported about the all-in-one game subscription service codenamed Spartacus back in December. Based on the documents the publication saw, Spartacus would merge the perks…

Amazon union organizer arrested for allegedly trespassing at warehouse

Amazon union organizer arrested for allegedly trespassing at warehouse

With Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse facing a vote to unionize next month, police have arrested labor organizer Christian Smalls at the facility for allegedly trespassing, Reuters has reported. Two other individuals that reportedly worked at the facility were also arrested, and Smalls was charged with resisting arrest and trespassing.  A former employee, Smalls said that…