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James Whatley

@whatleydude
15 posts
2023-09-10
Roblox headed to PlayStation.  Bigger than Meta Quest by some distance; I wonder if VR2 will follow.
2023-09-10 View on X
The Verge

Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators type in prompts to generate virtual environments, get coding help, and more

Maybe it's just me, but I don't get why a user-generated content marketplace would introduce AI creation tools that are mostly good for eroding the amount of money people are willi...

2023-09-09
Roblox headed to PlayStation.  Bigger than Meta Quest by some distance; I wonder if VR2 will follow.
2023-09-09 View on X
The Verge

Roblox plans to launch on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in October and on Meta Quest headsets later in September, but has no “imminent plans” for Switch

Jay Peters / The Verge :

Roblox headed to PlayStation.  Bigger than Meta Quest by some distance; I wonder if VR2 will follow.
2023-09-09 View on X
The Verge

Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators enter prompts to generate virtual environments, get help with coding, and more

Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) that can help creators …

2023-03-28
“We have not yet seen a lot of evidence that our constituents should be putting their money in these speculative tokens unless they are prepared to lose all their money.” https://www.bbc.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
BBC

The UK cancels plans to launch an NFT, proposed in 2022 by Rishi Sunak in a bid to make the UK a crypto hub, and says it will keep the proposal “under review”

Plans for a government backed non-fungible token (NFT) produced by the Royal Mint have been dropped, the Treasury has announced.

2023-02-16
The @FT today: ‘Whatever happened to the metaverse?’ Surely a wake up call to any serious marketing exec still taking pitches from agencies that should know better... 'That brings us to the metaverse's most serious problem: nobody seems to want it' https://www.ft.com/...
2023-02-16 View on X
Financial Times

A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency

Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment  —  Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives … Tweets: @jimpethokoukis , @mattnavarra , @t...

I had genuinely forgotten about this bit - https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-16 View on X
Financial Times

A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency

Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment  —  Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives … Tweets: @jimpethokoukis , @mattnavarra , @t...

2022-10-12
Given the positioning, Microsoft bringing its software stack to Meta Quest Pro makes a lot of sense. If it fails, it's a test and learn. If it flies, they were there first. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Verge

Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Office, Windows 365, and Xbox Cloud Gaming to Quest VR headsets in the coming months; Teams will use Meta's avatars

Good morning!  Meta took the wraps off its Quest Pro VR headset … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Windows apps and games to Quest devices S...

2022-10-11
This is an important piece of work from @Ofcom For a lot of us, this will be a ‘Yeah, duh - of course’ but for non-industry aware parents, it should be the start of a wakeup call to understand the dangers and implications that come with these platforms. https://www.bbc.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Ofcom research: one-third of UK children between 8 and 17 with social media profiles use falsified adult ages, mainly by signing up with a fake date of birth

Companies like Instagram are getting been heavily fined (and dragged through the publicity coals) over how they have mishandled children's privacy on their platforms.

I've just sent this image around the parents' chat groups I'm in. Recommend others do the same. Full report available here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Ofcom research: one-third of UK children between 8 and 17 with social media profiles use falsified adult ages, mainly by signing up with a fake date of birth

Companies like Instagram are getting been heavily fined (and dragged through the publicity coals) over how they have mishandled children's privacy on their platforms.

2022-08-31
Facebook Gaming is shuttering its standalone FB Gaming app. Having seen some of the numbers behind FB Gaming's footprint earlier this year, there's no way this is the death knell the streaming community thinks it is. They just want you/gamers/viewers using the main FB app 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-31 View on X
Video Games Chronicle

Meta plans to shutter the Facebook Gaming app on iOS and Android on October 28, 2022, transferring games, content, and groups to the main Facebook app

as Facebook Gaming app is sunsetting, the VP who oversaw the org in the past has recently departed from Meta https://t.co/CAlM4ySGu4 Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : Facebook is closi...

2022-07-22
This is what a panic button looks like. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-22 View on X
The Verge

Instagram says all new video posts under 15 minutes will now be shared as Reels and videos under 90 seconds from public accounts will be recommended to others

And it's combining the Reels / Video section of your profile under one tab  —  Welcome to the new era of Instagram …

2022-03-29
NEW: PlayStation updates its PS Plus offering with Essential, Extra, and Premium just announced. Existing PS Plus members roll right into Essential with no changes to service. More here: https://blog.playstation.com/ ...
2022-03-29 View on X
GamesIndustry.biz

Sony merges PS Now and PS Plus to form three tiers, launching in June: PS Plus Essentials for $9.99/month, Extra for $14.99/month, and Premium for $17.99/month

PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, PS4 and PS5 games included, but not brand new releases  —  At a glance:

2019-09-02
Jack: 'We're committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation' Users: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NAZIS? Jack: pic.twitter.com/NXEVHgLclF
2019-09-02 View on X
The Verge

Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday, possibly by a group that calls themselves the Chuckle Squad, which posted a number of racist tweets

and he's the CEO of Twitter John Callaham / Android Authority : Regularly changing your Twitter password is important, as Twitter CEO found out Tweets: @twittercomms : We're aware ...

2019-09-01
Jack: 'We're committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation' Users: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NAZIS? Jack: pic.twitter.com/NXEVHgLclF
2019-09-01 View on X
The Verge

Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday, possibly by a group that calls themselves the Chuckle Squad, which posted a number of racist tweets

It appears to be the same group that went after YouTubers  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday afternoon …

2019-08-31
Jack: 'We're committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation' Users: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NAZIS? Jack: pic.twitter.com/NXEVHgLclF
2019-08-31 View on X
The Verge

Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday, possibly by a group that calls themselves the Chuckle Squad, which posted a number of racist tweets

It appears to be the same group that went after YouTubers  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday afternoon …