03 Jun 2026
Microsoft's aims to compete with Google's AI assistant Spark
With Scout, an AI assistant that is intended to go significantly further than the previous Copilot, Microsoft seems to want to compete with Google's Gemini Spark.
Carolin Riethmüller
2026
29 May 2026
The Metaverse and its ghost towns: Why social VR apps are struggling
On June 1, 2026, at 9 p.m., the social VR platform “Rec Room” will pull the plug after ten years. A few weeks earlier, in March 2026, Meta had announced the end of “Horizon Worlds” in its current form. The company had sunk a significant portion of its double-digit billion-dollar budget into this platform to build a metaverse, including the necessary hardware. What was marketed a few years ago as…
Josef Erl
2026