Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Top Story: Civilization VII is coming to VR (analysis below).
Internship: Snap is offering a new AR-focused internship for UK university students as part of Innovate UK’s Immersive Tech Awards in 2025.
Other stories: Create Worlds has launched Wonderland Cloud, a multiplayer framework optimizing high-quality spatial audio for web-based VR. Experience MOD and Mojang Studios will launch Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue on 4 April 2025 at Corner Corner in London, which will include immersive technologies.
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Top story
Civilization VII is coming to VR.
Which headsets? Meta Quest headsets (Quest 3 and 3S) this spring, though pricing and an exact release date is yet to be confirmed.
What will it look like? The game features a board game-like projection into physical space using passthrough cameras or a virtual museum setting with a scenic backdrop. A video of it in action is here.
Other stories
Create Worlds has launched Wonderland Cloud, a multiplayer framework optimizing high-quality spatial audio for web-based VR.
Experience MOD and Mojang Studios will launch Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue on 4 April 2025 at Corner Corner in London, which will include immersive technologies.
Katharina Haverich will present Virtual Weapons (Brecht fragments #1 - #8), a dialogue-based VR installation, at the Berlin School of VR in Neukölln during Berlinale 2025 on 13–14 February.
Kluge Interactive launched the Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE. Synth Riders Experience, exclusively on Apple Arcade for Apple Vision Pro.
Meta’s investment in virtual and augmented reality is set to exceed $100 billion in 2025, with Reality Labs reaching a record $19.9 billion in spending last year and selling 1mn Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2024.
Miketeevee has launched SkyHaven, a new chapter for the immersive VR game Shores of Loci, adding fresh challenges and stunning environments to its puzzle-driven experience.
Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.
