Sunday
Oct312021

Twitter Spaces starts rolling out recording option on iOS first

Over the weekend, Twitter began rolling out a recording option for its Spaces chats. It's coming first to a limited number of Twitter Spaces hosts on iOS and should be available to all hosts on the platform "within a few weeks." The hosts can record these Twitter Spaces conversations and share these recordings in tweets. 

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Saturday
Oct302021

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup – 10/24 – 10/30

Saturday
Oct302021

Nintendo shutters Toronto, Redwood City offices

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A couple of Nintendo's satellite offices in North America are going to be closed. The company confirmed it would be shutting down small satellite offices in Toronto and Redwood City in California, but it didn't elaborate on why it was closing the offices. According to Kotaku100 employees in Redwood City have been displaced by this move, but Nintendo won't comment on how many employees are affected. Based on the statement below, it looks like some employees will need to relocate.

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Friday
Oct292021

Oculus Quest to get Slack, Dropbox as Progressive Web Apps

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This isn't the first time 2D apps have surfaced on the Oculus Quest virtual reality platform. But Facebook is planning to bring more third-party 2D apps to the VR platform via the Progressive Web App (PWA) framework. The aim is to give more work tools for its VR users. The plan starts with Facebook, Instagram, collaboration app Smartsheet, and email client Spike. But then Facebook will add access to Dropbox, Slack, and more in the future.

The PWA-based framework allows developers to bring their apps to VR without creating fully custom versions. But there is still a need to go through Oculus' developer channels to get their apps on the platform. As The Verge noted, this update marks a larger-scale rollout of non-VR apps inside the headset.

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