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The trust and safety team of social gaming platform Rec Room has seen tremendous results in reducing toxicity over the past 18 months. In this VB Spotlight, dive into the metrics, tools and strategies ...

With proximity chat, players will be able to hear one another as they get closer. This allows players to better locate one another by listening for their opponents’ conversations and talking.

The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it is, after all, a lot easier to scream slurs and abuse at other people than it is to stop ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

Can you tell a human from a bot? In one survey, AI voice services creator Podcastle found that two out of three people incorrectly guessed whether a voice was human or AI-generated. That means that AI ...

Gaming is no longer about who owns which device. Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and even mobile—players are connected in ways that seemed impossible a decade ago. Cross-play changed everything. Yet, one ...

Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps. The voice mode (in beta for now) allows Claude mobile app users to have “complete spoken conversations with Claude,” and ...