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Le « Washington Post », déjà dans la tourmente après une vague massive de licenciements, voit le départ de son directeur général

8 février 2026 à 01:58
Nommé il y a deux ans avec la mission de redresser le quotidien historique, Will Lewis ne donne pas les raisons de son départ immédiat. L’annonce d’un plan de suppression d’environ 300 journalistes sur 800 avait déjà créé un choc dans la semaine.

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Will Lewis, à Washington, le 5 novembre 2023.

L’Afrique du Sud annonce se retirer de la mission militaire de l’ONU en RDC

8 février 2026 à 01:16
Selon les Nations unies, quelque 700 militaires sud-africains participent au contingent militaire de la MONUSCO, qui comptait en octobre environ 12 500 hommes. Cette décision intervient alors que l’est de la RDC est toujours en proie aux violences et à la menace du M23.

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Des soldats de la Force de défense nationale sud-africaine (SANDF) arrivent à la base militaire de Tempe après leur retrait de l’est de la République démocratique du Congo, à Bloemfontein, le 14 juin 2025.

Brad Arnold, Rocker Who Fronted 3 Doors Down, Dies at 47

8 février 2026 à 01:24
He wrote the band’s breakout hit, “Kryptonite,” in a high school math class, and would go on to be nominated for three Grammy Awards.

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Brad Arnold, center, performing with 3 Doors Down at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 2017, in honor of Donald J. Trump’s first inauguration.

Files Detail Epstein’s Dealings With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick

8 février 2026 à 00:59
Mr. Lutnick had claimed to have distanced himself from Jeffrey Epstein even before the disgraced financier was convicted of a sex crime in Florida.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Documents released by the Justice Department directly contradict Howard Lutnick’s assertion on a podcast last year that he had decided never to be in the same room with Jeffrey Epstein again.

Le fondateur d'une start-up IA annonce qu'il prévoit d'organiser une « Marche des milliardaires » pour protester contre l'impôt sur la fortune qui fait trembler l'écosystème tech en Californie

8 février 2026 à 00:03
Le fondateur d'une start-up IA annonce qu'il prévoit d'organiser une « Marche des milliardaires »
pour protester contre l'impôt sur la fortune qui fait trembler l'écosystème tech en Californie

Dans une initiative qui oscille entre provocation politique et performance absurde, Derik Kauffman, fondateur d'une startup d'intelligence artificielle, prépare une « Marche pour les milliardaires » à San Francisco ce samedi. Au coeur de cette controverse : la proposition de taxe sur la fortune californienne...

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensly demande des mesures urgentes pour la défense de l’Ukraine auprès de Catherine Vautrin, en visite à Kiev

8 février 2026 à 00:33
La ministre de la défense française a rencontré le président ukrainien, samedi. Ce dernier a également déclaré que Washington avait invité « pour la première fois les deux équipes de négociateurs russes et ukrainiens, probablement à Miami, dans une semaine ».

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iPhone 18 Pro: These rumored camera upgrades could launch later this year

8 février 2026 à 00:44

While iPhone Fold is certainly the more interesting iPhone launching this fall, the iPhone 18 Pro will always be important for one reason: cameras. iPhone Fold won’t be able to pack a flagship camera experience, so if that’s something you’re after, you’ll have to settle for the “boring” iPhone 18 Pro.

Despite looking similar on the outside though, there’ll be a number of interesting camera upgrades to look forward to.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensly demande des mesures urgentes pour la défense de l’Ukraine auprès de Catherine Vautrin, en visite à Kiev

8 février 2026 à 00:33
La ministre de la défense française a rencontré le président ukrainien, samedi. Ce dernier a également déclaré que Washington avait invité « pour la première fois les deux équipes de négociateurs russes et ukrainiens, probablement à Miami, dans une semaine ».

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Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, à Kiev, le 5 février.

Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss & Clay Hunt VR Are Quest's Horizon+ Monthly Games This February

8 février 2026 à 00:31

Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss and Clay Hunt VR are this February's Horizon+ monthly games on Quest.

February 2026 brings a number of new games to the Horizon+ Monthly Games Catalog, including one of the best strategy games in VR, and an engaging target practice shooter. In addition, previously redeemed games will remain in your library while subscribed to the service.

Here's what you need to know about this February's offerings.

Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss

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The star of February's Horizon+ Monthly games, Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss is, as our review put it, a "smart, competitive, and [...] one of the best strategy experiences available in VR." The tabletop strategy game, which features characters and lore from the Moss and Moss 2 game universe, blends the strategic depth of RTS games with the character personality and squad mechanics of the best MOBAs.

Glassbreakers Review: Nuanced PvP Strategy With Adorable Whiskers
Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss is a brilliantly designed PvP strategy game that’s worth your time.
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Clay Hunt VR

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Clay Hunt VR is a relatively simple shotgun shooting game which challenges you to hone your aim against clay skeets, ducks, and other game animals. A multiplayer mode allows shooting with friends in public or private rooms, and customizable weaponry allows players to tune their favorite guns.

Horizon+ Games Catalog Games

Horizon+ continues offering a Games Catalog of Quest titles that any subscriber can access. Meta can remove and add new games from the catalog at any time. Here is the current Horizon+ Games Catalog in the US:

  • Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
  • Asgard’s Wrath 2
  • Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR
  • BARTENDER VR SIMULATOR
  • Blacktop Hoops
  • Cubism
  • Deisim
  • Demeo
  • Demeo Battles
  • Dungeons Of Eternity
  • Eleven Table Tennis
  • FINAL FURY
  • Fruit Ninja 2
  • Ghosts of Tabor
  • Green Hell VR
  • Grimlord
  • Human Fall Flat VR
  • iB Cricket
  • I Expect You To Die 3
  • In Death: Unchained
  • Into Black
  • Into the Radius
  • Job Simulator
  • Kingspray Graffiti
  • LES MILLS BODYCOMBAT: Fitness workouts
  • Maestro
  • Medieval Dynasty New Settlement
  • Moss
  • Pets & Stuff
  • Pistol Whip
  • Premium Bowling
  • Project Demigod
  • Puzzling Places
  • Racket Club
  • Real VR Fishing
  • Red Matter
  • Red Matter 2
  • Starship Home
  • Synth Riders
  • Tetris Effect: Connected
  • The Climb 2
  • The Light Brigade
  • The Thrill of the Fight
  • Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street
  • Titans Clinic
  • Townsmen VR
  • War of Wizards
  • Zero Caliber: Reloaded

Horizon+ Indie Catalog Games

Meta continues to add new games to the separate Indie Games Catalog, and you can see the entire list here.

  • Alvo
  • Apex Construction
  • Arcade Paradise VR
  • Battlenauts
  • Bocce Time!
  • Cactus Cowboy - Desert Warfare
  • Chess Club
  • Coffee Quest VR
  • Crumbling
  • Cybrix
  • Darksword: Battle Eternity
  • Disc Frenzy
  • Discovery 2
  • Elysium Trials
  • Espire 1: VR Operative
  • Final Overs - VR Cricket
  • Galaxy Kart
  • Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game
  • Gravity League: Galactic Football
  • IRON GUARD
  • Ironlights
  • Killer Frequency
  • Laser Thief
  • LAX VR
  • Make it Stable
  • Motion Soccer PRO
  • Mythic Realms
  • Noun Town Language Learning
  • Operation Serpens
  • Retropolis 2: Never Say Goodbye
  • Rogue Ascent VR
  • Rogue Pinatas: VRmageddon
  • RUNNER
  • Shooty Fruity
  • Slot Car VR
  • Space Elevator
  • Squingle
  • Stupid Cars
  • Sushi Ben
  • Tactica
  • Taiko Frenzy
  • The Curious Tale of the Stolen Parts
  • The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu
  • The Secret of Retropolis
  • The Wizards
  • Tiny Archers
  • Towers and Powers
  • ULTIMATE SWING GOLF
  • Underworld Overseer
  • Vibe Punch
  • Windlands 2

Meta Horizon+ is a subscription service that gives players access to a monthly selection of games for $7.99 USD per month, or $59.99 USD a year. New users can give Meta Horizon+ a try for a month.

Khronos Moves to Integrate Gaussian Splatting Into glTF 3D Format

8 février 2026 à 00:30

The Khronos Group is aiming to standardize Gaussian splatting by proposing a release candidate for an integration into the widely adopted glTF 3D format.

Khronos is a non-profit industry consortium that manages OpenGL, Vulkan, and WebGL. In the context of XR specifically, it pioneered OpenXR, an open industry-standard API for XR application development and runtimes. OpenXR provides developers with access to a single standardized API, allowing them to build an app once and then easily port it to other platforms, facilitating cross-platform availability. OpenXR is supported by most major stakeholders in the XR industry, including Meta, Valve, HTC, ByteDance, Epic Games, Unity, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. A notable exception is Apple, which maintains its own proprietary APIs.

In 2015, Khronos introduced glTF (Graphics Language Transmission Format), a standard for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by game engines and applications. Often framed as the “JPEG of 3D,” it provides a streamlined, universal format that allows creators to export high-quality 3D assets from any tool while ensuring consumers can view them instantly and consistently across any device or web browser. Today, glTF is the most widely adopted 3D asset format on the web.

This week, Khronos announced a release candidate for a Gaussian splatting extension to glTF. Gaussian splatting has shown immense potential for XR, as it allows for quick and easy photorealistic 3D capturing of objects and environments using common devices like smartphones, which can later be viewed and explored in VR. The technology already powers the photorealistic captures of Meta Hyperscape, Apple’s recently improved Personas, the volumetric scenes of Gracia and the promptable 3D environments of Marble.

Standardizing delivery: Why glTF is key to mainstream adoption

While capturing Gaussian splats has become easier, sharing them remains the primary hurdle, an issue Khronos is now directly addressing. The new glTF extension enables the storage of 3D Gaussian splats directly within glTF files. By doing so, Khronos is standardizing the delivery of Gaussian splats within an already established and widely adopted 3D ecosystem, paving the way for the technology to move into the mainstream.

“Instagram made it easy to share photos; TikTok brought about an explosion in short-form video social sharing. Until now, 3D has lagged behind 2D media formats because 3D models are so much harder than photos or videos to create and share. With Gaussian splatting, you can easily imagine an app that enables a mobile user to move their phone to quickly capture a scene or object to create a splat-based 3D model. As an open standard, glTF makes it possible to share that model. A splat stored in a glTF file could be shared on social media and displayed with full interactivity on any client device,” explains Neil Trevett, president of Khronos, in a written statement to UploadVR.

Khronos’s decision to formally embrace Gaussian splatting sends a clear message that lifelike 3D is here to stay, says Michael Rubloff, Managing Editor of Radiance Fields, a news blog specialized in Gaussian splatting and similar technologies.

“With that level of impact approaching, it becomes critical to build the foundations carefully. A glTF extension, built on the most widely adopted 3D asset format, helps derisk fragmentation as industries shift from 2D to 3D while giving developers confidence that what they build today can ship across ecosystems rather than remain locked to a single platform,” says Rubloff.

Gaussian Splatting: A new form of 3D graphics representation

Gaussian splats represent a fundamental departure from traditional mesh-based graphics. While standard 3D modeling relies on connected triangles to define an object’s surface, Gaussian splatting treats a scene as a dense cloud of volumetric data points, with each point defined by properties including position, scale, rotation, color, and opacity. The benefits over traditional 3D graphics rendering include the ability to capture complex geometries like hair or smoke and highly realistic lighting effects, such as reflections and refractions, that are notoriously difficult to achieve with polygonal meshes.

The new glTF extension acts like an instruction manual, telling the software to render these points as smooth, overlapping shapes, creating a realistic 3D image rather than the flat, jagged surfaces usually seen in video games.

Still, there is work to be done. The extension is currently in a release candidate phase, with the Khronos 3D Formats Working Group inviting feedback from engine developers, creators, and artists to test the specification ahead of a formal ratification targeted for the second quarter of 2026. So far, companies such as Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Huawei, Niantic Spatial, and Nvidia have contributed to the extension.

The release candidate was developed with the rapid and ongoing evolution of Gaussian splatting in mind. For example, it does not yet define a standard compression approach, which is crucial for making Gaussian splatting performant on mobile devices. To maintain flexibility, the specification is intentionally designed to be extensible, leaving room for future additions as Gaussian splatting techniques evolve and eventually become standardized within the glTF ecosystem.

Romane Moulai conserve sa ceinture IBO des mi-mouches après sa victoire aux points face à la Philippine Althea Shine Pores

8 février 2026 à 00:13
En amateurs seulement, Romane Moulai boxe avec un casque. (B. Papon/L'Équipe)Dans un duel d'invaincues, Romane Moulai a conservé son titre IBO professionnel des mi-mouches en battant la Philippine Althea Shine Pores aux points, samedi soir à l'hôtel Villa M, à Marseille. Dès mardi, la Phocéenne, qui vise les Jeux de Los Angeles 2028, retrouvera l'équipe de France pour un stage en Irlande.

Les notes de Nantes-OL : Sulc opportuniste, Endrick craque

8 février 2026 à 00:05
Buteur décisif, Pavel Sulc a inscrit son 10e but de la saison en Ligue 1, quand Endrick, en difficulté, a laissé ses partenaires à 10. (P. Lahalle/L'Équipe)Sur la pelouse de Nantes, Pavel Sulc a une nouvelle fois fait parler son efficacité en inscrivant le seul but d'une rencontre crispée, qui a vu l'OL valider un 12e succès de rang samedi en Ligue 1 (1-0). À l'inverse, Endrick est passé à côté de son match, en cumulant maladresses et frustration jusqu'à son expulsion à l'heure de jeu.

Le fondateur d'une start-up IA annonce qu'il prévoit d'organiser une « Marche des milliardaires » pour protester contre l'impôt sur la fortune qui fait trembler l'écosystème tech en Californie

8 février 2026 à 00:03
Le fondateur d'une start-up IA annonce qu'il prévoit d'organiser une « Marche des milliardaires »
pour protester contre l'impôt sur la fortune qui fait trembler l'écosystème tech en Californie

Dans une initiative qui oscille entre provocation politique et performance absurde, Derik Kauffman, fondateur d'une startup d'intelligence artificielle, prépare une « Marche pour les milliardaires » à San Francisco ce samedi. Au coeur de cette controverse : la proposition de taxe sur la fortune californienne...

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