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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.26): Quest 3 page appears on Best Buy, Vision Pro SDK released, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.02): Meta Quest 3 launched, Vive Ultimate Tracker leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Roblox was already on App Lab, where it had more than one million downloads, and now is going to be available on the official Quest store Asgard’s Wrath 2, coming on Quest Store on December 15th, 2023. Also, it lacks integrated audio, which in 2023 is a big issue.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.31): Roblox released on Quest, Apple bringing back investments in VR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The latest Q2 2023 operating loss of Reality Labs has been around $4 billion. I think we’ll understand the real situation Meta is in during this holiday season: Meta is betting a lot on having a fantastic end of 2023, and if it is not going to happen, then the company may be in trouble.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

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More info News worth a mention (Image by Sony) Sony shows the behind-the-scenes of PSVR 2 In a recent blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment has shown the internal evolution of PSVR 2, from the initial experimentations to the final release. I suggest you take some time and read this post, because it has very cool insights.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.” Wait, what???

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

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This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Image by Sony). Top news of the week. News worth a mention.

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2022

The Ghost Howls

VR in 2022-2023 will definitely enter the mainstream market , and I wonder if it will just be because of Quest or there will be some other devices. I don’t think we’ll see the launch of a Quest 3 this year (it would compete directly with Cambria), but I think we’ll see some revelations about it, and a 2023 release.