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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!

The Ghost Howls

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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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!

The Ghost Howls

According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. Image by Sony). News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Since I’m not totally convinced that just a few LEDs in that position may alone offer realiable tracking, I would also speculate that maybe either data from the depth sensor or some hand-tracking data is involved in the sensor fusion to arrive at the final controller pose. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.03): Google shuts down Project Iris, Meta launches gaming subscription service, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Full body tracking algorithm) More info (Full body tracking algorithm — some explanations about the project) Sony Mocopi launches in the United States Finally, we have some more news about Mocopi , the small body tracking kit that Sony has created for vTubers.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In 2023, there should have been the launch of the Magic Leap 3, which instead should have been closer to the big vision of the company and its CEO Rony Abovitz … so maybe fully standalone and with a photonic retina display (whatever this should mean). Well, because it MAY be the sign of something bigger happening. Unreal Engine 4.25