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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by The Information). Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. An article in the Varjo blog warns us all about the risks of “negative training”. Other relevant news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. The same on Twitter.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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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

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. I’ve also interviewed him a few times on my blog. Learn more Join the Pico Dev Jam!

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And for sure there are many internal prototypes that will lead to nothing; Apple also spreads false information. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

So I guess that someone at Pico is leaking information to indirectly say “Don’t buy the Quest 3, we are going to release something better soon”. And this makes me believe that the information is authentic. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing.

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Mozilla Ceases Support for Mozilla Hubs (but the Open-Source Hubs Community Edition Continues)

Ryan Schultz

Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet! Last October, Mozilla announced that it had decided to discontinue the Hubs Cloud hosting service, which ran on AWS (Amazon Web Services).

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