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Big XR News: Meta, ARuVR, Apple, Wildix, and Metaverse Taxation

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This year saw massive interest in MR headsets following Apple’s Vision Pro debut, and Meta looks to own the space following its experience with MR via its Pro headset. The XR marketplace could experience shockwaves when Apple debuts its headset. Meta is moving towards MR headsets instead of purely VR devices.

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Which XR Platforms Are Democratising Creative Content?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Google, and Apple all have their own unique toolkits, designed to simplify the process of creating immersive content. Here are just some of the other major vendors innovating in this space: 1. Platform developers can import captures into an Unreal project, and begin presenting the digitised object immediately.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.14): SteamVR headsets go beyond 3M, body-tracking leaked for Quest SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked.

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus. Spatial Anchors.

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Hypergrid Business

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Vuforia, a free to use development kit which supports many devices including Tango phones, EasyAR, ARKit for Apple devices; and ARCore from Google, Oculus and OpenVR, are also popular options these days. Both are free to download and try.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.27): Vive inside-out Tracker announced, Pico’s launch in the US delayed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Now the question is if and when Pico 4 will finally launch in the United States. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. The new mixed reality headset is expected to perform a bit like the Apple Watch: very slow sales in the beginning, to then increase them a lot at every iteration.

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Bringing the AR of the Military to the Eyes of Consumers, with ThirdEye Gen’s Nick Cherukuri

XR for Business Podcast

So just to provide some background about ThirdEye, while we may be a relatively new name in the commercial space, we have over 20 years of experience developing this technology for the United States Department of Defense. We have an Unreal engine SDK. Alan: But here’s the thing, and the reason I brought up Apple.

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