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Google Announces ARCore 1.0 Update and New AR Experiences

VRScout

makes AR development faster and easier; launching soon on more devices. Google’s ARCore is getting an update that brings improved environmental understanding and lets developers now publish AR apps to the Play Store. That’s roughly 100 million Android smartphones that have advanced AR capabilities today.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

Road to VR

Working closely with Valve, Sony, and Meta, Cloudhead is best known for their title Pistol Whip and has shipped four popular VR titles ( Pistol Whip , Valve’s Aperture Hand Labs , Call of the Starseed , and Heart of the Emberstone ). Make no mistake, this no compromise MR device appears to get many things right for AR at a premium cost.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.25): Lots of new VR content previewed, Sony acquires Insomniac, Matrix 4 in the works and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The post is full of fluff, but it is interesting for two reasons: It explains very well how the Insight technology works , with a very explicative video; In the end, it teases a possible future use of Insight for “trendy AR glasses”. More info (Facebook’s post on Insight) More info (Insight on AR glasses).

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Did Disney Take the Next “Step” of VR Input?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The international media conglomerate is in the headlines this week with its Holotile breakthrough, a prototype device that acts as a VR input treadmill, allowing various users to walk around a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. However, in 2023, the momentum shifted.

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How Inworld AI Is Populating the Metaverse

ARPost

Inworld AI only started as a company about a year ago, but the founding members are industry veterans. Gelfenbeyn was a co-founder of API.AI, which was purchased by Google and now exists as Dialogflow. Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. They call this model “Bring Your Own Avatar.”.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive!

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Is this the end of the metaverse?

Hypergrid Business

Last Friday , AltspaceVR announced that will be shutting down its virtual environment in March. AltspaceVR was a consumer-focused immersive space that could be accessed either via the desktop or through a virtual reality headset. What about Meta, Google and Apple? (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) million in 2022.

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