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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

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It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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Augmented Reality Software: ARKit vs ARCore vs Vuforia vs AR Foundation in 2021

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Let’s take the Disney coloring book. A few years ago, Disney created technology that projects coloring book characters in 3D. Disney is using augmented reality to bring coloring books to life The Weather Channel is now using technology to illustrate the weather and its effects. ARCore is a Google SDK. How to Use ARCore?

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

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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. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.15): Vive Focus 3 aims at LBEVR market, Niantic and Qualcomm launch AR SDKs, and more!

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Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. This is a strategic acquisition so that Unity can integrate in its offering all the tools that Weta has developed over time that regard the creation and management of 3D assets and special FX. It’s an interesting concept.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

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Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. Both Facebook and Google have decided to double down on AR effects inside calls. AR users to reach 800M by the end of the year. Some news on content.

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Improbable Raises Over $500 Million To Create The Tools That Will Build The Metaverse

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Creating a future where the technology imagined in books like Ready Player One and movies like The Matrix actually exists is going to take a lot more than solid virtual reality headsets. Google is not listed as an investor in Improbable. The company’s main product is a new platform for networked 3D graphics called SpatialOS.

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