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Spatial Beats: PSVR 2, Snapchat & AR Glasses Galore

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This week, we look at Sony’s tease for PSVR2, new features in Snapchat’s Lens Studio, and a whole slate of new AR glasses emerge. Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity.

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What Are The Biggest Myths About AR Advertising?

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I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. We’ve seen some great examples of entertainment marketing, such as Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse campaign done by Trigger using 8th Wall’s WebAR platform a few years back. Four Myths About AR Advertising.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

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Currently, it has long been a member of the XR Association , a Washington, DC-based organisation piloting numerous initiatives to outline best practices and ethics for XR, AI, and other emerging technologies. Meta has also joined the Metaverse Standards Forum , which works on building interoperability, standard file formats and hardware.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.02): PSVR likely not to come in 2021, new info revealed on Decagear, and more!

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Image by Sony). I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). Top news of the week.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

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Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I like everything that we know on the PSVR 2 device because it is visible that Sony Interactive Entertainment is putting a lot of effort into releasing a high-quality headset that is on par with what the competition is offering. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0. Other relevant news.

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How Are US Regulators Affecting Big Tech’s XR Plans?

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The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s Mesh platform will succeed AltSpaceVR. Additional losses include its mixed reality toolkit (MRTK) for integrating Unity VR and HoloLens creative content. billion USD deal. billion USD deal.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. The AIM controller was a very cool peripheral built for Sony’s PSVR system.