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Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it Does

Road to VR

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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Unity’s John Riccitiello Resigns over Pricing Structure Row

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

John Riccitiello, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman, Unity Technologies , has immediately stepped down from his position at the firm. The executive decided to resign from his post after the ongoing debacle with Unity’s pricing structure change last month.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.17): Quest 3 has been shipped, Quest 3 Lite to come in 2024, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Many games are getting a mixed reality update, and the most impressive for me was Eleven Table Tennis, which lets you play in mixed reality with other people that are in your same physical room, so it is like you are playing ping pong for real on the table of your living room! It would be a pity because we all were waiting for it!

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Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B.

AllThingsVR

Unity raises $181M monster round at a reported $1.5B valuation Over the last few years, Unity Technologies has grown to become indispensable to the gaming industry and much of the entertainment industry as an engine for building experiences in one place and distributing them across a swath of platforms. Read more here.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We already knew that Meta should manufacture its first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2014 , and that they should be built with high-end features and be manufactured in the US. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

Road to VR

The rumor is still unconfirmed, but when the world’s oldest extant gaming company finally thinks it’s time to make a dedicated XR device, you know it’s going to be something special. That’s basically been the case from Game & Watch all the way to Switch and Switch Lite.

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Report: Leaked Email Reveals Facebook XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’

Road to VR

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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