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‘Google Earth VR’ Spiritual Successor Brings Earth-scale Exploration to Quest & Vision Pro

Road to VR

Fly is our idea of a personal flight simulator that lets you travel on ground, above cities, and across countries to explore places you’ve never seen. This new version takes what we created in 2018 and benefits from our years of knowledge in VR development since then.

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Apple ARKit Apps Surpass 13 Million Downloads In Six Months

VRScout

Here’s a list of the most popular free and paid Apple ARKit apps. During Apple’s WWDC event, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering introduced ARKit , boldly declaring that “Apple will have the largest AR platform in the world.” 19, 2017 to March 19, 2018)?

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team. I loved the news of this launch because the first alpha of Flipside was launched in 2018 for PCVR.

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#1489: “Gorilla Tag” Design Philosophy & Embodied Gameplay Deep Dive with Kerestell Smith

Voices of VR

Since this is the last episode in my series from Meta Connect 2024, then here's a list of all 20+ interviews and 12+ hours of my coverage from this year: #1468: Kickoff of Meta Connect 2024 Coverage with Orion AR Glasses Hands-on Impressions with Tested's Norm Chan & CNET's Scott Stein #1469: Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta Connect Announcements & Orion (..)

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Meta Orion Glasses Hands-On: Viewing AR's Future As A VR Developer

Upload VR

Once I got to the home menu of Orion I immediately thought of Magic Leap and HoloLens and XREAL and Tilt Five rather than Meta Quest or even the Apple Vision Pro. Like Apple Vision Pro, the primary modality of interaction is to look where you want as a kind of mouse cursor and then pinch gesture to select, as if you’re clicking a mouse.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.06): A week full of VR events, Chinese headsets are on the rise, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple AR/VR headset may rely on a nearby iPhone to work. The latest news on Apple’s upcoming AR/VR visor comes from The Information, which in a report reveals how Apple is working on making its upcoming headset not a fully standalone, but something that works thanks to the processing power of a nearby iPhone. Image by Lynx).

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