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Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year

Road to VR

Image courtesy Khronos Group. Facebook, Microsoft, Valve, Unreal Engine, and others have been making progress toward supporting OpenXR in their platforms and now Unity says it’s moving to do the same. “We have been closely monitoring the development of the OpenXR standard. Technical Product Manager of AR/VR at Unity.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Linden Research a.k.a. Linden Labs is in the process of being acquired.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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Xtal Virtual Reality Headset Review: High-Quality Immersive Tech

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

XTAL won the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award in 2020 and was also among the finalists for VR Awards 2021. Microsoft Windows Operating System compatibility. Compatible with Steam VR and OpenXR drivers, Unity, Unreal Engine, and other game engine plugins, as well as C++ libraries such as Direct X, OpenGL, and Vulcan.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge VR” is coming to Oculus Quest on November, 19th 2020.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Do you want to know the best XR events of 2020?

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

2020's been a hell of a year, huh? Alan: Well, I figured since we're about to end 2020, and I also figure that since this is our 150th episode, I would crack a beer while we record this episode, because what a year we have had. So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Alex: Mm-hm.