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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

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The price is incredibly low: $299; Announced that in 2021 it will release a pair of smartglasses made in collaboration with Ray-Ban; Teased the work it is doing in AR; Revealed that is working with Ubisoft for two AAA VR games developed around the IPs of Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed; Discontinued the Rift. Become my 10th supporter!!

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UltraLeap Gemini review: use both hands in VR!

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One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

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Facebook Connect, the most awaited VR event of 2021, happened, and it was not as we expected it to be. While everyone was focused on the events from hardware manufacturers, social VR world Somnium Space made a slew of very important announcements that show its big ambitions for the immersive future. 20,000 times! Image by Facebook).

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Varjo announces Aero, the highest-end prosumer headset

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Also, Leap Motion tracking or the mixed reality cameras of Varjo XR-3 are not part of this model. Varjo states that the implementation of foveated rendering is what makes it possible to use this device on consumer-grade hardware like an NVIDIA RTX 3050 with i5 processor. The first shipping batch will happen at the end of 2021.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

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I think that we’ll have more info at OC7, with maybe a launch in 2021/2022. I guess it will be the final price and the available titles that will define what hardware will win the race. Another great UX post by Leap Motion. Oculus has made its GDC announcements. Amazing demo, have a look at it!

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

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Considering that Quest has sold at least 3M units now, this means more than $300M of losses from the hardware sales for Facebook. Huawei is a very important hardware company and its glasses have a very sleek design, so I think it’s very important to keep an eye on them! Shipping should come as early as August 2021.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

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HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). In particular, the ones by Panasonic that were so popular at CES 2020 , are going to be released in 2021. All the ones that have been announced are going to be released in the next 12 months.