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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!

The Ghost Howls

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! You can finally buy the Leap Motion v2 accessory. The time for us XR developers to buy a Leap Motion 2 has finally come. IDC forecasts positive sales for VR headsets in 2021.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! These are all very positive news for VR: the technology is slowly getting adoption and while not mainstream yet, I agree with Zuck that in 1–2 years we’ll start getting there. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The reason for such a decision would be that was impossible to create a glass that could be thin enough and that could contain all the desired technology (e.g. Probably not this year, but next one or in 2021… but it will happen. But before anyone starts saying that “AR is dead”, we should sit down and think about a bit.

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UltraLeap Gemini review: use both hands in VR!

The Ghost Howls

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

The Ghost Howls

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. noertaP no slwoH tsohG ehT troppuS.

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Varjo announces Aero, the highest-end prosumer headset

The Ghost Howls

Also, Leap Motion tracking or the mixed reality cameras of Varjo XR-3 are not part of this model. The first shipping batch will happen at the end of 2021. This is a necessity, otherwise, for that high resolution you would have needed a rendering farm, but it is amazing to see that the technology starts being implemented.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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Meantime we already have iOS and Android smartphones and tablets: Microsoft Hololens, Google Glass and many others such as Magic Leap, North, Vuzix, Vrvana (acquired by Apple), SMI (same), Snap Spectacles (via the acquisition of Vergence), Bose, Meta View, nReal, DreamGlass, Epson, Rokid (working with the UK’s WaveOptics), Daqri and Realware.