XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Immerse Global Summit (@ImmerseSummit) September 18, 2022. The VRARA holds a storied history of bringing together the biggest and the best XR representatives for its yearly Immersive Global Summit Series , and IGS Europe 2022 is no different.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. XR Today: What have been your biggest takeaways from the IGS 2022 Miami? Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

As I liked to say when talking about it, the real event is cool, but in the virtual one, you could finally be on a flying car… that is exactly what 30 years ago everyone was expecting from 2022. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Probably, an affordable Quest 2 based on XR2 may come out in 2022. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. In any case, I’m very intrigued. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Sense Arena and HTC VIVE. Fictioneers and Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. It develops immersive experiences based on knowledge across verticals such as entertainment, tourism, culture, sports, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. But there is more!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

XR Association (@XRAssociation) May 31, 2022. The XRA also onboarded technology giants Qualcomm, Unity, and Accenture as members amid rapid growth in the XR sector and rising demand for immersive onboarding platforms to tackle the ongoing labour shortage. Register here: [link] pic.twitter.com/LLmTp7unlS. —

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. HTC discounts its headsets. What about yours?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Gartner Hype Cycle for 2022, which now includes the Metaverse (Image by Gartner). Its huge investments are also attracting all the other major tech companies to enter the metaverse field, and Apple and Google will surely release some XR devices in the upcoming years because of that.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. The m**averse hype is attracting investors.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

But it seems that Meta is also working on other broader options, and we will know about them in 2022. Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. I think that we’ll have more info at OC7, with maybe a launch in 2021/2022. Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills.

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