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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.28): Quest 3 unboxing leaked, Samsung+Google headset situation is blurry, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. Development is taking its time, and no glass based on Micro XR is expected to hit the market before 2025. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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What are the Internet of Behaviour (IoB) implications for XR Analytics?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Gartner predicted in 2021 that 40 percent of the world’s population will face at least one IoB programme in 2025 across verticals such as from marketing, healthcare, and manufacturing. IoB connects AR and VR devices to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our Unity plug-in is now live so users can easily add IoB to projects.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. billion by 2025.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

The Ghost Howls

Because of these problems and the delays, a cheaper version of the Vision Pro, which was expected for 2025, may have been canceled. A video helps us in taking a decision Funny link At the end of the day, everyone loves Snoop Funny link Quest 3 is already the best selling PlayStation 5 headset on Amazon! Wait, what???

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Yes, they use similar tools, if not the same tool, as AR developers use: like Unity. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift. focused on “utility.”

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

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. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.