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Spatial Beats: Pico, Apple & SXSW

AR Insider

This week, Pico gets new funding, SXSW charges forward with online event, and new Apple AR rumors emerge. Zero Latency is opening its 52nd free-roam multiplayer VR gaming center in Milan. Zero Latency allows up to eight players to fight zombies and play other games in a free-roam VR space. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Apple Embraces VR: Every Virtual Reality Announcement From Today’s WWDC Keynote

Road to VR

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Photo courtesy Apple.

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Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More

Road to VR

Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR video codecs and file formats. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.20): Samsung to change its XR plans, Upload made a cool showcase, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. And as usual, no piece of news was mind-blowing (yeah, Half-Life 3 is not confirmed this year, either), but all together show a vibrant ecosystem of VR game studios.

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#1382: Interactive Generative AI Storytelling Installation “The Golden Key” Wins Top Prize at SXSW Leveraging Archetypal Folklore Motifs + Links to SXSW 2024 Coverage

Voices of VR

Here is all of my coverage of projects in and around SXSW XR Experience 2024: #1360: Sneak Peak of SXSW XR Experience Projects, Events, & Lounges with Programmer Blake Kammerdiener #1362: “The Tent” Tabletop AR Mixes Photogrammetry, Volumetric Capture, & Theatre in Modern-Day Fairytale about Unhoused Crisis #1363: DIY 360 Video for Perspective-Taking (..)

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.01): Meta still committed to the Metaverse, Jio launches Dive headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. And this will be beneficial for everyone in the field.

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