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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.21): OpenAI drama shakes the AI world, Unity enables Vision Pro development, and more!

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The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space. And in this newsletter, you will also find some cool freebies: the keys to get a cool VR game for free, and a huge discount (… and maybe even more) to go to the Immersive Tech Week in Rotterdam!

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VRROOM announces a BIG update and a VR concert featuring Armani White!

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For the last three weeks I’ve not been very active on this blog because I was incredibly busy with my daily work at VRROOM and finally today I can reveal what we’ve worked on that hard: a new version update and a new amazing VR concert featuring Armani White! VRROOM If you don’t know VRROOM … well, first of all… why you don’t know VRROOM? You should feel really bad about it.

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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!

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A bit late, but here I am again writing for you about the best XR news of the week! The past week most of the debate has been about Quest 3 vs Apple Vision Pro, and I’m pretty sure that the battle of Meta vs Apple will be something we of the XR community will talk about a lot for the next months… Top news of the week (Image by Meta) New rumors hint at a cheap Quest 3 coming in 2024 Mark Gurman, the famous Bloomberg journalist who spread a lot of rumors and leaks about the Apple Vision Pro for mo

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Tokyo Game Show VR 2023 feels like a magical trip to a fantasy Japanese fair

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The Tokyo Game Show, one of the most important gaming events in the world, is happening these days. Like the past 2 years, there is also a digital edition of it that lets you enter into a virtual world dedicated to the event, and that is also accessible in virtual reality. This space was designed and developed by the Japanese company Ambr , which has its own “metaverse platform” called xambr.

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My predictions for Meta Connect 2023: Meta Quest 3 and…

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Tomorrow is the day the Meta Connect starts! Every year I like to play the speculation game about what to expect from there… and every year I predict a lot of things wrong (like that year that I said that the Quest Link was not going to happen… shame on me). This is a tradition I can’t skip this year, too. I’m swamped with work so I do have not much time to write a long post… but I still want to play the prediction game with you!

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Editorial: This VR cycle may take more time than expected

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Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. In this article, I’m going to tell you all the thoughts I had. The new “Autumn” of VR If you’ve read some of my articles this year, you know I’m defining this moment as an “Autumn” for virtual reality.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

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It’s a crazy period, but I’m crazier than it, so I’m managing to go on. Tomorrow I’m going to celebrate this blog’s anniversary, so be sure to read the upcoming related post and say something nice to me! Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it.

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