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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. Sideloading will still be permitted in all cases because it is an Android feature.

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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

I know that having data fluctuations is normal, and being a percentage number makes no sense until we know what was the starting number, but this still is not a good piece of news for our space. I’ve also interviewed him a few times on my blog. VR users were in September 1.60% of total, down from 1.92% in August … -16% in one month.

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Mozilla Ceases Support for Mozilla Hubs (but the Open-Source Hubs Community Edition Continues)

Ryan Schultz

Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet! Last October, Mozilla announced that it had decided to discontinue the Hubs Cloud hosting service, which ran on AWS (Amazon Web Services). April 1st, 2024: A tool to download your data will be released.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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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

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5% I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Direct from Imagination Era Has Begun

Building the Metaverse

Physics and realistic light simulation (ray tracing) You’d need a way to have a persistent world with data, continuity, rules, systems. For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. They are standard Quests , the ones you can buy on Amazon, BUT they have a business licensing. News worth a mention.

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