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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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Chatting With The Recipient Of The SXSW 2019 ‘Best Interactive Experience’ Award

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Benzing then moved on to create Hilda , which “ had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon, ” and Diptych , which “ had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera (2018), ” as is stated on her personal blog. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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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.

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VRX 2017 Conference Brings an All Star Cast

VRWorld

.” The conference description states that VRX is “the only B2B event which covers the full spectrum of where VR is having the biggest impact; with insights and solutions from those leading the charge in gaming, film, broadcasting, automotive, engineering, architecture, healthcare, retail, tourism, hospitality, marketing and beyond.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually.

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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

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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