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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.31): Roblox released on Quest, Apple bringing back investments in VR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. More info Samsung may be working on a smart ring There are new rumors in town about Samsung working on a smart ring that should be called Galaxy Ring. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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All the most interesting AR and VR news from MWC 2018

The Ghost Howls

Samsung S9. Samsung has released its new flagship phone: the Samsung Galaxy S9. inch 1440 x 2960 display and features the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset and it is, of course, the most powerful Samsung phone ever. The beautiful Samsung Galaxy S9, in all its colors. It has a 5.8-inch A new headset is needed.

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

TechCrunch VR

Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame). Given its position with developers, if Amazon is getting into the mix, you know something is up, he added. But that too appears to be getting bumped up, so to speak, because of the positive outlook. .

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2020

The Ghost Howls

In 2020, we will so discover how many people already want AR glasses : the nReal glasses will be a testbed for consumer augmented reality and I guess that Apple, Facebook, Samsung and all the other major companies will be at the window watching what happens so that to decide how to change their plans accordingly to the sales of nReal.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.