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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.22): VRChat Android alpha released, Kinect For Azure discontinued, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Some new leaks on the Apple Vision Pro This has been a quite positive week to discover news about the Apple Vision Pro, thanks to a few leaks about it. My thoughts and prayers go to the dev team that violated the NDA of the Apple Vision Pro: Apple will find them and sue them to hell. RIP Kinect, again.

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VR Therapies Calls for Urgent Support after Christmas Day Burglary

XR Today - Virtual Reality

It’s heartbreaking […] “They stole accessibility items, like our adaptive controllers, [which are needed] so children with special needs can access all of these technologies and games” VR Therapy Treatments Following the incident, the charity recouped roughly £5,600 after army veteran Nick Wilson launched a GoFundMe page.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple.

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Navigating the New Frontier of Extended Reality with Accenture’s Rori DuBoff

XR for Business Podcast

Last week, Game of Thrones had a Snap filter where you could take the Flatiron building and drop a dragon on top, and Nike had a Snap filter where LeBron James comes out of a poster and slam dunks in your space. Is it just gaming? I mean, they don’t know either specifically, but what are your thoughts around Apple Glasses?

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Navigating the New Frontier of Extended Reality with Accenture’s Rori DuBoff

XR for Business Podcast

Last week, Game of Thrones had a Snap filter where you could take the Flatiron building and drop a dragon on top, and Nike had a Snap filter where LeBron James comes out of a poster and slam dunks in your space. Is it just gaming? I mean, they don’t know either specifically, but what are your thoughts around Apple Glasses?

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When will augmented reality glasses be ready for consumers?

Robert Scoble

Unless I was working at Meta or Apple or Snap. This is why many who are working on Apple’s first device tell me it is NOT doing see-through glasses like these for its first product. They are using the Boston Dynamics’ robots to map out construction sites in 3D and then using HoloLenses to do a variety of tasks.

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Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

XR for Business Podcast

Jonny started his career volunteering and doing activism, before moving into events, marketing, and technology, operating in Dublin and Boston. And they’re expensive bricks, because Apple didn’t train him how to use his iPhone; they trained him to use the iPad. I think the Quest was a game changer. Alan: Absolutely.

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