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The XR Week Peek (2024.02.20): Zuckerberg reviews the Vision Pro, Mozilla Hubs shuts down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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No one really knows how the next ten years are going to play out

The Ghost Howls

All the elusive XR analysts have almost guessed nothing, and they were not even able to predict the launch of the Apple Vision Pro until the date got pretty close. It’s the same with Apple ARKit, which took everyone by surprise and led to the democratization of AR on smartphones. licensing).

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VRROOM: Lessons learnt building a VR social platform that arrived at the top place on a VR store

The Ghost Howls

I picked Unity as the game engine because it is one of the best ones out there, I’m good at using it, it has a great community that can support you in case of issues, and it is also the first engine to be compatible with XR headsets when they’re out: Apple itself talked about Unity during the announcement of the Vision Pro.

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Can Advertising Scale in VR? (Yes and No)

AR Insider

These include video, social media, mobile apps, and games (just ask Unity). To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. The above ad revenue exercise is also framed in today’s ad market standards.

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Hypergrid Business

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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Can Advertising Scale in VR?

AR Insider

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. The above ad revenue exercise is also framed in today’s ad marketplace terms.

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KLM’s Chris Koomen teaches us how to use AR/VR in the civil aviation sector

The Ghost Howls

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. To give you an example, we did a test with pilots four years ago: we filmed a lightning strike in a full-motion simulator where pilots need to do their exercise, called Startle and surprise.

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