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HTC VIVE Speaks on Apple Vision Pro, AI at MWC 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This week at Mobile World Congress (CES) 2024 in Spain, HTC VIVE is showing face with a strong presence as a leading enterprise XR solutions provider reacting to industry trends to create its products. A defining factor of the Vision Pro is its controller-less design, instead leveraging tracking technology to record inputs.

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Meta, NBA Open 180-Degree Live VR Sports on Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

With the partnership, Meta will offer immersive live games with 180-degree video. It will also showcase on-demand seasonal games and content via Xtadium and a dedicated NBA Arena platform on its Horizon Worlds metaverse. This is a huge leap forward from last season’s five immersive games. NBA season has finally kicked off!

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FORM’s AR Swim Goggles Now Work In Open Waters

VRScout

Pair your Garmin or Apple smartwatches for additional GPS functionality. FORM’s AR-enhanced swim goggles received a free firmware update today introducing support for Garmin and Apple smartwatches, allowing wearers to track a wide range of metrics, such as their GPS location and heart rate, while swimming outdoors in open water.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.04.10): Epic releases Unreal Engine 5, Meta cancels F8, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a. Image by Epic Games).

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Nreal Announces Nreal Air Consumer AR Glasses

ARPost

Many in the space were admittedly underwhelmed by an enterprise model that the otherwise consumer-focused company rolled out more recently, but the company has our attention once again with a lighter-weight, lower-cost model for media and gaming. The release still mentions gaming but emphasizes streaming media like YouTube.

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Report: Meta to Open ‘Horizon Worlds’ to Younger Teens Amid Renewed Retention Push

Road to VR

Horizon Worlds on the other hand has been limited to users 18+ since it was launched in 2021, and only to those in US, Canada, UK, France, Iceland, Ireland and Spain. Meta’s Quest 2 headset is technically only available to users aged 13 and up. At the same time, Meta has slashed some XR projects , including first-party title Echo VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.27): Huge leaks on Quest 2 Pro (and Quest 3?), Nreal to launch new glasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We don’t know who originated the leak… but honestly, considering the perfect timing to generate hype for Facebook Connect, and the fact that it just shows a bit without showing too much… well, I have some suspects… (Do you remember the “leak” about Quest 2 some days before Facebook Connect 1 and timely before Apple Event?