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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

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Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

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The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. This is a very useful resource for all of us XR developers that are going very soon going to experiment with Mixed Reality applications on a headset by Meta, Apple, or one of their competitors.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

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More info News worth a mention (Image by The Information) Let’s have realistic expectations on the Apple headset We are all very excited about Apple joining our industry, but we must have realistic expectations about the headset that is going to come.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

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We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets. Some news on content.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. With it, you can develop also Web AR experiences using a popular framework like MRTK, and also experiences that support hands tracking. Top news of the week.

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2024 Spring VR Gaming News Review: Flat2VR, Laser Dance, Batman & Alien

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Aided by the UEVR mod, the ceaseless work of Team Beef and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own. The biggest trend in VR gaming of 2024, though, is the blurrying line between flat content and VR.