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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.15): NVIDIA makes many announcements at SIGGRAPH, new leaks on Apple and Pico, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Thanks to it, it will be possible to create realistic avatars that understand natural language easily and even without having computational power in the local machine. New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Apple MR headset may cost $2000+.

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Apple Joins Pixar, NVIDIA, & More to “accelerate next generation of AR experiences” with 3D File Protocol

Road to VR

Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD ( AOUSD ), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and development of a 3D file protocol that Apple says will “help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences.”

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around. Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. If it is true, it confirms that Apple has no mainstream plans for this device, and it will bet on true AR glasses for the mainstream.

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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

The Ghost Howls

I just watched the full keynote of Apple at WWDC , where the company in Cupertino announced the Apple VisionPro headset. UX : Can Apple make XR usable? Use cases : Can Apple make XR useful? Partnership : Who’s onboard with Apple in this journey? Terms : Will Apple invent new words to define XR?

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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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!

The Ghost Howls

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.21): OpenAI drama shakes the AI world, Unity enables Vision Pro development, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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