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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

More information about Google’s XR headset are coming “later this year” Google and Samsung will release an XR headset (Image by Google) Google, Qualcomm, and Samsung are working on an XR headset.

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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The San Jose, California-based company’s chips are used for bionic visualisations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) kit and offer multi-sensor interfaces, high resolution and frame rate displays as well as enhancement technologies. MicroLED firm VueReal earned $14.4

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An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

Road to VR

And then on October 19th and 20th, there was a historic W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality where all of the major VR players gathered in San Jose to hash out the WebVR web standards for delivering VR and AR applications over the web.

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Google Launching WebVR Support for Android Chrome in January, Desktop to Follow

Road to VR

Just a few weeks ago, major forces collaborating on the WebVR Spec gathered in San Jose, CA for the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality , a two-day conference where the likes of Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Oculus, The Khronos Group, and many more hashed out the latest developments and directions for the WebVR ecosystem.

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Key News Around the Globe

VRWorld

“IBM, its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer (nm) chips. Apple announces new iMac Pro with up to 18-core Intel Xeon and AMD’s Radeon Vega Graphics. AI Police is Coming.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. The recently launched new Samsung Gear VR with controller was also briefly mentioned as an affordable alternative to the more cost-intensive Rift set-up.

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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information. If you’re a student or academic faculty you may be considered for the $99 Student/Academic Pass rate.