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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

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These sales data are a bit worrying for us developers in a way: if people keep buying the Quest 2 instead of Quest 3, the market shares of Quest 2 will be bigger, so many developers will be tempted to use Quest 2 as the main target headset , and so they won’t make their graphics richer to comply with the new horsepower of the Quest 3.

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

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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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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

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The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. Niantic announces a new AR game, this time with NBA. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

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I wonder if this will have any consequences… More info News worth a mention (Image by Xiaomi) AR and VR were great at MWC XR analyst Anshel Sag wrote a great article highlighting all the most important hardware showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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

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As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. But given the fact that the most important features of this engine are not available for VR, yet, I don’t feel compelled to do the switch. It’s interesting that HTC is keeping the name Vive both for VR and Web3 solutions. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.01 + 2023.11.08): Pico performs layoffs, Nimo announces AR glasses, and more!

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The use case is similar to other systems that are becoming popular now: give the user a big virtual display in front of him. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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