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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The company has teased it is going to announce soon a new XR device , even if it has not revealed what yet (I would bet on AR glasses or an MR headset, but let’s see). Most probably, if we mix this with other rumors of the past, Google is going to offer the operating system as a modified version of Android that works in AR/MR.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Welcome to another roundup of AR/VR news of the week! Wishing you all a very positive and special year of the rabbit, I leave you with the most important news of the week in AR and VR! Wishing you all a very positive and special year of the rabbit, I leave you with the most important news of the week in AR and VR!

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — CNET) More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — Hand Tracking) Sony to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC To celebrate the first anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony has written in blog post in which it talks about how it is improving the content catalog its users can access.

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APRIL 3, 2023

This number pales in comparison with the 2 million units that Sony prepared for launch according to a previous report always by Bloomberg. Imagining that Sony could sell 2 million PSVR 2 in just one month seems to me a bit irrealistic, especially at that price and with the present economic conditions.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. Who will it be… Sony or Meta? Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

More info (UEVR official website) More info (The announcement of the launch on Twitter) More info (Gamertag commenting on UEVR’s ease of use) A look back at this year in augmented reality AR expert Tom Emrich has written one of his amazing roundup posts in which he summarized how his 23 predictions for 2023 turned out to be.

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JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Meta is reported to launch a devkit of AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2024. In 2027, it should launch its first AR glasses for consumers, codenamed Artemis.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

And also confirms that Meta is going to invest 20% of its budget on Reality Labs, so on XR technologies, and that 50% of this money will be invested into the development of AR glasses. The meaning is quite clear: Meta is still committed to XR and its end goal is developing the AR glasses that all people will wear all day. Matias Nassi.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. According to the Korean magazine Electronic Times, the device should be an AR glass and it should use one of Samsung’s Exynos chips. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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JANUARY 29, 2024

If developers are not interested, and Sony is not willing to invest in exclusive great content for its immersive console, PSVR 2 is going to have a very troubled (and probably short) life. And this week, a video shared by Dave Haynes caught my attention: it was about Blink Energy, a new Israeli startup working on AR contact lenses.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

More info News worth a mention (Image by TCL) TCL is ready to launch RayNeo X2 glasses TCL will launch a crowdfunding campaign in February for its RayNeo X2 AR glasses. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. In any case, the launch of this device is expected for Q3 2024.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image by Sony). Sony unveils affordable Mocopi tracking system. Sony has just announced a new affordable tracking system. Niantic AR glasses are probably based on Lumus reference design. This is how Niantic can offer AR glasses that can be worn on the streets. Beat Saber songs are currently sold at $0.99

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I really hope you are having a great time, maybe with a newly bought PSVR 2 headset. Top news of the week (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) PlayStation VR 2 has been launched This has been the week of PSVR2. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! To maximize power and thermal efficiency, the chip is actually split into three processing units: AR Processor, co-processor, and connectivity. AR2 will really make the AR sector take a big step forward, enabling lightweight wireless glasses. Top news of the week.

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MAY 15, 2023

During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. All without leaving your editor. The console is now available for purchase at the most popular online and offline retailers.

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MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’m sure the reviews have been positively influenced by the demos that Sony has given to the journalists, in particular Horizon: Call Of The Mountain, which has been praised for the astonishing graphics comparable to the ones of Half-Life: Alyx. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Sony prepares to have 2M PSVR 2 devices at launch. According to Bloomberg, Sony is ramping up the production of PSVR 2 devices, and plans to have 2 million units ready by March. The startup promising wide-FOV 8K AR glasses has disappeared from most of the radars, but it is still working towards its goal. Kura is still alive.

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JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. AR Foundation is typically used for AR devices, e.g. smartphones, and it’s the first time to my knowledge that is employed with a VR headset.

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JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. It seems that more than 300 people worked on the project, which was headed by Clay Bavor, the head of AR/VR efforts at Google.

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JULY 31, 2023

According to the Financial Times, “In June, AR, VR, and mixed reality start-ups in the US raised $208 million, almost as much as the previous three months combined ”. More info Sony Mocopi seems to be good for full-body VR Thrillseeker, the superstar VR Youtuber, is experimenting with Mocopi, the lightweight full-body VR kit by Sony.

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MARCH 20, 2023

But Google has already made clear that is working on AR glasses, so probably it is planning to launch a new pair of smart glasses and so is discontinuing the old model. First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold.

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MAY 23, 2023

More info Meta may partner soon with Magic Leap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with Magic Leap for the production of AR glasses. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.

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MAY 30, 2023

More often than not, their reports are not exact, and we should take them only as a guess of how things may be. But it has been good anyway and it shows the commitment by Sony to constantly investing to have high-quality games for its PSVR 2 headset, which is very good. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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JULY 4, 2022

Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable. Niantic announces a new AR game, this time with NBA. It created a new geolocated AR game very similar to Pokemon Go, but with a different theme. Upload VR). Some news on content.

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MARCH 28, 2022

On this sunny day, let me tell you the most interesting AR/VR news from the past week…. Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. We had almost no news explicitly directed towards VR or AR. Happy Spring, ladies, and gentlemen of VR!

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MAY 1, 2023

And of course, they are going to appeal this decision… More info PSVR 2 to be sold in retail stores Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that “soon”, PSVR 2 will be sold in dedicated retail store locations. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As usual, I’m open to your feedback… if you don’t like me to take part in these initiatives, let me know! (… and also if you are the lucky one to win the graphics card, let me know, too!). Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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APRIL 4, 2022

But at first, let’s get serious and read the relevant news of the week in AR and VR. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Deutsche Telekom, together with Hubraum and Qualcomm is offering the Snapdragon Spaces Program dedicated to startups and developers in AR. Top news of the week. News worth a mention.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

At its Lensfest developer event this week, Snap announced that it now has more than 300,000 developers building AR products for its platform and that together, they’ve built more than 3 million lenses that have been viewed a staggering 5 trillion times. Wear these AR glasses with shoulder stand if you want to give up on social life forever.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony Interactive Entertainment has l et many famous journalists and influencers (like Mike Virtual Reality Oasis) try the new headset in dedicated sessions where they could play four upcoming games: Horizon Call of the Mountain, Resident Evil Village, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners?

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

I’m a big fan of passthrough AR, and the fact that the reviewers highlighted how the quality of this passthrough is high, makes me excited. More info Some news about content Sony has announced a few new games for its PSVR 2 headset. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

It is very lightweight and supports a passthrough AR with very high image quality (even if not great depth perception for now). Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. The starting price is $1100. Dimo Pepelyashev.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Today is a bit of a special day for this newsletter because this article you are reading is the 250th roundup about XR news I’ve written! If you make the calculation, it means that it is almost 5 years that every damn weekend I collect the best news of the week in AR and VR (and the “mmmmmmmetaverse”) and I organize them for you!

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APRIL 18, 2022

In a piece of separate news, Pico’s parent company Bytedance has also announced the public beta of Effect House, the AR filters editor for TikTok. Meta plans AR glasses for 2024. But at least it puts in perspective how the road to having AR glasses we will wear all day is still very long. Road To VR). 10 Years of Oculus.

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