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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. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

For sure the headset won’t be only about games, but Apple is going to propose it as an extension of existing Apple devices. In general, the Quest ecosystem is going to get games with better graphical quality soon. There was even a pre-show in which they announced news about existing games. There is going to be A LOT.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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Microsoft Presenting Easy-To-Use Virtual Reality Experience

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Microsoft is trying to nudge laptop and deskbound computers to interact with the three-dimensional world. The company on Tuesday started rolling out its latest bundle of updates to the Windows 10 operating system with features clustered around a bet that people will use their PCs to experience 3-D virtual worlds.

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Report: Steam Support for Windows VR Headsets Won’t Be Ready at Launch

Road to VR

Microsoft’s Windows VR headsets (branded as ‘Mixed Reality’) are nearly ready to ship , coming alongside the launch of Windows Fall Creators Update in mid-October. Microsoft recently co-announced with Valve that the headsets will support SteamVR content , but didn’t say exactly when it would transpire.

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Deafening Silence: Where Is Valve’s ‘Killer App’ VR Game We’ve All Been Waiting For?

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It’s been about nine months since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive officially launched the age of consumer-ready virtual reality and there’s no denying we’ve had some great times immersed in our personal holodecks. A game that will make people on the sidelines take notice, and decide that now is the time to join the VR revolution.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 1: Everything you need to know about Vive Trackers

The Ghost Howls

After purchasing my first HTC Vive virtual reality system in 2016, rumours soon surfaced of a SteamVR “tracking puck” that HTC had in development. Nearly a year later, during July 2017, I visited Sandbox in East London for the UK launch of the “Star Trek Bridge Crew” game on SteamVR. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole).

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