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Samsung Introduces Pro-focused ‘360 Round’ Camera for 4K 3D Livestreaming

Road to VR

Announced at the Samsung Developer conference last week, the 360 Round is the company’s new camera for creating and streaming 4K 3D content. One-step stitching and control software, provided by Samsung, allows for 3D 360 livestreaming up to a claimed 4,096 × 2,048 at 30 FPS per eye. Image courtesy Samsung.

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Trends and predictions for XR in 2024

The Ghost Howls

Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). These new headsets have hybrid virtual and mixed reality features, natural interactions and come at a high price : Vision Pro costs $3500 and the Samsung headset is rumored to be around $2000.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Road To VR) More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Upload VR) Google lays off people in the AR Hardware division Like many tech companies lately, Google is performing a round of layoffs in its hardware teams. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.03.04): Meta and LG confirm their partnerships, Meta to unveil some AR glasses at Connect, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But today’s article is not about me, but about the best tech news, so let me tell you what pieces of XR news I’ve selected this week! It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

While many people online continue saying that “3DOF is not VR” or that “We don’t need 3DOF”, as a consultant I can tell you that there are sectors where it is still relevant: education, psychology, training, storytelling. Google’s investment for a 7.7% Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting read.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

The Ghost Howls

I hope that this way, even if you lost the announcements from CES, you can catch up with all the most important ones by just reading a single article. If it were a prize for the weirdest XR gadget from CES, Mutalk (the one in the header image of this article) would win without any doubt. How Mutalk does work (Image by Shiftall).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.11): Gear VR is over, Go long term future is uncertain, Huawei teases its metaverse and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure. Gear VR is dead.

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