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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? Top news of the week.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.30): Vision Pro prepares to ship, PSVR 2 sales are stagnating, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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 he’s not the only believer: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated Mixed Reality as one of the top three trends to follow for 2024.

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The 3 Most Common Arguments Against VR Why They’re Wrong

Road to VR

Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments. This article is actually a throwback to an article I wrote with the same premise back in 2015. Microsoft and partners like HP, Asus, Samsung, Acer, and Dell launched a batch of ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ headsets [Amazon] a few years ago.

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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 (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

These days have been hectic: I have met very interesting people (you will read about that in some upcoming articles), and I’m super happy about it. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware. But Sony has refuted the report, claiming it is not true. headsets in the next year.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.08): Microsoft Teams gets immersive, Meta may open its stores, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m still not sure what will be the format for that series of articles, but for sure I’ll tell you everything about it! Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. Of course, Microsoft has talked about the m**averse in its presentation, and in this case, about an enterprise “m**averse”.

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