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The XR Week Peek (2024.02.06): Apple ships the Vision Pro, Meta had record revenues, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The choice of the magazine is not casual: Apple keeps pushing to show that its device is not a nerdy thing that isolates people, but it is a trendy thing that augments reality while you can still interact with other people. It has been on the cover of Vanity Fair, with a very carefully studied picture.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.19): Unity’s community is rioting, Pico 5 leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.26): Quest 3 page appears on Best Buy, Vision Pro SDK released, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

My only fear is that they are promising a bit too much and so they will have to compromise on something when reality will hit (e.g. The new Unity Personal will also remove the famous Unity splash screen Successful games using Unity Pro or Enterprise can choose if paying per install or by a 2.5% of our revenues with Unity.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.14): Quest Lite is coming to China, Samsung XR headset expected for 2024, and more!

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The XR Week Peek (2023.01.16): Meta discontinues Quest 1, Apple HMD is in the hand of developers, and more!

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Roblox has a huge user base (like 50M daily users) and bringing it to VR, maybe together with the launch of Quest 3, would give Virtual Reality an infusion of lots of new young users. Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. MLK: Now Is The Time commemorates Martin Luther King in Virtual Reality. Other news.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

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Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. This feature is not available on Unity, but there is a dev that is trying to build a plugin with similar functionalities: dubbed “Nano-tech”, this plugin aims at letting you use the models you want in your project, even in VR ones. Documentary “We Met In Virtual Reality” to release on HBO.