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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2.

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Watch AltspaceVR’s Final Moment As Worlds Go Offline

Upload VR

You can watch the moment below and see what it was like as Microsoft pulled the plug to shut down the Altspace servers. Microsoft bought the social VR startup in 2017 after it ran out of money, but the service found a small niche with some creators using its tools for meeting and presentation spaces. ”

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The 2022 Auggie Awards

ARPost

Best Collaboration Tool. Next, Hopscotch Interactive CEO, Emily Olman, presented the Auggie for Best Collaboration Tool. What makes something a collaboration tool?” Best Creator Tool. Looking Glass Factory CEO and co-founder, Shawn Frayne, presented the award for Best Creator tool. Best Developer Tool.

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Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Now our customers will be able to represent high-fidelity cities and terrain, and unlock use cases like line of sight and digital twins” The comments come a year after Epic Games debuted a series of partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Cesium. This will lead to developing ecosystems of products and use cases for potential clients.

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Creating Immersive Learning Experiences

Tech Trends VR

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications. And that, in fact, is the ultimate goal of any transformative technology.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. While this is kind of a gimmick for now, it is interesting that Microsoft is still working on Mesh and integrating its services with VR-related features.

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Some thoughts about SXSW 2023

The Ghost Howls

All the other events are not the same: in Austin, you can really go to a totally random person with the SXSW badge around the neck and start speaking with this random stranger and become friend with him/her… and maybe start to have fun together. I hope to see you next year in Austin for SXSW 2024! I still loved it!

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