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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 posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. They are going to be hit very hard by this new pricing model It’s a model that “punishes” games for their success : the more a game is successful, the more the creator has to pay.

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Why is Apple Buying NextVR?

AR Insider

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. I reviewed these patents, and they mostly fall into four major categories: UX, camera configuration, compression optimization, and a final category which I’ll call mesh+texture encoding. Find out more or contact us to participate here.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I think that for the first time we have really a device that can be more interesting than a Quest for certain categories of people. Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. Funny link.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.27): Magic Leap’s new course, Fortnite rocks with concerts and much more!

The Ghost Howls

With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. There is a lot to say about this, and in fact, plenty of editorials have been written online. Let me briefly tell you my thoughts.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.1.9): Apple Vision Pro launches on 2/2, Qualcomm announces new chipset for Samsung headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! Devin Reimer, the previous CEO of Owlchemy Labs, has written an editorial on Upload VR saying that controllers are going to die and that hand tracking will be the main input form for XR in the future.

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Editorial: Why Half-Life: Alyx could be very important for Virtual Reality

The Ghost Howls

It targets the category of people for which VR is already more appealing… with a game of the franchise they love. Half-Life is a game that targets a very specific category of people, and it is only one (even if very important) piece of content. I think that we’ll see many more headsets sold.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.10): Valve Index gains market share, Hitman 3 is coming to PSVR and more!

The Ghost Howls

Regarding the last topic, I have written an editorial on how the Quest could disrupt the PC VR market, and it has been good that it has created a healthy debate inside the VR communities. Learn more (Launch blog post) Learn more (Sample video). I’ll leave it for you in the links so that you can participate in the discussion as well.

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