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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.”

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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Rafi Nizam Shares XR Creative Journey with NVIDIA Omniverse

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Based in London, the creative has previously collaborated on massive projects with major entertainment firms such as BBC, Sony Pictures, and NBCUniversal. He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender. I can’t wait to get back in and try out more ideas”.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG!

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.24): HTC shows Cosmos and Proton, devs make cool hands interactions, Sansar on sale and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. At this point, I wonder if GDC may be canceled as the MWC.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.03): Google shuts down Project Iris, Meta launches gaming subscription service, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Full body tracking algorithm) More info (Full body tracking algorithm — some explanations about the project) Sony Mocopi launches in the United States Finally, we have some more news about Mocopi , the small body tracking kit that Sony has created for vTubers. The first tests with it have been pretty successful.

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