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Croquet, Unity Announce Beta Metaverse Platform ahead of GDC 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Croquet Corporation announced on Thursday last week it had launched its Croquet for Unity solution. The new JavaScript multiplayer framework integrates with Unity to provide a novel approach for developers. With it, people can create Unity-based immersive experiences without writing or maintaining multiplayer code.

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Big XR News from Unity, Meta, Lamina1, and Apple

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. Unity Muse, Sentis to Tap AI-Powered Content Creation This week, two AI tools, Unity Muse and Sentis , were released to assist creatives in designing immersive worlds and XR content.

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OpenBCI: games using brain-interfaces are coming in 3 years

The Ghost Howls

The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. Neurable and NextMind, while both established neurotechnology providers, are designed to only collect EEG data. What data will be able to gather Galea?

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Book Review: The Metaverse, and How It Will Revolutionize Everything, by Matthew Ball

Ryan Schultz

I am on holidays this week, and today I decided to set aside a couple of days to read through—and write a review of—a recently published book by the venture capitalist Matthew Ball, author of the Metaverse Primer and lead creator of the Ball Metaverse Index (whom I have written about before on this blog ).

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No one really knows how the next ten years are going to play out

The Ghost Howls

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This headset is basically identical to the Pico 4, but it features a more cleanable headset, additional sensors for eye and face tracking, plus enterprise services (dedicated assistance, device management, data security certifications, etc…) and an enterprise runtime (which offers kiosk mode, for instance). Meta is under heavy pressure.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The 3D models have not been created by hand, but by an AI mixing satellite data with Street View pictures. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads.

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