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Report: ‘Fortnite’ Update Includes Mention of Oculus, Suggesting Future Quest Support

Road to VR

Update 21.50, the game’s fifth and final update to Season 3, is rolling out today, and it seems data miner and itinerant Fortnite leaker HYPEX has gotten a look under the hood, maintaining that Epic has added “stuff related to Oculus.”

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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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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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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

AR Insider

A Rec Room employee, Shawn Whiting, used the free social game’s download data to project Quest 2 sales could be as high as 3M since its October 2020 launch. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine. See his books here. The company brought it $911.3M in Q4 revenue and added 8M users, both up from last year.

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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). Some news on content. Other news.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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Spatial Beats: Fortnite, Nvidia & Snapchat

AR Insider

The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding. Virtualitics is letting people transport into VR to view data with other users. See his books here. Let’s dive in… . Epic Games Plants Metaverse Flag On Fortnite Island.