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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

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Unity has still on its side the facility of use and the better support for mobile platforms, but I think it has to answer very soon to the hype created by UE. All of this in less than 1 year.

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How to Create an Augmented Reality App: Technology Guide 2022

ARVR

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. The book rotates and moves when they pick up the device and move it around. However, there are some missing features depending on the platform you’re on.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Dean Takashi has interviewed Neal Stephenson about the metaverse , his book, and, of course, Meta. Samsung is still working on AR glasses and its new internal prototype seems to be called SM-I120. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Red6 made Charlie Fink try AR on a plane. Learn more. Learn more.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (What The Bat) More info (Moss: Book II) More info (Among Us VR) More info (Gambit) More info (Nerf Ultimate Championship) More info (Final Fury) More info (All the news from the Upload Summer Showcase). The trailer is hilarious and the game is pretty original, so I loved it. Alex Kipman leaves after the misconduct allegations.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Adding to the Book of Face’s massive plans for mixed reality technology, they have made good on their promise to make a 360 camera open source and available to anyone. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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XR Celebrates Industry Revival at AWE USA 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset. In his talks, the icon discussed the progress of the platform, citing examples from his book ‘Snow Crash.’

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.14): SteamVR headsets go beyond 3M, body-tracking leaked for Quest SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. (Image leaked from Meta firmware).