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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.21): Google is building an AR OS, Nike acquires RTFKT, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Who owns the Index will have the game for free (and for the occasion, the Index has been distributed to more countries, like Canada).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.07): Facebook shows thin sunglasses, Iron Man VR gets released and more!

The Ghost Howls

When I asked optics expert Jeri Ellsworth (the CEO of Tilt Five) when she envisions this technology to be on the face of every one of us, she said “soon-ish”, and this makes me think about a 5 years timeframe. Oculus Quest v18 adds colored Guardian and voice commands. Google acquires North. Not so long…. Other relevant news.

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MetaVRse Launches Canada's First Full Service Virtual Reality Agency

Cats and VR

MetaVRse offers a wide range of experiential marketing and event production, content production and consulting services to brands interested in harnessing the incredible power of virtual and augmented reality technologies. VR is already the most powerful and engaging platform for entertainment, gaming and branded content.”.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Starting with its $2B acquisition of Oculus in the spring of 2014, Facebook has continued to build out its virtual reality strategy in a big way. This is a big partnership between the NFL and Google, and the remaining 8 episodes will be available on the Google Daydream content platform – launching later this month.

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8th Annual Lumiere Awards For Creative Filmmaking Expands VR Categories

VRScout

Studios in Hollywood, California, The 8th annual Lumiere Awards will honour an impressive amount of influencers in the arts and technologies of 3D, HDR, VR, AR and 360-degree content. In an unexpected turn of events, the society’s incredibly rare Century Award will be given to the massively successful Google Earth VR application.

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The XR Week (2020.11.16): HP Reverb G2 still haunted by WMR tracking, Quest 2 update brings 90Hz, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.