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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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Unity Reveals New VR Tools and Google Daydream Support

VRScout

During the first-day of the Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, Unity Technologies unveiled a number of new updates and features to help support VR and AR creators around the world developing interactive 3D, VR and AR experiences. Recruiters can also post jobs and target a pool of highly-sought Unity talent.

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

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you are from the EMEA region, and you use my special link to register for the conference and then you watch one of the event sessions, you will participate in a raffle to win an amazing RTX3080 Ti graphics card! :O. It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium.

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Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it Does

Road to VR

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. He’s not creating Google VR. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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Building Augmented Reality for the Web: Which Platform is the Best?

ARVR

MUSE Museum AR Experience on a mobile application Finding the best platform for your WebAR project Introduction I have been building Augmented reality apps since 2006, and I have worked with various systems: PC, Mobile, Adobe Flash FlarToolkit, Depth sensors, RGB Sensors, Magicleap, Microsoft Hololens, Google Tango andARCore, and Apple AR Kit.

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Unity throws its support behind Google's new Daydream VR platform

VR Game Critic

Unity Technologies chief John Riccitiello briefly took the stage at Google's I/O developer conference today to confirm that the company will be updating its game development toolset to support Google's new Daydream mobile VR platform.

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