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A Look at the Upcoming AR/VR Policy Conference

ARPost

A special conference taking place on October 21 will look at both extant policies governing XR as well as what sort of policies may be advantageous as the field continues to grow. The AR/VR Policy Conference. The half-day conference will take place in the ITIF offices in Washington D.C. We need an AR/VR policy. Suzan DelBene.

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AWE 2021 Returns With In-person Conference Planned for November

Road to VR

With vaccines starting to roll out in the US, AWE has set a hopeful November date as one of the first XR conferences to return to an in-person event—but offering a money-back guarantee in case things don’t pan out. AWE is a long running XR-focused conference held annually in Santa Clara, CA.

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AWE 2022: Unity CEO talks about his vision of the metaverse

The Ghost Howls

With the show floor still closed, the highlight of the day has been the speech by Unity CEO John Riccitiello that spoke about the metaverse , telling us what he thinks it is and how he thinks it can evolve. The Unity CEO talks about the metaverse. The Unity CEO on AWE stage to talk about the M-word. That sounded like a plan.

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China’s Largest Telecom Forms Metaverse Industry Alliance, Including Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC & Unity

Road to VR

” At MWC Shanghai, state-owned China Mobile announced the first batch of 24 members of the alliance, including Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC Vive, Unity China, NOLO, XREAL (formerly Nreal), AI company iFlytek, video streaming platform MGTV, and cloud streaming platform Haima Cloud. ” China Mobile isn’t new to the space.

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Spatial on Unity Creator Tools, Company Vision, and the Metaverse for Consumers

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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Unity Debuts Unity 6 LTS at Unite 2023 with Meta, Apple Partnerships

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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Unity Is Considering Allowing Passthrough On The Splash Screen, If Developers Vote For It

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Unity is considering allowing Quest passthrough in the splash screen instead of a black void. Currently when you launch a Unity mixed reality app on Quest you'll see two sequential black void loading screens, effectively temporarily blindfolding you, even if you were in passthrough in the home environment.

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