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

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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 (2023.07.18): Roblox is coming to Quest, Google has an unclear XR vision, and more!

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More info (Roblox is coming to Quest — Road To VR) More info (Roblox is coming to Quest — Upload VR) More info (Roblox on Quest may increase scrutiny on the platform) Other relevant news (Image by WIRED) Mark Lucovsky has left Google Mark Lucovsky has just left Google. Now the next step is making also the controllers work with a PC.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! For example, while holding a physical prop, such as a welding torch, the hand tracking remains robust.

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The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

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More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

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Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device.

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What Factors Influence the Cost of Game Development?

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They will also have basic controls and 2D graphics. Unity and Unreal Engine are the most popular choices and do not add to the game app development cost all by themselves, but if your requirements turn out to be too complex for the engine you are currently using, and you need to change to something else, this will cause expenses to go up.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.03): Google shuts down Project Iris, Meta launches gaming subscription service, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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