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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

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It is fully standalone , and it features a unique set of controllers: on one hand the user wears a ring (which is controlled by the thumb), while on the other one, he wears a controller that has a very peculiar shape. The new device, still unnamed, boasts a Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 processor and is said to include 1.3-inch

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YouTube blocks any and all content tied to Russian state media

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SEE ALSO: How to keep up with the news from Russia and Ukraine. Along with its latest decision to expand these restrictions, YouTube added that the site has seen more interaction with its monitored "Top News" and "Breaking News" homepage shelves — the pages have received more than 17 million views in Ukraine alone.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.01): Quest 2 price raise, PSVR 2 passthrough, Pico 4 leaks, and more!

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Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony is slowly releasing details about the PSVR 2 headset to keep the attention (and the hype) high. Pico 4 Controllers have been leaked. We don’t have images of the headset, but most probably it will be sleek as the controllers.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.26): Quest 3 page appears on Best Buy, Vision Pro SDK released, and more!

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More info Sony is working on reprojection improvements for PSVR 2 One of the biggest issues of PSVR 2 is the reprojection that is causing ghosting and other artifacts. According to the creators of Hubris, Sony is working on solving the issue , but he said nothing about when this update will be released.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

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But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content. Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

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But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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