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Apple Joins Pixar, NVIDIA, & More to “accelerate next generation of AR experiences” with 3D File Protocol

Road to VR

.” Much like HTML forms a sort of description of a webpage—being hostable anywhere on the Internet and retrievable/renderable locally by a web browser—USD can be used to describe complex virtual scenes, allowing it to be similarly retrieved and rendered on a local machine.

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). At the end of this year or the beginning of the next one, Sony is going to launch its new gaming VR device, dubbed PSVR 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is very interesting that because of this recall, Facebook shared some data about how many facemasks were affected : it says 4M in the United States, around 170K in Canada. Sony has sold 10M PS5 worldwide. VR is not the ultimate empathy machine. “VR I think they handled all this situation in the best way possible.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.12.06): Apple headset delayed, Gorilla Tag on the Quest Store, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Sony). Sony unveils affordable Mocopi tracking system. Sony has just announced a new affordable tracking system. The data of all the sensors merged together can be used to reconstruct the pose of the user thanks to the wonders of machine learning. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. An analysis of the job postings of Meta shows that the company is trying to add cellular data to its headsets. Learn more. Learn more.

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Meta AI Research: Quest Body Pose Estimation Helped By Furniture Awareness

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Last year three Meta researchers showed off QuestSim , a reinforcement learning model that can estimate a plausible full body pose with just the tracking data from Quest 2 and its controllers. No extra trackers or external sensors are needed. The resulting avatar motion matches the user’s real motion fairly closely.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). Image by Sony). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. Learn more. Learn more. News worth a mention.