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The XR Week Peek (2024.03.04): Meta and LG confirm their partnerships, Meta to unveil some AR glasses at Connect, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple? Only around 1,000 units are expected to be manufactured.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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Virtual Reality Trends that will Dominate 2023

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Live Monitoring of Premises Google has already experimented with VR goggles (known as Google Daydream) that helped people find their way and get new routes. The reports and documents will be clearer and the touch-induced changes can take place over the virtual screens. You sure can. It would be epic.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

The Ghost Howls

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.30): Bytedance acquires Pico, Quest 2 back on sale, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone compared this news to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook , and I agree: Pico is a very smart startup, like Oculus was, and Bytedance is a very rich company that controls one of the most popular social networks, like Facebook. As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general.

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Spatial Beats: Virtual CES Edition

AR Insider

Sony unveils a new virtual concert experience at CES. The experience will debut this winter on PSVR and Oculus. The glasses tether to a PC or select Motorola smartphones via USB-C cable to enable smart workers to view documents, collaborate, and visualize schematics. They were also showing off their new HUD tech for vehicles.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Sony acquires Bungie and thinks about Capcom. Some XR fun.