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What is Google ARCore?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” operating system or later.

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Mexico Celebrates First VR Festival in Latin America

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Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors. VR Fest MX spanned 5 days and included a VR Fest Kids, VR Fest Forum with panels and fireside chats and VR Fest MX, the main event with 12 talks and panels and over 20 VR experiences.

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. The only exception to this rule seems to be the Samsung Odyssey+, that offers features somewhat comparable to the ones of the Vive Pro, but costs only $500. Samsung will do the same. You just turn them on and they work. Mobile headsets.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.14): SteamVR headsets go beyond 3M, body-tracking leaked for Quest SDK, and more!

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Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK.

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Oculus Quest Review: consumer Virtual Reality v1 is here

The Ghost Howls

If you are curious about all possible states, check out the official documentation. The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. If you want to get started in developing for Quest on Unity, you can for instance follow this tutorial of mine : Developer opportunities.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.27): Discover XR Cyber Monday Deals, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, and much more!

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More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. If you want to start using the Apple Polyspatial SDK, start from the links below!

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Impressions: What We Think Of The HP Windows VR Headset Dev Kit

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The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) I got to go on a virtual tour of Rome and marvel at the potential of VR tourism.

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