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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. There is also a new render about the upcoming elite strap and a lot of videos about its high-quality passthrough in action.

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Space Invaders Celebrates 45th Anniversary With a New AR Game

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Space Invaders is a shooting video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 and manufactured and sold by TAITO. It was the first fixed shooter video game and is considered one of the most iconic arcade games ever. Players can defend their real-world neighborhoods from 3D invaders emerging from nearby buildings and landmarks.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $400M & Antilatency.

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Weekly Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $400M & Antilatency Raises $2.1M 1) Unity Technologies , a 13-year-old, San Francisco-based company that makes development tools for video game creators, has raised $400 million in fresh funding from the private equity firm Silver Lake. Read more on TechCrunch.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Laval Virtual canceled) More info (XR Europe canceled) More info (E3 canceled) More info (Tribeca canceled). This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc….

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I have to admit that at least Zuck tried to do this in the best way possible : he has taken full responsibility for the problems in a video call where he announced the layoffs and has offered a good severance package for people going away. This video about a “virtual reality viewer” from 1830 has been one of the viral content of the week.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. It’s good to see this cool product finally arriving in Europe, not anymore as a devkit, but as a full-fledged product. Volu lets you take volumetric videos with your smartphone. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.19): Quest 2 adds Air Link and Resident Evil 4, Pico and HTC are ready to launch, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. IKEA Place is one of the videos that I usually show to potential customers to make them understand the power of mobile AR.

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