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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some people even found the demo pretty underwhelming, but actually, I know that the strength of Meta all these years has been the software updates. Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is great news for the customers of the Quest 2, but it poses some doubts about the retro compatibility of the Quest ecosystem that Zuck promised at OC6: if the Quest 2 is much more powerful than the Quest 1 and the Quest 1 is discontinued, has sense for developers to keep producing software that is compatible with Quest 1? Learn more.

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Facebook Is Shutting Down VR Content Division Oculus Story Studio

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Story Studio is also the creator of Quill — a VR artistic creation platform similar to Google’s Tilt Brush. This helps us turn our internal research, development, and focus towards exciting but unsolved problems in AR and VR hardware and software.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. In a clear Google snub, you can view Facebook 360 photos with a Gear VR… but not with Cardboard.

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Cool AR apps to try with Apple’s new phones

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Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. The developer kit works on Unity, Unreal, and Scenekit engines. ” Google’s ARCore to compete with ARKit. .

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. Ben: Google has published some numbers on that.

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