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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The news is overly important because Alyx is already changing the virtual reality landscape for these reasons: It is increasing awareness towards VR a lot (all mainstream gaming media are talking about it); It is increasing sales of VR headsets a lot; It will probably show us new interactions in XR that will affect the UX of many games after it.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

You’ve been able to pop on a VR headset and watch any Netflix content on a flatscreen TV in a virtual living room for a year and a half, and according to a recent job posting you’ll soon be able to do the same with the Microsoft Hololens. Now you can combine your virtual friends and your real world friends with Facebook Spaces.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. But it’s so complex, augmented reality — also, virtual reality — and the companies also need to learn this. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. But it’s so complex, augmented reality — also, virtual reality — and the companies also need to learn this. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

You can’t really train for every scenario in the real world; in virtual reality — with these suits — you can now train in a really realistic way, for things that are very rare. Oculus Quest is coming out. There is also the Oculus Go, that is already on the market; it’s just a viewer of 360 content.

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