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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Image by Epic Games). Other relevant news.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. It incorporates aspects of traditional disciplines, including design, communication studies, and even psychology. in Game Design. BSc or M.A.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Going Beyond Gaming. There’s no better example of this than the revolutionary entertainment experience, Fortnite.

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A Florida university is making Quidditch a (virtual) realityI.

AllThingsVR

The game—and the wand—were developed by Pat Starace , director of the digital fabrication course at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We It was 3D-printed right here, in the high-tech workshop where I’m standing.

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All you need to know on HoloLens 2

The Ghost Howls

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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nReal AR glasses hands-on preview

The Ghost Howls

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Microsoft has surely spent lots of money to make sure that HoloLens’s holograms look absolutely fixed in space.

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