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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.21): Google is building an AR OS, Nike acquires RTFKT, and more!

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Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

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It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. In both cases, Oculus has basically given no answer.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.15): Vive Focus 3 aims at LBEVR market, Niantic and Qualcomm launch AR SDKs, and more!

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With Focus 3, inside this 33m x 33m area the tracking is stable , that is the tracking region doesn’t move over time, and this guarantees the safety of the user. Universal mapping of gestures to handle input across devices including controllers and hand tracking. Qualcomm has announced Spaces. Interaction Mapping ?—?Universal

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

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For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. The device also exploits Leap Motion hands tracking and offers a completely natural interface all based on hands interactions. Reference Design Issues.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

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It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. This gives more power to Google Glass, that are not doing that bad in the enterprise environment after a total disaster as a prosumer device. More info (Realwear Navigator 500) More info (WebEx on Google Glass 2).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

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Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2021

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The environment where she has performed in was made in Unreal Engine and the modeling and the shading was so good that for a moment I thought it was a real studio. Google AR Cloud Streaming. Google has partnered with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles… do you know that Fiat is from my city in Italy?) The whole thing is incredible.

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