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Google, HP Launches XR Video Conferencing Solution for 2025

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Yesterday, HP partnered with Google to revive the latter’s immersive video conferencing solution from its development stages, Project Starline, just in time for I/O 2024. Now, HP is helping Google to commercialize the product fully so that it is ready for a 2025 market debut.

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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

The Ghost Howls

After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. Even if Meta still doesn’t admit that its headsets are used by a lot of small kids (these measures are marketed as tools parents can use with teenagers), these measures are targeted also at them.

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Google Announces New Tools to Develop High-performance Daydream Apps

Road to VR

During the opening presentation at today’s Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google’s high-end Android VR platform. GAPID & PerfHUD.

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Google MediaPipe Offers ML-Based Hand-Tracking Tools

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Google debuted MediaPipe, an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that detects people and objects in 3D space, in 2019 and the machine learning (ML) solution accurately tracks targets to transform 2D media as 3D spatial data. The service delivers end-to-end ML acceleration, enhancing MediaPipe content distribution on standard XR hardware.

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Dev Shares Crash Course on VR Game Optimization for Oculus Quest & Mobile Hardware

Road to VR

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. But there’s a handful of tools and methods that can set you up for success from the start. The video is focused toward novice VR developers who are working in Unity.

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Google Introduces 8K Streaming on Meta Quest

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Recently, Google released an update to its Quest 3 YouTube application, which allows users to stream 8K videos to their Meta Quest 3 – at least in theory. Despite the update, Quest 3 headsets cannot stream up to 8K video, as the device’s quality is capped at 4K. Will Meta introduce 8K hardware this year?

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