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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.19): Unity’s community is rioting, Pico 5 leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. After the heavy scrutiny on Bytedance by the American government, we were afraid that Pico may have disinvested in VR, while it is keeping investing in it and even launching a new headset. Others have stopped using Unity Ads, Unity’s main source of revenue.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Representatives of the JianXi province and also the vice prime minister Liu He have visited the venue, and the Chinese Government has confirmed its strong interest in VR, that is seen as a strategic technology. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook could sell all its devices undercost now, subsidizing the cost of the hardware with software and data collection, so that to compete with brands like Samsung and XiaoMi. The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine. Epic Games presents MetaHuman Creator.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

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Imagine a Chinese school (that are forced by the government to use VR) how much money can save by buying 300 3DOF headsets instead of 300 6DOF ones (the answer is: around $100K ). According to Samsung, it should come in 2028. So, thanks Pico for what you are still doing. More info. Not a great evolution from Microsoft.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. image courtesy VR First. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Advisor for Betting & Gaming vertical in Samsung Harman. He is an acknowledged industry voice in Indian government policy formulation & advancing digital arts education. 14- Kai Liang. and own sports VR IP.