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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.26): Quest 3 page appears on Best Buy, Vision Pro SDK released, and more!

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But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

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The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

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Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. I will leave you the link to do that below. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.15): NVIDIA makes many announcements at SIGGRAPH, new leaks on Apple and Pico, and more!

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New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. The Glimpse Group may have become one of the biggest companies in XR. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. people from Europe and the Middle East).

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.31): Roblox released on Quest, Apple bringing back investments in VR, and more!

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There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.20): Samsung to change its XR plans, Upload made a cool showcase, and more!

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Now the result is that even if you go to Mars in VR, you can’t escape the notifications of the annoying Whatsapp Groups… More info News worth a mention (Image by Apple) Karl Guttag analyzes the Apple Vision Pro One of the most shared articles of the week has been the analysis on the Apple Vision Pro by Karl Guttag.

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