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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! Image by Microsoft). My favorite from this week?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. If you a content provider, can your partner with Oculus to provide your business applications to companies?

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IAAPA Update from Location-Based VR Expert, Bob Cooney

XR for Business Podcast

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. We’ve built all sorts of things; motion tracking, volumetric capture.

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IAAPA Update from Location-Based VR Expert, Bob Cooney

XR for Business Podcast

One of the surprise hits from the IAAPA show — to go back to that — was a company called UNIS out of Taiwan, I think they’re based, they had a two player motorcycle VR simulator and it was a track racing motorcycle game. We’ve built all sorts of things; motion tracking, volumetric capture.