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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure.

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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

The Unity booth showcased their educational content development – but also hoped to educate the educators towards what VR has to offer the future classroom, running on its booth an Oculus Rift S and Beat Saber. The company brought examples of the virtual lesson running on the HTC Vive Cosmos, and the standalone HTC Vive Focus Pro headsets.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

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The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify. Skarredghost then suggested the name “ Guncube” which sounded ideal, thanks Tony!