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Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List

ARPost

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. Immersive games and apps and 3D videos have opened a new world for emotionally exhausted people staying at home 24/7. Where: Turin, Italy (and Online). This year will be special for the XR industry.

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Developer Creates Scan of Apartment to Work Inside of VR for 30 Days

Road to VR

” Le Fons started his 30-day challenge shortly after the release of Steven Spielberg’s film Ready Player One (2018) , and although he’s nearing the end of his full 30 days, according to a SkarredGhost exclusive, he’s adding on another 15-30 days of multi-hour stints immersed in VR. .”

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). You can still replay the awards ceremony on Youtube, though.

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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

The Ghost Howls

Yes, this one has passthrough, 4K screens, etc… but still, it’s a very old and very not-immersive use case. You can look at something while you have your headset on, record it as a 3D recording, and then re-watch it in an “immersive” way later, whenever you want. So it’s a good use case, but nothing new.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.18): Roblox is coming to Quest, Google has an unclear XR vision, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Roblox has 66M users , and the fact that some of them may buy a VR headset to try their worlds in an immersive way can only be positive for the sales of Quest and VR in general. This means that Roblox users on Quest may find from day 1 an insane amount of experiences they can try. I find this news simply fantastic.

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Interview to Enea Le Fons: from #30DaysInVR to #XDaysInXR and beyond

The Ghost Howls

Well, in VR, you don’t need to, because all three dimensions are present at once, right in front of you; Eye hydration, eye exercises, daily headset disinfection and a polyphasic approach to VR immersion were keys to long immersions with current hardware. Enea while meditating with a Vive Focus on. Tell my readers about it! Absolutely!

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#30DaysInVR: how a guy is living 30 days in VR to make virtual reality better

The Ghost Howls

actually, he was in my city (Turin, Italy) because here there is an epic guy that is living 30 days inside virtual reality! He has started with five hours of immersion each day and has incremented the duration of his immersions until he has arrived to many hours a day. That’s impressive.