Remove Microsoft Remove New York Remove Sony Remove Unity
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. This is the reason why I think this announcement is so important.

article thumbnail

How Are US Regulators Affecting Big Tech’s XR Plans?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Attorney generals from eight states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia—have joined the litigation. Other firms such as Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft have ordered redundancies across their workforces at 18,000, 11,000, and 12,000, respectively.

Microsoft 103
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Some news on content. Image by Khronos Group). More info.

Oculus 313
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

The Ghost Howls

As I’ve said, I won’t focus this roundup on the announcements from CES, but for sure I can’t ignore the fact that CES happened, so let me tell you what has been in my opinion the most interesting news from there. I have to admit that I thought this CES wouldn’t have brought great news about XR, but actually, we had some nice announcements.

Apple 319
article thumbnail

As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method.