This year has begun with a piece of very sad technical news: Mojo Vision, the startup that was working on smart contact lenses, has decided to pivot to manufacturing microLED displays. The reason is that they haven’t been able to find the funding necessary to keep developing such a futuristic project, and had to resort […]
It’s another tough day of work, with me finishing most of my tasks at midnight. But it’s ok… we are all excited because tomorrow we are finally launching our platform for virtual concerts and live shows! Please join the alpha launch of the VRROOM platform today Jan, 10th at 8 pm CET and live with […]
One of the most important XR news from CES has been the reveal by HTC of the Vive XR Elite. I’ve always published news articles about the release of all the most recent HTC headsets, but this time I wasn’t at CES and I hadn’t received any kind of press material from the company, so […]
The time for the big reveal has come. You know that I’ve been very busy the last few months with a project I was working on. Finally, I can tell you what I was working on: a cool platform for VR concerts that you will be able to join on January, 10th! VRROOM I started […]
HAPPY 2023! I wish you all that your dream may come true in this new year. And I know that one of your dreams was having a weekly roundup of the best XR news… so… here you are! Top news of the week HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite Thanks to the support of the […]
Let’s start this 2023 with a leak! I’ve been tipped about the fact that the Korean store of HTC may have accidentally leaked the name of the new Vive headset that will be revealed at CES… and maybe also its price. The Vive “Flowcus” HTC has been teasing a new standalone headset for months, without […]
For this end of the year, I want to talk about one of the big trends we are experiencing in the immersive realities ecosystem: the growing attention to mixed reality. All the new headsets (starting from Quest Pro and Pico 4) are featuring color passthrough vision and this trend is here to stay because every […]
Welcome to the last newsletter of 2022! It’s been an interesting year for XR, and I’m glad that we did this journey together. Thanks for the trust you are giving me and for reading this column I publish every week… I hope it has been useful for you this year and that it will still […]
Here we are… also this year is coming to an end. It started with us hoping for it to finally be a good year after two years of the pandemic, and it ended having a conflict, generally bad economic conditions, still the pandemic, and other huge problems. Even in XR, we saw a stagnation of […]
These days I’m crunching like hell, so this edition of the newsletter will be with very minimal commentaries. Next week, things should be better… in the meanwhile, send me hugs 🙂 (And btw if the header image made you curious… this is a fully modular SteamVR controller built by Rob Cole: https://skarredghost.com/2022/12/16/project-modular-open-vr-controllers-2/) Top news of the week […]
Today’s article is one of the most beautiful published in this blog in 2022. And in fact, it has not been written by me. XR ergonomics expert Rob Cole published last year on this platform an article detailing Project Caliper, that is his experiments in building fully configurable controllers for SteamVR. The article soon gets […]
