The mandatory Facebook login has created a huge backlash from the VR community, not only because of the possible privacy concerns that may arise but also because it lets Facebook apply more control over how people use the headsets they own. The cases of people banned from Facebook for having used the same account on […]
I have said it multiple times: Nreal is one of the most intriguing AR startups out there. With its lightweight, fashionable and affordable glasses, it has set a new trend for AR, that now many companies are trying to follow. It is the AR glass to buy for many consumer and enterprise applications, but the […]
I hope you all that celebrate Halloween had a nice time celebrating this holiday! And don’t worry, your favorite ghost will keep haunting you with VR news all over the year, not only during Halloween! Top news of the week PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition I admit that this […]
Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. These will be complicated weeks, and I hope that we’ll be able to go through them together. Now let’s dig into the best […]
If you are in the VR field since some years, for sure you remember the hype when the Infinadeck was revealed. It was a very big treadmill, offering true natural locomotion: with it, you didn’t need weird movements like walking in place or slipping on a surface, but you could just walk like in real […]
This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. There are so many pieces of news about it that today’s newsletter could have been called the Quest 2 Week Peek :). Jokes apart, the […]
The Oculus Quest 2 is the device of the moment. Since the first leak revealed it, the community is keeping talking about it, either for the good (because it has great content) or for the bad (for its mandatory Facebook login). But does it leave up to the hype? Is it a device every VR […]
The Coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the development of virtual reality, and in many sectors (like virtual events and remote collaboration), all companies have had a huge spike in the number of users, profits, and investments. But there is one VR sector that actually has been severely hurt by the pandemic: LBVR. Since VR arcades need […]
We are all waiting for the Quest 2 to arrive in our inboxes and we are all pretty excited about it! No big news this week, but expect thousands of boxes and reviews coming out from tomorrow on. As a European, I won’t get the Quest on 13th (damn) but only on 15th, so expect […]
Around 40 days ago, I reported to you the news of Google presenting at SIGGRAPH 2020 a new algorithm for recording, encoding, and decoding 6DOF VR videos, that is movies inside which you can physically move. Today I managed to try its demo, so let me tell you how is it cool being able to […]
Today at GTC 2020, NVIDIA has released three very interesting news that we in the XR sector should care about: New enterprise NVIDIA RTX A6000 and NVIDIA A40 graphics card have been released; Cloud XR servers are now available on AWS; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta. Let me briefly describe them […]
