Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. Anyway, I’m very busy at home, and I’m working on a new secret project with the startup Beyond The […]
WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR, where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. Mozilla, that is doing a lot for the immersive web, has so decided to develop a WebXR exporter for Unity, to let all Unity […]
I had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Hugo Falgarone, the founder and CEO of SkyReal, a startup offering CAD models visualization in VR. SkyReal is a French company that started as a project inside Airbus, and then evolved into a separate company. Its mission is to help enterprise companies, especially the ones […]
Heeeeelllo VR people! It’s time for another mega roundup of news! But before reporting to you what has happened this week, I’m pleased to announce that I will actually be a speaker at AWE in the end! There won’t be a physical AWE, but there will be an online one, made through online webinars. The AWE […]
Today I was reading Upload VR, and I’ve found a very interesting article by David Heaney stating that now it is possible to use your real environment as your Oculus Quest Home environment. I immediately got excited, because this meant that the Oculus Quest has now some augmented reality functionalities! I tried this new feature, […]
When I was at the Polytechnic of Turin, I already had a strong passion for multimedia technologies, and since VR was still a dream at that time, my first passions were the two technologies that are its foundations, that is computer graphics and computer vision. My teacher of computer vision, that later on would have […]
Thanks to the WeChat group XR Story I got to know Gianluigi Perrone, a very talented movie director that works a lot with virtual reality, and that also teaches cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. He is Italian like me, but he is living in Beijing, China for 7 years. I met him in China […]
Happy Easter everyone, and if you don’t celebrate Easter, Happy Sunday! I really wish you and all your families a lot of peace and joy. These are harsh times, but we must stay united and resist. We can do it 🙂 As it is tradition, I prepared a terribly photoshopped image to wish you Happy Holidays! You […]
After having teased the device for a very long time, in the end, TG0 has launched its innovative Etee controllers on Kickstarter. There have been many online debates on these devices, with some people telling that they are the future, others telling that they have an awful design. I got an exclusive devkit before the […]
Some days ago, the popular opensource 3D modeling software Blender has launched a new VR view tool to let you see your 3D scene in VR! You could already use Blender in XR with the MARUI plugin, but here we’re talking about the official support by the Blender Foundation, that comes with version 2.83. All […]
Haptics is a very important part of virtual reality, and while we wait for consumer solutions arriving in some years, for now, the market is dominated by enterprise solutions like the amazing Dexmo Gloves or HaptX Gloves. These solutions are high-performant, but also incredibly expensive, and only big enterprises can afford them. A Dutch company […]
