AWE has come to an end. I’m spending my last night in LA and tomorrow (which will be “today” when the newsletter is published) I’m going to fly to Berlin to be a mentor at the XRCC hackathon. My experience at AWE has been great: I reached the goals I had set for myself before […]
One of my highlights of AWE has been for sure Ultraleap’s booth. Not only because they are very nice people it’s always great to hang out with, but because their use of “event cameras” for tracking hand movements completely surprised me. Ultraleap with tracking cameras The first demo I tried when I entered Ultraleap’s booth […]
Greetings from California! I’m writing this letter between Silicon Valley (East Palo Alto, to be exact) and Los Angeles because I’m moving to attend AWE! My days in the Valley have been nice, and I’ve spent some time with some old friends and made some new ones. I also visited the Computer History Museum, and […]
Today I’m traveling to the US to attend AWE, so I was hoping that the past week would be a bit boring, so I did not have to write a long post while traveling, but actually, the XR ecosystem decided not to help me because there are many things to talk about. There’s been no […]
Finally, I have been able to put my hands on an Apple Vision Pro. Thanks to the very kind people of the Helsinki XR Center who let me spend more than one hour with it, and my buddy Gianni who let me have another half an hour, I managed to have enough time to play […]
I promised you a surprise post for this week and here we are: I am announcing “Hybrid Hands Interactions”, a special opensource plugin that lets you interact in mixed reality with real objects so that you can create some magical experiences like this one: Hybrid interactions In this period I’m experimenting a lot with Mixed […]
I’m back in Italy for a few days. The trip to Helsinki was amazing and now I can spend some days eating pasta before I take the plane to the US to attend AWE! I will stay a few days in the Valley and a few days in LA… in case you want to meet […]
Hello from Helsinki, Finland! The city is different from how I found it in December: there is no snow, but there is a bright sun that sunsets late evening. It’s very beautiful, but in a different way. As usual, I will keep you posted about my adventures here! This week in XR has not been mindblowing, […]
I have a bit of nausea when writing this roundup because I was playing around with passthrough and created an app that makes you feel like you’re drunk, high, or something like that. I think it’s cool, but my stomach doesn’t share my same enthusiasm… Anyway, I’ll tell you more about it in the upcoming […]
This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! Top news of the week Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple […]
This week has been quite cool for me. One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! And after a little celebration with you, my amazing readers, it is time for me […]
