A few weeks ago, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi released to the public its AI smartglasses. The Xiaomi AI Smartglasses are currently available online in China, but many people in the XR communities in the West started wondering if they are any good, and especially how they compare with the more famous Ray-Ban Meta. Well, today […]
Welcome to another amazing roundup of AR/VR news of the week! This week has definitely been more interesting than the previous one. And I’ve also got a little key giveaway! There are a lot of good reasons to keep reading… (By the way, if you lost my interview with the team behind Animal Company, you are […]
An Italian tennis player has just won the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the first time in history. Now, as an Italian myself, I feel compelled to also do something that has never happened in history. If you have some good ideas, let me know in the comments! For now, let me just do a thing that […]
At AWE, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to go hands-on with Dreampark, the very innovative startup that is bringing augmented reality entertainment to the streets. And I also was finally able to meet with (and interview!) Aidan Wolf, after so much time we know each other virtually. Let me tell you everything about […]
Summer is coming, and we enter a period of the year when people start going on vacation, and the amount of XR news diminishes… before it sharply rises again during the many tech events of September and October. I’ve spent the week working and recovering from the trip, and also enjoying the videos from XRCC, inside […]
I’m back in Italy! These three weeks of traveling have been very interesting: I have met many people, I had fun, I’ve learned people love my screams, and especially, I have learned a lot from private conversations with people who are way smarter than me. I feel enriched, but honestly speaking, I also feel very […]
At AWE, I have been able to sit down with Lumus in a private meeting room. There, I had a short interview with them, and I’ve also been able to try their waveguide-based optical engines! Discover everything about them by reading this article! Lumus Lumus is a company that works on display systems for augmented […]
At AWE US, I have been able to go hands-on with the newest LetinAR optical system for AR glasses. In the following, you can find my impressions! LetinAR optical system It is not the first time I have gone hands-on with LetinAR. I had already met the company two years ago, always at AWE US, […]
These are my last hours in the US! I’m starting to write this newsletter that literally in an hour, I’m going to the airport to return back to Europe. But I’m not returning to Italy, but I’m going to Berlin (Germany) to be a mentor at the XRCC hackathon. If you’re headed there, see you […]
At AWE, I have been able to go hands-on with a new way to perform eye tracking, which is with event cameras from Prophesee. What are event cameras? Before sharing my hands-on impressions, it’s a good idea to discuss what event cameras are. If this question does not sound new to you, it is because […]
A big hello from Cupertino, the city of Apple, here in the Silicon Valley! I’ll stay here a week to have meetings before going to Berlin to be a mentor at XRCC. I hope my time in the Bay Area will be nice, after the troubled week at AWE (I got sick during the event […]
