There are times when small companies bring big innovations to our world. This is most probable during the evolution stage of a new technology: imagine what has happened for instance with Facebook, Youtube, and Netflix when the broadband Internet became widespread. Now, during the metaverse hype, we of New Technology Walkers have thought that it […]
We are one step closer to having smart contact lenses. Mojo Vision, one of the most interesting startups in the XR market, has just announced that its smart contact lens prototype is now “feature complete”, reaching a new milestone in its product development timeline. In the remainder of the article, I will explain to you […]
On the occasion of the upcoming GTC, I had the opportunity of speaking with two very important people that work every day at innovating XR at NVIDIA: David Weinstein, Director of Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Gregory Jones, Director of Global Business Development/Product Management. I had an interesting chat with them about NVIDIA’s vision for […]
After having written my predictions for virtual reality for this year, it’s time for me to dig into what is happening in the next months in augmented reality. As I always say about my predictions, I’m not sure they will turn out to be true (and honestly, many times this hasn’t happened), but for sure […]
As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). The difference between the two is becoming always more blurred, but for this year I prefer keeping them separate because they still have different markets. I […]
As it is a tradition of this blog, I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! For every piece of news, I’ll share with you a brief summary and one or more links to go deeper. I hope that this way, even if you lost the announcements from […]
Fasten your seatbelts because today I’m going to publish for you an amazing new tutorial, this time on Oculus Spatial Anchors, a new experimental feature added to the Oculus SDK. With it, you will be able to add persistent virtual objects in an exact place of your physical world. Let me tell you everything you […]
I’ve had the immense pleasure of interviewing Marcus Kuehne from Holoride, one of the most interesting and original XR startups out there: they provide in-car entertainment via VR headsets, with the VR content that has the movements synchronized with the actual movements of the car. I’m following Holoride since when it has been one of […]
At AWE 2021, I have finally been able to meet in person the people from Mojo Vision, the amazing startup that is working on AR contact lenses that I have interviewed some months ago. I am very fascinated by the idea of augmented reality lenses, so as soon as I saw they had a private […]
At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement […]
Today is a special day in Italy when families prepare the Christmas Tree, so I decided to publish a very special post that is a big gift to the whole XR community. But the gift is not mine, but from the XR ergonomics expert Rob Cole, that has written an INCREDIBLE guest post about his […]
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