Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. In this article, I’m going to tell you all the thoughts I had. The new “Autumn” […]
Yesterday, a report by Alex Heath on The Verge reported that Quest has sold around 20M units. Since this is well beyond the 10M threshold we were all waiting for, does this mean that VR is getting mainstream? Well, things are not that straightforward in my opinion… The magic 10M threshold Speaking at Oculus Connect […]
In my career as an XR professional, I’ve got to know people from all over the world, especially thanks to this blog, social media, and the international events I attended. This has let me expand a lot my horizons, and understand that often, without noticing, we focus on only one part of the world, the […]
After my usual Sunday tour of Twitter and Linkedin feed to gather news for my weekly newsletter, I feel the need of writing a rant about a trend I’m seeing online after the Meta Connect about Meta and its involvement in the “metaverse” field. Many journalists of important tech magazines (TechCrunch, Business Insider, etc…) are […]
According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. This news comes one year later than a similar one regarding Virtual Reality: in a popular post of mine of 2018, I highlighted how in that year VR had disappeared […]
Some days ago, while browsing the Facebook group VIRTUAL REALITY, I found a post comparing the Gartner Hype Cycle 2017 and 2018. The results of the comparison were basically two: Augmented Reality has not moved in the graph; Virtual Reality has disappeared. I found this pretty interesting: last year, VR was going towards the right […]
Do you know CGTrader? If you, like me, are a developer only capable of creating cubes in Blender, for sure you have heard this name. It is one of those places where people look for 3D models, alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. It is very popular and contains […]
I’ve read a lot of commentaries in these days about the recent report about “Digital games and interactive media” (and so AR and VR, too) that the market analysis company Superdata has released last week. These comments were pretty bad, so I decided to read the report to have some personal opinion about what they’ve […]
“Influencer”: it is actually a world that I hate. Some people say that their job is being an influencer, but IMHO it means nothing. If your job is influencing people minds and opinions, I immediately assume that in your life you are a hypnotist, a magician or something like that :). Furthermore, this word is […]
We all know that Oculus has slashed down the price for its Oculus Rift CV1, offering the bundle Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch at only $399. The “Summer of Rift” initiative has caused a flooding of Rift purchases, with lots of people going to Reddit each day to announce that they’ve bought a brand new […]
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are two of the buzzwords of the moment, since these ones are technologies that are forecasted to have huge success in the future, that will change completely our everyday life. Analysts always show amazing numbers about their future markets, but these numbers always prove to be wrong, since VR is […]
