I realized I never told you about a very interesting startup I met in May at the VR/AR Expo China in Shanghai: it is called Immersix and is bringing a slew of innovations to the eye-tracking field. Immersix and its retina tracking Immersix is a Western startup focused on building eye-tracking solutions for XR. Its […]
This has been a very special week for me because my blog turned 10 years old. It’s a huge achievement, and I’m super proud of it and super thankful for all the people who helped me reach this result. I also want to thank the community for the very nice comments on social media about […]
One of the startups I absolutely wanted to visit at AWE was Oxford Optical Labs (OOL) because it is developing special lenses that can change their focus on demand. This company got me intrigued since the first time I spoke with them during my AWE preview interview, because its technology could enable varifocal headsets in […]
Are you ready for a new episode of this roundup of the best XR news of the week? Of course you are… otherwise, you wouldn’t be here! Top news of the week Speculations and updates about the Steam Frame The launch of the Steam Frame is getting closer, and we are keeping having updates and speculations about […]
It’s hot here in Italy… It’s so hot that I miss my time in November in Finland when I was freezing! This week in XR has been kinda lukewarm, with no huge news happening, but this newsletter is still going to be cool, with some interesting news and a lot of fun links at the […]
One of the most incredible experiences I had at AWE was trying out Canon’s mixed-reality headsets. One was incredibly small, and the other one incredibly expensive ($20K!!!). Let me tell you everything about these very special hands-on sessions I had. [Notice: I tried these devices for just a few minutes each. This is a “first […]
It’s summertime! Many people are going on vacation, the VR magazines have reduced the amount of news they publish, but I’m still here writing for you the summary of the most important pieces of XR news of the week! This week we actually had quite a few notable things happen, so this Week Peek will […]
I’m intrigued by Gaussian Splat videos because they have the potential to bring a person in front of you, as if he/she were really there. Combined with mixed reality, they can really make you feel like an idol of yours is there, at home with you. That’s why I was happy when, at AWE, I […]
Yesterday, the Football World Cup ended, and now I feel like I don’t know anymore how to spend my evenings. Compliments to Spain, by the way… I hope that in four years we will be able to play against them… I couldn’t stand another World Cup without Italy! Anyway, enough talking about football… let’s dig into […]
Today I have the huge pleasure of publishing the interview I had with Jeff Basladynski, who you may probably know as “Bazitron” from Reddit. Baz has become a sort of legend in our community because he is doing god’s work by organizing large-scale VR installations inside events like comic-cons, making lots of people try VR […]
In this VR winter, every day we keep reading news about layoffs of people working in AR/VR. Today I inform you about a new one: Lenovo has recently laid off its XR business unit in the US. Layoffs at Lenovo I’ve been informed about this news by a trusted source. Lenovo laid off the people […]
