A few weeks ago I had the enormous pleasure of speaking with Mary Matheson, an award-winning director of traditional and VR movies, and talk with her for around half an hour all about storytelling in VR. She told me why she thinks that 360 movies are still relevant, what are the differences between shooting a […]
Today I publish a review about the magnetic lenses for Meta Quest 2 sold by VR Rock, a Chinese company selling accessories for VR headsets. Since I have no need for prescriptions, I have tested the anti blue light lenses with no prescription. Unboxing This has been one of my easiest unboxings ever: inside the […]
It’s hot and the drought is creating some issues here in northern Italy. But I had a nice weekend, plus I’ve been chosen by Onalytica as one of the top 5G+XR influencers on Linkedin, so I think of this and I stay happy. Top news of the week Meta showed prototype headsets from its R&D department […]
At AWE, I have finally been able to try the upcoming Conquest VR audio accessory. It’s a while since I know about this project, because the CEO of the company, Raghu Bathina, is one of my patrons, and so I was very happy to finally be able to try this interesting device. Discover it with […]
It seems that in many countries of the world this weekend was Father’s Day… so my best greetings to all of you that are fathers! It’s curious that actually in Italy we celebrate this in March… but who cares, whenever is the day, it’s always good to celebrate our daddies 🙂 I’ll be very upfront with you: […]
At AWE I had the opportunity to finally go hands-on with a bunch of 3D displays that don’t require you to wear any kind of glasses. It was a lot of time that I wanted to try them (especially The Looking Glass), so I was happy of having had the opportunity to do it! And […]
Since the battery of my previous laptop was growing in size transforming it into a timebomb, I got a new one (also thanks to my friends at Ristband!). It has not cutting-edge specs, but it features an RTX2080 Super which is still able to do a great job with most XR applications (unless you want […]
I’m finally back in Turin! I miss a bit the joys of traveling and especially all the amazing people I met, but I have a lot of cool things I have to work on here, so I’m glad I have again the time to do them! And regarding this… would you be interested in working […]
My report on AWE 2022 never ends and today I want to write an article about my visit to two important companies in our ecosystem: Tobii and Ultraleap. Tobii For the first time in my life, I have been able to have a chat with people at Tobii. And it has been quite an interesting […]
At AWE 2022, I have been able to try a few products by Varjo, the Finnish company that offers XR solutions mostly tailored to the enterprise market. Let me tell you something about all of them! Varjo XR-3 Varjo XR-3 is considered the gold standard for pass-through augmented reality. Priced at around $6000, it should […]
Hello all from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the small town of the Barcelona airport. In the long and troublesome travel back to Italy from AWE, I’ve lost the last flight and so I’m currently here writing my newsletter from the lobby of the hotel where I spent the night :|. Eh, the adventurous life of the XR […]
