Today I’ll travel to the US to be a speaker at AWE, and I hope to meet you all there. I should be packing my suitcase, but instead, I’m here writing this newsletter so that you can enjoy the roundup of best XR news even this week. Since I’m a bit in a hurry, I […]
At Facebook Connect, Facebook/Meta announced that Oculus Quest was getting a new runtime update, the v34, bringing with it very interesting features to the Quest 2. Among these features, there was Space Sense, an update of the Guardian system that should help you in detecting objects and people that are coming into your play area […]
Augmented World Expo (AWE) will start on November, 9th 2021, in Santa Clara, USA. The event, which will run until the 11th, will be the first major event about AR and VR to be back in a physical location after a long time. It will be a good opportunity to return back to meeting people […]
I have had the pleasure of speaking with Tom Neumann, CTO of Rendever, about his work in making the life of the elderly better through virtual reality. Immersive technologies have already proven to be very useful in helping the lives of seniors in many ways, like making them travel virtually to locations they have never […]
Hello everyone! As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. For every piece of news, I have prepared a short summary and some links to go deeper… this way you are sure you haven’t missed any important piece […]
Hello everyone and Happy Halloween to whoever celebrates it! Here in Italy we were not used to celebrating it when I was a kid, but children now have fun dressing up and asking for some sweeties from their neighbors. As the ghost of VR, I guess it should be my favorite festivity, so it’s my […]
Facebook Connect 2 has finished and almost nothing went as I predicted (I suck at making predictions for Connects, it seems): there was no Quest 2 Pro, no discount on the Quest 2, no update on Assassin’s Creed VR. But one thing actually went as expected: Facebook announced the creation of a parent company called […]
Today Ultraleap has officially released Gemini, the fifth-version of the hands tracking runtime. I have tried it and I’m going to tell you my impressions about it! Ultraleap Gemini Ultraleap is the company born from the acquisition of Leap Motion by Ultrahaptics and it has always worked towards offering optimal hands tracking solutions for the […]
Every year I make this prediction game about what Facebook is going to announce at Oculus/Facebook connect, and this year won’t be an exception! So here you are what I expect to be announced on Thursday… but before reading, remember that I have no inside info about what is going to happen, and it is […]
This great October in VR has not finished yet, and we have still to hear the big news from Facebook in a few days. In the meantime, I got pretty sick after my journey to Switzerland to try CREAL headsets, and it’s taking a while to recover… I can’t wait to become a cyborg so that […]
Reddit user Samulia, that is used to analyze the Quest firmware (and made some “predictions” about the Quest 2 Pro), has found in the Quest runtime some videos that depict a new headset with new controllers, most probably the upcoming Quest 2 Pro! The news has been shared with me by the other great technologist […]
