It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. I feel a bit weird because I’ve discovered yesterday that I’m the subject of nightmares for Celine Tricart, a well-renowned VR creator. I mean, I’m a ghost, so probably I should be fine with the idea […]
Today I want to answer a question that from time to time people ask me: is it possible to make a living out of AR and VR? Can you just follow your passion, and pay the bills by creating XR-related content? Well, let me tell you my thoughts about this. The short answer is yes […]
VR headsets are personal gadgets that we wear, and it is cool if we can make them even more personal with some customizations. This is the idea that MightySkins had, and now the company sells skins for Oculus Quest 2 for everyone to buy on its website. Discover with me how they are in this […]
Sorry if this newsletter is one day late. Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. I have watched the final match with friends and we had […]
Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. There are many good tutorials out there that explain to you how to create a video for an Oculus Quest experience that implements it, but there is very little documentation on […]
On July 8th, Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual, one of the most awaited VR games of 2021, will be released on Oculus Quest (you can wishlist it here). It is the re-proposition of the famous duo Sam & Max, that was very popular in the 90s, but this time in a completely different […]
It’s summertime, and as usual, during this part of the year, people think about going to the seaside more than about VR, and so the news to talk about are always fewer. So expect this and the following weeks to be a bit calmer for the XR ecosystem. I have some news to share about me […]
Some days ago, the pioneer Virtual Human Interaction Lab in Stanford headed by the legend Jeremy Bailenson has published on Steam an experience called “Virtual Becomes Reality: A Stanford VR Experience”, that emulates the tour usually offered in-person in the physical location of Stanford. And I tried it for you. The Stanford VR Tour The […]
After I have written my super in-depth review on the Vive Focus 3, HTC has finally enabled hands tracking on its device, so I decided to talk about it to you. In this post, I’m going to tell you how to implement hands tracking in Unity for the Vive Focus 3, how to enable it […]
Two weeks ago, we of New Technology Walkers have launched HitMotion: Reloaded on SideQuest. This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. […]
It’s that time of the week where you can read about the most important news of the past week in AR and VR again! Are you ready? Before starting, my friends at FXG and at Leenzee Games are promoting the Chinese mystery VR game A.D. 2047 and are offering to my readers an exclusive giveaway of […]
