Yesterday, like all of you, I followed Vivecon with all its announcements of the Vive Focus 3 BE and the Vive Pro 2, but I missed the usual inspiring speech by Mister President. So I also followed the V2EC, the Vive Ecosystem Conference that happened on ENGAGE, and that represented the Chinese counterpart of Vivecon. […]
Today at Vivecon, HTC has announced two new headsets: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. I guess you are very curious to discover them, so here you are what they are, and what are their pros and cons! Vive Pro 2 Vive Pro 2 is the successor of the original […]
Welcome to my 200TH ROUNDUP! Yes, it’s 200 weeks (around 4 years) that I try to inform the community every week about the best AR/VR news, at first just by e-mail, and then also on a special column on my website. I don’t know how I should celebrate this moment, but for sure I want […]
After a long pre-launch, finally the Chinese vendor Pico has unveiled completely its Neo 3 headset. And it looks like a very interesting consumer-oriented clone of the Quest 2 for the Chinese market, something that could finally kickstart the consumer segment in the Red Country. In the West, it is coming in a Pro variant […]
When some weeks ago I wrote in the newsletter I was being very busy, many people asked me what I was working on, and today finally I can unveil it to you: we of New Technology Walkers were working on an interesting project of a startup called DWorld, that aims at making you visit virtually […]
When browsing the VR news, it happens that I find something about “holograms”. In these pieces of news, this term is not used in the general-purpose meaning of “augmentations”, that we all know and use when talking about Augmented Reality, but in its actual physics meaning. For instance, in this blog post by Facebook, the […]
Some days ago, Facebook has distributed its new Facebook Avatars system, promising many possible customizations, a machine-learning algorithm able to reliably reconstruct the pose of your upper body, and a visual appearance that is the right mix between realism and cartoon-style. But is this true? Discover it in today’s hands-on post! Trying out Facebook Avatars […]
Welcome to the first roundup of the best AR/VR news for May! There has been no game-changing news from this week, but we had some interesting things to look at the same. Before I start telling you the news, let me tell you that if you want to join me in my upcoming events, I’ll have […]
Joy Way, the indie game studio behind the VR parkour game STRIDE, has just released a free demo of their upcoming game AGAINST (yes, they love capsed names). I just played it and of course, I’m here telling you my first impressions about it! Gameplay AGAINST is a game that looks like the union of […]
Some weeks ago, I’ve launched on App Lab “The Unity Cube”, a VR experience for Quest, with just… a cube and nothing more. I want to tell you the incredible story of this crazy launch, and how things have gone until now. It will be the occasion to tell you a happy story, to have […]
This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. As always, they’re doing a great job not only with the product but also with the communication strategy. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable […]
