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Behind the scenes of the VR concert Welcome To The Other Side

Behind the scenes of the VR concert Welcome To The Other Side

This New Year’s Eve, together with the team of VRrOOm, I worked on the virtual reality concert Welcome To The Other Side, starring the electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre playing inside a virtual Notre-Dame Cathedral. The concert was a huge success (with more than 75M total views!), and this was possible thanks to the work […]

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

Welcome 2021! This is the first newsletter of the new year, and I hope it will just be the beginning of a wonderful year in AR and VR for all of you! Top news of the week 2021 has been greeted by many virtual celebrations Because of the pandemic, many people have been forced to celebrate […]

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021
by Skarredghost
Celebrate the new year in VRChat with Jean-Michel Jarre!

Celebrate the new year in VRChat with Jean-Michel Jarre!

Virtual events have had a blast this year, with some performances that have become very successful, like the concert in Fortnite by Travis Scott, The Burning Man Festival in Altspace VR, or the Tomorrowland concert. So what could be the best way of celebrating the end of this 2020 if not with a fantastic virtual reality […]

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

Happy Holidays, my dear AR/VR community! Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. It is the final newsletter of the year, so… see you in 2021, a new year that I hope will be filled […]

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.12.21): Lenovo and NuEyes are releasing new AR glasses, and much more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.12.21): Lenovo and NuEyes are releasing new AR glasses, and much more!

The Winter Holidays are near and I hope you’ll spend them with the people you love. I’ll have to work also during these Holidays because we’re organizing the VR concert of Jean-Michel Jarre for New Year’s Eve (please come and enjoy it with us!), but I hope that you at least can relax a bit. I […]

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020
by Skarredghost
VR Paradise review: a VR strip-club sandbox [NSFW-ish]

VR Paradise review: a VR strip-club sandbox [NSFW-ish]

There are moments when as a blogger I have to sacrifice myself for the good of the community, moments when I think that there is hard work to do and it is my duty to do it. So when Totem Entertainment, the developers of VR Paradise, the virtual strip club simulator, asked me to review […]

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020
by Skarredghost
How to gift a game on the Oculus Store

How to gift a game on the Oculus Store

Christmas is coming, and it is the time of the year where people make gifts for each other. One of the best gifts that you can make to a virtual reality gamer is a VR game, and finally, after years that we have awaited for this feature, it is possible to gift a game to […]

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
by Skarredghost
Cybershoes for Quest review: a new way of walking in VR

Cybershoes for Quest review: a new way of walking in VR

I have been able to try the Cybershoes, the special shoes that let you walk in VR while you are seated! There is now an ongoing Kickstarter campaign that proposes a special version of them that works with the Oculus Quest (1 and 2) and I’m sure many of you are wondering if they are […]

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.12.14): Facebook gets sued for alleged monopolization, Medal Of Honor is a mediocre game, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.12.14): Facebook gets sued for alleged monopolization, Medal Of Honor is a mediocre game, and more!

Yesterday I got this amazing news that my Youtube channel has now 1000+ subscribers. I know that it is not a big number per se, but I’m not a Youtuber, I’ve no professional camera, and I’m a bit awkward in front of the camera, so for me, this is an incredible result! I’m really satisfied […]

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020
by Skarredghost
Hands-on with Cleanbox to sanitize VR headsets

Hands-on with Cleanbox to sanitize VR headsets

These weeks I have been pretty busy with the delivery of a project, and the delivery has culminated with a demo of the VR solution we have developed. Since the COVID is strong now in Italy, we thought that it could have been a good idea to use Cleanbox to sanitize the headsets that we […]

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.12.08): Medal Of Honor close to launch, Snapdragon 888 announced, and much more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.12.08): Medal Of Honor close to launch, Snapdragon 888 announced, and much more!

It’s the day in which in Italy we prepare the Christmas tree and I send an enormous hug to all my family. That said, let me tell you the most important XR news of the last week. Top news of the week Medal Of Honor is close to launch but it won’t be the new Alyx Medal Of […]

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
by Skarredghost

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