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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!

My super-rush of work lasted one month is over, and now I can return to my previous levels of working! I need some sleep, though. I can also return to my usual weekly roundups of news, and you can read the new one here below. Have fun! Top news of the week Oculus kills the Go […]

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
by Skarredghost
Valve Index turns one: all the tweaks and tricks from one year of usage!

Valve Index turns one: all the tweaks and tricks from one year of usage!

June, 28th, one year ago, Valve launched the Valve Index, one of the best virtual reality headsets on the market. To celebrate its first birthday, my friend and renewed XR ergonomics expert Rob Cole of Immersive Computing has decided to write another one of his very interesting guest posts about his experiments with this device, […]

June 28, 2020June 28, 2020
by Skarredghost
Oculus discontinues Go and plans an open distribution system for Oculus Quest

Oculus discontinues Go and plans an open distribution system for Oculus Quest

Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. As the technology has advanced rapidly since we launched Go, you’ve helped us […]

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.06.23): StarWars: Squadron is a new AAA VR game, Apple announces ARKit4 and more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.23): StarWars: Squadron is a new AAA VR game, Apple announces ARKit4 and more!

I’m sorry to say that today’s roundup will be less deep than usual. The past week has completely squeezed me out because of the VR concert we have organized on VRChat for Jean-Michel Jarre, and this week I’ve another big project to finalize. I really need some rest. I’ll talk about my experience with the […]

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020
by Skarredghost
Famous musician Jean-Michel Jarre to host a live VR concert on VRrOOm on Sunday

Famous musician Jean-Michel Jarre to host a live VR concert on VRrOOm on Sunday

VR events are one of the big trends of virtual reality of the last 3 months. Because of the coronavirus, many physical events have been canceled and so people and companies are finding new ways to organize gatherings. Music has been one of the most impacted sectors by the COVID: most probably there won’t be […]

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020
by Skarredghost
HTC announces XR Suite and teases the future of collaboration and workplace

HTC announces XR Suite and teases the future of collaboration and workplace

This night I woke up at 3am to participate in HTC Vive’s event on ENGAGE because I read that it was an “HTC VIVE LAUNCH EVENT” and I was super-confident in the launch of the Cosmos XR or at least of the Cosmos Play. Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no […]

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

I’m super tired because of two big projects I’m working on (you’ll discover a cool one pretty soon…), but I’ve managed to find the strength to write the roundup of best XR news just for you! I hope you’ll enjoy it… Top news of the week Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR With an online livestream of […]

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020
by Skarredghost
NVIDIA’s Greg Jones: The 5G hype is justified, it’s going to be a huge advantage for XR

NVIDIA’s Greg Jones: The 5G hype is justified, it’s going to be a huge advantage for XR

I’ve had the enormous pleasure of having a chat with Gregory Jones, that works as Senior Manager of Global Business Development and XR at NVIDIA. He’s the man managing the CloudXR SDK, the solution that lets you have cloud rendering for virtual and augmented reality, so he has a great vision on how and when […]

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.06.08): VR usage on Steam remains steady after Alyx, and much more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.08): VR usage on Steam remains steady after Alyx, and much more!

I hope that in these crazy times all of you are fine. Sending you all big positive vibes. And as always, if I can help you somehow, let me know. Regarding this week in XR, well, it has been very boring, probably it has been one of the most useless weeks ever. Let’s have a look […]

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020
by Skarredghost
How to ask Android Permissions for the Oculus Quest in Unity

How to ask Android Permissions for the Oculus Quest in Unity

Some months ago I published a guide for all Unity developers on how to request Android permissions for the Vive Focus Plus, because it took me a while to sort out how to do it to access the camera stream to do augmented reality on that headset. Recently, I had a similar problem with the […]

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. What will happen next? I don’t know what the future will reserve us, but I know what has happened last week in XR and I’m going to tell you! Top news of the week HP launches Reverb G2 headset As everyone was […]

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020
by Skarredghost

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