Hello everyone from Mountain View, California! I’m taking the plane quite soon, and the last thing I’ll do here in the US is write this newsletter episode to tell you the most relevant XR news of the week. This has been the week of Meta Connect, so most of this roundup will be about that […]
There is a very cool project that has been in development over the last few weeks, and, in my opinion, is getting far less visibility than it deserves: OpenXR OSX, a solution for playing PCVR games on Mac. VR support on Mac The support of virtual reality on Mac has always been, to say the […]
Today, Apple has announced the launch of the new Vision Pro… which is basically the same as the old one. It’s a pretty disappointing move for us all, but I think that, at the end of the day, it may be a good move for Apple. Let’s see why. The new old Apple Vision Pro […]
Finally, I have been able to put my hands on an Apple Vision Pro. Thanks to the very kind people of the Helsinki XR Center who let me spend more than one hour with it, and my buddy Gianni who let me have another half an hour, I managed to have enough time to play […]
This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! Top news of the week Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple […]
After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. At VRROOM, we have a Unity Enterprise subscription, so I’ll be […]
A few days ago, the European Parliament has passed the law of the Digital Markets Act, which is meant to regulate the power of the American tech giants. It can be a game-changer for the whole digital world, so I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts about what it could mean for XR. Digital […]
It’s hot and the drought is creating some issues here in northern Italy. But I had a nice weekend, plus I’ve been chosen by Onalytica as one of the top 5G+XR influencers on Linkedin, so I think of this and I stay happy. Top news of the week Meta showed prototype headsets from its R&D department […]
Welcome, 2022! This is the first newsletter of this new year, and I hope it will be a great year for every one of us. I ended the last year with some good posts, like this one where I had an exclusive interview with Holoride, one of the hottest XR startups out there. Go reading it, […]
This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. But now, before starting the new week, it’s time to look back at the […]
This is the first newsletter of Autumn 2021: I think I’ll miss the sun but for sure not the mosquitos. By the way, I wish you a lot of happiness for this new season. I’m getting busy with some new interesting projects, but at the same time I’m still working on our HitMotion: Reloaded, which is […]
