Greetings from the lockdown! As you probably know I’m a VR consultant/developer, and I’m Italian. Here we are currently in lockdown and the situation is pretty frustrating: we can’t travel, we are strongly advised not to go out from home (we must carry a paper that justifies why we are exiting even just to have […]
I’ve had the great pleasure of speaking with Lars Bergstrom, a very smart professional that with the Mixed Reality team at Mozilla works every day to improve the WebXR platform, working for a future immersive web that preserves our privacy and doesn’t clutter us with banners and fake news. He provided me very interesting insights […]
Yesterday it was International Women’s Day. So I want to thank all the wonderful women that are part of our AR and VR community for what they do every day and I also wish them the best for their future. You’re amazing. As for me, I’ve been flooded by worldwide requests asking how I am here […]
We are in the coronavirus times, and the outbreak of this disease has changed in a way or in another the lives of many people. One of the biggest consequences is that many people are now quarantined, or have problems traveling in the world. Many conference organizers are canceling their events, even important ones (like […]
This roundup of the most important AR/VR news of the past week comes out with a little delay since I’ve been very busy with my development job, and I’ve also a damn cold that doesn’t make me feel very well (but it’s no coronavirus, don’t worry :D). Sorry for that! So, while today Valve distributes the first […]
After having announced the impressive XR2 chipset in December, today Qualcomm has released the related XR2 reference-design, upon which will be based most of the upcoming standalone XR headsets. This is a piece of very important news for the future of AR and VR, so let me explain to you everything about it. Qualcomm XR2 […]
The damn coronavirus has arrived in my city in northern Italy, but I’m still alive and kicking, reporting you the most interesting XR news of the week! This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). It was cool making people dream about our future […]
On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! Top news of the week Half-Life Alyx is going to launch on March, 23rd With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be […]
Yesterday was Chinese Lanterns’ Festival… my best wishes to you all, especially a big hug to all people that are still in China and are living very hard times… 加油! This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. Do […]
Some days ago, I’ve seen a very intriguing video on Twitter by Robert Scoble about him trying an app that was able to understand what objects were in his surroundings in real-time. I was pretty intrigued, and I asked him what was this app, and he answered me that it was Chooch.ai. Chooch.ai is an […]
First of all, let me wish a nice rest to anyone who has participated in the Global Game Jam, especially the ones that have proposed some AR/VR games! This week in XR hasn’t been that interesting, we had mostly some minor news… but as always, this hasn’t stopped me from finding some notable things to know… […]
