It’s summertime! Many people are going on vacation, the VR magazines have reduced the amount of news they publish, but I’m still here writing for you the summary of the most important pieces of XR news of the week! This week we actually had quite a few notable things happen, so this Week Peek will […]
At AWE, one of my most important experiences for me was going hands-on with the prototype Android XR smartglasses by Google, the ones you have probably seen during the keynote at Google I/O. Let me tell you about my experience with them! Android XR smartglasses It’s widely known that Google and Samsung are working together […]
Yesterday, the Football World Cup ended, and now I feel like I don’t know anymore how to spend my evenings. Compliments to Spain, by the way… I hope that in four years we will be able to play against them… I couldn’t stand another World Cup without Italy! Anyway, enough talking about football… let’s dig into […]
In this VR winter, every day we keep reading news about layoffs of people working in AR/VR. Today I inform you about a new one: Lenovo has recently laid off its XR business unit in the US. Layoffs at Lenovo I’ve been informed about this news by a trusted source. Lenovo laid off the people […]
It’s a hot summer here in Italy. But this is not stopping me from providing you with my usual roundup of the most important XR news of the week… Top news of the week Meta teases VR announcements for Connect During one of its usual AMAs on Instagram, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth answered the question “Did you […]
I’m finally back in Italy, and I can spend a few weeks here, recovering from all the long trips I had. It was really insightful going to China, the US, and Germany, and I think now I have a better view of what is happening in the XR ecosystem. But now my body needs some […]
After the announcement of the Snap Specs at AWE, I saw a lot of criticism around the latest glasses released by Snap, and this triggered me a bit. Let me rant with you a bit about that. The critics about Snap Right after Snap announced Specs at AWE, the press and the online tech community […]
It’s the last day of June, and I’m writing this newsletter across airports during my trip to Berlin to be a mentor at the XRCC hackathon. It’s a pretty busy period of the year… Top news of the week Valve launches Steam Machine starting at $1,050 In the end, the rumor from last week was true, and […]
I just went back from the United States, where I had a very hectic AWE. I will publish some interesting articles about it in the upcoming weeks, so stay tuned (Actually, I have already published some: check out my hands on with Lumus and bHaptics!). And you will recognize that most of the news in […]
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to try a private demo by Lumus, the company producing waveguides for smartglasses and AR glasses. And they finally showed me the path to 70° FOV AR glasses. Lumus Lumus is a company focused on creating waveguides for glasses (AR glasses or smartglasses). They don’t produce the glasses themselves, but […]
Today was the big day: Snap finally announced on the stage of AWE the Specs glasses, the first consumer-oriented AR glasses. I guess you’ve already read the news somewhere else, but let me give you some insights I got about it directly from AWE, plus show you an interview I had with the head of […]
