This has been a very intense week for me, work-wise. Luckily, intense in a good way. And just when I thought I had already too many things to do, I had to add another task, because Meta decided to release camera access for Quest and I couldn’t resist getting my hands dirty with it! Anyway, let’s […]
Today I want to talk about one of my favorite topics: passthrough camera access. Meta has just released the APIs to let developers access the frames grabbed by the front cameras of the Quest so that developers can craft applications that can understand the environment around the user. In this tutorial, I will explain step-by-step […]
Today is the last day of the Carnival celebrations, and there are many people having fun in the streets here in Italy. On my side, I’ll just celebrate by eating some typical sweeties of this period. I actually have a second reason to celebrate: Feedspot has put me in 3rd place in its classification of the […]
Today I want to tell you about a little but very cute project I’ve developed for Pico headsets. It’s called PicotionAI and it is a game that includes mixed reality, camera access, and artificial intelligence! As I have done in other similar cases, I’m telling you this story hoping that it can inspire you to […]
I have still a lot of things to tell you about my experience at CES. In this post, I want to describe three interesting pieces of hardware that I’ve tried: it’s going to be all about visual displays, each one with its own peculiarity! Optix optical system I went to check out Optix because my […]
I’m back in Italy, tired but happy. I hope you had a good Valentine’s Day with your special ones and that in general, you are happy, too. Do you want to know one of the reasons for my happiness? My article about Android XR granting permissions for the camera frames has earned me mentions in important […]
These days I feel better, so this newsletter is coming on time again (yay!). It’s been a good end of the week for me: on the work side, I have broken the news about camera access on Android XR (more on this later on), while on the personal side, I managed to cook some good […]
Passthrough camera access is a hot topic in the XR community right now and while the positions of Meta, Apple, and Pico are known, everyone is wondering what Google will do with Android XR. After I’ve spoken directly with the company, I can tell you that they will offer a solution similar to the one […]
I’m briefly back in China, and finally, I’ve managed to see a street show for the new year involving the traditional figures of the dragon and the tiger! I’m having a good time here, but I’m eating so much that I think I will explode in a few days. Best death ever. While I renew my […]
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! May the year of the snake bring you joy, happiness, money, success, love, and a lot of XR headsets! And if you are someone that celebrates this festivity, I wish you to spend some quality time with the people you love… and eat a lot of food 🙂 I’m literally swamped with […]
I can confirm that the CES sickness is a thing, and unluckily it doesn’t disappear with the end of CES. But still, my willingness to inform you is stronger than this cold, so here you are a collection of XR news that you will love to read! Top news of the week The autumn of XR […]
