A few years ago, we had one word that was both very good and very bad for VR: the metaverse. During the hype, the metaverse helped XR in getting a lot of attention, but at the same time, it created so much confusion in our field that we all started hating it, and a few […]
I hope things are going great for you and that you had a wonderful Easter, if you celebrate it. Things in XR are going pretty badly, but at least I could eat a wonderful Easter cake with a lot of Pistachio cream, and that made me feel happy again… Top news of the week Rec Room […]
Today, we are going to celebrate the end of VR with a big funeral event that is going to happen both in real life and VR. This will be the last act of that gimmick tech called virtual reality. The VR Funeral We have all read from tech magazines and LinkedIn posts that VR is […]
I’m in complete shock. Today I woke up, I went on X to interact with the XR community, and I immediately saw this post by Bradley: I thought it was an April Fools post, but then I checked the date, and it was definitely too early for that. Googling around, I found that it is […]
It’s beautiful here: Spring has brought the Sun, higher temperatures, and also the blossoming of flowers. Everything is so alive now… except for the metaverse, which is dead, as you all know… Top news of the week Meta is slated to launch two new smartglasses According to two new FCC filings, spotted by the journalist Janko […]
Spring is here, and we all hope it is going to bring away some of the cold of the Winter of VR! Before heading to the most relevant pieces of XR news of the week, let me thank Feedspot for having selected my blog again inside its shortlist of top 90 worldwide VR blogs! And thank […]
Last year, in November, I was finally able to go hands-on with 2Sync, an innovative solution that creates a compelling blend of the real and the virtual. I don’t know why I waited so long to write this article, but better late than never, so follow me and discover why I loved discovering this startup. […]
This has been quite an interesting week to be in XR. There have been no mindblowing pieces of news, but quite a lot of things worth reading about. Probably the fact that GDC took place helped on this side, even if I heard that the event has not been as glorious as in the past. […]
If you have been in the XR field for many years, like me, I have a question for you: don’t you have the impression we are keeping repeating the same things? I mean, I love our field: I love the people, the technology, and feeling immersed in another world. But sometimes I feel like being […]
I’m writing this newsletter episode from a brand new computer, a new cool rig ideal for XR and AI coming from a collaboration with DELL. Tomorrow, I’ll publish the unboxing video on YouTube… if you’re curious, feel free to check it out! Luckily, there has been this piece of personal news that excited me, because not […]
In the last few weeks, I’ve often seen the community debating about what is the future of HTC Vive: once the market leader in VR, the company has lately been pretty silent about releasing new VR headsets. Instead of simply speculating, I directly contacted the company and spoke with a spokesperson about the present and […]
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