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The XR Week Peek (2025.04.08): Meta’s upcoming smartglasses may cost $1400, the worries for US tariffs, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2025.04.08): Meta’s upcoming smartglasses may cost $1400, the worries for US tariffs, and more!

It’s not the most active period for the XR space, but at least this week we had the April Fool’s that shook our ecosystem a bit! And there have also been a few interesting pieces of news… I’ll talk about all of them in the current roundup, so you’re sure not to miss anything interesting […]

April 8, 2025April 8, 2025
by Skarredghost
Interview with Ori Inbar about AWE, investments in VR, and more!

Interview with Ori Inbar about AWE, investments in VR, and more!

I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Ori Inbar, the chairman of AWE, one of the most important events in XR, VR investor, and great XR enthusiast. We spoke about the incredible new opportunities for developers, creatives, and gamers that will attend AWE this year; where is the VR ecosystem nowadays; the VR investment […]

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025
by Skarredghost
The breaking news round-up: Decagear launches today, Pimax announces new headsets, and more! [APRIL FOOL’S]

The breaking news round-up: Decagear launches today, Pimax announces new headsets, and more! [APRIL FOOL’S]

Yesterday I published my usual roundup of the most interesting AR/VR news of the week. But during the night so many important announcements have been done that I felt the need of writing this addendum to my roundup. So enjoy this collection of breaking news about the XR ecosystem! Decagear launches today for $19.99 Today, […]

April 1, 2025April 4, 2025
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2025.03.31): Samsung may launch XR glasses this year, Vivo announces Vision headset, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2025.03.31): Samsung may launch XR glasses this year, Vivo announces Vision headset, and more!

It’s the last day of March, it’s a beautiful day, I just delivered a project… so it’s a wonderful moment to talk about the most interesting pieces of news of the week in AR and VR! And yes, also to make a little mention of all the “Studio Ghibli” AI hype… Top news of the week […]

March 31, 2025April 1, 2025
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

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 […]

March 19, 2025March 19, 2025
by Skarredghost
How to start developing with camera access for Meta Quest 3 on Unity 6

How to start developing with camera access for Meta Quest 3 on Unity 6

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 […]

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2025.03.04): Valve Deckard may cost $1200, PSVR 2 price has been slashed, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2025.03.04): Valve Deckard may cost $1200, PSVR 2 price has been slashed, and more!

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 […]

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025
by Skarredghost
PicotionAI: Playing Pictionary with mixed reality, camera access, and artificial intelligence

PicotionAI: Playing Pictionary with mixed reality, camera access, and artificial intelligence

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 […]

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025
by Skarredghost
CES 25: Optix’s incredible definition, Brelyon multifocal display, and LG’s true 3D display

CES 25: Optix’s incredible definition, Brelyon multifocal display, and LG’s true 3D display

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 […]

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2025.02.18): Ray-Ban Meta sold 2M devices, Meta may be working on humanoid robots, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2025.02.18): Ray-Ban Meta sold 2M devices, Meta may be working on humanoid robots, and more!

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 […]

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025
by Skarredghost
The XR Week Peek (2025.02.10): The Meta Quest Store is in a transition phase, Apple may integrate PSVR 2 controllers, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2025.02.10): The Meta Quest Store is in a transition phase, Apple may integrate PSVR 2 controllers, and more!

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 […]

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025
by Skarredghost

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