While I relax a bit after having delivered another project, I enjoy the sun and the news from the XR world. And this week I think we had many cool news that are worth a mention, so let’s dig immediately into them! Top news of the week Sony invests $250M in Epic Games Sony has announced that […]
When talking about technologies like virtual reality, usually we like to speak about hardware, software and other technological features, but actually it is also interesting to talk also about all the rest that is around these technologies, about the human factor around them. Regarding this, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kadine James about […]
A bit late, but this new roundup of best AR and VR news of the week is out! Before starting reading this summary, don’t forget to read my mega-post with the behind-the-curtains of the concert we organized on VRChat for Jean-Michel Jarre. I put inside it a lot of free information about the lessons we have […]
On June, 21th, in the occasion of the French Music Fest, there has been a virtual reality concert held by electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre. This event, dubbed “Alone Together” has been a true success: hundreds of thousands people have followed its live stream on Youtube and Facebook, while thousands of people have attended it […]
My super-rush of work lasted one month is over, and now I can return to my previous levels of working! I need some sleep, though. I can also return to my usual weekly roundups of news, and you can read the new one here below. Have fun! Top news of the week Oculus kills the Go […]
June, 28th, one year ago, Valve launched the Valve Index, one of the best virtual reality headsets on the market. To celebrate its first birthday, my friend and renewed XR ergonomics expert Rob Cole of Immersive Computing has decided to write another one of his very interesting guest posts about his experiments with this device, […]
Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. As the technology has advanced rapidly since we launched Go, you’ve helped us […]
I’m sorry to say that today’s roundup will be less deep than usual. The past week has completely squeezed me out because of the VR concert we have organized on VRChat for Jean-Michel Jarre, and this week I’ve another big project to finalize. I really need some rest. I’ll talk about my experience with the […]
VR events are one of the big trends of virtual reality of the last 3 months. Because of the coronavirus, many physical events have been canceled and so people and companies are finding new ways to organize gatherings. Music has been one of the most impacted sectors by the COVID: most probably there won’t be […]
This night I woke up at 3am to participate in HTC Vive’s event on ENGAGE because I read that it was an “HTC VIVE LAUNCH EVENT” and I was super-confident in the launch of the Cosmos XR or at least of the Cosmos Play. Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no […]
I’ve had the enormous pleasure of having a chat with Gregory Jones, that works as Senior Manager of Global Business Development and XR at NVIDIA. He’s the man managing the CloudXR SDK, the solution that lets you have cloud rendering for virtual and augmented reality, so he has a great vision on how and when […]
