Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest, thanks to an affordable device running great content, it is making strides in the market. But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico. It tried to […]
This week has been like an out-of-season Christmas for us XR enthusiast! Lots of interesting news, some of which have just made my jaw to drop! So let me stop talking and let’s dig into them immediately! Top news of the week Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek Apple glasses are […]
Christmas has arrived early this year, and I got from HTC a cool little package with inside the Vive Cosmos External Tracking Faceplate! Let me talk about it with you… What is the Vive Cosmos External Tracking Faceplate? The Vive Cosmos has been built with modularity in mind and one of its coolest features is […]
While in Italy we get ready for the “Phase 2” of the lockdown, I write the best AR/VR news of the week just for you! Top news of the week VR adoption is increasing, but beware of the virus The biggest news of the week is the one that you can see in the above graph: in […]
LBVR will be for sure the industry that will be impacted the most by coronavirus. No one will want to put on his face a device that has been on the face of many people before, because it would be too risky. The times when at exhibitions you put on headsets used by thousands of […]
Typing in AR/VR is still an unsolved problem. Every method tried until now doesn’t work, either because it is too complicated, or slow, or cumbersome. An interesting startup in the field is TAP, that with its innovative one-hand gesture-based keyboard has gained some interest, because it lets you write everywhere, with just one hand, without […]
Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. Anyway, I’m very busy at home, and I’m working on a new secret project with the startup Beyond The […]
WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR, where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. Mozilla, that is doing a lot for the immersive web, has so decided to develop a WebXR exporter for Unity, to let all Unity […]
I had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Hugo Falgarone, the founder and CEO of SkyReal, a startup offering CAD models visualization in VR. SkyReal is a French company that started as a project inside Airbus, and then evolved into a separate company. Its mission is to help enterprise companies, especially the ones […]
Heeeeelllo VR people! It’s time for another mega roundup of news! But before reporting to you what has happened this week, I’m pleased to announce that I will actually be a speaker at AWE in the end! There won’t be a physical AWE, but there will be an online one, made through online webinars. The AWE […]
Today I was reading Upload VR, and I’ve found a very interesting article by David Heaney stating that now it is possible to use your real environment as your Oculus Quest Home environment. I immediately got excited, because this meant that the Oculus Quest has now some augmented reality functionalities! I tried this new feature, […]
