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Mexico Celebrates First VR Festival in Latin America

VRScout

Last month, more than 1,200 people participated in VR Fest MX , Mexico’s first international virtual reality festival, the first of its kind in Latin America and Spain. Mattel used the event to unveil its VR View-Master in Mexico, while Samsung and Unity were also some of the event’s main sponsors.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! For this reason, even if across the years some good headsets came out from that ecosystem, like the Samsung Odyseey+, the platform never took off. Microsoft in the end has decided to deprecate it.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Meta is having funding issues because of the new trade wars between America and China. Samsung itself has stated that it is very interested in developing a future headset that is able to deliver both AR and VR.

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Highlights From New York City’s Upcoming VR In The Sky Event

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10:15 am – 10:45 am | Keynote: The World’s Most Compelling New Experiences (Unity). Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity. Julie Shumaker | Vice President, Business Development, Unity. You can find her broadcasting weekly on Voice America’s business channel on her ‘Tech Cat Show’​.

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2022

The Ghost Howls

In the USA, it is almost mainstream; in Europe, it is something for people that have some knowledge of gaming or technology; in South America, is very difficult to get a headset. Another brand I’m very curious about is Samsung : sooner or later, it should announce something, either in VR or in AR.

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Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus: let the battle begin

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And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung. The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset.

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