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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. This has been thanks to its massive growth: according to Rec Room’s Shawn Whiting, in March 2021 the total number of users was 2 million, while now they are 37. A look back at 2021. It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to look back at what has happened in 2021.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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Rafi Nizam Shares XR Creative Journey with NVIDIA Omniverse

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender. The news comes after the most recent update, where NVIDIA revealed its partnership with Autodesk to join the former’s CloudXR and latter’s VRED technologies via Amazon Web Services last month.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. ENTERPRISE-FOCUSED VR MARKET TO GROW TO OVER $9B BY 2021. THE VOID GOES TO DUBAI.

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MetaVRse is the XR engine for enterprise

The Ghost Howls

The Marketplace will launch in 2021. Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. It feels abandoned in the overall Amazon ecosystem and the rendering technology is older and inefficient. For what AR and VR devices can it export to?

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Mozilla Ceases Support for Mozilla Hubs (but the Open-Source Hubs Community Edition Continues)

Ryan Schultz

Of these two, I have decided to immediately start on the second project, which I have not worked on since 2019 (but I would like to thank Dr. Fran Babcock, who made some updates to this spreadsheet in 2021). Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet!

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. But we’d also expect to see the existing edge providers such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, the big cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a host of open-source tools for automation, deployment, caching, federated learning, serverless computing and so on.