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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.12.16): Android XR announced, Samsung headset showcased, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announced Android XR The most important news of the week, and one of the most important of the whole year, has been the official announcement by Google of Android XR. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.01): Quest Pro gets released, Quest 3 slated for 2023, and more!

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Meta confirms Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We were all suspecting it, but now it is official: Meta has announced that Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We can also guess that the release will happen during Meta Connect 2023. More info (Meta confirms Quest 3 for 2023?—?Road I’m sure we will have more rumors in the next few months.

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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

The Ghost Howls

A VPS system detecting visual features in the surrounding environment (Image by Google) VPS stands for Visual Positioning System. GPS together with the sensors on the phone is all that we need to orient ourselves on a 2D map like Google Maps that we use every day. What is VPS? How do you develop an application using VPS?

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

The Ghost Howls

The approach chosen by Meta is similar to the one that Google promised to take with Android XR. Then the management of the camera will happen through the functionalities exposed by Camera2 in Android and WebCamTexture in Unity, which are the ones developers have always used with smartphones.

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‘Space Invaders: World Defense’ Will Showcase Google’s Newest AR Tool This Summer

Road to VR

Google has announced an upcoming AR game, Space Invaders: World Defense , which is built as a showcase of the company’s latest AR tool. Over the last few years Google has been steadily working on its AR developer toolset, ARCore.

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AR Advertising Projected to Reach $8.8 Billion by 2023

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billion in 2023. billion in 2023, an 81 percent compound annual growth rate. Visual search, a la Google Lens , identifies objects using the smartphone camera or AR glasses. Unity has begun to serve AR ads in its extensive in-game ad network and is worth watching closely for best practices. billion last year to $27.4

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