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The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.
Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2. million in 2023.
Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). See Unity running on Quest.
However, recent reports suggest that Meta is also working on a controller-less MR headset with the codename Puffin. According to insiders speaking to The Information, Meta is working on “Puffin,” a controller-less MR headset designed for everyday use.
But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content. 1, 2026 for consumers and Nov. And that “ As of Nov. This can be used only on devices that can track your face, like the Quest Pro.
As TechCrunch reports: “It describes ‘neural interfacing’ as the technique it will use to give wearers of its lenses full control over applications without them needing to use ‘awkward’ eye movements or extra controllers.
The new editor resembles a simplified version of a game engine like Unity or Unreal and allows one to program the world logic with Typescript , which is a quite successful web programming language. The result will be worlds that will look prettier and will be more engaging.
This headset should go into production in the second half of 2025, so realistically be available in 2026. Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry.
Only the second edition in 2026 will be actually released to the market. Reading between the lines, he has confirmed the rumors but stated that Meta will still work hard to release its AR glasses with EMG-wrist device to control them. We have a new update on the Etee controllers: they should ship in the next two months.
A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. But the sequel of the popular Virtual Virtual Reality has not been received very well: many reviewers highlighted the high amount of bugs found, and some others (like me) the clunky controls and the slow pace.
Apple Vision Pro 2 reportedly targets a late 2026 launch, over 50% of Fortune 100 companies are using Vision Pro, Tilt Five is on sale, and Quest 3 is nearly tied with Valve Index on SteamVR. Unity, the leading engine for VR game development, appointed Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO.
The controllers were pretty basic, and Microsoft didnt make much effort to actually draw VR developers to its platform. However, even if you dont, youll only be able to use SteamVR apps through November 2026. The partnership is still in its early stages, and mass production isnt set to start until 2026.
Google does not have the same reliability as Apple, but still, if the company that controls most of the smartphone market re-enters the XR field, and it does that with Samsung, which is one of the best manufacturers of phones, there must be a reason. But this may need at least one year to happen, so its again 2026-2027.
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