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DECEMBER 18, 2024

We've explored many places across virtual reality and mixed reality software in 2024, and picked some of our favorites. Today's article focuses on the best new title for three platforms in 2024, PCVR, Quest and Apple Vision Pro. We're rolling out our picks for the best of 2024 in three separate articles on consecutive days.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in mind as they approach app development for Apple Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In separate announcements, Owlchemy Labs revealed its ever-fresh VR title Job Simulator (2016) and its well-received follow-up Vacation Simulator (2019) are coming to Android XR;Resolution Games says Demeo (2021) is coming too. ” The story is the same for Resolution Games.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This week, Bloomberg reported that Apple is dropping the development of Mac-ready AR smart glasses. Seemingly, the Apple AR smart glasses device would work alongside and tether to Mac hardware, indicating that computing power would be shared between devices, unlike the Vision Pro’s standalone design.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 10, 2025

Apple Vision Pro Helps to Train NVIDIA Robots This week, at CES 2025, NVIDIA took centre stage to showcase its latest innovations in emerging technology. In its official press releases regarding NVIDIA robotics updates, Apples Vision Pro MR headset was featured in various promotional images, highlighting its pivotal role in this journey.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Apple released the software development kit for its upcoming visionOS platform that drives the Vision Pro headset. The new software tools in the SDK for "Apple's first spatial computer" rely on eye, hand and voice input, and Apple says it is accepting applications for developer kits starting next month.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Has Apple bitten more than it could chew? A Bloomberg article published recently says that the Apple AR glasses are facing technical challenges, so their release has been delayed indefinitely and the project scope pared back. The report also revealed that Apple may instead opt to release a more affordable mixed reality headset.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2023

Apple says it will give developers the opportunity to apply for Vision Pro dev kits starting sometime in July. In addition to releasing a first round of developer tools last week , including a software ‘Simulator’ of Vision Pro, Apple also wants to give developers a chance to get their hands on the headset itself.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2023

The long wait for a mixed reality headset from Apple will soon be over with the recent launch of Apple Vision Pro. Earlier this month, Apple unveiled its highly anticipated XR headset at the WWDC 2023 event. The Apple Vision Pro is set to hit US Apple stores in early 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

We may know the field of view of Apple AR headset. Of course, since he has not an Apple HMD, the only thing he could obtain was the screen splitting in two on his phone, showing that view that we XR developers know very well. It is now sure that Apple is going to release an AR headset , the questions are just when and what.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is over, and while Vision Pro was a big focus with the announcement of its visionOS 2 update , it’s pretty clear Apple’s first mixed reality headset isn’t in a hurry to feature-match other XR headsets at this point, let alone Meta Quest 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 12, 2025

If youve been keeping tabs on emerging extended reality tech, you probably know all about Apple XR for business the evolving ecosystem of tools, apps, and immersive enterprise software. Apples entry into the XR landscape has been a little rocky. But Apples XR journey is far from over its just beginning.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2018

Here’s a list of the most popular free and paid Apple ARKit apps. During Apple’s WWDC event, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering introduced ARKit , boldly declaring that “Apple will have the largest AR platform in the world.” 19, 2017 to March 19, 2018)?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, Apple will be able to continue to keeping their secretive plans to develop self-driving software behind closed doors thanks to virtual reality. The self-driving platform simulation group now includes VR expert Doug Bowman who joined Apple in January.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2024

For comparison, Apple’s App Store allows apps to be priced up to $10,000, and Google’s Play Store up to $400. That means the $1,000 WeldVR app is now the most expensive app you can find on the Horizon Store—beating out the previous ‘most expensive app’ , the $240 medical training app, Fetal Heart VR.

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MAY 28, 2024

Job Simulator And Vacation Simulator Arrive On Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro is now home to two of VR’s best-selling titles, Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator from Owlchemy Labs. Welcome to the golden age of hand-tracked VR gaming.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

Despite its dominance (or perhaps because of it), Meta has continued to make very good hardware while struggling deeply with its software. Of course the single biggest elephant in the room has been and will continue to be Apple. But nobody should be expecting hardware breakthroughs from Apple. On the Horizon for 2023.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Lately however the Netherlands-based corporation has been experimenting with immersive technology, from an official virtual reality kitchen experience , to a VR pancake cooking simulator for some strange reason. Then they simply scan the floor of the room they’re looking to decorate.

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Upload VR

JULY 11, 2023

Tinkerers got Apple's visionOS simulator for Mac streaming to Quest Pro as VR. In late June Apple released the SDK for visionOS, the operating system of Vision Pro, alongside a visionOS simulator for developers to test their apps on their Mac.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The company is performing various layoffs and also merging part of the Pico software divisions together with their Bytedance counterparts. More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. There are rumors also about Apple thinking about using the Vision Pro for health and fitness.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like Cities: VR , it is an immersive simulation, where gamers can craft houses and gardens to their heart’s content. Niantic, known for creating Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom, has made a software development package called Lightship Augmented Reality Developer’s Kit available to the public. However, it is more than a city-building game.

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ARPost

JUNE 23, 2023

Apple unveiled its first mixed reality headset, the Vision Pro, at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5, 2023. Stakeholders can also use it to create 3D models using their own data for simulations like climate change and infrastructure planning. Apple’s announcement cements the importance of the MetaCenter.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 28, 2025

UploadVR's Ian Hamilton went hands-on with Samsung's headset last month , but we weren't allowed to take photos, videos, or screen recordings, so we could only show a Samsung-provided render of the headset and Google-provided Android XR simulator footage of select apps. Siri on Apple Vision Pro offers a strange middle ground.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

This is a very useful resource for all of us XR developers that are going very soon going to experiment with Mixed Reality applications on a headset by Meta, Apple, or one of their competitors. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. others say that Starbreeze has left Acer without all the software it had developed for the headset, that so was just a brick.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

After having announced some of the features and the price just before the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, now the company formerly known as Facebook is already working towards the launch of the device. On social media, people have already started sharing images from the simulator , which gives you a quick glimpse of how the device will be.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info Discover Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro cost estimations A Chinese firm has tried to estimate the cost of the components of both the Quest 3 and the Apple Vision Pro. The second one is that the Apple Vision Pro is so next-gen that one of its displays costs just a bit less than all the components of Quest 3!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. But in the future, things may change: Apple, Pico, and Sony may change the current situation of the market. Now I want to try it too.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

Apple is working on headset versions of its core apps as well as the ability to view a Mac’s display, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Last year Gurman , The Information , and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released reports claiming Apple is working on a premium headset for VR and AR with high resolution color passthrough.

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Upload VR

JUNE 18, 2024

Shortly after Apple Vision Pro's launch ALVR was ported to Vision Pro by software developer Zhuowei Zhang. Though this initial port was rough with many issues, another programmer, Max Thomas , significantly improved it and launched it on TestFlight (Apple's equivalent to Quest's App Lab) in March.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple WWDC is back in June. Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held in an online format from June 6 through 10 , free for all developers to attend. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high. News worth a mention. Learn more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2017

Yuval and his team designed the OSVR software platform and built key parts of the OSVR offering. This kind of calculation is the basis for what Apple refers to as a “retina display”, a screen that when held at the right distance would generate this kind of pixel density on the retina. Simulating 7.5 pixels/degree).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A developer got Apple Vision Pro working on SteamVR by porting ALVR. But the code is open-source, and software developer Zhuowei Zhang has successfully ported it to visionOS , meaning Vision Pro too can act as a Windows PC VR headset. Walter Weatherman of Apple Vision Pro accessing SteamVR on a Windows gaming PC on his local network.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

What is great about Kinect is not only the hardware but also its accompanying software, with for instance great ML algorithms for full-body VR. For now, Microsoft says that people using that software can keep using it, but will this software still be updated? Will it be available for use with other sensors? RIP Kinect, again.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

So far in 2016 we’ve seen Samsung’s Note 7 go from everyone’s favorite cell phone to everyone’s favorite explosive device , the release of Google’s brand new Pixel line with DayDream support and Apple start riots over the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7. One example is the addicting business simulation game Towers For Tango.

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AR Insider

JUNE 7, 2021

For More USAF VR Simulations. technology and could pit it against software from Apple and Google. The simulation of traumatic experiences can often be mitigated by new therapies enabled by VR tech. Specular Theory Awarded $4.5M Avatour Raises $2.9 Million For Remote Inspection And Meeting Platform.

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