Upload VR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Snap's AR Spectacles are coming to developers in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, and The Netherlands. They have a field of view of 46 degrees, similar to Xreal glasses and slightly below Hololens 2, and a 36 pixels per degree (PPD) resolution, similar to Apple Vision Pro. In Europe, the price will be €110/month.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

MR headsets include Meta Quest Pro, HTC Vive XR Elite, and Apple’s rumored headset which is reportedly set to arrive sometime early this year at around $3,000. Samsung, Qualcomm and Google will all be present, so we may just learn more there when the week-long event kicks off in Barcelona, Spain on February 27th.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2024

PICO shipped the 4 Ultra across Europe, including countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. PICO 4 Ultra Debuts for Enterprise The news comes after the PICO 4 Ultra debuted on September 20 for £529.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, Meta and Xtadium will only host the latter in the United States, and Horizon Worlds-based games in the US, United Kingdom, Iceland, Ireland, France, and Spain. At the time, Silver told the media, “We’re working very closely with Apple. Meta will also host the matches on the Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and now, Meta Quest 3.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Continuing the large wave of announcements and highlights from the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, HTC VIVE also introduced new enterprise immersive services for its XR Elite Bussiness Edition product. Moreover, the VIVERSE platform has deep AI integration to enhance the platform.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently revealed Microsoft HoloLens 2. Image courtesy Mozilla.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Meta's (Limited-Scope) Unity Competitor According to creators who have been testing the closed beta version, the Meta Horizon Desktop Editor has an interface resembling a simplified version of game engines like Unity, reminiscent of Apple's Reality Composer Pro, the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), or the Roblox Creator Hub.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Another one of Beyond’s big enthusiast-grade features is owed to Bigscreen’s ability to customize the fit of the headset to each user, which will be done by doing a one-time scan of the user’s face using an iPhone XR or more recent Apple mobile device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More info Meta AI now available on Ray-Ban Meta in some EU countries After an initial launch only in the US, Meta released its Meta AI assistant for Ray-Ban Meta glasses in Ireland, France, Italy, and Spain. Next month, Meta plans to add live translation for English and French, Italian or Spanish, too.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Horizon Worlds on the other hand has been limited to users 18+ since it was launched in 2021, and only to those in US, Canada, UK, France, Iceland, Ireland and Spain. Meta’s Quest 2 headset is technically only available to users aged 13 and up. At the same time, Meta has slashed some XR projects , including first-party title Echo VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This week at Mobile World Congress (CES) 2024 in Spain, HTC VIVE is showing face with a strong presence as a leading enterprise XR solutions provider reacting to industry trends to create its products. A defining factor of the Vision Pro is its controller-less design, instead leveraging tracking technology to record inputs.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to two separate complaints his group filed with regulatory bodies based in Germany and Spain, the advertising tech that comes… Read more. After making a name for himself going after Facebook’s and Google’s data practices, Austrian lawyer Max Schrems—and his advocacy group Noyb—is setting his sights on a new tech giant.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

PICO is shipping the 4 Ultra in Europe, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Apple and upcoming headset vendors such as Samsung have deep hardware ecosystems that may boost the capabilities and adoption of XR devices.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I myself switched from Apple to Samsung in 2015 specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR headset. But if Apple beats them to it, I’ll switch back to Apple. Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The news comes as the Bilbao, Spain-based company sponsors the Unity Unite 2023 Summit and aims to showcase its Virtual Reality-as-a-Service (VRaaS) platform, VIROO. With the release of the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro, is there any promising potential for the market, as well as your company?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

It all started because Horizon Worlds has finally landed in Europe, launching in France and Spain. Apple releases new interesting research on Nerf. There is a lot of hype on Apple’s research on Neural Radiance Fields, and their ability to reconstruct 3D scenes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

AWS is present at the Mobile World Congress (WDC) 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, this week, showing a new product just as the leading enterprise solutions provider moves towards providing a robust spatial computing ecosystem. AWS also provides Identity and Federation services to ensure secure user data and account functionalities.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ARway.ai, a firm working with various XR device leaders, such as Apple and Magic Leap, to leverage its unique immersive wayfinding platform for a broad range of use cases, recently announced a new partnership that amplifies its product offering to an increasingly sizeable international user base.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Last month, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr posted an open letter on his Twitter account directed at the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook , and the CEO of Alphabet Inc. I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Custom Comfort, Bigscreen Beyond Customers pre-ordering the headset will receive a Bigscreen app invitation to 3D scan their faces via an Apple iPhone Xr or later. European markets include the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, and others.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 16, 2022

Yes, it's a lot like Apple Wallet , but with a few extras thrown in. France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Samsung has combined several existing apps and services to create Samsung Wallet, an app that holds your digital keys, boarding passes, ID cards, payment cards, and cryptocurrencies, all in one place.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 10, 2022

So far, MADE.com has achieved phenomenal success across the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, and Belgium. The company decided to try building an AR experience specifically for people using Apple iOS devices. The solution would be accessible only to Apple users, via ads on Facebook.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The firm is experiencing sales success with its current iterations of the Ray-Ban Stories product, currently distributing the device in the US, CA, UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. I think the AR announcement will be very groundbreaking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

PICO’s Apple Vision Pro-Style Workplace Device to Ship PICO has revealed more details about its upcoming PICO 4 Ultra MR headset, first introduced last month. The listing does not reveal any further specifications or details about the device, but previous announcements earlier in the year provide a clear picture of what to expect.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2024

Next month, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2024 (WWDC) and Augmented World Expo 2024 (AWE) are set to shake up the enterprise XR space. At WWDC 2024, Apple may reveal international release windows for its Vision Pro device.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Dolby has been working for years on what Apple is about to bring to market. In this newsletter I’ll focus on Dolby Atmos and the changes that happened the past few months on Apple Music. . This is why I am trying to get the VR/AR industry to care about the changes going on with Apple Music and its investments in 3D music.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 13, 2023

These included an ongoing row with Apple over advertising and privacy upgrades, regional and transnational restrictions on data and adverts and a spike in overhead costs of 22 percent. Meta’s workforce could see a 13 percent slash in its headcount, following initial cuts of 11,000 workers in November last year.

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AIXR

AUGUST 22, 2022

Meta announced that Horizon Worlds is now available in France and Spain. Apple plans to ship approximately 1.5 million units of its upcoming AR/VR headset in 2023, according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Apple plans to ship approximately 1.5 Apple’s 1.5m Canada, and the U.K. to team@aixr.org.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 6, 2023

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, provided a premier backdrop for the immersive and emerging technologies industry. Personnel and staff from major Fortune 500 firms, including Apple, Google, Raytheon, and others, also use it to upskill for their daily operations.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 17, 2022

into two new countries, France and Spain: The first thing I think of when I look at this picture is: hoo boy , somebody working in Meta’s PR department is gonna get fired! This will apply both to behemoth corporations like Meta, Apple, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), as well as to much smaller metaverse-building companies.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 31, 2023

You will require an iPhone (Apple iOS 12.4 or higher) to set up the Meta Quest 2, using apps which are available from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store , respectively. Please note that according to the terms of service, you must be at least 13 years of age to set up a Meta account (14 if you live in South Korea or Spain).

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Bernard Marr

JULY 7, 2023

Especially when you consider that today's wearable devices, like the Apple Watch, are capable of gathering so much data on our body, including heart rate, sleep data and physical activity. In the future, I see a system where this data can be seamlessly shared with physicians to better inform remote consultations.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We don’t know who originated the leak… but honestly, considering the perfect timing to generate hype for Facebook Connect, and the fact that it just shows a bit without showing too much… well, I have some suspects… (Do you remember the “leak” about Quest 2 some days before Facebook Connect 1 and timely before Apple Event?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Are you just using kind of Apple's framework for that? You talked about kind of working with startups to help get you where you need to be. What is the platform you're using to distribute this? Because you talked about quick look in AR. And then what about people on Android? What is the actual nuts and bolts of it?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Are you just using kind of Apple's framework for that? You talked about kind of working with startups to help get you where you need to be. What is the platform you're using to distribute this? Because you talked about quick look in AR. And then what about people on Android? What is the actual nuts and bolts of it?

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Mashable VR

JUNE 25, 2022

Sandler plays Stanley Sugerman, an NBA scout who travels to Spain and discovers Bo Cruz, played by Juancho Hernangómez, a talented player who has some baggage in his past. Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” Credit: Apple TV+. How to watch: Cha Cha Real Smooth is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Through these metaversities, educators and students at the University of Leeds in the UK, University of the Basque Country in Spain, and University of Hannover in Germany will be able to explore, socialize, and participate in live classes remotely, all within an immersive environment that mirrors their physical campuses.

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