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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.26): Valve Roy controller leaked, VR Black Friday deals, and more!

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But for now, I’ll just tell you what have been in my opinion the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week… Top news of the week (Image by KnightMD) Valve Deckard’s “Roy” controllers allegedly leaked The usual Brad Lynch with his team of data miners has found evidence of a controller codenamed Roy in the code of SteamVR.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.21): OpenAI drama shakes the AI world, Unity enables Vision Pro development, and more!

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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.

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Project Modular: Building an open modular controller for SteamVR

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XR ergonomics expert Rob Cole published last year on this platform an article detailing Project Caliper , that is his experiments in building fully configurable controllers for SteamVR. The article soon gets viral, and many people would have loved to see these controllers go into production. So what was this new idea then?

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The XR Week Peek (2024.09.16): New leaks on Quest 3S, iPhone 16 can shoot spatial videos, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Meta) There are new leaks on Meta Quest 3S This week we had new leaks on Quest 3S, including many images of the headset and its controllers and some leaked information on the Quest documentation website. The new CEO has finally made the great decision to remove it.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

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It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers. It’s interesting that someone has already started modifying this application, and a guy already obtained a version that works just with hand tracking and no controllers. Lone Echo).

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.01 + 2023.11.08): Pico performs layoffs, Nimo announces AR glasses, and more!

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The puck of the Nimo runs on top of a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR 2 (Gen 1) and it is used both as a computation unit and as a controller. Release date of Stride: Fates New gameplay video for Arizona: Sunshine 2 Rolling Stones pack for Beat Saber Trailer and Release date for Silent Slayer. It looks like a cool gadget. SteamVR 2.0

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Image provided by Rob Cole). Second-generation base station (2.0)