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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.1.1): Quest is selling well for the holidays, UEVR injector released, and more!

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The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.18): Roblox is coming to Quest, Google has an unclear XR vision, and more!

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More info (Roblox is coming to Quest — Road To VR) More info (Roblox is coming to Quest — Upload VR) More info (Roblox on Quest may increase scrutiny on the platform) Other relevant news (Image by WIRED) Mark Lucovsky has left Google Mark Lucovsky has just left Google. More info iVRy makes the PSVR2 work with SteamVR!

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.07): Apple Vision Pro is used by Fortune 100 companies, its cheaper version may come in 2025, and more!

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Store page of the game The game has been designed using Quill The Secret Of Retropolis may land on AVP Sponsored Area Help me in sharing this article It’s becoming harder for us indie creators to be noticed in Google Search results because, on top of us, there are always more sponsored links. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

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Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. More info (Google NeRF algorithm) More info (Quest 2 full body tracking) More info (Meta research on video points of view) More info (Apple patent for mixed reality). News worth a mention.

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The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

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More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.08): Xiaomi unveils its smartglasses, Improbable and RP1 want to create the networking for the metaverse, and much more!

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There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. At the same time, the developers of Myst have released on Road To VR a guest post about how they properly implemented a hand tracking interface in Unreal Engine for their game. A post worth reading.