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

The Ghost Howls

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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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

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The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. A thing I have appreciated about Meta is that it has canceled projects, but it has not fired anyone.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

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These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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HaptX Gloves G1 Now Available For Pre-Order

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Touch is the cornerstone of the next generation of human-machine interface technologies, and the opportunities are endless.” The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API. To celebrate the launch of the HaptX Gloves G1, the company is currently accepting pre-orders. Image Credit: HaptX.

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SenseGlove review: a nice DK1 for force-feedback in VR

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Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). I hoped that the setup of SenseGlove gloves could have been a bit easier , but being a development kit of experimental hardware, it is not strange that it requires some time. you can feel when a drilling machine is on).

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Sabby Life is Changing the Way We View Art With VR Art

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More than just being a tool to view VR art versions of these masterpieces, this game also lets visitors learn more about each sculpture or painting. Sabby Life has also worked with Juilliard to introduce VR art and performance in Beyond the Machine , a regular showcase that features a variety of interdisciplinary works.

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This Theme Park Has A VR Water Slide

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The second is a machine learning powered system that analyzes the accelerometer data of every rider as they ride. The VR experiences are rendered in real-time inside Unity, so the tracking system can adapt to each user’s speed in real time. Ballast’s VR water slide is a unique system that looks entertaining as hell.