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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. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.08): Microsoft launches Mesh, HTC and Pico tease new hardware, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year

Road to VR

Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. This inflection point has accelerated our efforts to enable OpenXR in Unity,” writes Matt Fuad , Sr.

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Microsoft Axes Social VR Platform & XR Interface Framework Amid Wide-reaching Layoffs

Road to VR

Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees, and with it the company is axing social VR platform AltspaceVR and its XR interface framework, Mixed Reality Toolkit. In a Hail Mary that few expected, Microsoft turned around and snapped up the ailing platform only two months after the planned shut-down date.

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Spatial on Unity Creator Tools, Company Vision, and the Metaverse for Consumers

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Spatial is a leading RT3D Metaverse platform for various hardware, including web browsers and XR headsets. Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages.

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Microsoft Mesh for Teams is now Available on Meta Quest Headsets

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Today, Microsoft is making its long—awaited Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform available for enterprise end users. The service is now available for clients, allowing them to access Microsoft’s dynamic virtual remote meeting solution via desktop or Meta Quest headsets. Mesh is helping us achieve that.

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Microsoft Ignite May Have Permanently Changed How We Think About Mixed Reality

ARPost

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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