In a paper in Nature, Meta detailed some of the sEMG wristband gestures you’ll use to control its HUD glasses & AR glasses. The peer-reviewed paper, titled “A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction”, describes in scientific detail the device which Meta has been developing since at least 2019, when it acquired a startup called CTRL […]
Yesterday, German startup Gixel came out of stealth mode to announce it is working on a new type of optical engine for AR glasses and smartglasses. It also announced a €5M funding round led by several business angels, including the Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe. Ah, and I also had a secret meeting with them at […]
UK-based startup Freeaim kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign yesterday to support the release of a pair of motorized shoes designed to enable natural walking in VR, essentially giving your feet two independent treadmills to walk on. VR treadmills are usually pretty costly and bulky, which means they mostly appeal to enterprise. Now, Freeaim has […]
Sam Altman, the CEO of $300 billion AI startup OpenAI, is asking finance industry leaders to stay ahead of AI trends — and to avoid voice authentication at all costs. At the Federal Reserve’s Regulatory Capital Framework Conference on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Altman told a crowd of financial regulators and industry experts that “a […]
In a new interview, Ready at Dawn’s co-founder said he believes not enough developers are pushing the boundaries of VR. Speaking with Christopher Dring at The Game Business following the formation of Atlantis Studio, Ru Weerasuriya touched upon his former studio’s history from Daxter to the Lone Echo series in a recent interview. Explaining how […]
A few weeks ago, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi released to the public its AI smartglasses. The Xiaomi AI Smartglasses are currently available online in China, but many people in the XR communities in the West started wondering if they are any good, and especially how they compare with the more famous Ray-Ban Meta. Well, today […]
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome (2024) is pretty amazing on its own, offering up enough frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at across its Crashloop story mode. Coming July 27th, Clone Drone is getting a fresh injection of content with its new ‘Skyscrapper’ endless mode, letting you scrap through increasingly difficult challenges until your very last clone […]
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Table Troopers is what mixed reality gaming on your Quest should be all about: compelling, accessible, intuitive, full of potential, and fun. It screams “Worms,” as in, the tactical strategy game series you’ll recall if you grew up with a PC in the mid-90s or played the many sequels that have since followed. But it […]
Ahead of an upcoming technical conference, researchers from Meta’s Reality Labs Research group published details on their work toward creating ultra-wide field-of-view VR & MR headsets that use novel optics to maintain a compact goggles-style form-factor. Published in advance of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Emerging Technologies conference, the research article details two headsets, each achieving a […]