I’m back from China, and while I’m still dizzy from the jet lag, I’m preparing my trip to the US for the next week. I guess I’ll spend the next couple of weeks without realizing what time of day it is… But I know what time is now: it is the time for some amazing XR […]
Project Moohan was a no-show at Samsung’s Galaxy product event yesterday, giving the company even fewer opportunities to announce and release the Vision Pro competitor by year’s end. Samsung confirmed in early August that Project Moohan is coming before the end of the year, although we still don’t know its name, release date, or price. At […]
Apple held its biggest launch event of the year on Tuesday, with the tagline: “Awe Dropping.” At the event, Apple released the next generation of iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods, including the Apple Watch Ultra 3, AirPods Pro 3, and iPhone 17. “We’re taking the biggest leap ever for iPhone,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said […]
I didn’t know what to expect upon walking into Blur during Venice Immersive, though going through the curtain gives me an immediate sense of unease. Co-directed by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg, Blur describes itself as “a new myth for the modern age” focused on how science has changed the way we perceive life and […]
I’m super excited to say, for the first time in my life, “See you at Meta Connect!”. Me in this moment You know, I started working in VR(/AR/MR/XR/WhateveR) in 2014, and I started getting into development for the Oculus Rift DK2 in Unity around September of that year. 2014 is the year that Facebook acquired […]
According to a Breaking Defense report, the U.S. Army has chosen defense startups Anduril and Rivet to compete in its revamped Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) project, now called the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC), which is slated to integrate AR headsets into combat roles. Rivet, partly funded by Palantir and led by former Microsoft IVAS lead […]
An OpenAI staff member is clearing up the “misinformation” online and telling high school students that they should “absolutely learn to code.” On an episode of the OpenAI podcast last week, OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor noted that high school students still gain benefits from learning programming, even though AI coding tools like ChatGPT and Cursor […]
Why will Meta’s first HUD glasses only have a display in one eye? An explanation from Meta’s CTO seems to provide the reason. If you haven’t been keeping up with the reports, a wide range of sources suggest that Meta intends to release smart glasses with a small heads-up display (HUD) this year, codenamed Hypernova, […]
My blog is now 9 years old and I really hope something special happens to me in this 10th year of my career. For now, I can’t wait to publish the interview I have had with Kyle Riesenbeck, but who knows if other surprises are going to happen. Anyway, let’s focus on the XR news […]
HTC is joining Meta and others in the rapidly heating smartglasses space with its newest product, the VIVE Eagle. Like other smartglasses, the Eagle lacks any kind of display, being positioned instead as a vehicle for AI voice assistance and media capture. Smartglasses have been around in one form or another for more than a […]