Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. I would be lying if I said that mixed reality and generative AI were two of my favorite things. And yet, a Christmas Day […]
Sony introduced hand-tracking support for PSVR 2 back in December, offering up the ability for developers to update their games and let players go hands-on thanks to the headset’s on-board tracking cameras. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the Wizard (2019) is the first to implement hand-tracking on PSVR 2. Waltz of the Wizard has grown […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of the journey. In my years as CEO and President of an international commercial cleaning franchise system, I’ve understood that the most successful entrepreneurs have one thing in common: they embrace failure as an opportunity to grow. Related: […]
Palmer Luckey’s Anduril is taking over the US Army’s IVAS HMD program, previously handled by Microsoft. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program was first announced back in 2018, and in 2021 the contract was awarded to Microsoft, with a stated value of up to $21.88 billion over 10 years for more than 100,000 headsets. The eventual […]
These days I feel better, so this newsletter is coming on time again (yay!). It’s been a good end of the week for me: on the work side, I have broken the news about camera access on Android XR (more on this later on), while on the personal side, I managed to cook some good […]
Apple’s Vision Pro launch resembles its Apple Watch debut in more ways than one, but to me the most telling similarity is in the marketing approach. Apple has striven to distance the Vision Pro from the existing crop of virtual reality (and even mixed reality) devices — many of which are objective failures — by […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Imposter syndrome is that feeling of never being good enough, even with proof you have succeeded. It makes you doubt yourself, credit success to chance and worry about being “found out” to be an imposter. Regardless of the level that an entrepreneur finds themselves at, these are […]
John Carmack described PC VR as “a boutique niche”, standalone VR as “the biggest win that VR ever had”, and Beat Saber as “far more important than Half-Life: Alyx”. In a post on X, the former Oculus CTO once again clarified his position on standalone and PC VR, a position he has held for more […]
I’m briefly back in China, and finally, I’ve managed to see a street show for the new year involving the traditional figures of the dragon and the tiger! I’m having a good time here, but I’m eating so much that I think I will explode in a few days. Best death ever. While I renew my […]
Wizards of the Coast and Resolution Games have announced their collaboration to bring Dungeons & Dragons to virtual reality. The decades-old tabletop role-playing game has become increasingly popular over the last several years, in large part due to third-party content creators like Critical Role and Dimension 20, in which ensemble casts play D&D to create […]