At AWE, I have been able to go hands-on with a new way to perform eye tracking, which is with event cameras from Prophesee. What are event cameras? Before sharing my hands-on impressions, it’s a good idea to discuss what event cameras are. If this question does not sound new to you, it is because […]
Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms. The partnership could be mutually beneficial as Snap’s platforms will get city-scale positioning capabilities while Niantic could see a massive influx of user-generated data to […]
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The Smurfs – Flower Defense is a casual cartoon strategy game that’s surprisingly hard to put down. I’m embarrassed to admit how much of my teen years I spent playing tower defense games. From Plants Vs Zombies to Bloons, it’s a genre that’s easy to sink time into, especially as they ramp up in difficulty […]
The day before yesterday, for the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to sit down with Philip Rosedale and spend some time with him. Philip is now back as CTO of Linden Lab (hence, of Second Life), so for me it was also the occasion of visiting the offices of the first […]
Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week that Vision Pro is set to support PSVR 2 Sense controllers when visionOS 26 launches this Fall. While still in developer beta, YouTuber ‘Nathie’ got a chance to go hands-on, showing off just how the controllers work. In the video, Nathie shows off PSVR 2 […]
The number of millionaires in the U.S. grew last year, setting the U.S. apart as a world leader in global wealth. UBS, an investment bank and financial services company, released its annual global wealth report on Wednesday, looking back at wealth trends in 2024. The company defined a millionaire as anyone with a net worth […]
Alliance Peacefighter has finally launched onto Steam, having been pulled from its original June 4 release at the eleventh hour and given two extra weeks in development space dock. The reason given was a simple one: persistent issues with Valve Index controllers. Fair enough you might think, but another developer might well have proceeded with […]
A big hello from Cupertino, the city of Apple, here in the Silicon Valley! I’ll stay here a week to have meetings before going to Berlin to be a mentor at XRCC. I hope my time in the Bay Area will be nice, after the troubled week at AWE (I got sick during the event […]
Vuzix, the veteran smart glasses maker, announced it’s secured a $5 million investment from Quanta Computer, the Taiwan-based ODM and major Apple assembler. The latest investment was the second tranche following an initial $10 million investment made by Quanta in September 2024, which included the purchase of Vuzix common stock at $1.30 per share. At the […]