My predictions for virtual reality in 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). The difference between the two is becoming always more blurred, but for this year I prefer keeping them separate because they still have different markets. I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. So… let’s start! This is still the situation in this first part of 2022We all know the Gartner hype cycle of emergent technologies: they are initially overhyped, then undervalued, and finally, they fulfill their potential and become popular and useful. The M-verse will follow the same

The XR Week (2022.01.24): Google AR headset is “Project Iris”, Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard, and more

The international situation scares me a bit, but I’m trying to focus on the good things that happened to me this week. The Oxymore musical VR experience we of VRrOOm have organized with Jean-Michel Jarre went great; someone posted a tweet where he shows he finished our game HitMotion: Reloaded; and one of my readers made an amazing meme about my tutorials. I can say it was a great week for me, professionally speaking… and I hope that the next one will even be better. What about yours? Let me know how things are going for you! Top news of the week (Image by Google)Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. This shouldn’t surprise us given the recent acquisitions performed by the Big G, but now we have more details about what is happening at Mountain View. The AR

“Embrace the chaos” is my new mantra as a VR entrepreneur

Today I feel like writing a post that is less on the tech side, and more on the entrepreneurial side of VR, something that talks about my experience working as an entrepreneur/freelancer in this field. In particular, I want to talk about the attitude that I’m starting to have in my work and that is helping me to cope with this period of uncertainty. Since I know that many other professionals are reading my blog, I hope that it can help also many other people in handling some complicated periods of their working life. This is still a blog, after all, so sometimes I feel the need to vent and share my thoughts with you, hoping that they can help someone or that they can foster an interesting debate. I’ve always been a person that tries to plan things ahead, and tries to evaluate every decision very carefully: what can

Exploring Metaverse: Can It Ever Become a New Normal?

The future of the metaverse continues to be a hot topic of conversation amongst tech developers, virtual reality users, and an increasingly digital native population. As we move further towards engaging with a completely virtual online world, tech giants such as Meta and Microsoft continue to lead the way. The question is, what exactly can we expect from the metaverse. And could it become the new normal? What Is the Metaverse? In his 1992 Science Fiction Novel, ‘Snow Crash’, author Neal Stephenson first used the term ‘metaverse’ to explain his version of a virtual reality environment. Defining a 3D realistic world in which he could virtually be a part of, the term ‘metaverse’ was born, and hasn’t been forgotten since. The modern-day metaverse could be described as the fight to achieve a real-life online virtual world that incorporates virtual reality, augmented reality, and holographic forms of communication such as 3D