The XR Week Peek (2021.12.06): Upload VR Showcase, Apple headset rumors, and more!

vrcoin on December 6, 2021

I guess all companies have finished their important announcements before US Thanksgiving and now we are in a calm moment where there is some news here and there, but nothing incredible. Probably we’ll hear new big shots fired at CES in January 2022. So yes, this roundup won’t be amazing… interesting, but not exciting. I know, I’m too honest… and this is not good for views on my blog. So let’s try to rephrase this last paragraph using the same style used by VR Youtubers in the title of their videos to attract more people: THIS EXPLOSIVE WEEK IN VR HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!! YOU MUST READ THIS POST!!!!!!!!!! PS I’ll be a panelist at the XR Safety Week today and at Stereopsia (remotely) on Wednesday. If you may be interested, follow me 🙂 Top news of the week (Image by Upload)The Upload VR Showcase has been full of announcements about VR games Upload did it

The XR Week Peek (2021.11.29): Black Friday deals, investments in Niantic, and more!

vrcoin on November 29, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you all American friends have celebrated it with your families and have eaten a lot of turkeys (or whatever vegan alternative), enjoying good times with your peers. If you were wondering, we in Italy do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I would love one year to participate in its celebration hosted by an American family. Who knows, maybe next year 🙂 Before leaving, I have to tell you that in a few days I will be hosted by a podcast organized by Deltatre Innovation Lab, where I’ll meet again my partner in crime at Immotionar! Here you are all the platforms where you can watch/listen to it: Top news of the week (Image by Steam)Enjoy Black Friday deals! Due to Thanksgiving, this week we had almost no really relevant news for the industry. So let’s enjoy the good that Thanksgiving has given to us, that is the sales for Black

The XR Week Peek (2021.11.22): Quest maybe has sold 10 M units or maybe not, Roblox goes VR, and more!

vrcoin on November 22, 2021

I am back in Italy! The trip to the US has been incredibly interesting: I have met many amazing people and tried many innovative devices, so I have been very satisfied with having gone there. I still miss a bit having a walk around University Street in Palo Alto and seeing a lot of young people having fun in the restaurants. I’m sure I’ll return there. But now it’s time to get back to routine work, so let me tell you about the most important news in AR and VR from this week. Top news of the week (Background image from Meta)Meta Quest 2 has sold 10M units, or maybe not The most important announcement of the week has been the one that never existed. Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units

The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

vrcoin on October 31, 2021

Hello everyone and Happy Halloween to whoever celebrates it! Here in Italy we were not used to celebrating it when I was a kid, but children now have fun dressing up and asking for some sweeties from their neighbors. As the ghost of VR, I guess it should be my favorite festivity, so it’s my time to go outside and scare people by saying sentences like “Cardboard is back!” But today I have something more to celebrate… I have reached 20K followers on Twitter! I still can’t believe this… some years ago I even thought 10K was an impossible target for me… in the end, I’m just a guy writing technical walls of text, publishing badly edited Youtube videos,

The XR Week Peek (2021.09.27): Huge leaks on Quest 2 Pro (and Quest 3?), Nreal to launch new glasses, and more!

vrcoin on September 27, 2021

This is the first newsletter of Autumn 2021: I think I’ll miss the sun but for sure not the mosquitos. By the way, I wish you a lot of happiness for this new season. I’m getting busy with some new interesting projects, but at the same time I’m still working on our HitMotion: Reloaded, which is now finally available also in Passthrough Mixed Reality! Get it on SideQuest and let us know your impressions about it! Before leaving you to the news of this week, I want to thank Avi Bar-Zeev for having included me in this list of top 100 voices in XR together with a lot of people I personally esteem. I also thank everyone of you that supported me in this journey! Top news of the week (Image from Imgur)Leaks point to features of Quest 2 Pro (and Quest 3?) This has been a hectic week for the leaks on the

The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

vrcoin on July 26, 2021

I’m incredibly happy about having been hosted by Sebastian Ang (MRTV), one of my favorite VR content creators, in his weekly podcast on Youtube! We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: [embed]https://youtube.com/watch?v=6VSE1i1fFCI&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent[/embed] And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! Top news of the week (Image by Facebook)Zuckerberg says that in 5 years Facebook will be a “metaverse company” The most viral XR article of the week has been an interview that Mark Zuckerberg had with The Verge. It’s a long post, in which Mark details the vision for the future of XR and for the “metaverse” that Facebook is going to follow in the upcoming years. Notwithstanding

The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

vrcoin on July 13, 2021

Sorry if this newsletter is one day late. Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. I have watched the final match with friends and we had a lot of fun, plus I felt that feeling of friendship, union, and happiness, that only sport can convey to people. Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. We won with our heart, the big heart of us Italians ❤. Ok, enough with football… let’s get back to AR and VR… Top news of the week (Image by Lynx)Lynx now aims at an MR