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Images and a video of Meta’s next VR headset ‘Leaked’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A sample of Meta’s next VR headset, the Meta Quest Pro, is said to have been left in a hotel room and found by a PC gaming streamer, Ramiro Cardenas. Cardenas’s …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Virtual Reality

Varjo Raises $40 Million Series D Funding to Build a True-to-Life, Industrial Metaverse

by Artem Alekseenko

Varjo™, the industry-leading provider of professional-grade VR/XR hardware and software, announced it has secured $40 million USD (equivalent to €41 million EUR) in new funding. The Series D investment is backed by return investors …

Tags:Virtual Reality

Pico to Move to Mixed Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment said that the next Pico VR headset (from the ByteDance subsidiary) will support pass-through VR and mixed reality operation. The same feature is expected to be in the forthcoming …

Tags:Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 9th September 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. There are a lot as I was so …

Links Week Ending 16th September 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. There are a lot again as I was …

Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Reuters reports that Meta has signed a deal with Qualcomm who will provide custom chips for Meta’s Quest VR headsets. The companies’ engineering teams will collaborate on the platform. The chipsets …

Tags:Application Processors| Facebook/Meta| Qualcomm| Virtual Reality

Apple Headset Ideas from Gurman

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple expert, Mark Gurman described ‘at least’ three Apple XR headset developments. N301 – probably to be called the Apple Reality PRo and a high-end rival to Meta Platforms Inc.’s …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| iPhone| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

Meta Cambria Headset Launch Date Set

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the ‘better than Quest’ Cambria headset will be launched in October at the Connect 2022 event (date tba) and that …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Sony Sets Data for PlayStation VR2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Via its social media channels, Sony said that it would launch the PlayStation VR2 for the PS5 in 2023, in contrast to many of its launches that have taken place in …

Tags:PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality

Researchers explore how people adapt to cybersickness from virtual reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group of researchers from Iowa State University has undertaken research into ‘cybersickness’ which can cause a number of discomfort feelings in users within just a few minutes of trying it. …

Tags:Health and Safety| Human Visual System (HVS)| Virtual Reality

Hands-on with Meta Reality Labs’ Starburst prototype for HDR VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At Siggraph this year, Meta showed its ‘Starburst’ demonstration system that is intended to look at what you can do to achieve very good HDR in a headset, without worrying about …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Virtual Reality

So what is it going to take to deliver all-day wearable AR glasses?

by Bob Raikes

A few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting article on the long form ‘Medium’ platform from Avi Bar-Zeev. He’s been at Disney, Keyhole (acquired by Google), Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and has had his own …