⊲ Meta ⊳ Meta has joined Google and Applied Materials as a founding sponsor of Extended Reality: Visions of the Future at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, running until 28...
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Apple Faces XR Controller Uncertainty
⊲ AppleInsider ⊳ Sony has sold 419 extended reality patents to Meta, raising questions about the future of PlayStation VR2 hardware and its implications for Apple Vision Pro gaming. Apple's headset...
Every Living Room Becomes Arena
⊲ VFX Voice ⊳ Mixed reality is gaining ground as passthrough, room scanning and hand tracking mature on headsets such as Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro, according to VFX Voice. Magnopus built...
Shutters for Smart Glasses?
⊲ Immersive Wire ⊳ Tom Ffiske at Immersive Wire asks whether privacy concerns over smart glasses are teething friction for a new product category or something deeper. UK pubs, theatres and cinemas...
Meta’s Camera-Free Smart Glasses?
⊲ TechRadar ⊳ Meta is reportedly developing camera-free smart glasses, codenamed Luna, in two styles called Clubmaster and Burbank, according to The Information. Lacking cameras, the wearables...
Meta’s Slimmer Headset Images Leaked
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Images of Meta's Project Phoenix mixed reality headset have leaked ahead of its expected unveiling at Meta Connect on 23 and 24 September. Serial leaker Luna found firmware footage...
Meta Unveils AI XR Tester
⊲ Road to VR ⊳ Meta has introduced XR Operator, an experimental OpenXR tool allowing MCP compatible AI agents to autonomously build, test, debug and visually verify VR applications. Available...
Factories Become AR’s Key Battleground
⊲ Global Sources Sourcing Digest ⊳ AR smart glasses are moving from laboratory breakthroughs towards a manufacturing contest. Advanced waveguides, metaoptics and metalenses offer lighter, capable...
Boys Weaponising Smart Glasses Against Girls
⊲ Futurism ⊳ Teen boys are using smart glasses to secretly film classmates and teachers, with Futurism finding numerous videos involving harassment and bullying of girls. Footage recorded in...
Yes or No to Smart Glasses?
⊲ UC Today ⊳ Largest UK pub chain Wetherspoon has clarified that it has not banned Meta smart glasses from its pubs, despite media reports suggesting otherwise. A spokesperson said the chain has no...
Physics Simulation Gets AI Upgrade
⊲ MIT News ⊳ Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Tsinghua University have developed GeoPT, a pre-training method that teaches simulation models the...
Classic Social VR Finds New Life
⊲ heise ⊳ Microsoft's AltspaceVR, the social VR platform it closed in 2023, is being revived after Shane Harris, founder of SideQuest, a platform that lets developers distribute apps for Meta Quest...