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Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all my American friends! We don’t have Thanksgiving in Italy, but I know it’s a very important celebration in the US, Canada, and a few other countries, so I hope all of you who celebrated it had a great time with your family.  To all the others who did not participate in […]

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ASICS, the global pioneer in sports innovation, continues to embrace the phrase “borderless sports” as they support community initiatives and collaborations with the VR sport community in the DISC community Discord server. Since the DISC server launched in September, the leadership team has encouraged engagement and hosted activities, including a Halloween event and also a […]

XR has already reached many end users and workplace situations. While the era of widespread consumer adoption of XR into everyday life is still some way away, major businesses are already profoundly leveraging the technology. Among those key enterprise sectors is manufacturing. There are many moving parts behind a successful manufacturing firm, from the design […]

Rumors about an impending set of Samsung Smart Glasses have been circulating for a while now. Samsung’s team has dropped plenty of hints that the company is planning on entering the XR market. They even confirmed at the “Unpacked 2024” event that an XR device would be arriving soon. Unfortunately, the company has been a […]

Virtual reality headsets have come a long way since products like the Oculus Quest burst into the scene a few years ago. Increasingly, both consumers and enterprise users are searching for more versatile immersive solutions, and features like VR passthrough are becoming commonplace. In the past, whenever you wore a virtual reality headset, you’d basically […]

2025 might witness a significant shift in the XR market. Earlier in the decade, the XR market saw the successful adoption of the affordable Meta Quest 2 VR headsets, which brought accessible VR into the homes and businesses of many for the first time. While this device was not the first mass-market or enterprise-facing VR […]

The Australian Government has agreed to the new laws, which will come into affect in 12 months time.

VRChat is adding age verification for some early access groups to enable adult-only spaces.

In 2024, XR technology stacks, software, and hardware greatly matured. At the same time, emerging generative AI technology also came along to prop up AR/VR/MR content creation for enterprises and consumers.   Many businesses and even seasoned developers are still learning how to create real-time 3D spatial applications and content. Creating enterprise-ready XR content can take […]

AR is one of 2024’s most significant XR trends, and that does not look to change leading into the new year. As the years and, in turn, XR technology progresses, as will AR visualisations. Advancements in displays, ecosystems, and frameworks will enable AR services to fit more optimally into workplace settings and everyday life. Today, […]

Yet another feature replicated from Bluesky.