2024-06-11
Among many of the amazing things announced today at #WWDC24, really happy that my team helped ship a new breath responsive feature in the visionOS Mindfulness app (among many other great collaborators across Apple). I hope folks can take a moment to try it soon! [image]
9to5Mac
Apple unveils visionOS 2, with a higher-res, ultra-wide Mac Virtual Display option later in 2024, regular photos gaining spatial depth, new gestures, and more
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Among many of the amazing things announced today at #WWDC24, really happy that my team helped ship a new breath responsive feature in the visionOS Mindfulness app (among many other great collaborators across Apple). I hope folks can take a moment to try it soon! [image]
New York Times
Apple Vision Pro, while a remarkable piece of tech, needs updates to avoid gathering dust, and WWDC's new features like 3D “spatial photos” are modest tweaks
The $3,500 “spatial computing” device has gathered dust on my shelf. Can tweaks and upgrades save it from obsolescence?
2022-08-19
I will simply put these two pieces of media side by side to highlight the gap between SOTA research and product... from the same company. https://twitter.com/...
Forbes
After Mark Zuckerberg shared a screenshot from Horizon Worlds for an announcement, people criticize the graphics and Meta's $10B investment in the metaverse
Paul Tassi / Forbes :
2022-06-30
For those impacted by the Unity and Niantic layoffs, my DMs are open. I'm currently hiring for an iOS Rapid Prototyper within my AR/VR research engineering team (Swift/Obj-C skills with XR domain expertise...)
Bloomberg
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, lays off 8% of its staff, around 85 to 90 people, and cancels four projects; Niantic was valued at $9B in November 2021
Gaming company Niantic Inc., which has struggled to find another big hit following its 2016 game Pokémon Go …
2021-07-24
A bit disappointed that the Oculus Passthrough API doesn't provide images for fun computer vision experiments, but definitely the right decision from a privacy point of view https://developer.oculus.com/ ...
The Verge
Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps
Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
2021-06-24
Impressed with Adobe's new lineup of 3D tools. I wonder if anyone expected them to compete in the 3D modeling space! https://blog.adobe.com/...
VentureBeat
Adobe launches Substance 3D, a suite of 3D design tools Adobe says has applications in video games and VFX and uses AI to ease technical complexity of 3D design
it is truly one of the greatest strengths of the medium. https://twitter.com/... Jade / @jadel4w : The new ‘Adobe’ substance designer and painter videos look like they were designe...
2020-08-25
Unity indicating their intent to go public is good news for every game developer because it holds them accountable to shareholders (... I think). It would be the first popular engine platform to do so.
CNBC
Unity Software, which makes a 3D engine for games and more, files for a US IPO, reports that in 2019 it had a $163.2M net loss on $541.8M in revenue, up 43% YoY
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
2020-07-21
Adobe has mountains of research that doesn't make it into product, so I was excited to learn that Marc Levoy is joining Adobe. I like the idea that they might double down on computational photography-as-a-platform. https://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
Adobe says it has hired Marc Levoy, a top researcher who developed computational photography for Google's Pixel line, to help it make a universal camera app
Jay Peters / The Verge :
2019-12-20
A couple bits of interesting Facebook news this morning... the public reveal of their new 4000-seat AR/VR/Oculus campus in Burlingame being one of the more interesting ones. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Report: Facebook has tasked a co-author of Windows NT with building an OS from scratch, in order to stop relying on Android for products like Oculus and Portal
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Source: The Information .
2019-11-08
I think 3DoF experiences aren't a minimum viable product for VR, but I'm glad cardboard was a gateway platform to many newcomers in the space. https://developers.googleblog.com/ ...
The Verge
Google says it is open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard, less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset
Jay Peters / The Verge :
2019-11-07
I think 3DoF experiences aren't a minimum viable product for VR, but I'm glad cardboard was a gateway platform to many newcomers in the space. https://developers.googleblog.com/ ...
The Verge
Google says it is open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard, less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset
Maybe the last nail in the coffin for phone-based VR — In October, Google officially discontinued its Daydream View VR headset …
2018-04-10
70° hfov with 65% overlap gives you ~46° in stereo. Peripheral vision is important, but still shows you how far we have to go with AR displays (towards a human 120°), especially since the latest Leap hardware provides a 180° tracked fov for hands. http://twitter.com/...
Road to VR
Leap Motion to release Project North Star, a low-cost open source AR headset dev kit with wide field of view, 1600x1400 display at 120 FPS, robust hand tracking
Ben Lang / Road to VR :