A short edition this month as we're slowly moving out of the winter slump and gearing up for tech conference season, with GDC up first. This month a bunch of regular updates across the XR developer ecosystem, so read on to catch up! Oh, and if you'
Strangely this month was a slow one in which a lot happened. Obviously the big shift was Meta's Reality Labs course adjustment, which had several immediately visible effects: firing a lot of people, closing game studios, ending its enterprise push, killing Workrooms, and shifting Worlds to mobile. On
As we're at the end of another year, news in XR development was a bit slower than most months, but still surprisingly vibrant. Both Meta and Google opened up SDKs for glasses, and both also released new versions of their headset development tooling. Combined with plenty of smaller
I always expect things to quiet down in November, and they never really do. Let's count the bombshells: Valve's Steam Frame announced, 8th Wall shutting down, Tim Sweeney in a Unity keynote... lively as ever, so read on! In a few weeks I'll be
We're still in peak tech news season and this neatly applied to the XR space as well. Google and Samsung finally showed off Galaxy XR, Snap held its big yearly conference, Meta was productive as usual and the rest of the industry didn't sit still either.
While putting together this month's edition, I was looking through my Meta Connect coverage from last year. Connect was definitely interesting with the Display glasses being announced, but on the XR developer side it felt a bit slow to be honest. Yes, there's the Display glasses
It's almost time for hardware season, which peaks in September and October, but we're still clearly in summer break territory. The flow of XR developer news picked up a bit this month, for instance with Niantic Spatial's SDK release on Meta Quest, so read
This July was perhaps the slowest month in XR developer news that I've seen so far, coming straight after last month's deluge of news. Everyone is clearly on vacation, and rightfully so. Let's say you blast through the news below and are itching for
This might just be the longest edition of XR Developer News yet, with Apple's WWDC and Augmented World Expo happening almost simultaneously. Lots of interesting news, so I hope this roundup is useful! Apple WWDC is always fun. Throughout the year not that many things are announced on
With Google I/O happening and Android XR slowly working its way to launch, it's no surprise XR developer news was mostly dominated by Google. Next month should be interesting as well, with WWDC and AWE USA on the horizon. Enjoy! Google AI, AI, AI, XR, AI. I
A bit of a shorter edition this month, both because there wasn't a great deal of news and because of a vacation forcing me to keep things a bit shorter this time. Still, plenty of interesting things going on! For my Dutch readers, be sure to check out
Even though the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco isn't an XR event specifically, the major XR platforms tend to converge on it and use it as a podium for XR developer news. Lots of interesting news therefore this month. Before we dive in, I just wanted