Strictly speaking we're not in August anymore, but as we're still in the slow summer season, this month is another short edition. Pretty soon we'll be blasting into hardware season, with Meta Connect up in a few weeks, so the quiet times will soon
We're in the midst of the summer slowdown and the contrast with last month could hardly be bigger. Mostly small news, no really big announcements, so it's a quick read. On a personal note, happy to share that we got a 1st place and a 2nd
With AWE and WWDC happening in the same month, you can be sure it's peak XR time. Snap announcing SPECS, Apple showing visionOS 27, XREAL Aura getting closer to launch, Godot being omnipresent and a major Epic event, there's plenty in this month's roundup
Developer conference season is here! Google had a blast with Android XR at Google I/O, with several new devices close to launching, and Meta tried to get ahead of them by opening up the display and neural wristband of their glasses to developers. Read on to learn more! If
As we're approaching tech conference season, lots of interesting content was released by the developer relations team of the various XR platforms. Meta's GDC content was published, Pico pushed out a bunch of videos and Snap overhauled its Spectacles github presence. Read on for all the
As we're getting out of the winter season, news in the XR developer space is starting to ramp up again. Meta is busy as ever, Pico is ramping up for Project Swan, Snap is chugging along and pretty soon we'll be in tech conference season again.
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