Apple’s Vice President of Human Interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the company to lead a new studio within Meta’s Reality Labs division.
FluxPose VR Tracker Raises $2M on Kickstarter, Promising Compact 6DOF Body Tracking
FluxPose is a 6DOF tracking solution for full-body tracking that seems to be picking up speed on Kickstarter, having now garnered over $2 million in crowdfunding since its initial launch on November 29th.
Former Magic Leap Engineers Launch No-code AR Creation Platform, Aiming to Be ‘Canva of AR’
Trace, a startup founded by former Magic Leap engineers, today announced the launch of a new augmented reality creation platform the company hopes will become the “Canva of AR”.
Sharp is Crowdfunding a Slim & Light PC VR Headset in Japan That Feels Positively Retro
Sharp announced it’s launching a crowdfunding campaign for a slim and light PC VR headset in Japan, called Xrostella VR1.
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Sharp first showed off a PC VR headset prototype at CES 2023, which was supposedly meant to ship sometime in 2024.
In-home Helper Robot ‘NEO’ Uses Remote VR Operators to Help with Chores
NEO is a humanoid robot from Palo Alto-based robotics startup 1X that could one day autonomously help out around your home.
Researchers Propose Novel E-Ink XR Display with Resolution Far Beyond Current Headsets
A group of Sweden-based researchers proposed a novel e-ink display solution that could make way for super compact, retina-level VR headsets and AR glasses in the future.