Tag: Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality

Xreal’s cheap smartphone-like gadget solves the biggest issues with AR smart glasses

Xreal has unveiled its latest gadget at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2024 XR industry showcase, but it’s not a pair of AR smart glasses – it’s a smartphone-like device called the Xreal Beam Pro. The Beam Pro is a successor to the original Beam adapter, and it solves many…

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Logitech’s new MX Ink stylus might be a dream art tool for your Meta Quest headset

Logitech has recently unveiled its first mixed reality stylus, and it’s exclusive to the Meta Quest series. Known as the MX Ink, it’s designed to give people a more precise way to create and draw when wearing a Meta headset. While you can utilize the native controllers for content creation,…

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Your old photos are getting a 3D makeover thanks to this huge Vision Pro update

With the unveiling of visionOS 2.0 for the Vision Pro at WWDC 24, Apple introduced many new features but left my wish to open up environments ungranted. Even so, aside from new display options for Mac Virtual Display and more control gestures, there is one feature that stands out from…

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If Apple adds this to Vision Pro, I might finally embrace it for good

One of Apple Vision Pro’s best tricks is that it can layer elements over the world around you – whether placing myriad apps in your space, or overlaying a FaceTime call while you’re responding to emails and browsing the web. It’s very cool, with smart passthrough and a robust visual…

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I tried VR’s Shadow of the Colossus and cleaned Doc Brown’s DeLorean – my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps for June 2024

Are you ready to stare down skyscraper-size Behemoths, box your way through Shardfall’s terrors, and power wash a time-traveling DeLorean? This past month that’s what I’ve been up to thanks to the help of my Meta Quest 3 (and the new Quell immersive fitness system), and I’m here to break…

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The Samsung XR headset and Meta Quest Pro 2 might skip a generation of Qualcomm chipsets to beat the Apple Vision Pro

While next-gen VR devices like the Samsung XR headset still haven’t yet launched, Qualcomm is reportedly already preparing for the next-next-gen models – which could include the Meta Quest Pro 2 and Meta Quest 4. That’s according to rumors that it’s testing new Snapdragon XR2 Gen 3 and XR2+ Gen…

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