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Hello everyone from Mountain View, California! I’m taking the plane quite soon, and the last thing I’ll do here in the US is write this newsletter episode to tell you the most relevant XR news of the week. This has been the week of Meta Connect, so most of this roundup will be about that […] The post The XR Week Peek (
Today I’m going to tell you about the most incredible thing that happened to me during Meta Connect: I interviewed Boz, the CTO of Meta. It was surprising. It was incredible. And it was overly embarrassing. Let me tell you the full story. I already warn you that in this article you won’t discover any […] The post My ex
I just got home from the keynote of Meta Connect. It’s been a busy day; I am devastated; but before going to sleep, I still feel the urge to tell you what my impressions are from today. I’m pretty sure you’ve already read all Meta’s announcements in some magazines like Road To VR. So I’m […] The post My point of view a
After having unveiled its Specs glasses at AWE, today Snap has officially launched its glasses. And it has done that by unveiling new details about them, with a strong focus on the use cases of the device. Let me tell you what the company has announced today, with also my personal commentary about whether this […] The
It’s been a HUGE week for XR! The Steam Frame has been officially launched, and also the Snap Specs have been fully unveiled. And we are not stopping here, because this coming week we’re going to have Meta Connect! I think none of these announcements are going to radically change our space, but all of […] The post The
Meta Connect is coming soon, and as it is tradition for my blog, I’ll try to predict what is going to be announced this year! I love playing this guessing game, and it’s even more fun if you comment with your own predictions, either here or on my social media channels! Let’s start with my […] The post My predictions fo
The next couple of weeks are going to be exciting: most probably Steam Frame is launching today, Snap Specs is launching on the 16th, and Meta Connect is on the 23rd. A lot of new AR/VR headsets and glasses are coming! Of course I will update you about all of this on my blog and […] The post The XR Week Peek (2026.09.1
This has been the week when the Unity Cube has come back into the spotlight it deserves. I updated it to the latest Meta SDK, and now it can go up to 240 Hz on Quest 3! It is the first (or one of the first) app on the Horizon Store to implement this feature. […] The post The XR Week Peek (2026.09.07): Steam Frame is ge
Today, RayNeo has just launched RayNeo iO Smart Glasses, its new model of camera-free smart glasses. I had the opportunity to go hands-on with them, and in this article, I’ll share my first impressions. In the next days, I’ll keep using these smart glasses, and then I will write an exhaustive review about them, going [
Valve just announced the price of the Steam Frame. It costs $1,059/€1,049 for the standard 256GB version and $1,299/€1,279 for the 1TB version. The two versions are identical, they just have different storage. [Notice: the news is breaking, so forgive me if this article is written very quickly and is not super detailed
Last week, RayNeo launched its iO Smart Glasses, a pair of camera-free smart glasses meant to increase productivity and help users in their daily life. I immediately wrote a “first impression” article, highlighting how they clearly seem a good product, but I also stated that I needed more time to evaluate their usabili
The Quest 3 has just been upgraded to run with crazy framerates up to 240Hz. And The Unity Cube is probably the first app on the Quest Horizon Store to support 200+Hz framerates! Keep reading this article to learn more about Quest 3’s extended framerates, how to implement them, how to try them, and my […] The post You
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