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Unity 6 Unleashes Android XR Apps
Drop Dead: The Cabin on PC VR, Virtual travel with Brink Traveler, a new e-ink XR display
XR = eXtended Reality (everything VR, AR, MR)
📣 If you only read one thing today 📣
🔗 Magic Leap and Google signed a 3-year partnership and revealed a joint AR glasses prototype, merging advanced optics, microLEDs, and multimodal AI for future Android XR devices.
📢 Two major players aligning on hardware + software + AI could rapidly accelerate a unified AR ecosystem and finally push Android XR into true global competitiveness.
🕶 This means powerful smart glasses, broader app compatibility, and faster progress toward everyday, socially useful augmented reality.
🥳 But there’s more:
✈️ Flight Unlimited is set to become Quest's first comprehensive flight simulator, offering 10 planes with detailed cockpits and realistic flight physics.
💡 Laser Dance will transform your living room into an adaptive obstacle course packed with lasers.
🎬 Vimeo is preparing to let creators upload Apple Immersive Video.
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XR Games
🕰️ PC VR just received Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, bringing time-travel puzzle adventures and promising technical enhancements for all supported platforms.
🎃 The Stormgrave Halloween update for Dungeons of Eternity landed, featuring new spooky cosmetics, weapons, and weather effects throughout its dungeons.
🎢 Inspired by Luna Parks and art deco, The Amusement puts players in a 1920s VR adventure park where memories and mysteries intertwine as you explore each attraction.
✈️ Flight Unlimited is set to become Quest's first comprehensive flight simulator, offering 10 planes with detailed cockpits and realistic flight physics, launching in November.
🐔 The ChicKing Dead has launched for Meta Quest, kicking off a new saga where feathers fly in a quirky VR zombie shooter starring a heroic chicken.
🧟♂️ Drop Dead: The Cabin just debuted on PC VR, expanding its co-op zombie shooter experience with visual upgrades and additional solo or multiplayer options.
XR Entertainment
💡 Laser Dance will transform your living room into an adaptive obstacle course packed with lasers, challenging you to bend and dodge - available in early access for Quest 3 from November 6th.
🌟 Inside the latest Solara One update, a synthesizer overlooking cosmic vistas invites users to compose music in space, making creative relaxation a central experience in its expanded, meditative journey.
🏔️ Brink Traveler’s newest update enriches virtual travel with Italian Dolomites, Icelandic landscapes, improved graphics, and full hand tracking - allowing controller-free exploration for curious adventurers.
XR News
🤖 Unity 6 now supports Android XR, letting developers swiftly port immersive 3D apps to Samsung's Galaxy XR and the wider Android XR ecosystem for faster launches and broader reach .
🕶️ Sesame, founded by former Oculus execs, secured $250M to push AI-powered smart glasses, aiming to fashion an all-day ambient conversational assistant that responds contextually to its wearer .
🎬 Vimeo is preparing to let creators upload Apple Immersive Video, becoming the first big user-content platform to embrace Apple's 180° 3D format with 4K×4K, 90fps, HDR, and spatial audio support .
📄 Researchers in Sweden have designed a new e-ink XR display using ultra-compact “metapixels” that could pack over 25,000 PPI into future AR/VR headsets - though its refresh rate still lags behind conventional screens .
📱 VRChat has released its app on Android and iOS, casting an open invitation for the next surge of mobile users and making social VR available anywhere with a modern smartphone .
🌍 Hand tracking in Google Maps XR on Samsung’s Galaxy XR enables intuitive globe navigation in VR, giving it the most compelling “wow factor” of all launch apps on the new headset .
🔬 RAONTECH launched the ultra-miniaturized P13 microdisplay, enabling lighter, more efficient AR glasses that can integrate display modules right into the temple arm for next-gen wearables .
🔗 Magic Leap and Google have inked a 3-year deal, unveiling a joint AR glasses prototype to propel Android XR hardware with advanced optics, microLEDs, and multimodal AI features for future AR devices .
🖥️ The Apple Vision Pro M5 model refines comfort and display refresh but keeps its premium price, bolstering solo productivity and entertainment—while still struggling to provide social or everyday appeal .
Until next time, enjoy your other reality gaming!
Bobby Voicu
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