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Gamescom will host the first ‘Home of XR’ megabooth
The Immersive Wire - 2 July 2024 (Briefing)
Tom Ffiske
July 02, 2024
Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Headline: Gamescom will host the first ‘Home of XR’ megabooth.
Profile: XR Women released the 2024 XR Women Awards.
Events: Stereopsia has opened up calls for various parts.
Tangents series: Why I hate cooking blogs.
Other stories: Apple may give the next Vision Pro lower-resolution displays, and Meta may be ready to reveal its new holographic glasses (more below).
Slight delay due to a spike of work - hope that’s ok 👍
Analysis
Gamescom will host the first ‘Home of XR’ megabooth.
It will profile titles from Vertigo Games, nDreams, Fast Travel Games, Soul Assembly, Beyond Frames Entertainment, Combat Waffle Studios, and Flat2VR Studios.
Why does it matter? Gamescom is one of the biggest gaming conferences in Europe, where developers and fans come to see new games. A bigger push in XR will better profile some of the work developers have focused on for the past few years.
Other notable stories
Got any stories? Let me know at tom (at) immersivewire (dot) com.
Apple may give the next Vision Pro lower-resolution displays.
Beyond Frames Entertainment announced that Escaping Wonderland, the latest game from the team behind 2020’s VR adventure game Down the Rabbit Hole, is in development with a target release date of 2024.
Even Realities announced the launch of its first product, the G1 Digital Glasses.
Khronos is working to add new interactivity and behaviors features to glTF.
k-ID raised $45m in funding for age-appropriate game experiences, with Gorilla Tag as one of its first customers.
Meta may be ready to reveal its new holographic glasses.
Museum of the Moving Image announces major yearlong partnership with the Tezos Foundation.
Ultraleap may halve its workforce.
XR Association investigated XR and manufacturing, based on the views of 600 manufacturing CEOs.
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Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works within Accenture’s metaverse group. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.